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Documentation by: The Anarchist Holas. Now that you've got a copy of Eye of the Beholder (from now on known as EOB) in your hot little hands, it's a plan if you know how to play the thing, and, of course, how to avoid the copy protection scheme. If you're wondering what EOB is about, it's a 3-D, real time Dungeons and Dragons "simulation" based on the new rules. Basically, it's a cheap rip off from "Dungeon Master" for the ST and Amiga. It also seems to me that it's somewhat unfinished, as if the designers were under a rush deadline, so they had to snip off all the loose threads and make it as-is. There are some things you'll notice in the game which lead me to that conclusion, such as: o Potions of poison that you can drink and die from, but will not shatter if you throw them at opponents (NOTHING will shatter if you throw it) o Some of the spells don't work altho they are documented in the rulebook. etc... etc... but, what do you expect from an SSI product? It IS the closest to Dungeon Master we're ever likely to see. EOB works with CGA, EGA, VGA and <barf> tandy 16 color mode. It will also play sound on the Sound Blaster, Ad-Lib, standard IBM speaker, or <barf> tandy speaker. The game is ARJed up kinda funny I know... that's because I ARJed every disk separately, then ARJed them all together into one bundle along with this doc. To reassemble it, create a directory (EOB, EYE, name is not important) and execute all the packed .EXE files... they're all pkzip self-extracting files. Now... down to business. Getting past the protection --------------------------- Protection is typically simplistic. Find a page, find a line, find a word, type in the word. The format is: "Find the page with this symbol: <symbol>" "Find line <line>" " word <word>" *note: <symbol> will be a picture of some weapon, armor, or dungeon knick-knack. I've done my best to identify the pictures and translate them so they're reasonably easy to identify. It seems to look for the first 7 words of the first seven lines, so I'm just going to enter the first seven lines of each page with a symbol on it. You'll probably want to print this out. ____________________________________________ Symbol: Sword You must generate four characters to have a complete party. A good mix of races and classes is essential to completing the adventure. Warrior classes such as fight- ers, paladins, and rangers are needed to deal with the many horrors that block your path. Clerics and mages support the ____________________________________________ Symbol: Boots FACES Returns to the portrait selection option. KEEP Accepts the character into the party. Name your character after selecting Keep and the new character will join the adventuring party. ____________________________________________ Symbol: Shield FRONT RANK CHARACTERS These two char- acters are the only ones that can attack with melee weapons (swords, maces, etc.) or certain short range spells. REAR RANK CHARACTERS These characters are away from the front line risks and can only attack monsters with ranged weapons ____________________________________________ Symbol: Bow CHARACTER PORTRAIT Select this to return to the Adventure Screen. HIT POINT BAR Displays the character's current condition. FOOD BAR Indicates if the character has enough food. NEXT/PREVIOUS CHARACTER BUTTONS Select ____________________________________________ Symbol: Belt are the numbers of each type of spell the character will have when he finishes resting. Highlighted numbers are unmem- orized spells. Select the Clear Button to blank any unmemorized spell choices or a Level Button to choose spells of another level. Select the Exit Button to end choices for that character. ____________________________________________ Symbol: Ankh (holy symbol) EXAMINE PART OF THE DUNGEON Move the cursor over an item, such as a daggar or body, or a dungeon feature, such as writings or drains