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The Temple of Elemental Evil.Pdf Document1 7/28/03 2:42 PM Page 1 ToEE PC_ManInt_1-93 7/28/03 3:52 PM Page 4 Getting Started System Requirements Operating System: Windows® 98/Me/2000/XP Introduction Processor: Pentium® III 700 MHz (Pentium® 4 1.7 GHz or Welcome to the Temple of Elemental Evil ™: A Greyhawk Adventure™, or ToEE for higher recommended) short. ToEE is the first game set in Greyhawk, which is the first DUNGEONS & Memory: 128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended) DRAGONS® campaign setting made by Gary Gygax. What began in 1975 as a small supplement detailing the lands of Oerth, has become the core setting of the Hard Disk Space: 1.1 GB Free latest incarnation of the D&D rule set. From the great magicians, such as Bigby, CD-ROM Drive: 4X Speed (10X Speed recommended) Leomund and Otiluke, who we know from the mighty spells that bear their names; to the very gods themselves, the personages of Greyhawk infuse the entire Video: 16 MB Windows® 98/Me/2000/XP-compatible 3D D&D game with their own special style. video card* (64 MB Windows® 98/Me/2000/XP- compatible 3D video card* recommended) ToEE is also the first game to ever use the new 3.5 version D&D rules. We think you will find that these new rules clarify and enhance the game system. However, Sound: Windows® 98/Me/2000/XP-compatible sound card* if you are new to D&D, you should know that a detailed knowledge of the rules DirectX®: DirectX® version 9.0 (included) or higher is not necessary to enjoy ToEE. You can easily create a party of adventurers and ® set out to explore Oerth without knowing about attack rolls or saving throws or * Indicates device should be compatible with DirectX version 9.0 or higher. any other D&D terminology. Certainly that information is available to you if you want it (check the Index on page 158), but you can also sit back and relax Setup and Installation and let the computer do all of the detailed work. 1. Start Windows® 98/Me/2000/XP. Keep in mind that ToEE is a reactive game. You will have a different experience 2. Insert the Temple of Elemental Evil CD-ROM game disc into your CD-ROM drive. depending on what classes you play, what alignments you pick and what skills 3. If AutoPlay is enabled, a title screen should appear. If AutoPlay is not enabled, you raise. We highly recommend that you play through ToEE more than once, if or the installation does not start automatically, click on the Start button on only to try the different paths available to good and evil parties. You may also your Windows® taskbar, then on Run. Type D:\Setup and click on OK. Note: find it enjoyable to have at least one simple-minded character (i.e. someone pos- If your CD-ROM drive is assigned to a letter other than D, substitute that letter. sessing an Intelligence score of no more than seven) in your party, to see how dialog responses change when they are filtered through such a sluggish mind. But above 4. Follow the remainder of the on-screen instructions to finish installing the all, have fun exploring the wonderful world of Greyhawk. We hope you enjoy Temple of Elemental Evil CD-ROM game. playing this game as much as we enjoyed making it for you. 5. Once installation is complete, click on the Start button on the Windows® The Troika Team taskbar and choose Programs/Atari/ToEE/ToEE to start the game. Summer 2003 Note: You must have the Temple of Elemental Evil game disc in your CD-ROM drive to play. The ReadMe File Installation of DirectX® The Temple of Elemental Evil CD-ROM game has a ReadMe file where you can The Temple of Elemental Evil CD-ROM requires DirectX® 9.0 or higher in order view both the License Agreement and updated information about the game. We to run. If you do not have DirectX® 9.0 or higher installed on your computer, strongly encourage you to read this file in order to benefit from changes made click “Yes” to accept the DirectX® 9.0 License Agreement. This will then launch after this manual went to print. the DirectX® 9.0 Install. To view this file, double-click on it in the Temple of Elemental Evil directory found on your hard drive (usually C:\Program Files\Atari\ToEE). You can also view the ReadMe file by first clicking on the Start button on your Windows® taskbar, then on Programs, then on Atari, then on ToEE and then on the ReadMe file. 4 5 ToEE PC_ManInt_1-93 7/28/03 2:18 PM Page 6 Choose Party Alignment Quick Start After selecting either Normal or Ironman mode, you must Game Menus pick a party alignment. Party Main Menu alignment is your way of When the game begins, you telling the game what kind of will see the Main Menu, characters you are making and which contains the following how you intend to act. The options: game reacts to party alignment New Game: Start a new by changing the starting loca- game. You will choose tion of the game, which gives between Normal and Ironman your party its reason for mode. adventuring, and by changing dialog options and storylines Load Game: Load a previous- in the game. The game has ly saved game. several possible endings, some of which are restricted to certain party alignments. Options: Adjust graphics, Your selection of party alignment will also restrict what alignments of characters controls and sound options (see you can add to this party. Only those alignments that are highlighted when you Options, page 15). select a party alignment are allowed in your party. For example, if you select true Credits: See the names of the people who helped make this game. neutral as your party alignment, then you can add characters who are true neu- tral, neutral good, lawful neutral, neutral evil and chaotic neutral. Quit Game: Quit to Windows®. Some party alignments preclude certain classes with alignment restrictions. For Starting a New Game example, monks cannot be in any chaotically aligned parties, because a monk’s align- ment must be lawful and paladins cannot be in any evil or chaotic parties. In fact, Choose a Game Mode paladins provide an additional restriction in that they will never group with an evil To begin the game, select New Game on the Main Menu. Your first decision will character. So even though a lawful neutral party could contain lawful good and lawful be whether to play in Normal or Ironman mode. evil characters, such a party cannot contain both a paladin and a lawful evil character. Ironman simulates as closely as possible how the paper-and-pencil D&D game is Once one such character is added to the party, the other is prohibited. played. You cannot reroll your character ability scores or buy abilities using the point system and you cannot save your game before opening a dungeon door, checking for Select Characters traps, attacking an NPC (non-player character), or any other potentially dangerous After selecting your party align- situation. Just like the paper-and-pencil game, you must accept the consequences of ment, you can form your party your characters’ actions. by selecting characters in the party pool. You can choose any When you quit an Ironman game, your current state is automatically saved and of the pre-made characters that you can re-enter that saved game to continue playing. However, if your party come with the game, or you dies, the game ends and you cannot reload it — you must begin a new can create your own by clicking Ironman game. on the Create button (see Also, due to the restriction of no rerolling during Ironman character-generation, Character Creation on page 8). Ironman characters are kept in a separate party pool from Normal mode charac- In either case, you can add ters. You cannot share characters between the two pools. characters to your party by clicking on a character and then clicking on the Add button. Note: Any character whose alignment is precluded because of party alignment will be shaded red and cannot be added. 6 7 ToEE PC_ManInt_1-93 7/28/03 2:18 PM Page 8 We recommend that you add at least three characters to your party before ventur- If you choose to roll your scores, then six values will be randomly generated. You ing forth. You can add up to five player characters and during the game you can can arrange these any way you like by dragging a value from the right column to add up to three NPC followers. In addition, each player character can have an the chosen ability score box in the left column. If you don’t like the numbers, animal companion and/or a familiar if his class allows it. Remember that you can you can re-roll until you’re satisfied. However, the game keeps track of the num- add and remove characters after you begin play (see Adding and Removing Player ber of rolls you make and displays this number on your character’s Info Sheet. Characters on page 116), so don’t worry too much about getting the perfect party You can also buy your ability scores directly in Normal mode. When you use this when you start. system, your character begins with all abilities at 8 and you are given 25 points to Start Your Adventure spend on raising your abilities.
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