History VideoGame / GoldBox

** Partially averted in the ''Dragonlance'' series which uses the character advancement rules from the Dragonlance campaign setting. It grants non-human races access to more classes, and also removes the racial level cap on many of them; humans still remain the only race that can reach the maximum level in all classes, though.
** Fully averted in the ''Buck Rogers'' games, which did away with racial level caps altogether; if a race can select any given class, it can attain the maximum level in it. Likewise, only two of the six available races don't have access to all classes.

* MassMonsterSlaughterSidequest: 'Clearing the block' in Pool of Radiance, particularly near the beginning. To be more precise, this quest requires you to defeat 20 random encounters, all of which inevitably result in combat. The amount of monsters you have to fight per encounter ranges from half a dozen upwards, which means that your party of six 1st level PCs will probably have to return to the city after one or two encounters to rest - all the while hoping you don't trigger another random encounter on the way.

* MassMonsterSlaughterSidequest: 'Clearing the block' in Pool of Radiance, particularly near the beginning.

* GoldSilverCopperStandard: The earlier games held to this (of which an especially annoying example was [[UndesirablePrize the 50,000 copper pieces]][[note]](which at the standard 10 coins = 1 pound rate equals two-and-a-half ''tons'' of copper; good luck getting it back to Phlan)[[/note]] that made up the bulk of one particular treasure in ''Pool of Radiance''), but by ''Pools of Darkness'' you were using ''platinum pieces'' as petty cash.

* GoldSilverCopperStandard: The earlier games held to this (of which an especially annoying example was [[UndesirablePrize the 50,000 copper pieces]][[note]]That's right, two and a half-tons of copper. Good luck getting it back to Phlan.[[/note]] that made up the bulk of one particular treasure in ''Pool of Radiance''), but by ''Pools of Darkness'' you were using ''platinum pieces'' as petty cash.

* GoldSilverCopperStandard: The earlier games held to this (of which an especially annoying example was [[UndesirablePrize the 50,000 copper pieces]][[note]]That's right, two and a half-tons of copper. Good luck getting it back to Phlan[[/note]] that made up the bulk of one particular treasure in ''Pool of Radiance''), but by ''Pools of Darkness'' you were using ''platinum pieces'' as petty cash.

* GoldSilverCopperStandard: The earlier games held to this (of which an especially annoying example was [[UndesirableReward the 50,000 copper pieces]] that made up the bulk of one particular treasure in ''Pool of Radiance''), but by ''Pools of Darkness'' you were using ''platinum pieces'' as petty cash.

* GoldSilverCopperStandard: The earlier games held to this (of which an especially annoying example was [[Undesirable the 50,000 copper pieces]] that made up the bulk of one particular treasure in ''Pool of Radiance''), but by ''Pools of Darkness'' you were using ''platinum pieces'' as petty cash.

* NintendoHard: A few optional battles that can usually be avoided (the Kernen gate battle in ''Champions of Krynn''), and the aforementioned Shrine of the Dark Queen and Dave's Maze.

* GoldSilverCopperStandard: The earlier games held to this (of which an especially annoying example was the 50,000 copper pieces that made up the bulk of one particular treasure in ''Pool of Radiance''), but by ''Pools of Darkness'' you were using ''platinum pieces'' as petty cash.

* GoldSilverCopperStandard: The earlier games held to this (of which an especially annoying example was the 50,000 copper pieces that made up the bulk of one particular treasure in ''Pool of Radiance''), but by ''Pools of Darkness'', you were using ''platinum pieces'' as petty cash.

** Averted in ''Pools of Darkness''; characters imported from ''Secret of the Silver Blades'' will have all of their money and will likely still be wearing all of their equipment; only a few items from the previous game will not carry over. Unfortunately, most of them will disintegrate if you travel through the Pools to take on Bane's extraplanar lieutenants, so you have to leave them in a vault on Toril.

* CutAndPasteComic: Many of the pictures of monsters that show up on the upper-left hand window prior to combat were directly copied from the 1e ''Monster Manual''.

* GoldSilverCopperStandard: The earlier games held to this (of which an especially annoying example was the 50,000 copper pieces that made up the bulk of the content in one particular TreasureRoom in ''Pool of Radiance''), but by ''Pools of Darkness'', you were using ''platinum pieces'' as petty cash.

* GoodBadBugs: A character that was under the influence of a spell that raised his or her Strength when ''Curse of the Azure Bonds'' wrapped up was treated as if that spell were permanent going into ''Secret of the Silver Blades''. In a melee-heavy group this could trivialize many encounters.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: In ''Curse of the Azure Bonds'' the character screen for the NPC Alias, a visibly adult human, claims her to be two years old. This is not explained in-game (and so some players might assume it to be a developer error), but it is actually based on her ForgottenRealms backstory.

** Averted in ''Pools of Darkness''; characters imported from ''Secret of the Silver Blades'' will have all of their money and will likely still be wearing all of their equipment; only a few items from the previous game will not carry over.

The SSI Gold Box games were a fondly remembered series of computer [=RPGs=] produced by SSI, based on the first edition ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' license. They were not the first D&D licensed games, but they were the first to appear in the 16 bit era, when home computers got sophisticated enough to implement substantial chunks of the game system. Their name comes from the distinctive gold-colored cardboard box that most of them came in, and plays on the ''D&D'' custom of referring to individual editions by the color of the box they came in (e.g. the very first one was the "white box", the second was "blue box", etc.). The Gold Box itself was succeeded by SSI's "Black Box" series, better known as ''VideoGame/EyeOfTheBeholder''.

The SSI Gold Box games were a fondly remembered series of computer [=RPGs=] produced by SSI, based on the first edition DungeonsAndDragons license. They were not the first D&D licensed games, but they were the first to appear in the 16 bit era, when home computers got sophisticated enough to implement substantial chunks of the game system. Their name comes from the distinctive gold-colored cardboard box that most of them came in.

* Franchise/{{Dragonlance}} series:

* ''Franchise/{{Spelljammer}}: Pirates of Realmspace'' (1992)

* Franchise/BuckRogers series: (Lorraine Williams, owner of {{TSR}} at the time, inherited the rights to Buck Rogers, leading to a lot of promotion of Buck Rogers-based TSR products)

** ''PoolOfRadiance'' (the original version) (1988)

** ''Neverwinter Nights'' (the original version, not [[NeverwinterNights that one]]) (1991)

* {{Dragonlance}} series:

* ''{{Spelljammer}}: Pirates of Realmspace'' (1992)

* BuckRogers series: (Lorraine Williams, owner of {{TSR}} at the time, inherited the rights to Buck Rogers, leading to a lot of promotion of Buck Rogers-based TSR products)

* SoLongAndThanksForAllTheGear: A rather instantaneous version: temporary NPCs who join the party can be given items, but items in their inventory cannot be given to anyone else. Any equipment given to them ''cannot'' be recovered. ''Secret of the Silver Blades'' offers a (likely unintended) exception: Vala's equipment can be "deposited" in the city vault and retrieved by a player-controlled character.

* ShoutOut: Traveling between overworld areas in ''Curse of the Azure Bonds'' would have your characters randomly come across an old man in front of a bridge across a deep chasm who asked three questions; failing the third question (which involved the game's [[CopyProtection code wheel]]) would end the game with the message [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail "An unseen force hurls you into the abyss!"]].