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RE: EOB1 - The final battle

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From: mar... Lou Marion
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 1994 18:33
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In article <2gkehh$e...@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>, mtz...@vaxb.nott.ac.uk writes:
|> When you meet Xanathar and finish talking, he immediately casts a spell -
|> just hope it isn't disintegrate it does 100 damage if you fail a saving
|> throw.  If one of your characters dies straight away, reload and hope
|> they don't this time.  What you never want to do is take on a beholder
|> in toe to toe melee combat.  staright away, move backwards and to the right.
|> turn left, and wait for him to come, then you get a free hack.  You should
|> put haste and stoneskin and all the rest (prayer etc..)  and move to his
|> side, whilst facing him all the time.  He can only hurt you when he faces
|> you, so don't let him.  As soon as you hack with your front row, move and
|> hack form a different side.  It is easiest to use a combination of the
|> keypad and the mouse.  Once you get a hang of this, Xanathar shouldn't be
|> around for too long.
|> Ol.


	Is there a differance to the ending in killing him off verses
	beating him back into the trap with the wand.  I just finished 
	last night and was kind of dissapointed at the ending.  Didn't
	even let you go back and look around just dumped to DOS after a
	brief message.

	Lou Marion
	mar...@humboldt.kent.edu
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Subject: RE: EOB1 - The final battle
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