Dungeon Master Forum

I should have known I would get in trouble if I used the word 'art'... it is an extremely troublesome word. I suppose my definition of art for the purposes of this discussion was a human-made entity or creation that has the power to put a beholder into some kind of altered state, and which in some ...

The shift towards realism is totally understandable and predictable. It reminds me a bit of what Disney did to cartoons and the animation industry during the 1940s. He had the monopoly and the new technology and all the most skilled artists and craftsmen, and equated improvement and progress with a ...

Thanks, Beowuuf.

Actually I'm a little disappointed in myself, usually when I choose to passionately rant about something on a public message board I'm much more lengthy and theatrical about it. I was hoping this time that other people slightly more involved and clued up on current developments in ...

I just recently began playing DM again (see imaginatively titled 'I'm new' post below) and I've been thinking seriously about the reason for its enduring appeal.

I'm not a programmer and I don't suppose I'll ever work in any aspect of game design, but the medium is fascinating to me as a person who ...

Oh, there's one thing that's bugging me relating to my understanding of the whole custom dungeon download thing (this is where my denseness manifests itself). It's probably not relevent because they all have their own instructions or whatever

I understand that they usually come in .dat format and ...

Thank you all for welcoming me. I've been on some heavy antibiotics this week for something of a mystery illness and I've felt kind of out of it so it's nice to discover a new little pocket of common-brained people.

I once nearly finished a painting in a DM style grey stone setting with two vicious ...

I thought it was time I made myself known.

I'm Chloe, I'm a young woman who lives in rural England and it seems I'm not the only one who has a lasting passionate regard for Dungeon Master. (My first AOL screenname was Daroou...) This isn't the first time I've revisited the experience, a few years ...