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- Mon Aug 11, 2003 5:15 am
- Forum: Dungeon Master (DM)
- Topic: DM and CSG combo team?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4111
Pretty off-topic, but...
Warning: I may flog a dead horse here. But I just want to stress that learning the spells on your own through experimentation is not getting spells before you were supposed to have them! Nor are we not intended to have the spells before we read them on a scroll in DM, CSB or DM2, though that is cert...
- Sat Aug 09, 2003 2:20 am
- Forum: World News
- Topic: What browser are you using?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3992
Like PitD, I find my behavior ingrained by long experience with one browser...but in my case, it's Navigator, not IE. I managed to move from Lynx to Mosaic to Navigator years ago and have been happy ever since. While I have IE installed on my systems for site testing, I find the interface annoying a...
- Sat Aug 09, 2003 2:06 am
- Forum: World News
- Topic: virus protection or time bomb?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4334
- Fri Aug 08, 2003 10:10 pm
- Forum: RTC Archive
- Topic: New weapon - the spear
- Replies: 37
- Views: 7392
- Fri Aug 08, 2003 9:39 pm
- Forum: RTC General
- Topic: Monster sound preferences?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3201
- Fri Aug 08, 2003 9:32 pm
- Forum: Dungeon Master (DM)
- Topic: Begin level (probably Level 1) stuck!?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2664
- Fri Aug 08, 2003 9:22 pm
- Forum: Dungeon Master (DM)
- Topic: VI Altars
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4481
I agree wth several of the previous posters. You can always save, and save, and save (though I still use one save slot - old habits die hard), and be secure in the knowledge that you could go back and reload the game if you need to, but that using the altars is preferable and what I lean towards. Al...
- Fri Aug 08, 2003 6:09 pm
- Forum: Dungeon Master (DM)
- Topic: DM and CSG combo team?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4111
I have to jump in on a couple of points, even though the discussion is a little old. First, about player knowledge vs. character knowledge: one of the big draws of Dungeon Master, for me, was experimentation with the runes to make a list of all the spells. The first few levels were fascinating times...
- Fri Aug 08, 2003 5:51 pm
- Forum: Dungeon Master (DM)
- Topic: Favorite/most difficult puzzles
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2817
- Fri Aug 08, 2003 1:57 am
- Forum: Dungeon Master (DM)
- Topic: How specialized are you?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2755
How specialized are you?
So I was reading through the RTC Quick Start Guide, and something mentioned there made me wonder: how specialized have players been? Specifically, have any of you ever managed to play a character in one class without ever gaining levels in another class? I post this in the Dungeon Master area, becau...
- Thu Aug 07, 2003 6:16 pm
- Forum: Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep (DM2)
- Topic: Problem with constant Thunderstorm!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3351
A quick anecdote about the lightning: about halfway through the game, I was returning through the hedges for some reason, and the rain started. One of the dwarves that steals your items (DM2's outdoor version of the giggler) appeared and started yanking items out of my hands as I was fighting either...
- Thu Aug 07, 2003 5:53 pm
- Forum: Dungeon Master (DM)
- Topic: Favorite/most difficult puzzles
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2817
- Thu Aug 07, 2003 5:43 pm
- Forum: Dungeon Master (DM)
- Topic: How do you play DM using RTC?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3137
- Wed Aug 06, 2003 9:12 pm
- Forum: Dungeon Master (DM)
- Topic: Favorite/most difficult puzzles
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2817
Favorite/most difficult puzzles
I was sure that I'd seen this as an earlier topic, but I couldn't find it in any of the places that made sense to me. If it did exist elsewhere, I apologize for the duplication... Which puzzles in DM gave you the most trouble, when you first played it? Which were your favorites? For me, I remember h...
- Wed Aug 06, 2003 8:55 pm
- Forum: RTC General
- Topic: Monster sound preferences?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3201
- Wed Aug 06, 2003 8:03 pm
- Forum: Dungeon Master (DM)
- Topic: Where feels like home?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2124
- Wed Aug 06, 2003 7:47 pm
- Forum: Dungeon Master (DM)
- Topic: How do you play DM using RTC?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3137
- Wed Aug 06, 2003 7:42 pm
- Forum: Dungeon Master (DM)
- Topic: How quick are you?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3700
- Wed Aug 06, 2003 7:34 pm
- Forum: Dungeon Master (DM)
- Topic: Who's in a good starting team and why?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6497
I have to think way, way back to remember a party I played without reincarnating everyone. I think, back then, I used Zed a lot because of his well-rounded abilities. Having a fascination with the reptilian, I tended to pick Hisssa a lot as well. After that, I used Gothmog (cool name) and Nabi a fai...
