Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Eye of the Beholder
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Capcom
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Capcom
Released On:
01 Apr 1994
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Set in a fantasy world, Dungeons & Dragons: Eye of the Beholder follows the story of a group of adventurers as they explore a mysterious dungeon filled with danger and treasure. The players must work together to overcome obstacles, battle monsters, and solve puzzles to uncover the secrets of the eye.
The gameplay is typical of a traditional RPG, with turn-based battles, character development, and exploration. Players can collect items, level up their characters, and upgrade their equipment to improve their chances of success. The game also features a branching storyline, allowing players to make choices that affect the outcome of the game.
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013388130146 (USA)
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Game Guide
Extracted from the original game manual
*Eye of the Beholder* is a first-person, 3D role-playing adventure based on the *Advanced Dungeons & Dragons* 2nd Edition rules. Set in the sewers and catacombs beneath the city of Waterdeep, players guide a party of characters through dangerous dungeons to battle monsters and solve puzzles. To succeed, players must strategically position their party members for combat, manage inventory items, and cast powerful spells using intuitive take, use, and select commands.
Story
The Eye of the Beholder World
Eye of the Beholder is an all 3-D, Legend Series role-playing adventure based on the popular Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 2nd Edition game rules and an original story created for this game. The action takes place in the sewers and catacombs beneath the City of Waterdeep in TSR's forgotten realms game world.
First-Person Gameplay
Everything in Eye of the Beholder is from your point of view. Watch the walls pass by as you move through the sewers beneath the ancient city of Waterdeep. Pick up items by grabbing them, and open doors with keys or by pressing buttons or pulling release levers.
See monsters draw nearer to you and close for battle. Attack by using the weapons your characters have in their hands, or cast spells by using your clerics and mages spells.
Party Combat Positions
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Characters in the front of the party may attack with weapons such as swords and maces.
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Characters in the rear ranks may attack with spells or ranged weapons such as bows.
Interacting with the World
A key to playing Eye of the Beholder is understanding the difference between TAKE, USE, and SELECT:
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TAKE: Involves actions such as picking up or dropping items.
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USE: Involves actions such as attacking monsters with weapons, or indicating that a cleric or mage wishes to cast a spell. You can only Use items from the main Adventure Screen.
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SELECT: Involves choosing buttons such as spell Level Buttons or the Camp Button, or choosing from lists such as picking spells to cast or memorize.
Controls
Control Pad (UP, DOWN, LEFT or RIGHT)
Move the pointer (Adventure Screen / Equipment Screen)
A Button
Select an item (Adventure Screen / Equipment Screen)
B Button
Use an item (Adventure Screen / Equipment Screen)
X Button
Open the Equipment Screen (Adventure Screen) / Close the Equipment Screen (Equipment Screen)
START button
Select the Camp Screen (Adventure Screen / Equipment Screen)
Y Button
Lock the pointer and use the control pad to control your movement / Unlock the pointer (Adventure Screen / Equipment Screen)
L Button
Select another character in your party (Equipment Screen)
R Button
Select another character in your party (Equipment Screen)
Mouse (Drag)
Move the pointer
LEFT mouse button
Select an item
RIGHT mouse button
Use an item / Activate all other functions in the game by moving the pointer over the selected item
How to Play
Class
Classes are occupations. Some races have the option of having more than one class simultaneously, but there are six basic options:
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Fighter
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Paladin
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Cleric
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Ranger
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Mage
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Thief
A variety of classes is needed in a party to get all of the skills needed for the adventure. Paladins will not join parties with evil characters. If you already have an evil party member you cannot generate a Paladin.
Alignment
Alignment is the philosophy by which a character lives and deals with the world. There are nine possible alignments, although a character's class may limit the selection. Paladins, for example, can only be Lawful Good. The choices are:
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Lawful Good
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Neutral Good
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Chaotic Good
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Lawful Neutral
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True Neutral
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Chaotic Neutral
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Lawful Evil
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Neutral Evil
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Chaotic Evil
Evil characters cannot join parties with paladins. If you already have a Paladin you cannot generate an evil character.
