New characters begin with 25,000 experience points, which starts single-class characters at level 5. Multi-class characters can be created for half-elf, elf, dwarf, halfling, and gnome characters. A player can generate new characters, choosing from six races, nine alignments, two genders, and six basic character classes.
The paladin and ranger are two new character classes available in this game. Characters can likewise be transferred from Hillsfar, another contemporaneous AD&D-based game. Player characters from Pool of Radiance (POR) can be transferred to Curse of the Azure Bonds, although players need not have played POR to play this game. An adventure module of the same name, coded FRC2, was written based on the game.Ī party of up to six player characters and two non-player characters is required to complete the various quests in the game. The game serves as a sequel to the 1988 novel, Azure Bonds, that was written by Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb, and is the first book of the Finder’s Stone trilogy. It is the second in a four-part series of Forgotten Realms Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Gold Box adventure computer games, continuing the events after the first part, Pool of Radiance.
Curse of the Azure Bonds is a role-playing video game developed and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc (SSI) in 1989.