- Wed Aug 06, 2003 6:54 pm
- Forum: RTC General
- Topic: Monster sound preferences?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3201
Monster sound preferences?
The biggest change in the game I've experienced so far is the way that many monsters make noise when they move. Since my experience of DM and CSB was limited solely to the ST versions (and then the DMuted version of DM on DOS many years later), I don't know if this was a feature on other platforms. ...
- Wed Aug 06, 2003 5:50 pm
- Forum: RTC General
- Topic: RTC praise
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2724
Now to particulars: I love that I can play CSB (once I finish DM, of course) without the awful load times of the ST floppy, which I find more irritating with each passing year... I'm PARTICULARLY impressed with the lighting of the cast spells: it's especially beautiful when you toss a lightning bolt...
- Wed Aug 06, 2003 4:56 pm
- Forum: RTC Archive
- Topic: Graphics niggles
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2743
Graphics niggles
So, I realize I've barely scratched the surface of RTC; feeling that there's no place to start like the original, I'm playing through "Dungeon Master: the original dungeon". I am quite impressed with the fidelity of the reproduction, and am pleased with most of the changes. While my readin...
- Wed Aug 06, 2003 4:42 pm
- Forum: RTC General
- Topic: RTC praise
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2724
RTC praise
Again, George, thank you for creating Return to Chaos! When I was last playing DM, you were still talking about this program you were working on called "Return to Chaos". Life events took me away from playing or posting for a while (how quickly three years pass!) and I returned to find not...
- Sat Dec 16, 2000 3:00 am
- Forum: Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep (DM2)
- Topic: Cool things about DM2
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2948
Cool things about DM2
Something someone posted on Dan's board about a "port" of DM got me thinking about this. It was a while ago, and I'm lazy, so I don't know who'd written it, but basically he'd said that "true 3D wouldn't be Dungeon Master" and...it's true. There are only two computer games that h...
- Sat Dec 16, 2000 2:00 am
- Forum: Dungeon Master (DM)
- Topic: best characters are?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4820
What makes a best character
What I've thought makes a best character has changed over the years...nowadays I think it's the stamina. But in the past I've preferred vitality, mana, strength, even the character portrait! The reason I favor stamina so much is that it helps when running around the dungeon, and every other stat in ...
- Sat Dec 16, 2000 2:00 am
- Forum: Chaos Strikes Back (CSB)
- Topic: Best part of playing CSB (don't read if not played
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4655
Best part of playing CSB (don't read if not played
What was your favorite part of CSB? I simply love the idea of the game's beginning: you go through the Prison, and you have these high-powered characters to choose from. You expect to really be able to whomp some monsters right off, and walk through the dungeon, and then pow! You're in the dark and ...
- Wed Dec 06, 2000 2:00 am
- Forum: Editors and Tools (DMute, DM Builder, ADGE, etc.)
- Topic: Monster Generators (DMute)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3209
A wall object? really?
What a cool idea...every time you touch the switch, it generates another beastie...Thanks!
- Tue Dec 05, 2000 8:00 pm
- Forum: Editors and Tools (DMute, DM Builder, ADGE, etc.)
- Topic: Monster Generators (DMute)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3209
Use of monster generators
Does that mean, then, that monster generators are triggered items that need to be set with a pressure plate to generate a monster?
- Tue Dec 05, 2000 8:00 pm
- Forum: Editors and Tools (DMute, DM Builder, ADGE, etc.)
- Topic: DMute user questions
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1225
DMute user questions
So, I have a few questions about using DMute and achieving certain effects. Hopefully they are simple questions (where I'm overlooking something obvious), but they're not things that I've seen browsing through the archived messages. As I am not currently using an emulator, all questions refer to edi...
- Sat Dec 02, 2000 1:00 am
- Forum: World News
- Topic: Where are you from?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7485
Silicon Valley
I've lived all over this valley, though I could say I'm 'from' Sunnyvale, since that's where I live now.