For some reason I have yet to fathom, this game alone in the series was published in two different box formats - landscape and portrait. This one here is the unusual one shaped 'landscape' as Heroes of the Lance was. All the other game boxes were oriented 'portrait' like most other game boxes. Although seemingly bizarre, I am nearly certain this packaging of the game, although European, included the North American manual and Adventurer's Journal - even though they are slightly too big for the box! The non-english versions, however, did come with their own, slightly shrunk down manuals.