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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 20, 2015
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gamesfreak64: because of logic
That's not logical at all. ;)
Posted August 20, 2015
... and another great release by GOG Ltd. :-)

EotBs are instubuy for me. Also I don't think I'll be able to resist a call from other collections for long and they will land on my shelf rather sooner then later.
Post edited August 20, 2015 by tburger
Posted August 20, 2015
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jalister: You definitely won't find it if you search for "Eye of the Befolder".
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Breja: Damn. Well, at least it's not "Lego wangs".
I see you fixed your post. :)

I do agree with your point though. I have the series on disk, and I think it's titled the Eye of the Beholder Trilogy.
Posted August 20, 2015
I picked them up, but for some reason I can't post in the forum for the actual game. So I will leave this here, a mod/tool that makes the games much less annoying to play and also lets you cheat if you are a dirty cheater: I can't post links, so google "gold box companion"
Posted August 20, 2015
Eotb was the first D&D game I used the pre-made party for and did pretty well. Great releases!
Posted August 20, 2015
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Shadowflight: I dont have any knowledge of these games but I am intrigued with the second collection because of the Pool of Radience, (I played Myth Drannor and enjoyed it) Do these games have anything to offer a modern gamer or is it more of a nostalgia fest (not offence intended) for fans?

Serous question.
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Leroux: Someone will probably provide all the PRO's very soon, so let me give you my opinion on the CON's, why a modern gamer may find them dated:
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Thanks VERY much for taking the time to explain all that Leroux, I really fo appreciate it! I dont think these games are for me after rwading that :)

It has prompted me to re-install PoR RoMD and I found a cure for transparent characters!.
Posted August 20, 2015
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gamesfreak64: because of logic
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Leroux: That's not logical at all. ;)
correct it is indeed not logic at all, not 100% , but it is a little bit logic to name it like that.
cause it has to have some name for it.
It's like life, life itself is also illogical and not logical, and yet there are billions of living creatures, i guess sometimes logic cant be called for.
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Posted August 20, 2015
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gamesfreak64: because of logic
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Leroux: That's not logical at all. ;)
How about you excute XOR logic, logic ?
Still logic, but not a very useful kind...
Posted August 20, 2015
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jonzes: I picked them up, but for some reason I can't post in the forum for the actual game. So I will leave this here, a mod/tool that makes the games much less annoying to play and also lets you cheat if you are a dirty cheater: I can't post links, so google "gold box companion"
It's probably GOG's anti-spam system that's preventing supposedly new user with low rep to post links. Thanks for bringing this tool to our attention though! Here's a working link:

Gold Box Companion
Posted August 20, 2015
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Leroux: That's not logical at all. ;)
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jorlin: How about you excute XOR logic, logic ?
Still logic, but not a very useful kind...
Xclusive OR ? i read it 40 years ago in a cardridge to store c64 games, unfortunately i dont understand any languages like machine code or c++ or any programming language for that matter, i can fiddle some basic HTML, but then again thats not a programming language but a markup language.
So i leave al the xors to the people who can play that tune better then i can .
Post edited August 20, 2015 by gamesfreak64
Posted August 20, 2015
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gamesfreak64:
Oh, now I get what you meant; of course there is a certain logic to it to call this collection Forgotten Realms Archives Collection 1-3, but GOG didn't come up with this name, they adopted it from the retail version of the collection. The question is: Does it really make sense that GOG adopted the name of the collection instead of using names that will make it easy for their potential customers to find the games they're looking for?
Posted August 20, 2015
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jonzes: I picked them up, but for some reason I can't post in the forum for the actual game. So I will leave this here, a mod/tool that makes the games much less annoying to play and also lets you cheat if you are a dirty cheater: I can't post links, so google "gold box companion"
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Leroux: It's probably GOG's anti-spam system that's preventing supposedly new user with low rep to post links. Thanks for bringing this tool to our attention though! Here's a working link:

Gold Box Companion
yes it is a form of antispam i guess, many communities however are using this aswell, i have seen it quite a lot on various sites, so its not only GOG, its a way of trying to keep spam and other nonsense limited.

btw nice gold box, these goldboxed software did exist , they did had games in it, i have seen these, usually ssi boxes, very old stuff, its no nonsense, i had them in my hands long time ago.
Posted August 20, 2015
Sweet! These were long overdue. I'm especially impressed that the elusive Dungeon Hack is in the lineup.
Posted August 20, 2015
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whystler2012: Sweet! These were long overdue. I'm especially impressed that the elusive Dungeon Hack is in the lineup.
There will be a Dungeon Hack stream... ;)
Posted August 20, 2015
For you who want to play Eye of the Beholder 1 and 2, but don't want to break out the graph paper, here's something for you all: The All Seeing Eye. I don't have the GOG versions, so I haven't tried it, but I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work.

edit: Oh, I see it got brought up earlier. Well, if anybody missed it, here it is again.
Post edited August 20, 2015 by doccarnby
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