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Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin is a video game for the Intellivisionvideo game console and the Mattel Aquarius computer system. This game was a licensed Dungeons & Dragons adaptation.

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Gameplay[edit]

In Treasure of Tarmin, the player wanders through a multi-tiered dungeon, each level consisting of a 10x10 maze square and its surrounding hallway making it a 12x12 square maze with the hallway included. The objective is to slay the Minotaur who guards the Treasure of Tarmin and take his treasure chest.

The game's catalog gives the following description of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin:

'You've found the secret map to the underground lair of the dreaded Minotaur. You can go in, but you'll never come out unless you slay the Minotaur and claim his Tarmin treasure. As you make your way through the hallways and chambers, monsters wield their conventional or spiritual weapons. You must gather the proper defenses along the way. But use them sparingly, the Minotaur looms closer!'^[1]

While the battles were turn-based,^[2]Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin is different from most games of its era, as it involved a first-person view, giving it a three-dimensional feel. The player begins the game with the lowest-level bow, a small supply of food, a number of arrows dependent on the selected difficulty level, and minimal 'Spiritual' and 'War' health. Randomly placed throughout the maze are new weapons, armor, magical items, and treasure.^[3] The treasure in the maze (aside from the Treasure of Tarmin the Minotaur holds) can either boost the player's score (visible from the map screen), contain a potion (blue, pink, or purple in large and small varieties), or a bomb reducing the player's war/spiritual score. The bomb can cause a game over depending on the strength of the player at the time of the bomb trigger.

Types of threats[edit]

Each enemy (aside from the Minotaur) can be found in three colors, signifying different levels of difficulty.^[4]

• Skeletons: The weakest enemy in the game. They attack the player's War health and are very easy to defeat. Cloaked skeletons are more difficult to defeat. Both regular and cloaked skeletons may have shields, which increase their difficulty.
• Giants: The other primary enemy to attack only the player's War health. These can have shields as well and are more difficult than Skeletons.
• Giant Ants: The weakest of the enemies who attack the player's Spiritual health.
• Dwarfs: Much like Giants in their difficulty as well as attack. Giants come either with or without shields, but attack only the player's Spiritual health.
• Giant Scorpions: Mid-level enemies who attack the player's Spiritual health.
• Giant Snakes: Giant Snakes attack the player's Spiritual health and have more health than Giant Scorpions.
• Alligators: The next more difficult of the Spiritual-attacking enemies. How this fits in with an underground maze beneath a castle is uncertain; regardless, they do a great deal of damage.
• Dragons: The most difficult of the Spiritual enemies.
• Ghouls: These don't appear in the game until the player has gone several levels down. They may attack either the player's War or Spiritual health during the battle. On the easier two game difficulties, its type of attack is determined randomly, but on the harder two difficulties it attacks the weaker health.
• Wraiths: These are more difficult than Ghouls and can be either shielded or normal. Deeper into the dungeon, Wraiths can become harder to defeat than the Minotaur itself.
• Minotaur: This is the 'end boss' of the game, and it only appears in one color (purple). It attacks both Spiritual and War health. Upon defeating the Minotaur, it will drop the Treasure of Tarmin; the Treasure can be picked up to end the game or ignored to continue playing. Additional Minotaurs show up on lower levels and often even in the same level.
• 'Door Monsters': These special creatures look like doors and hide the three spellbooks. Blue (the weakest) gives a book that teleports through walls. Pink gives a book that allows vision through walls. Purple tends to strike with high-end Spirit weapons and gives a book that turns ordinary items to platinum (thus making any war weapon or treasure the highest value possible).
• Bombs: Some treasure chests and bags contain small or large bombs that explode to cause war damage.

Situations[edit]

• To increase health, the player must either attack or be attacked by enemies, followed by resting (consuming a food item), which has a chance to increase either war or spiritual health based on the weapons the player has used. With the aid of Spirit or War tomes found in treasure chests, this chance may be increased greatly. The player's maximum health (with the aid of maximum-health limit increasing books and potions) is 199 War points and 99 Spiritual.
• In the outer hallways, gates between adjacent mazes on the same level may be encountered. Passing through a green gate reduces the player's spiritual health and boosts the player's health, and the opposite effect occurs passing through a blue gate. Use in conjunction with war or spiritual books can boost respective health significantly. Passing through a tan gate changes nothing.
• The player may keep going down levels (by accessing a ladder located inside each maze) until level 256, after which the game cycles the player back to level 1, with the player's character retaining their inventory and health, but attacking enemies at the first floor's easier difficulty.
• It is possible to be defeated but not lose the game. Upon dying, the player can be 'reincarnated' to another section of that maze, with all of their pack's inventory gone while retaining the contents of their weapon and shield slots as well as their supply of arrows and food.

Publication history[edit]

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The game was written by Tom Loughry in 1981 and was published by Mattel in 1983. Treasure of Tarmin was the second AD&D game for the Intellivision, after Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Cloudy Mountain. A version was also released for the Mattel Aquarius home computer.

In 1983, Mattel Electronics commissioned an Atari 2600 version of Treasure of Tarmin. This was developed by Synth Corporation in Chicago. Two Synth software developers, Michael Bengtson and Neal Reynolds, wrote the game to conform to the play of the Intellivision version. While the game was completed, it was not released before Mattel Electronics closed their doors.