Portrait
You must Select the picture, or Character Portrait, that represents the character in the game. During the game the position of the portrait on the screen indicates if a character is in the front or rear ranks of the party. Select the portrait to examine characters' Equipment Screens.
Select the arrows to display sets of portraits, and then Select your character's Portrait.
Ability Scores
Ability scores are generated for the character after you Select the Character Portrait. These are a summary of the character's natural abilities and faculties. Each character has the following scores:
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Strength
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Wisdom
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Constitution
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Intelligence
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Dexterity
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Charisma
These scores can be modified or generated again after you Select a portrait for the character. After attribute scores are generated options to keep or modify your character are displayed. REROLL generates a new set of ability scores for the character.
KEEP Accepts the character into the party.
Name your character after selecting KEEP and the new character will join the adventuring party.
Adventure Screen Elements
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View Window: This is your window to the world. Here you can see the area around your party, items lying in the dungeon, and attacking monsters.
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1. GATE: Gates occasionally block your path. Each gate may be different. For example, some you can open simply by pulling a lever or pressing a button, others may require a key or lockpick.
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2. BUTTON: Buttons and levers can be found on the walls near some gates.
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3. ITEM: Treasure, food, weapons, and other items can be found throughout the dungeon.
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4. MOVEMENT BUTTONS: These move and turn the party.
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5. COMPASS: This indicates the party's heading. Use the compass to maintain your orientation and to map the lower levels. The compass is replaced by the Spell Menu when characters cast spells.
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6. FRONT RANK CHARACTERS: These two characters are the only ones that can attack with melee weapons (swords, maces, etc.) or certain short range spells.
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7. REAR RANK CHARACTERS: These characters are away from the front line risks and can only attack monsters with ranged weapons (bows, darts, etc.) and spells. Rear rank characters can only be hit by monsters' melee attacks if the creatures are attacking from the sides or rear of the party.
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8. CHARACTER PORTRAIT: Select this to choose a character or view his equipment. If the Character Portrait is grayed, the character is unconscious. If it is replaced by a skull, the character is dead.
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9. SPELL EFFECT BOX: A colored line around a character shows that the character is affected by a spell. A dashed line shows that the character is affected by two types of spells. The color of the indicator describes the type of spell.
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10. NAME BAR: Use this to exchange positions of party members. Use one Name Bar and then another. The two party members will trade places.
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11. PRIMARY HAND: Generally a character carries a weapon in his primary hand. The character can hold anything in his Primary Hand that he can hold in his Secondary Hand. Use in-hand weapons to attack monsters.
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12. SECONDARY HAND: Generally a character carries a shield, secondary weapon, spell book, grail symbol, or miscellaneous item in his secondary hand. Only fighters, paladins and rangers can use a secondary weapon and even they suffer a penaly in combat. Use spell book icons or grail symbols to cast spells.
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13. WEAPON: Use in-hand weapons to attack monsters. This is identical for both melee and ranged weapons.
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14. SPELL BOOK: Use this icon to cast memorized mage spells. When you Use a spell book the compass is replaced by the Spell Menu. When the menu is displayed Select a Level Button and then the spell.
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15. SYMBOL: Use this to cast cleric spells. To cast cleric spells USE a symbol and the compass is replaced by the Spell Menu. When the menu is displayed SELECT a level button and then a spell. Paladins invoke their natural healing ability as they would a cleric spell.
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16. HIT POINT BAR: This displays the character's current condition. Color changes indicate the character's status. To display hit points as a numeric value Select Bar Graphs ON/OFF from the Preferences Menu under the Camp options.
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17. CAMP BUTTON: Select this to rest the party, memorize spells, and heal the party. The camp menu also allows you to save the current game, quit, or make adjustments to game
Enemies & Characters
Drider
This strange creature has the head and torso of a drow and the lower body of a giant spider. Driders can generally cast spells as well as fight with weapons.
