3 decades of dungeon crawling: Let's play the Eye of the Beholder series

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Tokyo Sexwale: Jul 30, 2003

vilkacis posted:

I don't remember spinner tiles being a big deal in these games - generally it's pretty easy to spot when you're being spun (in places they make it incredibly obvious by putting a thing on the ground so you can't miss that something happened) and they give you a compass. It's some minor fuckery, but easy enough to get around.

they are much more of a thing in the Ravenloft games and possibly Menzoberranzan but I haven't played that one in a long, long time

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Tokyo Sexwale: Jul 30, 2003

Pierzak posted:

without spoilers I'm gonna say that for Strahd, Negative Plane Protection is an absolute must. Going without it is for masochists.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2021 22:46

Tokyo Sexwale: Jul 30, 2003

JustJeff88 posted:

Wizardry 4 was the first recorded example of developers hatefucking their fans.

Takeshi's Castle beat it by about a year, but it's pretty drat close.

# ¿ Jul 21, 2021 00:41

Tokyo Sexwale: Jul 30, 2003

vilkacis posted:

Yeah, this is something i'm pretty sure i saw explicitly stated in some of the manuals.

A mage with 7 con is more or less indistinguishable from one with 9 though, and would at least have been a little more accurate to the source material.

I completely forgot spell failure being a thing. ~~For good reason.~~ Goddamn. That is really goddamn mean.

I don't think any of the crpgs actually implemented it though...

...but then again they might have, since i had no idea EotB had bothered to include bonus exp, either!

I definitely don't know for sure but if any crpg would have included the most sadistic anti-player bullshit, it would've been the Gold Box engine

# ¿ Aug 19, 2021 02:24

Tokyo Sexwale: Jul 30, 2003

PurpleXVI posted:

Bulettes seem like an insane encounter at this point, their canon damage ranges are...

4-48/3-18/3-18

From three attacks, which would leave them with a 10-84 damage range, so apparently some madman thought they needed to be even more powerful. Sure. Why not.

As for the enemies that can petrify you, does the mirror shield protect the entire party or just one single character? Because if it only protects one single character that seems like an insanely frustrating thing to deal with, still having 4 or 5 characters susceptible to random save-or-die rolls(which, let's be frank, the Bulette attacks are as well). I would absolutely either give up the game at that point or just cheat.

yeah it's pretty wild having that come almost immediately after the beholder level which was already crazy enough. I haven't played Darkmoon in a while but I'm pretty sure I cheated this part like crazy too.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2022 04:46

Tokyo Sexwale: Jul 30, 2003

lol at TSR copyrighting names in the Ars Goetia, wonder how they pulled that off

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Tokyo Sexwale: Jul 30, 2003

Testekill posted:

Man, how would a Frost Giant even turn around in there?

instantaneously, haven't you been paying attention

# ¿ Jan 31, 2022 16:55

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