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Posted August 21, 2015
We're casting True Resurrection on Eye of the Beholder and twelve more D&D GoldBox classics.

You are sitting in a tavern. The mighty Wizards of the Coast bestow upon you their greatest treasures: Forgotten Realms: The Archives - long lost relics of an RPG renaissance that changed the face of gaming forever. Today, one of the forgotten grails of gaming history is within your grasp, should you travel to a magical, DRM-free realm known as GOG.com

Eye of the Beholder, Pool of Radiance, Menzoberranzan - the list of groundbreaking RPG classics goes on. We set out on the quest for Forgotten Realms: The Archives a long time ago, and though it was a perilous journey - after years of searching, huge help from our friends at Hasbro and Wizards of The Coast, as well as months of technical work - we get to be freaking excited to sit here and say:
Forgotten Realms: The Archives are available now, DRM-free on GOG.com





The Archives are a set of thirteen D&D GoldBox classics packaged across three collections:
--<span class="bold">Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection One</span> features Eye of the Beholder I, II, and III. It's the three and only, the gold-standard in classic RPG dungeon crawling.

--<span class="bold">Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Two</span> features more gameplay hours and secrets than we could ever count - with Pool of Radiance, Hillsfar, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Gateway to the Savage Frontier, Pools of Darkness, Secret of the Silver Blades, Treasures of the Savage Frontier, and D&D: Unlimited Adventures.

--<span class="bold">Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Three</span> features near-infinite replay value and and an important chunk of RPG history with Dungeon Hack and Menzoberranzan.





We are now home to precisely 20 years of digital D&D RPG history - from Pool of Radiance (1988) to Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir (2008). You can also complete your personal collection with all the remaining D&D titles on sale at up to 80% off in our early D&D Weekend Promo! Planescape Torment, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights - they're all here, so head straight to the promo page, or read more about it.






Stream watch:

We'll be featuring lots of D&D classics at Twitch.tv/GOGcom - follow us to not miss 'em or read on for the full Dungeon-and-Dragon-filled schedule below!

THURSDAY, August 20th:
2pm GMT / 4pm CEST / 10am EDT / 7am PDT: Pool of Radiance with Classicor
4pm GMT / 6pm CEST / 12pm EDT / 9am PDT: Eye of the Beholder II with MegapiemanPHD
6pm GMT / 8pm CEST / 2pm EDT / 11am PDT: Eye of the Beholder with Outstar
10pm GMT / 12am CEST / 6pm EDT / 3pm PDT: Menzoberranzan with Classicor

FRIDAY, August 21st:
6pm GMT / 8pm CEST / 2pm EDT / 11am PDT: Curse of the Azure Bonds with Piranjade

SUNDAY, August 23rd:
10pm GMT / 12am CEST / 6pm EDT / 3pm PDT: Dungeon Hack with Classicor
Posted August 21, 2015
Have to say thank you GOG for Eye of the Beholder series. You made my day. Yay!
Hope you'll continue in digging out oldskool classic :)
Posted August 21, 2015
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Elmofongo: Does this collection include the 1991 Neverwinter Nights?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-zQWEp_IvY
Of course it doesn't. Neverwinter Nights (1991) was a MMO. GOG doesn't do MMOs.
Posted August 21, 2015
Does anyone else see the timestamp on the collection's forum page as Nov 30, -0001?
Is this bug preventing me from posting there? I don't see a new topic button.


I'm not certain my review of FRUA will be accepted since I put links in it, so have a review:


Think about all the mods you add to make a game fresh again. Now Imagine a major developer making a game that is designed around accepting community made content.

That is Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures, or FRUA for short.

The amount of player made content for this game is in the multiple dozens of high quality adventures. Classic PnP modules like Tomb of Horrors, White Plume Mountain, even original settings and developer content.
The unofficial forums for the player made content are at ua.reonis.com, with the modules themselves archived at frua.rosedragon.org.

This release on GOG, though long awaited, was a bit of a surprise, so let them get things organized for the influx of new players before complaining to the forum operators about a heretofore niche game, please?

Enjoy!
Posted August 21, 2015
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Elmofongo: Does this collection include the 1991 Neverwinter Nights?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-zQWEp_IvY
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Grargar: Of course it doesn't. Neverwinter Nights (1991) was a MMO. GOG doesn't do MMOs.
Was it a good MMO?
Posted August 21, 2015
I bought the hardcopy of this a couple months ago. LOL
Posted August 21, 2015
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zlep: It does make me wonder if the Dark Sun games were ever patched enough to be releasable, though.
Dark Sun 1 was patched and is definitely winnable with no issues. I had problems completing Dark Sun 2 even with patches (there is a well known bug in the mines). Even Gold Box games are bugged (in particular Curse, even with patches), so one needs to be careful with saves and with character transfer between different games. The problems are mostly with stat changing items.