Drow
These evil subterranean elves are shorter and more lightly built than men, with black skin and pale, usually white hair. All drow can cast some magic spells, and they often carry swords of adamite alloy.
Dwarf
These stocky demi-humans stand between 4 and 4 1/2 feet tall and weigh between 130 and 170 pounds. Dwarves are very tough warriors, and are resistant to both poisons and magical attacks.
Flind
This humanoid creature vaguely resembles a heavily muscled human with a canine head. Flind are of average intelligence, and can be found both above-ground and in caverns.
Golem
A golem is an artificial creature animated by an elemental spirit, with a body made of stone, iron, clay, or even flesh. Golems are utterly fearless, and battle with single-minded determination.
Hound
The hound is a very large, rust-red or brown beast with burning red eyes and soot-black markings, teeth, and tongue. The beast attacks with flaming breath and piercing teeth.
Kenku
These beings resemble humanoid hawks, with both arms and wings, brown feathers, and brilliant yellow eyes. Kenku all have natural thieving abilities, and take perverse pleasure in annoying and inconveniencing human and demi-human races.
Kobold
Well known for cowardice and a wide sadistic streak, kobolds are scaly, three-foot-tall creatures that are usually only dangerous in large groups. They have an ancestral hatred for gnomes, and attack them on sight.
Kuo-Toa
This is an ancient race of fish-men with a vaguely human body, a wide-mouthed fish head, short legs, and long, three-fingered hands. They harbor an age-old hatred for surface dwellers and dwell in subterranean caverns.
Leech, Giant
This is a slimy, slug-like parasite that feeds on its victim's bodily fluids. Leeches wait in the mud, sludge, and slime of swamps and sewers for unsuspecting prey.
Mantis Warrior
Also called Thri-Kreen, this is a carnivorous insect man that resembles a man-sized preying mantis. Mantis warriors are often armed with a peculiar, viciously bladed polearm.
Mind Flayer
Also called Illithid, this is a feared subterranean dweller that feeds on the minds of sentient beings. They are a slime mauve color, stand about six feet tall, and have faces resembling octopi with two large, white, pupilless eyes.
Rust Monster
This is a subterranean creature with an appetite for metals of all kinds, featuring a long, armored tail and two prehensile antennae. Whenever the monster hits metal with its antennae, the metal corrodes and feeds the creature.
Skeleton
This is a magically animated body created and controlled by a powerful evil wizard. Because they have no intelligence or will, skeletons are immune to spells such as Sleep, Charm, and Hold, and they never retreat from a fight.
Spider, Giant
This predator haunts many regions, weaving webs for unwary victims and attacking with poisonous bites.
Xorn
A native to the elemental plane of Earth with a pebbly body, three talon-clawed arms, and a mouth at the top of its head, it is attracted to jewels and precious metals.
Zombie
Undead creatures animated by wizards or clerics, zombies are in severe states of decay and are very slow and clumsy, but they fight with determination and persistence.
Tips & Maps
Stoneskin
This spell grants the recipient virtual immunity to any attack by cut, blow, projectile or the like, protecting the user from almost any non-magical attack. The spell lasts for one to four attacks plus one for every two levels of the caster.
Cloudkill
This spell creates a billowing cloud of ghastly yellowish-green vapor that instantly kills lesser monsters, while stronger creatures have a chance to avoid death. The spell's duration increases with the level of the caster.
Cone of Cold
This spell causes the mage to project a chilling cone of sub-zero cold. The numbing cone causes two to five points of damage per level of the caster.
Hold Monster
This spell is similar to the Hold Person spell except that it affects a wider range of creatures, excluding undead. The spell's duration increases with the level of the caster.
Empower
Upon uttering this spell the morale of the entire party is raised, granting all characters a bonus to their attacks. Empower spells are not cumulative and can be cast by paladins.
Cause Light Wounds
By casting this spell the cleric can cause one to eight hit points of damage to one target.
Cure Light Wounds
This spell has a range of 0, permanent duration, and affects one character.
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