on walls and Select it. Information about the selected item or feature is displayed in the Message Area below the 3-D window. ____________________________________________ Symbol: Book around 600 years old. Where dwarves are taciturn and hard working, the gnomes are more carefree and lively. Never turn your back on a gnome, however - they are diabolical and enthusiastic practical jokers. Gnomes are fairly magic-resistant, and gain a +1 combat bonus against kobolds. ____________________________________________ Symbol: Egg (sorta an oval shape) warriors and clerics may charge to the fore of a battle, mages tend to hang back and pummel foes with mystic attacks. Mages tend to be reclusive and spend most of their time researching new spells and ancient magical lore. Mages cannot wear any type of armor. ____________________________________________ Symbol: Flail as bows or slings. Dexterity of 16 or high- er counters some of the minuses fighters suffer when using weapons in both hands. CONSTITUTION measures fitness, health, and physical toughness. High constitution increases the number of hit points a char- acter gets. Hit points measure how diffi- cult a character is to incapacitate or kill. ____________________________________________ Symbol: Axe SHIELD o Range: 0 o Duration: Short to Medium o Area of Effect: Spell-caster This spell produces an invisible barrier in front of the mage that totally blocks Magic Missle attacks. It also offers AC 2 against hurled weapons (darts, spears) and ____________________________________________ Symbol: Scroll(?) (Looks sorta like someone's intestines) FOURTH LEVEL MAGE SPELLS FEAR o Range: 0 o Duration: Medium o Area of Effect: Two Squares When this spell is cast the mage projects an invisible cone of terror. Any creature affected by the spell will turn tail and run from the party. The amount of time the ____________________________________________ Symbol: Robe affected become rigid and unable to move or speak. Spell duration increases with the level of the caster. SLOW POISON o Range: 0 o Duration: Long o Area of Effect: One character This spell slow the effects of any type of poison for a limited amount of time. ____________________________________________ Symbol: Mace wealth and force-of-arms to wage a war of conquest. Ahghairon defied the Warlord in public, before a large gathering of citizens and officials. When Raurlor ordered the wizard bound and imprisioned, Ahghairon rose into the air, out of reach of the guards and the angered Warlord. ____________________________________________ Symbol: Skeleton (Pile of bones) BEHOLDER: Also known as EYE TYRANT or SPHERE OF MANY EYES, this solitary horror is most often found under- ground. Beholders ____________________________________________ Symbol: Plate armor (pile of metal armor) tongue are soot-black. The baying of a hell hound has been described as "eerie," "hol- low," and "disturbing." The beast attacks with flaming breath and piercing teeth. KENKU: These beings resemble humanoid hawks, with both arms and wings. ____________________________________________ * Note: All words in boldface were typed in capitals. The "Symbol: ..." is NOT part of the 7 lines of text. You get three tries at entering in a correct answer on the copy protection screen, so you're pretty much guaranteed to get at least one of 'em right. Just in case tho, it's a good idea to save the game before you go down any level (especially 1 and 6) or go thru any stone portal. HOW TO PLAY: ------------ If you don't have a mouse, you might as well not even bother. The controls are cludgey with the mouse, near impossible without one. For those of you with a mouse: To attack: Click the left button on the weapon you wish to use. To use spells: Click the right button on the mage's book (or cleric's holy symbol), then move to the spellbook window under the main window and page thru the available spells. *NOTE: You must have preyed for/ memorized the spells before you can use them!!! To move: While you can use the mouse to move you, the keypad is far superior. 