Dungeon Master Forum

Thanks everyone, it means alot to read your kind words. Some differences in big city vs rural living. I grew up in the DC area, took care of my mom the last 12 years of her life. Then I moved to the Baltimore area. I have been hit by cars several times, some of them on purpose because they don't lik...

It took me awhile to figure out where I posted this. Which is the version of DM and CSB that was ported over from the original ST (or Amiga?) I build up the wizard levels using MON level lightening and light spells. Ninja levels by healing and wisdom potions. For the MON level Ninjas, kicking to dea...

It's been awhile, health problems, but I'm finally back. I started playing CSBwin again. The only previous game I could find was where I used only 2 characters. I got them up to PAL Master Fighter, Ninja and Priest and MON Master Wizard. I added the other 2 characters and have the original 2 up to M...

I've decided to go mostly with alternative medicine. There has been some improvement but time will tell. I've tried RTC, but I noticed that there are very few creatures compared to the original, and it makes to hard to practice your skills when there are no creatures to fight. CSBWin seems to have a...

I have a stupid question. I have a Compaq Armada M300 laptop that was given to me. It has Windows 98SE on it. It doesn't recognize graphics or sound in DOS so I will have to play the old games like DM, DM2, EOB,etc in Widnows which it really won't let me do. Will DOS Box work in Windows 98 or is it ...

He eats worms, and he worries about the style of clothing he wears?

I watched the movie because I seem to be running in circles and not being able to get any further. I noticed in the movie they use a skeleton key. I see where the skull is on the wall but I can't find a skeleton key anywhere. Plus there's a sign "Death Row" but no key hole. MON ZO won't op...

The square you land on generates worms, so if you are trapped spinning around in there for a while, you will keep generating them, and I guess they found their way in around you. Okay Beowuuf, finished DM2 and into CSB now. No questions yet, but I am getting tired of falling through floors alot. Mi...

I consider Stonekeep to be the "unofficial" sequel to DM2. The story is basically the same, even if the characters and setting are different. DM2 differs from DM and CSB in the same way, after all, and even if Wayne Holder's name isn't on the box, the similarities are too obvious to ignor...

Suule wrote:I think that's because a sequel was planned. Too bad it was never made.

I was thinking the same thing. Anyone know the reason why it never happened?

Good luck with DM2.5. I just visited your site, it looks like quite an undertaking.

I've played the end several times now and it hit me; there's not a clear victory. Dragoth runs back to Lord Chaos in fear and Chaos turns him into a worm, but Chaos threatens Theron's champions.While Dragoth is defeated Lord Chaos clearly isn't. I found the old coin that came with the original Atari...

I've never bothered with Guard or Attack Minions. I don't normally bother to sleep unless I'm out of mana, in which case (in DM2) I just do it where I am if I'm in the middle of somewhere, and keep an ear out for approaching Minions. But quite often if I need to sleep it's not normally too much of ...

Lol, good luck - there are a few frustrated threads about playing it then finding the cool stuff - look forward to seeing yours join it : ) It's been so long since I've played it that there's a lot I don't remember about it. I've been traveling through the NETA side and there's very little I rememb...

I tried different ways of attacking Dragoth, but he always ends up running to Lord Chaos and being turned into a worm. I was hoping I could push him off the cloud and battle him below but it won't do it.

I haven't played Chaos Strikes Back since the old Atari days, so I'm playing that one again now.

You mean there's 2 endings to DMII? I went back and used the Push spell to push him off the cloud but it was the same ending as when I MON fireballed him. Unless it was my minions that killed him before I pushed him. I'll have to try it again. I only sent 8 minions, it's hard to believe that Dragoth...

Okay, I won the game. how I'm not quite sure. I used aura of speed to cross to the third cloud, almost overshot. I was hit with lightening bolts non-stop. I just cast as about 8 attack minions (guard minions don't help me, they just watch me get attacked). I accidentally ran into Dragoth. So many li...

I've actually started to play with a "minion containment" policy. In the areas around Skullkeep, I've made sure to NOT activate the first door after the Ra Door that completes the loop around the castle because an attack minion in spawned somewhere in that quadrant. I do not plan on openi...

Closing all the wall-mounted zo portals throughout the game helps reduce minions. I have a quote from Doug somewhere about the minions. I'll see if I can find it. If you can find that I really would appreciate it. I've closed the portals with the ZO spell but they come back in a few minutes and I'm...

What does Dagoth look like? All I see is endless minions. One problem I'm facing is my minions don't last that long, but Dagoth's minions come in hordes. They can shoot at me behind the giant torches, but I can't shoot at them when they're behind them. I've closed the portals but they reopen in a fe...

I went back, got the rock people to keep the fires burning, opened the portal and am in a blue cloudy looking area. There's no where to go. You walk over the edge and you end up in various places you've been before. Yet this place leads to nowhere. That and an endless assault by the minions. I've pl...

Here's where I'm at: Forgive all spelling mistakes. I entered an area where I found an onyx and skull keys. When I picked both up I was trapped. So I threw one back and it landed in the wall and the thing holding me shut off so I could move. So I used the onyx key first to go as far as I could (they...

Okay, I'm getting really tired of this game at this point. I'm at the place where there are these reflecting mirrors, but I can't get anywhere. I'm constantly being attacked by the minions, and I mean this is really excessive. I've closed the portals with MON level ZO spells but they keep pouring in...

Maybe to get into this little area you speak of, you just have to approach the hedge from the correct side and it'll open or something...I'm not sure which bit you're referring to but I don't expect there's anything in there you need - once you've got the four Clan Key pieces, everything else neede...

Oops The mini.dat file is the one that has template of the the CSB dungeon in it. If you are using the CSBwin downloaded from the encyclopaedia, I forgot that each game has a seperate folder in the /module/ section - put the csbgame.dat into the csb-atari folder (which will also have the mini.dat f...

Beowuff,
It loads like you said, and I saved it as CSBGAME.DAT. It loads into CSBWIN but when I choose 'make new adventure' it give me the error message 'Can't find New Adventure MINI.DAT'.

When you say "find the way to the outside to the area surrounding Skullkeep", do you mean, basically, how to get back outside again once you've gone in? Because that's easy - if you're still fairly near the bottom, you can just go back down and through the door you came in originally (the...

Thanks all for your help with getting the tempest swords. I also found a couple areas that I had to back into to get another sword and something else I forgot what, but those areas don't show up anymore. I've read in the walkthrough and the clue book to look around carefully to find the way to the o...

How do you get the minion to bring you the sword. They disappear as soon as they enter the room. I've sent a dozen in there but each one disintergrates as soon as the enter the room. Once you enter the room you fall down to where worms are, you can climb up the ladder but you can't go anywhere. Is t...

I've been killing the Thorn Demons. I got the 3 tresure chests and 2 bags filled with their steaks. I don't know if that's going to be enough to go through the entire game once entering Skullkeep. I'm circling Skullkeep fighting to gain experience and to sell axes for money to equip all my character...

Was Stonekeep by FTL? I only read that it was a true sequel to DM where DMII failed. In DMII are there food sources once you get inside the dungeons? I'm trying to find a way into the brown area that surrounds the southwest corner of Skulkeep (according to the map). The map shows an entrance on the ...