Reception[edit]

German gaming magazine TeleMatch gave the game a very positive review, giving it a one and a half out of six, (on their rating system one is the highest), stating, 'Advanced Dungeons & Dragons is already the outstanding pinnacle of Intellivision-Cassettes, but Treasure of Tarmin raises the bar even further' and, 'At least for the German market, no other video game of this type exists ... What happens next is almost unbelievable: you yourself are the adventurer, and you're not represented by a symbol of a small man on the screen, rather you see what one would see if one was walking.' TeleMatch was also very impressed by the number of levels in the game, and felt that the awarding of points for defeating monsters was rewarding.^[5]

References[edit]

1. ^http://www.intellivisionlives.com/bluesky/games/credits/1983c.html#tarmin
2. ^Brett Weiss, Classic home video games, 1972-1984: a complete reference guide, McFarland, p. 211, retrieved 2011-03-18
3. ^'zebeth.com is coming soon'. www.zebeth.com.
4. ^'zebeth.com is coming soon'. www.zebeth.com.
5. ^'Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Review'. TeleMatch. TeleMatch Verlag. December 1983. p. 39.

External links[edit]

• Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin at MobyGames

Treasure Hunt is an adventure module for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D) role-playing game, written by Aaron Allston for the 1st edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D) rules. The player characters must evolve into their roles as the adventure progresses, beginning as slaves on a galley who become freed after a shipwreck on an island where orcs and goblins contend over a treasure. The adventure received a positive review from White Dwarf magazine.

Plot summary[edit]

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The characters begin in the Korinn Archipelago, and have been captured by slavers. A sea storm sends the pirate ship on which the characters are being held off course, and it crashes on an island once ruled by Viledel, the Sea King.^[1] On this island, a treasure has become the cause of a battle between orcs and goblins.^[2] The characters begin with no weapons, no money, and no possessions.^[3] After the shipwreck, the characters' freedom is able to develop gradually, allowing them to make meaningful choices which will help them determine their career.^[3]

Gameplay[edit]

Treasure Hunt is an adventure designed for zero-level characters.^[3] The player characters earn their way to 1st level.^[2] The scenario allows the characters to evolve into their roles as adventurers, instead of starting them out on that career.^[3] Those who fight well become fighters, those who study the magical items found along the way become magic-users, those who attempt thieving activities become thieves, and so on.^{[citation needed]} Each character's actions and attitudes determine that character's character class.^[2]

Each character's behavior also determines their alignment.^[1]:2 The Dungeon Master (DM) makes alignment checks, and keeps track of how the characters behave in terms of role-playing and with handling magic and combat, recording how a character is developing towards a first-level character with a character class.^[3] The module includes record sheets as handouts for the DM to track PC behaviors.^[4]

There is a two-page 'Players' Introduction' at the beginning of the adventure that each player is supposed to read themself.^[4] The adventure includes a two-page appendix entitled 'If Things Go Wrong', which is a detailed, episode-by-episode treatment of ways to handle the player characters if they don't do what they are expected to do during the course of the adventure.^[4]

Publication history[edit]

Treasure Hunt was written by Aaron Allston, and featured a cover by Jeff Easley and interior illustrations by Stephen Fabian. It was published by TSR in 1986 as a thirty-six page booklet with a 3-panel outer folder.^[2] Included in the module is a 12-page removable inner section.

The Korinn Archipelago later appeared in the accessory FR2 Moonshae.^[5]

Reception[edit]

Carl Sargent reviewed Treasure Hunt for White Dwarf No. 93, noting that characters 'will need to be resourceful in their choice of action'.^[3] He felt that the plotline was 'guided but not obtrusively so.' He also complimented the 'If Things Go Wrong' section: 'One of author Aaron Allston's best innovations is an extensive section for the GM of the 'What if they do/don't do this?' variety - very useful indeed.'^[3] Sargent noted an emphasis on roleplaying, careful observation, planning, and sensible negotiation, which he found refreshing, and found the whole adventure 'beautifully simple'.^[3] He felt that 'As a first adventure for initiates, this can't be beaten. For old hands who may be tiring of AD&D, it will be a welcome change.'^[3] Sargent felt that the pre-generated characters were too weak in most cases, but that Allston handled this problem by avoiding excessive scores, and suggesting that players double up better scores on combinations, which leaves options open for further character evolution. Sargent concluded the review by stating, 'This is a goodie: well-crafted... and truly creative. Well worth a look even if you don't normally buy AD&D adventures, you won't be disappointed.'^[3]

Ken Rolston reviewed Treasure Hunt for Dragon magazine No. 125,^[4] calling Treasure Hunt a 'fine example' of the subgenre of 'low-level adventures in which the characters are stripped of all their game-mechanics resources and forced to improvise with their wits'. Rolston complimented a few of Allston's design choices, including having player characters graduate from zero-level to 1st level with the DM tracking their progress, providing explicit staging for the DM, and displaying flexibility with interpreting the AD&D game rules. He felt the layout and presentation was generally good, calling the interior artwork 'stylish', but the cover artwork 'unremarkable', and the interior maps 'uninspired but functional'.^[4] Rolston criticized some of the layout choices, such as having the players read the 'Players' Introduction', feeling that the material would be much better as a player handout.^[4]

References[edit]

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1. ^ ^abAllston, Aaron. Treasure Hunt (TSR, 1986)
2. ^ ^abcdSchick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 108. ISBN0-87975-653-5.
3. ^ ^abcdefghijSargent, Carl (September 1987). 'Open Box'. White Dwarf. Games Workshop (93): 4.
4. ^ ^abcdefRolston, Ken (September 1987). 'Role-playing Reviews'. Dragon. Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: TSR (#125): 79–80.
5. ^Niles, Douglas. Moonshae (TSR, 1987)