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role-playing video game
Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures
By Strategic Simulations, released 1 Jan 1993
- Microsoft Windows
- DOS
- Classic Mac OS
- game creation system
What it is
Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures is a role-playing game and creation system from Strategic Simulations, set in the Forgotten Realms. Its tools let you build adventure scenarios by laying out maps on a grid and connecting areas with teleporters, doors and stairs. You can populate designs with characters drawn from a bank of 112 monsters and multiple non-player characters, then test them through a point-and-click interface as you build. The game also includes a pre-made scenario, The Heirs to Skull Crag, with four quests, and that adventure can be modified. Steam lists single-player, downloadable content and Family Sharing. The general platform list includes Windows, DOS and Classic Mac OS, while the Steam platform listing names Windows. The game was originally released in 1993; the listed Steam release date is March 29, 2022.
What players like, and what they don't
- Grid-based tools support custom map building.
- Maps can link areas with teleporters, doors and stairs.
- Includes a modifiable scenario with four quests.
- The character bank includes 112 monsters.
- The Steam platform listing names Windows only.
- Steam lists single-player, not multiplayer.
Who it suits
It suits players who want to create and test their own AD&D-style adventure scenarios, as well as those who want to play or modify a supplied scenario.
Unlimited Adventures is centered on making and testing scenarios rather than only playing a fixed campaign. Its supplied four-quest adventure offers a starting point that can also be changed.
