I have a game that 3 of my characters have died. I've dropped them and now I'm trying to fill in with new characters. How do I do that?

Never got to play the Gold Box games back in the day. The box art sure was sexy... in both senses of the word. I decided to finally take the plunge and play Pool of Radiance (both original and FRUA module remake) recently given its legendary status, and sadly I had to give it an honest, negative review: https://gtm.you1.cn/id/uncleyar/recommended/1882280 I still feel bad about this because given the praise heaped on the the game, I was expecting a lot more. So I was wondering if anyone who's not ...

I am playing Curse of the Azure Bonds . The cloud kill spell seems completely useless , everytime I cast it it creates a blue cloud but nothing actually happens, no damage, no saves needed, nothing . What's wrong ?

Does anyone know? Seems it has totally disappeared. Even looking on Internet Archive Wayback saves, everyone of them brings up a dead link. I've tried with MS Edge Internet Explorer mode, and still get nothing.

To my knowledge, the cleric spell 'Slow Poison' is usable during battle as well as in camp. But now I am very embarrassed to find that my cleric cannot cast the spell during battles. The message shows me that it is 'Camp only spell'. Fortunately in that battle, I found that I have a cleric scroll with 'Slow Poison', which was usable during the battle. So, I cast the spell on the poisoned companion. From here, the situation is getting more bizarre. It revived the companion. But still it did not work proper...