Pools of Darkness - Final battle part 2

The showdown with Gothmenes and his minions marks the end of this game. It consists of 3 tough battles. This video has the second and third battles against the Beholder corps and Gothmenes himself.

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• Darkness
• SSI
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• Dragons

[OvaltinePatrol]

Were those slings somehow rendered vorpal? People were getting beheaded from them.

[SivakD]

Apparently. Must be a bug in the old 1991 game.  But I wasn't complaining. :)

[crabheart]

what game is this it looks similar to the old never winter nights.. wich i am too young to have ever played

[SivakD]

As the title says, Pools of Darkness is the game. It was made in 1991 and it was done by the same company as NWN. The game is the 4th part of a series of 4 games.

[keithyw]

@SivakD it was bugged. i think what happened was that if you had the vorpal sword equipped and you saved your character to disk, when you went to restore, your character now had a "natural" vorpal ability. so you could have, for instance, vorpal maces, which would behead beholders (hmmm....wonder how that would look?)

[cicerome]

The very basic and very best of RPG games ever made. Curse of The Azure Bonds and Secret of The Silver Blades uber alles.

[surrano75]

It's a bit disappointing to win the fight in NOVICE (am I mistaken? is it NORMAL?) mode instead of CHAMPION...

Abusing bugs for cheating, well yeah... let's try again without doing that. ;)

[njkyry]

According to Wikipedia, if you disintegrate a character carrying a vorpal sword, then resurrect him, he retains the vorpal power for all weapons (despite all his items being destroyed). This also, apparently, applies to other item powers as well, such as of rings.

I assumed this was what you'd done here (it also looks like you used some of the other game glitches to your advantage).

[SimonDarkshade]

A difficult battle without planning. I used to heal up and haste up at the end of the first and the seond vs the beholders, then go into the last hasted and tanked. The only shame about PoD was that all the items only went up to +4, and it didn't have the variety of Curse in terms of treasure.

[DoomBishop]

I must have had a bug in my game. I could never REACH the end of the game. The game would not progress beyond a certain point. Not saying I could have won the game (it was harder than say Dark Queen of Krynn), but I would have liked the opportunity to try...oh well...it was fun and that is what mattered...

[400SA]

Got to love the sound when monster die LOL. I wasted far too many hours of my youth on this series of games starting with Pool of Radiance. But I don't regret it!

[SD78]

Hillsfar was between Pool of Radiance and Azure Bonds. I actually leveled a character playing Hillsfar, but can't recall how...

Hillsfar was actually pretty good on the C64

[cremedeble]

haha, those are insane armor class. I remember having my fighters equiped with vorpal long sword too.

That game rocked !

[banedon88]

Ioun stones do a variety of things based on their colour. Some add a point or two to a stat 9such as strengthm intelligence, etc), some give bonuses to saving throws, etc, etc.

There's a list in the AD&D Dungeon Master's guide if you want details (or just google Ioun Stone list). When I played I would just disable or magic items on a character, enable the ioun stone, and find out what had changed.