Dungeon Master Forum

Yeah - I definitely like keeping the daggers around because I use "stab" to train my ninja skills. I was on the fence about taking projectile weapons with me, but I guess you're right - I might as well take them since they don't weigh that much (except for rocks), and you can't exactly use...

Thanks for the advice - I had totally forgotten about needing the bow for the riddle room! I started out with an extra axe since Stamm is one of my champions, so I've mainly been going at things with two axes since I picked up the second axe at the beginning of the worm floor.


--Jay

Hi all, I'm just about finished with Floor 3 of the dungeon (i.e., the floor with the magenta worms). I usually spend some time training in the screamer room near the end of Floor 3 before I proceed, and I also usually discard a lot of my excess items at around that point in the dungeon. During past...

Well, I finally got to the part of Floor 3 where you find the Elven Boots, and I discovered that they don't increase carrying capacity quite as much as I had been expecting (they raise one of my character's carrying capacity by 4 KG, and I was hoping for something more significant like 8-10 KG). I g...

Hi all, Have any of you noticed that the same type of monster (e.g., a mummy) can apparently have varying levels of difficulty depending on where you encounter them in the dungeon? For example, you can generally kill the mummies on Floor 1 of the dungeon very easily by throwing one or two items at t...

Yeah - I have to admit that I haven't been very tactical when facing monsters in the dungeon. I generally just use fireballs or keep chopping at them and just let them deal damage to me instead of trying to move out of the way (except on the earliest floors, when I tend to throw a lot of stuff at th...

Yeah - I thought about trying the game with a party with fewer than four characters, but I haven't even finished the game with a party of four yet. I think the main drawbacks to using a smaller party are that your party has less capacity for casting a large number of spells at a given time and that ...

Thanks for the advice - I'm using a pretty strong group (Halk, Hissa, Sonja, and Stamm), but I always seem to want even more carrying capacity. I might just try giving the Elven Boots to whoever happens to be in the back row at a given time like I mentioned in my last post.


--Jay

Yeah, I just looked at the spell costs in Christophe's Dungeon Master encyclopedia web site, and those stat-boosting potions look like they require quite a bit of mana at high levels. I guess you could prepare them in advance and use them right before an important fight or something...


--Jay

No worries - I do train fighter levels for all of my champions, but usually I have two in the front and two in the back for an extended period of time (usually until the ones in the front row get ahead by a fighter level and I rotate the ones who have been in the back forward for their turn). I gene...

Right - I do train the ninja levels for my characters, so I should be ok. Is it generally beneficial to use stat-boosting potions? I never really tried it because I thought it cost too much mana to keep the stat-boosting effects up perpetually. This is the second post I've read recently discussing i...

One thing that I find interesting about these formulas is that fighter levels are apparently better than ninja levels in almost every respect (unless you are particularly trying to raise your characters' dexterity). I guess in practice it's best to raise both fighter and ninja levels, though, so I'm...

Yeah - I think I mainly stuck to using actual foot armor in my previous playthroughs, but I was thinking of using the Elven Boots this time around for the extra carrying capacity. I might just give them to one of my characters that I normally keep in the back row. If the character I have using the b...

Great information, Christophe - thanks again!!


--Jay

Thanks again, Christophe! Actually, I'm trying to think of how the mana formula would have resulted in my characters receiving 3 points of maximum mana when they reached Neophyte Priest level (this is the number of mana points they received, I believe, without exception). Based on the formula, it lo...

Hi everyone, Just writing to see if any of you have an opinion on whether it is advisable to use Elven Boots for the extra maximum load capacity bonus even though there are other foot armors available with significantly higher defense power. If I try this, will the character I have wearing the Elven...

Thanks for providing this information, Christophe. So, based on the formulas, it sounds like a character's current maximum stamina plays a major role in how much additional maximum stamina he/she will receive when he/she gains a level. I guess since Hissa's stamina starts somewhat lower than the oth...

Hi everyone, After restarting my game due to a bug, I am playing through Dungeon Master again. One thing that I've noticed during my past few playthroughs is that different characters seem to end up with very different maximum stamina values. I usually play with a party consisting of Halk, Hissssa (...

I've only played the SNES version, and as far as I can recall, the rusters never inflicted any rust or damage to any of my characters' weapons or armor in that version of the game.


--Jay

I don't know if this is something that varies with different versions of the game, but I swear on past playthroughs on the SNES version of the game I'm currently playing that they could steal random items from my characters' inventory. It's been a really long time since I've played this, though (mor...

Thanks for this additional advice. I actually read the hints section in Christophe's encyclopedia, too, and that says that the easiest way to kill the red dragon also involves the use of poison cloud spells. I'll definitely try poison bolt for the gigglers if nothing else if they can be killed insta...

Thanks for the welcome, Ameena! Christophe just explained what triggers the bug in another thread, so hopefully I will be able to avoid it in my current playthrough...


--Jay

Oh, and I tried some weird stuff to see if I could reverse the bug like killing Halk with a fireball spell and reviving him at an Altar of Vi. Like Christophe said, I couldn't get anything to work.


--Jay

Thanks, Christophe - this really helps me a lot! I was probably making a lot of saves right before I started engaging a group of enemies with an item in Halk's hand that I was preparing to throw at the enemies. I must just not have noticed the extra weight until Halk's current load started appearing...

Thanks again for the additional information. Based on what you're saying, it sounds like the poison bolt spell can actually kill an enemy instantly (as opposed to doing damage over time) - is this right? To be honest, I never tried experimenting with it. I think you said in your earlier post that po...

Thanks for the additional information, slickrcbd! I've also noticed that different enemies tend to be susceptible to different forms of attacks (e.g., thrown items work great on mummies and trolins but don't seem to work well on rockpiles, and fireball doesn't seem to be as effective on some enemies...

Thanks for the information, Christophe!


--Jay

Hi all, Do any of you have a reference of some sort showing how much experience you will earn by casting a particular spell? I have read posts/guides stating that casting EE FUL (i.e., Level 4 Magic Torch) is more efficient for gaining experience than casting MON FUL (i.e., Level 6 Magic Torch) and ...

Hi everyone, My name is Jay, and I live with my wife in the Washington, DC area. I have owned the SNES version of Dungeon Master for around 20 years and have played it a few times, but I never actually completed the game (the furthest I remember getting is the floor with the scorpions). I started pl...

Hi, everyone! I have been playing the SNES version of Dungeon Master recently and have discovered a bug that I would like additional information about. For some reason, the game's load calculation for Halk, the character I have been using as my lead character (i.e., the one whose name is highlighted...