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Slynt: I want to start with Pools of Radiance, but I have a laptop and no numlock pad. Is there a way I can select anything else but whatever's on the top of a list?
Use Home & End keys to navigate the menu. And as someone wrote already, in general menu items can be selected with hot keys which are indicated by different color. The controls gets better in later Gold Box games (you even get mouse support), but PoR is well worth playing.
Posted August 21, 2015
FYI

Someone has done automapper for Eye of the Beholder games

http://personal.inet.fi/koti/jhirvonen/ase/.
Posted August 21, 2015
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Banichi: Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures, or FRUA for short.

The unofficial forums for the player made content are at ua.reonis.com, with the modules themselves archived at frua.rosedragon.org.
Here you go, clickable links. And thanks for the review! :)
Post edited August 21, 2015 by Leroux
Posted August 21, 2015
This is absolutely ridiculous...but I can't figure out how to select a different race when creating characters in Pool of Radiance. Arrow down doesn't seem to work, the letters for the races don't seem to work...what am I doing wrong...Great release, though!
Posted August 21, 2015
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Slynt: Well, I tried everything but I still can't move up or down the character race selection list in Pool of Radiance :(
I did note that the arrow keys, on the ctrt+f1 mapper screen, have a "Disabled" icon over them.

I tried "W" + "Add" + "Up Key", "S"+"Add"+"Down Key" and vice versa ("Up Key + Add" + "W" etc.) but...nothing. I was so happy to see these old gold box games get a release, I'm a Forgotten Realms video game junkie and want to play them all (the Gold Box games are the only ones I haven't played and yes that includes Daggerdale).
Radiance and Curse don't have cursor navigation in the menu. That's why I said "aged atrociously" elsewhere. See those white first letters (CAST - ENCAMP - SEARCH - LOOK)? You'll have to press them instead.
(edit: oh, wait, Radiance. Right, as igrok wrote, lists without white letters use Home and End.)
Later games enable the cursor, but, unfortunately, of the Pools series, these are the two good games.

My advice is to play Gateway. It's a solid standalone story with way better art and many interface improvements. And read the manuals, there's a lot of weird nonsense even in the modernized titles.
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Posted August 21, 2015
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SpiralJacobs: This is absolutely ridiculous...but I can't figure out how to select a different race when creating characters in Pool of Radiance. Arrow down doesn't seem to work, the letters for the races don't seem to work...what am I doing wrong...Great release, though!
As I wrote a few posts above, use Home & End keys, and don't forget to read the Quick Reference Card, as well as other documentation for the game. This is a good *old* game, so be prepared for a journey :)
Posted August 21, 2015
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Kardwill: Don't know if Spelljammer (space-fantasy, with magic-fueld starships) ever had a videogame
It did have a computer game. Spelljammer - Pirates of Realmspace.

Take a look here: http://www.amazon.com/Strategic-Simulations-Inc-Spelljammer-Realmspace/dp/B000801Z6K

Interface and story leave a lot to be desired, though.

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Breja: Sorry if this was mentioned before, but why the "Forgotten Realms: The Archives" titles? I mean the first one especially, it is nothing but Eye of the Beholder, and yet I would never find it trough the search function if I type in "Eye of the Beholder", so why not just call it "Eye of the Beholder series"?
It may have something to do with the fact that all of those games were released years ago in a 4 CD collection called The Forgotten Realms Archives.

http://www.amazon.com/Interplay-The-Forgotten-Realms-Archives/dp/B0006J0IZM/
Posted August 21, 2015
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Banichi: The amount of player made content for this game is in the multiple dozens of high quality adventures. Classic PnP modules like Tomb of Horrors, White Plume Mountain, even original settings and developer content.
The unofficial forums for the player made content are at ua.reonis.com, with the modules themselves archived at frua.rosedragon.org.
Thank you. Having just bought bundle #2 (wishlisting the others for now), I was going to ask where some good sites for Unlimited Adventures modules are located :)
Posted August 21, 2015
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ElTerprise: Which of those three releases would you recommend for someone who haven't played any of those?
EOB2 is probably the best of the bunch. Good story. Graphics and interface have aged nicely, too. It didn't come with a built in automapping function, but GOG probably has added a clue book, if you happen to be stuck somewhere.
Posted August 21, 2015
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igrok: The controls gets better in later Gold Box games (you even get mouse support), but PoR is well worth playing.
Even hotkeys are faster than the mouse. DQK was a huge downgrade, even with the pretty character icons.
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