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Play Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance (US edition · English) Online
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance
Play Pool of Radiance online on NES, create an AD&D party, explore monster-held New Phlan and command turn-based battles on tactical grids.
Browser play
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) / Famicom — EmulatorJS controls
Default Player 1 keyboard mapping. Change keys in Controller Settings.
| Console button | Keyboard |
|---|---|
| ↑ / ↓ / ← / → | ↑ / ↓ / ← / → |
| A / B | Z / X |
| START / SELECT | Enter / V |
Open Controller Settings to configure your keyboard or gamepad. Touch controls are available on mobile.
How to Play Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance
Quick start
Create up to five characters and include a fighter, cleric, thief and magic-user for a practical first party. Equip every character, visit the City Council and accept the opening Slums commission. Use Area to orient yourself, but inspect doors and corridors in person. Save outside combat, rest only where an encounter is unlikely, identify worthwhile treasure and reserve 1,000 gold per character for training after the experience requirement is met.
Controls
The D-Pad navigates menus, turns and moves the party in first-person exploration, and positions characters on the combat grid. A chooses a command or attacks the highlighted target; B cancels and delays the active character from the main combat menu. Combat actions are selected from on-screen menus, including Aim, Cast, Use, Guard and Auto. Save and environment functions are reached through their menu commands rather than a dedicated action button.
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance — About this game
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance brings the Gold Box campaign to NES as a long-form party RPG. Up to five player-created adventurers arrive in New Phlan, take commissions from the City Council and push into monster-held districts, ruins and wilderness. Exploration uses a first-person view and menu commands for camping, searching, viewing characters and checking the area map. Battles move to an overhead grid where each character can move, attack, cast, guard, delay or aid a fallen ally according to AD&D rules. Advancement comes mainly from missions and fixed encounters: characters need sufficient experience and must also pay at the training hall. The cartridge stores one battery-backed campaign and places journal information in the game rather than requiring the computer version's external copy-protection materials.
Cheats
No cheats have been added for this edition.
Player verification and sources
Browser play was reviewed before this edition was published in the catalogue. The date below is the catalogue publication date, not the game’s original release date.
- Browser test and catalogue publication date
- Browsers and devices
- PC: Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Mobile: Chrome on Android and Safari on iPhone and iPad.
- Player engine and core
- EmulatorJS 4.3.0-pre · nes
- Tested by
- rwEmulator
Sources and editorial basis
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