It was also possible to import a party from Eye of the Beholder into Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon or from Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor thus, a player could play through all three games with the same party. The possibility to increase the size of the player's party through the recruiting of NPCs was a tradition in all of the Eye of the Beholder series. This can be increased to a maximum of six characters, by resurrecting one or more skeletons from dead non-player characters (NPC), or finding NPCs that are found throughout the dungeons. The player controls four characters, initially, using a point-and-click interface to fight monsters. The lords rejoice, and confer on the party the honorary name: the Heroes of Waterdeep.Įye of the Beholder featured a first-person perspective in a three-dimensional dungeon, very similar to the earlier Dungeon Master. The party slay the evil beholder and present his eye stalk to the Lords of Waterdeep. The team descends further beneath the city, going through dwarf and drow territory, to Xanathar's lair, where the final confrontation takes place.
As they descend, the entrance gets blocked by a sudden collapse, all planned by Xanathar. With the official document, basic adventuring gear and a package of information, the adventurers enter the city's sewer system. The guards confiscate the drow's package of information, and Khelben sends it to the adventuring group. The spy reveals that the beholder crime lord, Xanathar, inhabits the lowest parts of the Waterdeep sewer system.
Under interrogation, the drow reveals the disturbing plan of an evil beholder (who had recently teleported the elf to the surface). Two days before the adventuring group are due to search underground, the captain of the guard intercepts a drow scout that is spying on the council. The Heroes of Waterdeep accept the commission and letter of Marque. The council holds a ceremony, and write up an official document known as the commission and letter of Marque, and sends the adventurers away to prepare. Khelben returns to the council and tells Piergeiron to hire adventurers to look where they haven't - under the city. He warns that the evil must come from inside Waterdeep, or more, under their very noses. After this, Khelben writes to Piergeiron the Paladinson, Open Lord of Waterdeep. The wizard uses his mages to detect evil, but cannot locate its exact source. Arunsun's informants are clear on one thing - the word Xanathar recurs with great persistence. He, however, finds no evidence of devious plots outside of Waterdeep, and believes such evils must be coming from within. There are rumors of assassins wondering the streets, so the mage visits both Amn and Calimshan, as such places had given Waterdeep issues in the past. Luckily, Khelben "Blackstaff" Arunsun looks into lords' concerns - that an unknown evil poses a threat to Waterdeep. Automapping and the other debugging features can be fun for so-called completionist gamers or useful if someone is planning to remake these games on a modern game engine.įor Instructions consult the included readme file.The lords of the city of Waterdeep have grown concerned with mysterious happenings within the city. But maybe it's justified if you're spoiled by newer games or just don't have that much time anymore to spend on a one single game.
Using automap might even feel cheesy for veteran players. If you haven't played these games previously and don't use any maps or clue books, they will take quite a lot of time and you won't discover all their secrets first time playing them. I remember playing EOB 1 first time in the 90s and especially in the drow levels felt completely lost after going up and down between the levels looking for yet another key. So you could use a bow with your back row cleric and so on.ĮOB with an automapper is of course a completely different game. You can optionally tweak item usability so that every item is usable by every class and only requires one hand to use. You can teleport around the map.Ĭharacter editor with spellbook and inventory editing. You can use All-Seeing Eye to make backups of the save files.Įxplore whole level. In EOB 1, there's only one save game slot. Official clue book solutions can be shown on the map.īackup save game. Monsters and items can be displayed on the map.
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