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It won numerous Game of the Year awards and became the first game to win the GOTY award at all five major video game award ceremonies; the Golden Joystick Awards, The Game Awards, [3] the D.I.C.E. Awards, [4] the Game Developers Choice Awards, and the British Academy Games Awards.
Szass is a lich, an undead necromancer. He is the leader and most powerful of the Red Wizards of Thay, a group consisting of eight wizards with the title of zulkir who are the rulers of the country Thay. Many of the creatures that serve Szass Tam are undead. [1] [2] [3]
Baldur's Gate is a series of role-playing video games set in the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting. The series has been divided into two sub-series, known as the Bhaalspawn Saga and the Dark Alliance, both taking place mostly within the Western Heartlands, but the Bhaalspawn Saga extends to Amn and Tethyr.
Interlock was a game system by R. Talsorian Games based on a simple system of adding a bonus to a roll on a 10-sided die. [1]: 208 Mekton II (1987) – the third edition of R. Talsorian's mecha game – was the first game to use the full-fledged Interlock system, and featured point-based characters with a character background system adapted from the original Mekton, though in a more complex ...
Baldur's Gate III: The Black Hound was a cancelled role-playing video game developed by Black Isle Studios for the Microsoft Windows platform. Announced in 2002 under the codenames FR6 and Project Jefferson, it was planned to be the third main entry in the Baldur's Gate series, utilizing the Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition ruleset.
[1] [2] The player controls a party of up to six characters, one of whom is the protagonist; [3] if the protagonist dies, a saved-game must be loaded, or a new game begun. The game begins with character creation [4] through a series of configuration screens, [5] choosing such things as class, ability scores, appearance, and alignment. [6]
In 1104 DR, Szass Tam, the future Zulkir of Necromancy and the Ruler of Thay, was born. The leaders of the Red Wizards are titled the eight zulkirs, each for a different school of magic, [8] who are also "always intriguing between themselves." [3] Chief among these is Szass Tam, an undead archmage. [9] [10]
It has a new dungeon, Watcher's Keep, [9] which can be accessed from both the original Shadows of Amn game and the Throne of Bhaal campaign. All of the non-player characters (NPCs) from the original game are available with the exception of Yoshimo. The game also adds a new NPC, Sarevok, and a new mage class kit, Wild Mage. [9]