8, 4, 6, and 2 move you forward, step left, step right, and back respectively. Home and PgUp will rotate you left and right. For those of you who don't have the extended keyboard, experiment. Klicking the little upturned page in the bottom right of the character screen will put you into the statistics page (EXP, Level, etc. are displayed here.) Klick again will return you to the main character sheet. Here's a list of the spells. I'm not going to type in what they all do. If you have any questions, ask an ADnD player. The spells follow the books' definitions very closely. Mage Spells Cleric Spells Level 1 Level 1 o Armor o Bless o Burning Hands o Cause Light Wounds o Detect Magic o Cure Light Wounds o Magic Missile o Detect Magic o Shield o Protection from Evil o Shocking Grasp Level 2 Level 2 o Aid o Invisibility o Flame Blade o Melf's Acid Arrow o Hold Person o Stinking Cloud ** NOT IN IBM VER ** o Slow Poison Level 3 Level 3 o Dispel Magic o Create Food & Water o Fireball o Dispel Magic o Flame Arrow o Magical Vestment o Haste o Prayer o Hold Person o Remove Paralysis o Invisibility 10' radius o Lightning bolt Level 4 o Vampiric Touch o Cause Serious Wounds Level 4 o Cure Serious Wounds o Neutralize Poison o Fear o Protection from Evil 10'radius o Ice Storm o Protection from Lightning o Stoneskin ** NOT IN IBM VER ** Level 5 Level 5 o Cloudkill ** NOT IN IBM VER ** o Cause Critical Wounds o Cone of Cold o Cure Critical Wounds o Hold Monster o Flame Strike o Raise Dead * NOTE: When choosing character class, be careful when you choose Elves... they cannot be ressurected. Beastiary --------- Here's a short list of all the monsters and what they look like: Beholder: Beholders have a globular body with ten eye-stalks, and in the center is a single large eye and a gaping maw adorned with several rows of razor sharp teeth. * Spell casting ability Displacer Beasts: Resembles a blue-black puma with two powerful tenticles, tipped with sharp horns that can punch thru steel armor. Drider: Has the head and torso of a Drow (see below) and the lower body of a giant spider. * Spell casting ability Drow: Look like dark elves with white hair. * Spell casting ability * Note: Usually carry adamantite swords, which are WICKED weapons. * Also note: Somewhere on the 10th level you will meet the head drow wench. Don't ask for what she has to say, 'cuz she's full of shit. Slay her where she stands. You'll be glad you did. <evil grin> Dwarf: Stocky demi-humans about 4' tall. Lots of 'em on level 5. * Note: attack one of these guys, intentionally or accidentally, and you'll have the full herd on you. Very bad idea, since the dwarf cleric can raise that dead halfling thief you pick up. Flind: Vaguely resembles a heavily muscled human with a canine head. Golem: Artificial creature created by a powerful mage who animates a constructed body with an elemental spirit. Looks like a professional wrestler made of stone. Nasty fighters, damn near impossible to kill unless heavy majik is used. Hell Hounds: More like pound puppies. One or two majik Missiles will usually toast one of these. Look like German Sheppards that leap at you with fire belching from their mouths. Kenku: Half-human, half-hawks. Nasty tendancy to travel in flocks. * Spell casting ability. * Note - Do NOT let a flock of these get you trapped in a corner, they'll pin you down, pummel you with majik missiles and thier sticks, and you will die. I've had a group of level 9 players BARELY manage to fight thier way out of a flock of these bastards only by grace of recently being rested and having an abundance of invisibility spells and healing potions. Kobold: Little green dudes. Die almost before you notice they're there. Kuo-Toa: Fish-men. Attack in packs of two or three, usually sneaking up behind you when you least expect it. * Spell casting ability