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cant find the eye of the beholder forums, so ill ask it here

when creating my party in eob1 i seem to be able to keep adding points into str, dex etc. almost infinitely.

is that how its supposed to be?
This question / problem has been solved by Starmakerimage
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custardcream: cant find the eye of the beholder forums, so ill ask it here

when creating my party in eob1 i seem to be able to keep adding points into str, dex etc. almost infinitely.

is that how its supposed to be?
Yep. I guess the theory was for it to allow you to recreate your favorite table top character or something?

Probably better that way, since otherwise most people end up re-rolling until they get absurdly high scores anyway, may as well let them just put in what they want.

Its also like this (if i recall correctly) in the ravenloft games and menzoberranzan as well.
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custardcream: cant find the eye of the beholder forums, so ill ask it here
The Eye of the Beholder trilogy is sold as part of the Forgotten Realms Archives, which has one forum for all the titles contained in any of the three collections: Forgotten Realms Collection forum.

Sorry I can't answer your question.
Post edited February 03, 2018 by HunchBluntley
Yes. Max them all out.

The original design of the iteration of D&D it's based on was every player rolls stats, then sees what class they qualify for. On average, it was supposed to produce a kinda playable party. The harder it was to qualify for the class, the better the class was, thus compounding the problem of unbalanced characters.

The CRPG design is you pick a class for each character, and the game rolls stats for you, raising lacking stats for your chosen class to the mandatory minimum of said class; so you get a powerful class AND powerful stats to match or a less powerful class and experience significantly more variance. At least you get to play the whole party.

Now the thing is, the game isn't built to allow for a lot of variance. It's supposed to present a fair challenge, and that's just not possible if your fighters have smallpox and your wizards have alzheimers. And the game isn't flexible to allow you to make up for failing with clever tactics or whatever (unless blobber dancing qualifies as tactics); if advancement hits a wall because your stats are too low, then that's it.

Additionally, some stats just don't matter for a class. Wizards (starts weak, gets stronger, high variance) cast from INT; if you're playing "fair", rolling and rerolling, you just wait until you get INT 18. Fighters (weak, also high variance) on the other hand want percentile STR for attack, CON for health and DEX for defense, and it isn't bloody likely you'll roll all three until the heat death of the universe, all to play a shitty generic class without special abilities. But you roll a Paladin, those guys are already pretty good out of the box, having their important stats topped up.

So, max out your stats. There's no meaningful gameplay to be found at the lower end of the scale, it'd just mean you'll be dancing, quicktime-camping and reloading from permadeath spells a lot more, and that actually cheapens the experience.
Post edited February 04, 2018 by Starmaker
thanks

doesnt it mean that youre insanely OP from the start and 1-shot everything though?

also, does it apply to all the EOb games or just the 1st?
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custardcream: thanks

doesnt it mean that youre insanely OP from the start and 1-shot everything though?

also, does it apply to all the EOb games or just the 1st?
No, the game series actually takes into account your player stats, how well you're equipped, etc.

In a previous thread about this, someone linked to a youtube video where this was shown.

I can't find it right off.....
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custardcream: cant find the eye of the beholder forums, so ill ask it here

when creating my party in eob1 i seem to be able to keep adding points into str, dex etc. almost infinitely.

is that how its supposed to be?
Well, so it supposed to be like that, it isnt bug then?

It buging me off. Why is it possible? i feel like im cheating.
I guess i will have to make for example figter with max STR, CON and DEX and lower INT, WIS and CHA on 10-12 or something becuase they dont need them on anything (maybe on some spell checks)
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Renal: Well, so it supposed to be like that, it isnt bug then?
I'm not going to check how exactly this game is presented but many if not all the old AD&D games allowed you to freely edit the character stats post-creation. I think the idea was that you could recreate your favourite characters from tabletop. So it's not a bug that it lets you do this, but I hardly think you're expected to just max out your characters.

You can. It is cheating. But play exactly how you most like the game. I'm not judging.
Is this something new in the build as the original's were quiet hard to get a decent crew that didn't get slaughtered in their first few fights/levels?And if it is then that's cheating and unsatisfying and not for me,because my memory of the game was not this.
Post edited July 29, 2018 by Tauto
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Tauto: Is this something new in the build as the original's were quiet hard to get a decent crew that didn't get slaughtered in their first few fights/levels?And if it is then that's cheating and unsatisfying and not for me,because my memory of the game was not this.
I am legitimately surprised to learn you actually play games.

Also, don't you boycott GOG anyway?
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Tauto: Is this something new in the build as the original's were quiet hard to get a decent crew that didn't get slaughtered in their first few fights/levels?And if it is then that's cheating and unsatisfying and not for me,because my memory of the game was not this.
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PoppyAppletree: I am legitimately surprised to learn you actually play games.

Also, don't you boycott GOG anyway?
Troll,someone else for a change as this is becoming a bit boring mainly because your baiting is failing.You just aren't smart enough.
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Tauto: Is this something new in the build as the original's were quiet hard to get a decent crew that didn't get slaughtered in their first few fights/levels?And if it is then that's cheating and unsatisfying and not for me,because my memory of the game was not this.
Well, it could be because you're older and wiser than when you first played it. Maybe you know the system better and you can adapt easier. Perhaps it's a change in perspective when you go back and find something easier than before. You could say that difficulty is in the eye of the beholder ;)

Door's over the right? I'll just let myself out :p
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Tauto: Is this something new in the build as the original's were quiet hard to get a decent crew that didn't get slaughtered in their first few fights/levels?And if it is then that's cheating and unsatisfying and not for me,because my memory of the game was not this.
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tremere110: Well, it could be because you're older and wiser than when you first played it. Maybe you know the system better and you can adapt easier. Perhaps it's a change in perspective when you go back and find something easier than before. You could say that difficulty is in the eye of the beholder ;)

Door's over the right? I'll just let myself out :p
This part was not in the original in brackets...(when creating my party in eob1 i seem to be able to keep adding points into str, dex etc. almost infinitely.) So,I assume it's new as the other user's have stated and the reply's to the question.

Where's that door?