Not sure why the Ravenloft games, in particular the excellent Stone Prophet, weren't added to the 3rd Forgotten Realms entry. Pretty sure it uses the same engine even.

Because they're not Forgotten Realms? ;)

Of course, grouping them by gameplay similarities would have made more sense, but GOG adapted the name and structure of a Forgotten Realms retail collection, for reasons unknown. Maybe they only managed to get the rights to this collection and not to all of the old D&D games. It remains to be seen whether they will also release the Ravenloft game later.

I do like both Ravenloft games myself (have always been fond of the setting) so maybe eventually they'll get the rights to release those as well.

Also, talking about the old "Golden Box D&D Games", I do hope they'll be also able to add the Krynn trilogy as well at some point, really liked that one as well (think it went in order Champions of Krynn, Death Knights of Krynn and the Dark Queen of Krynn, if my memory serves).

But, lots of happiness with these three collections, I approve! :)

Can't find the article link at the moment but the Krynn trilogy is coming to GOG. If I find the link again, I'll edit it in here.

Edit: Found it on VentureBeat.

Flynn

Thanks for the information and the link, much appreciated. :)

I'm hoping GOG will eventually get the two Buck Rogers games as well. Outside of used copies, there's no legitimate way to get a copy of these anymore.

Flynn

Yeah, I am too young to have played the Buck Rogers games but I do have two older brothers who did play the said games, thus I know what games they are.

Even if I did play these old gold games way after they were released the first time, they do have that certain degree of charm that most modern games do not have. Sure, they might be clunky by modern standards but then again I've always been able to adapt.

If you like Goldbox games and the Ravenloft and Buck Rogers settings, don't discount what Unlimited Adventures has to offer, while you're waiting for the real thing. There are several Ravenloft stories available for it and at least one shorter Buck Rogers module that I know of. ;)

I'd love to see these games. Like Menzoberranzan the CD versions of these games are impossible to find legitimately and incredibly hard to find illegally. Almost like they dropped from the face of the planet. :)

I do actually remember building some sort of campaign adventure with Unlimited Adventures with my brother, we thought it would be cool to build one on computer game since we've both been doing PnP RPGs for a very long time (although in PnP regard, haven't had a group for ages, unfortunately).

I personally think it is amazing that GOG provides us these old gold games because they do not make games like these anymore and I don't think they ever will.

I have to take a look at what the UA has to offer adventure-wise, thank you for the tip for the stories. :)

One could easily argue that RPG Maker is a modern counterpart to UA. The modern equivalent of the EOB games would be Legend of Grimrock 1 & 2.

There's also Neverwinter Nights 1&2, the new Shadowrun, Driftmoon, Blades of Avalon etc. One thing that's special about Unlimited Adventures is how incredibly simple and yet (comparatively) powerful it is. You can create the perfect Goldbox campaign with it, complete with all kinds of events, without any knowledge of scripting, as it's 100% GUI based. I haven't tinkered with RPG Maker yet, so I can't compare it, maybe it's similar. Can you create story events with the Legend of Grimrock editor (like the NPC encounters in EOB) oder is it a pure level editor?

I assume Kyrinael was talking about the Goldbox campaigns in general though, not the UA editor.

I was talking about the Goldbox games in general, yes.

I do have both Legends of Grimrock, although I haven't yet gotten around them to try them properly. Used to play lots of NWN2 on a perma-death persistent world some years back but then the place died out and the playerbase merged into another PW, so I lost my interest there. Lots of good memories of RPG goodness from there, though.

RPG Maker I haven't tried but then again, I haven't had really the time to test it at any point properly.

In the main release thread some GOG staff members have been rather coy about Ravenloft showing up at some point, so I think it's practically a given.
The real question for me is when the Dark Sun games are going to show up.

True. I bought my CD-versions back in the '90s. Back then there was even CD-collections which included majority of SSI's AD&D games. But I haven't seen any legal copies in stores during the last 15 years or so.