Leech, Giant: Large worms. Very slow, very dumb. Easy targets. Mantis Warrior: AKA ThriKreen. Large preying mantis-like humanoids, weilding visciously bladed halberds which have a tendancy to paralyze your front end men. Like to hang out in sandy places and lower levels. * Note: The polearms aren't very good weapons for your party. Mind Flayer: AKA Illithid. Look like big green walking octopi. VERY Deadly. Attack only at a distance and usually with heady majik (IE: Fireballs, lightning bolts, cone of cold) as these guys can lay your entire party flat with one mind blast. No defense, no warning, just -blip- and yer dogmeat. Generally only found on level 11. Best attack strategy: Get the illithid to follow you to a door. Fireball it. Close the door. Rest until all your characters have regained thier strength. Open the door. Fireball the Illithid. Repeat as necessary. Rust Monster: Looks like a walking rock with a dolophin tail and two tenticles. Loves all sorts of metals, like armor, swords, daggers, tooth fillings... Kill them at a distance with arrows or majik and keep your trusty adamantite swords handy for your next ThriKreen encounter. Skeleton: Look like... well, skeletons. That walk and try to kill you. You'll notice two types. Type A are slow and easily turned. They generally die with one or two shots and weild axes. Type B are the remains of what appear to be Samurai. They dress in full oriental battle gear and are nasty fighters which require a hard pummeling before they give up their second life. Type A will drop helmets and axes when they die. Type B will drop adamantite swords. Spider, Giant: Look like big version of the shiny little black spiders we all love to crush on a hot summer day. Be VERY careful with these puppies... they can poison you with one shot, and if your cleric doesn't have the talent to cure poison, you're a goner unless you can make it to the dwarf cleric. When poisoned people sleep, they die. There are some few cure poison potions around, so if you find them, don't use them right away... wait until you're sure you won't encounter more spiders. In the meantime, cast Slow Poison spells on your front end men. Xorn: Big rock-like thing with 3 legs, 3 arms and an attitude. Eats metal for brekkie. Kill it with majik or get eaten for your metal. Think of a Xorn as a rust monster on steroids. Zombie: Crumbling undead mounds of ex-human flesh. Easy to kill. Weak, slow, stupid. Chop chop chop will send them back to rest. EXPERIENCE TABLES ----------------- Clerics Fighters Level Exp to Reach HP Level Exp to reach HP 1 0 1-8 1 0 1-10 2 1500 +1-8 2 2000 +1-10 3 3000 +1-8 3 4000 +1-10 4 6000 +1-8 4 8000 +1-10 5 13000 +1-8 5 16000 +1-10 6 27500 +1-8 6 32000 +1-10 7 55000 +1-8 7 64000 +1-10 8 110000 +1-8 8 125000 +1-10 9 225000 +1-8 9 250000 +1-10 10 450000 +2 10 500000 +3 11 750000 +3 Mages 12 1000000 +3 1 0 1-4 Paladins 2 2500 +1-4 3 5000 +1-4 1 0 1-10 4 10000 +1-4 2 2250 +1-10 5 20000 +1-4 3 4500 +1-10 6 40000 +1-4 4 9000 +1-10 7 60000 +1-4 5 18000 +1-10 8 90000 +1-4 6 36000 +1-10 9 135000 +1-4 7 75000 +1-10 10 250000 +1-4 8 150000 +1-10 11 500000 +1 9 300000 +1-10 10 600000 +3 Thieves 11 900000 +3 1 0 1-6 Rangers 2 1250 +1-6 3 2500 +1-6 1 0 1-10 4 5000 +1-6 2 2250 +1-10 5 10000 +1-6 3 4500 +1-10 6 20000 +1-6 4 9000 +1-10 7 40000 +1-6 5 18000 +1-10 8 70000 +1-6 6 36000 +1-10 9 110000 +1-6 7 75000 +1-10 10 160000 +1-6 8 150000 +1-10 11 220000 +2 9 300000 +1-10 12 440000 +2 10 600000 +3 11 900000 +3 12 1200000 +3 SPELL PROGRESSION TABLES Cleric Cleric Wisdom Spell Bonus Level 1 2 3 4 5 Wisdom 1 2 3 4 1 1 - - - - 13 1 - - - 2 2 - - - - 14 2 - - - 3 2 1 - - - 15 2 1 - - 4 3 2 - - - 16 2 2 - - 5 3 3 1 - - 17 2 2 1 - 6 3 3 2 - - 18 2 2 1 1 7 3 3 2 1 - 19 2 2 1 2 8 3 3 3 2 - 9 4 4 3 2 1 10 4 4 3 3 2 Mage Paladin 1 1 - - - - Level 1 2 2 2 - - - - 9 1 - 3 2 1 - - - 10 2 - 4 3 2 - - - 11 2 1 5 4 2 1 - - 6 4 2 2 - - 7 4 3 2 1 - 8 4 3 3 2 - 9 4 3 3 2 1 10 4 4 3 2 2 11 4 4 4 3 3