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I have no idea how to fix the many many holes in the bad guy’s plan that you point out above, though :) Delete
So the idea that he was trying to become immortal through something like the baelnorn method but something went wrong and he wound up as a lich is actually plausible I think, as well as making it more reasonable this would end in a boss fight no matter what, which I would assume was a design goal since EOB doesn’t have a tradition of talking past obstacles - plus from a player’s point of view, most know what a lich is whereas you’d need to explain an alternate kind of magic undead creature and it probably wouldn’t add much to the experience. He’s also depicted as getting increasingly power hungry and paranoid, as I recall.
well its scify and not a Frogotten Realms Setting i guess - still the Goldbox Engine.Īll characters in a SSi series are transferable between games which means you can import your party from EOB1 to EOB2 and then EOB3 to play through the entire series.In Forgotten Realms lore at least, the process for becoming a baelnorn has been lost for a while, and I believe can involve using magical elven energy fields called mythals, which are probably pretty messed up in Myth Drannor post-fall. What the Forgotten Realms Archives do not contain is Lands of Lore, the Throne of Chaos, because it was the game Westwood made after the departure from SSi and Buck Rodgers Countdown to Doomsday and Matrix Cubed, because. Pools of Darkness is the most technological advanced one and still quite beautiful in retro VGA look, it was very highly polished and meant as the crowning jewel of the "goldbox" AD&D games. The best game of the series is Eye of Beholder 2, the third part wasn't done by Westwood anymore - its a good game as is Eye of the beholder 1, still the second entry is by far the best of them, as Curse of the Azure Bonds was for the Forgotten Realms settings.
If you can get hold of the Forgotten Realms Archives ISOs (they still sell them at GOG i think) it contains all that dossy SSi golden age stuff, including Eye of Beholder 1-3, Dungeon Hack (the last iteration of the engine randomly generating dungeons), Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades, Pools of Darkness, Champions of Krynn, Death Knights of Krynn, Dark Queen of Krynn, Gateway to the Savage Frontier and Treasures of the Savage Frontier, if you are into retro RPGs there is hardly a better deal, it also contains all manuals and paragraph entries referenced in the games.