Dungeon Master Forum

That makes sense if it's using the high bit as the sign bit to indicate negative numbers and using negative numbers for vulnerability. Also @Phoenix, you're the first person I've seen on the internet to mention sector editors outside of an Apple II forum discussing cracking copy protection on 5.25&q...

I'm not that into grinding, I'm usually only finishing the game at LO master or UM master, very rarely do I get to ON Master. I also don't recall getting mana level that high for characters like Halk or Sonja. Most of my grinding is mostly just clearing out the regeneration rooms when I come across ...

Just how high are their levels or how did you manage to power level to get so much mana?
Does increasing wisdom with dain potions increase the amount of mana you gain at level up?
That might change things in my outlook on if it's worth the effort to buff like you've described.

You'd should add some edible lobstermen if you're going to go there. Bonus for adding butter to the lobsterman meat ala Earthbound with the condiments.

Well, it IS possible to rush through and beat the game eating only apples, cheese, bread, and corn. It's not easy, but it's doable. Barely. You'd have to do it like a speed run.

I often don't even start to really train fighter levels until level 3/4 (sorry, the hint book has the Hall of Champions as level 1 and the first floor with monsters level 2, while the game data seems to start at level 0. I got the hint book to help me solve the teleporter maze on level 6 long before...

That is true in the IIGS version, although it doesn't seem to be the case in the PC version. I don't know if it is because I've only tried the PC version of Dungeon Master on computers 20 years more advanced and at least a couple hundred times faster than when the game was released or not. The game ...

I find rockpiles and stone golems so resistant to damage that it's usually more efficient to punch them out. Use YA IR or YA BRO and work on those ninja levels. Just alternate punching or kicking with your front liners and retreat to heal when you take damage. Diamond Edge and Hardcleave seem to wor...

The SNES had the same CPU as the Apple IIGS. Both used the Western Design Center 65C816 processor. The difference is that the SNES had graphics coprocessors and different graphics modes. Incidentally the original NES and the Apple II, II+, and original unenhanced Apple IIe (the later enhanced IIe an...

On the earliest floors, I try to take out all the enemies by throwing stuff at them, too. This doesn't really maximize my ninja experience since I'm not being attacked, but at that point in the game I find it more important to avoid being hit since your characters start out so weak. I usually train...

I meant that I play "keep away" with the mummies and attack them at range so that I don't take damage. When I'm on level 2 they typically don't get a chance to get close enough to attack me while I'm throwing everything but the kitchen sink at them. I only take damage from screamers, which...

Time does seem to flow faster on the inventory screen in the IIGS version as well.

So, if I'm gathering this correctly, my usual way of handling mummies doesn't earn me any more experience than if I threw things or cast spells at the wall? I normally stay at a distance from mummies and throw stuff at them. On lower levels I'll usually add a fireball, even a LO level one. If they c...

Just remember that you can change who the leader is at any time by clicking on their name. So if you are stuck in a corridor with enemies behind and in front, make somebody in front the leader so the two from behind can strike back. Also seriously think about using poison clouds (unless you are deal...

The party leader will not change direction even if hit. If the person is the party leader (highlighted in yellow) that would explain it. The party leader is also the one who gets the ninja experience for throwing random items on the screen. Other party members only get experience for throwing weapon...

I've discovered that sometimes when a screamer is flanking my characters, the character icons for the characters who are adjacent to the screamer will turn in the direction of the screamer and other times they'll just keep facing forward (no idea what game mechanic determines whether or not the cha...

I tend to do that all the time, with whatever items a monster drops. Four screamers attacking me? If I dispatch one and one of the slices is in reach, I grab it and chuck it at another screamer. When you kill a magenta worm, the other will often back off briefly. I often throw the worm round from it...

I don't know about experience and throwing, but the weight of the projectile definitely affects the amount of stamina consumed. Throwing a throwing star or poison dart takes a negligible amount of stamina, but throwing a fully loaded chest or a boulder will rapidly deplete your stamina.

I don't think that's the case in the IIGS version. I recall standing in front of the first screamer on level 2 empty handed and just kept clicking "war cry" on all four champions. The front ranks got a priest level long before the rear ranks did. I could be remembering wrong and thinking o...

I suppose that this replaces getting fighter experience from being attacked. I can't figure out why it does not happen all the time, but sometimes on level 2, when I've made a point not to use any melee weapons except daggers, I've been fighting a screamer and one of my front liners suddenly gains a...

Apparently there are several differences between the SNES version and all other version, just like there are a few minor differences between an early AtariST version and all other versions. I'm unsure what the "character menu view" means, do you mean the inventory screen? I think I tried a...

Seems it is like the mana potions. Good for stocking up when you have excess mana so that you can have some extra in times you might need it, like going through the oitus room to collect the treasure, or when wandering the middle of level 8 when ghosts and gigglers keep popping out at you (I don't u...

Right - I do recall there being a shortcut back to the earlier levels, but I didn't remember when it first became accessible. How far back in the dungeon can you get to using the central staircase? Also, I think I recall someone mentioning something about there being one fewer keys available than t...

I still do the same. I've killed more mummies on level 2 with scrolls than anything else. Possibly as many as with everything else combined, but there is that one spot with screamers and mummies and just as often I kill the screamers and the mummies come to me while fighting them so I wind up killin...

Call me juvenile, but I tend to take "throw it away" a little too literally in this game.
It helps train ninja levels.

Can I be excused for being juvenile by thinking and possibly saying out loud "Food Fight!" when I killed a mummy with screamer slices shortly after getting the game (which I had previously tried at a friend's house) at age ten 30 years ago? At that age/time, I had NOT yet seen Animal House...

Honestly, I often wind up discarding rocks and the sling once I start filling up my quiver with other items because they weigh too much. Remember I listed two different groups of enemies that missile weapons can help with? Well they are considerably less effective against the second group, and I oft...

Back on topic, the ranged weapon debate in another thread made me want to give this tidbit on leveling. Wizard Eyes seem immune to ranged weapons, as do wasps and animated armor. Rockpiles and worms seem virtually immune as well, with pain rats being resistant. I do recall that with wasps and wizard...

I can only think of three "important fights" that are significantly more difficult than everything else on the level. The end of the worm level when you kill the mummy at "This is my prisoner, let him suffer". IMHO the hardest fight in the game. The Red Dragon. An anti-climax bos...

I don't usually bother with heavy armor for anybody except for Halk, Stamm, Sonja, Hisssa, or Daroou. Those are the only five I would consider putting Darc armor on. I might consider putting Lyte armor on Azizi, Leif, Hawk, Linfas, or Alex, maybe even Iaido, but mostly I'd stick with medium armor. F...