Dungeon Master Forum

ChristopheF - It's great to hear that you're working on this (even if it ends up taking a long time) - I have been able to figure some things out about the SNES version of Dungeon Master through experimentation and based on the information you have documented on more standard versions of the game, b...

Furthermore, I also just noted that the Dungeon Master encyclopedia states you will only get half the hard-coded experience amount if the monster resists the fear effect of Calm (which I believe the Screamer monster always will based on the fact that its Bravery level is the maximum possible value o...

Unless the recovery time is significantly faster for Calm, I would stick with War Cry. Last year, I calculated that I was earning roughly 40 experience points of Fighter experience per War Cry repetition (and therefore slightly less than this amount of Healer experience per repetition due to the fac...

Yeah - the experience curve in this game is pretty brutal with each additional skill level requiring twice as much experience as the one you just managed to attain....


--Jay

Glad to hear it is working for you, Diecast! My memory is a bit fuzzy, but if I recall correctly, I think the amount of time it took for me to gain a Ninja level for a character using the Screamer flanking technique was roughly comparable to the amount of time it took me to gain the same Fighter lev...

Good points - guess I wasn't really thinking outside the box on possible ways to get the Firestaff onto the main part of Floor 12. I guess I didn't think very much about it since I didn't have much of a problem with it dropping down to Floor 13 once I was able to verify where it had landed and retri...

Thanks for the information of precisely what triggers the "point of no return" in the SNES version of Dungeon Master, ChristopheF! In the SNES version of the game, you immediately fall down into Floor 13 through a hidden pit which opens up if you try entering the main part of Floor 12 whil...

Journeyman - Great to see you've started working on your RP diary of Tiggy's adventures in the dungeon again! I was thinking Tiggy might balk at the idea of going into the "Creature Cavern" door, but to my surprise, you just had her charge right in! Clodius_one - The "Choose Your Door...

Here are some notes from my playthrough last year: "Also, it seems to vary based on which version of the game you are playing, but in the SNES version of the game I am playing, the amount of experience your characters earn can vary depending on whether or not your characters are directly facing...

Yeah - looks like you're doing pretty well. You can train Ninja levels in the Screamer room without having to generate new Screamers if you let the Screamers flank you from the side and stab at a wall or the air with a dagger using a character who isn't on the same side the Screamers are facing you ...

Yeah - I just saw the picture montage with all the characters, and it is definitely pretty cool....


--Jay

Yeah - I suppose I was just used to seeing the alphabetical letters used for the skill levels since I've only ever played the SNES version of the game....


--Jay

I didn't really consider that the lower case alphabetical prefixes for Master skill levels in the SNES version of Dungeon Master might be a bug, but I hadn't thought about it much until now - up until now, I had just assumed the developers decided to code the SNES version of the game that way becaus...

It's cool to see someone playing the same version of Dungeon Master that I did last year! I think the furthest I was willing to go with training my characters was "b Master" Fighter and Ninja and "d Master" Healer and Wizard, so you've already gotten past me in terms of your Figh...

As far as I was able to tell, the "point of no return" is different (i.e., earlier) in the SNES version of the game than it is in other versions of the game. My notes from my playthrough last year are in the following thread (the last post is the relevant one for this particular topic): ht...

Congratulations on getting through the game! I just completed Dungeon Master for the first time last year, myself, even though my first forays into the game were more than 20 years ago....


--Jay

Ok - good luck on your new playthrough! During my playthrough last year, I was surprised to learn about the "point of no return" in the game once you enter the part of Floor 12 where Chaos and his demons are, myself - luckily, I didn't save my game after passing through the "point of ...

The maps on the dmweb.free.fr web site are really excellent in general. Here is a link to the main page where you can navigate to the map for any floor in the dungeon:

http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=taxonomy/term/17,42


--Jay

Yeah - I kind of think of the four characters whose story is described in the manual as the actual "canon" characters, although the manual implies that the other characters in the Hall of Champions also had similar experiences of their own in the dungeon prior to being killed/trapped by Ch...

I don't think I specifically tried throwing rabbits' feet in particular at enemies very often, but I do recall that random thrown objects (even seemingly innocuous ones like cloth robes) could be pretty deadly in this game....


--Jay

Right - based on the information at the link Paul Stevens provided, it appears that you can only actually get three of the rabbits' feet unless you recruit Boris as one of your champions. I played through the SNES version of this game last year and generally made an attempt to gather most of the ite...

I've never played Materia Magica, but I used to play a text-based online RPG called DragonRealms throughout the mid-late 1990s and early 2000s when I was in high school and college. I just checked online and see that it still exists. You could talk to other people in the same room with you in the ga...

Yeah - it was kind of funny watching Antman's speed playthrough where he just darted past the golems and grabbed the Firestaff without actually having to fight anything. During my own playthrough, I actually made a point to kill every single one of them...


--Jay

Sonja is also a decent choice (and apparently Syra if you want someone with a bit more mana)...


--Jay

My favorite one is still the 2nd Floor (i.e., Choose Your Door, Choose Your Fate). There's something about that part of the game that is fun for me since you can still take out a lot of the enemies using thrown objects but you occasionally have to face creatures like the Rockpiles with a melee weapo...

Yeah - I don't know much about coding, but I would guess that dealing with the potential bugs that crop up could be a royal pain. When I played through the Halloween dungeon Saumun made where you play as a dead character, I was surprised to see that all of the unique content/situations in the dungeo...

I had always assumed "PAL" and "DANE" were the correct spellings, but I could be wrong. I know that Wisdom potions are called DANE potions in the SNES version of the game I had been playing. I guess I had just assumed the fifth rune is called PAL instead of PA because that's the ...

Honestly, I would describe this forum as quite active for a game of this vintage. I have been playing lots of my old SNES games this year and reading through the GameFAQs forums for the games I've played. Some of the more obscure games only have one or two posters, and the least active ones are esse...

Thanks for the tip, Saumun - I definitely didn't know about that. Unfortunately, I'm thinking that luring the materializers you encounter out in the open so that they are up against a wall is sometimes just as difficult as simply running up to them and Disrupting them to death with a Vorpal Blade. T...

I was generally leaning toward using Des Ew (i.e., Harm Nonmaterial Beings) on undead creatures during my recent playthrough since Des Ew is ranged and my characters had a lot of excess mana. However, I discovered that using Disrupt with the Vorpal Blades can actually be more effective against the M...