PoR Interview at Gamespot UK

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(Originally posted by Mollusken)

Gamespot UK has interviewd Pool of Radiance associate producer Chuck Yager. It is mostly a summary of features that should have been in the game, and how the game didn't turn out to be exactly as they wanted.

GS: What made you decide to go for turn-based combat, rather than real-time combat as in games like Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale and Diablo?

CY: We wanted to bring the player back to the good old days of the Gold Box games with the feel of the gameplay. Therefore, turn based combat was a perfect way to do this. Also, we felt at the time (and still do) that turn based combat opens up a whole array of options to users with the D&D rules that real time has a much more difficult time implementing.

GS: Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor is the first game to use the Third Edition AD&D rules. How difficult was it to transfer these new rules from the tabletop to the computer?

CY: It was not too difficult to transfer the 3E rules from paper to the computer because of some of the changes that occurred in 3rd Edition. However, what WAS hard was changing over from 2nd Edition to 3rd Edition in the middle of the project. Looking back, it made the development cycle that much harder, but the upshot was that we got the first 3E game out there on the shelves and were able to offer players a look into the new rules. If there's a next game on the horizon for us and D&D I'm sure it will be that much more ingrained with 3E.

Read the whole interview here.