Dungeon Master Forum

I guess some disagree.
It's when the remake tries to do too many changes that I have issues, but if they limit it to some updated graphics and a few simple QOL improvements that don't drastically change the gameplay I wouldn't mind a remake.
It's when they decide the interface needs a massive ...

Is that first damage what spell shield cast from items protects you from? I never figured out what it did, since it didn't seem to help against poison bolts or poison clouds, and fireshield seemed to reduce the damage from fireballs and lightning bolts cast by enemies.

On the Apple IIGS version for stupid reasons you can only have one save per 3.5" diskette even though with how quickly the game loads the same there is no way it is using up the entire disk. Photonix II takes considerably longer to read a 3.5" disk and when it was released people were amazed because ...

I recall one time I played the dragon was no where in sight and I proceeded to the area with the power gem, only to get hit in the back with a big fireball while examining the power gem as I didn't have any fireshields up.
Good thing there's an Alter of Vi in that same area.

I didn't know you could kill the golems or armor at all with fireballs. For the longest time I thought they were immune to magic the way mummies are immune to poison.
Nor did I know the water elemental was vulnerable to poison clouds.
However 16 lightning bolts explains why I never killed a golem ...

Yeah - freezing the Dragon and then spamming it with Poison Clouds is just cruel.....


--Jay

Actually I almost never use OH VEN on the dragon.
Instead I freeze him and then tribute to him a couple poison bombs I picked up earlier along with all the FUL Bombs I have left. When the green ...

Of the five offensive spells, it seems odd that one of them seems like just an inferior copy with no advantages over casting Fireball. It always seems like an inferior copy.
Does anybody have any particular monsters that they tend to kill with lightning bolts over fireballs?
Supposedly lightning ...

I'm surprised so few people use poison bolt. I myself never found much use for lightning bolt or poison cloud except in certain situations.
Supposedly lightning bolt works on animated armor or stone golems, but I honestly don't remember ever killing either of those things with lightning. In every ...

Technically yes. Tactically it is not the best strategy.

In any case, back on the original topic the oitus room on level 12 is a place to train, although it's not as safe as the rat room and definitely not as safe as the screamer room. The main advantage is that it's deeper in the dungeon so you ...

I don't have a working version of DM to test this out, but pretty sure it works. Did you check the map I linked to? It's only a couple of squares away from the floor plate.

Since they revamped the website it is much harder to find the downloads (or most of the things I'm actually trying to find ...

I'm assuming you mean YA BRO and YA IR? I didn't realize they stacked, I thought they were the same thing only the potion was ST with a longer duration and the spell was party-wide.
Still learn something new about DM even after 35 years.

Unless you split them by killing one or more of the creatures in the group. A fireball can turn a group of four trollins into a single trollin.


On the subject of creature generators, I've often wondered what it is that triggers Fire Elementals to respawn - sometimes a new one pops up as soon as ...

You can't get a fully equipped team until the game is practically over, as the last one is when you choose which door/treasure to acquire on level 7 before retrieving the Firestaff. After that you just have to get the power gem and fuse Lord Chaos.
That said, having everyone use boots of speed does ...

Prince of Elves wrote: Tue Dec 02, 2025 7:55 pm There was a whole thread about this with very detailed info on the what/where. If I remember correctly you can train against the black flames in the down below but I don't remember any specifics.

It would help if you linked to the thread.

For me a couple of the most dangerous parts of the game are:
There is a risk on the worm level of retreating from the final set of worms unleashed when you kill the mummy and having a regenerated pair of worms come up behind you leaving you sandwiched between two sets of worms. This is a death ...

I'm pretty sure that is the case, but I had a very hard time quantifying just how effective armor was as a kid.

It's hidden out of sight so I considered it what TVtropes called a "guide dang it"

You might want to check out the hint book at dmweb.free.fr. While the guide has a couple errors in it, the only solution I know of being wrong is the one for the pit maze and I think one button (can't recall which) is one square off on the map. I penciled in a solution in my copy, but it's in ...

Did you mention Sundog: Frozen Legacy during the interview or did he mention it on his own accord?

I'm going to throw a spanner into the works here but to give justice to Dungeon Master you have to give justice to FTL, and to give justice to FTL you need to give justice to Sundog: Frozen Legacy ...

Well, if Tika Waylan was a mere tavern wench who became one of the famed Heroes of the Lance, why can't a couple of Go-Go Girls do the same?

To be fair, in the 20th century researching such things was much harder than it is in this internet age. While the article seems to have been written in 1995 or 1996, the internet was still in its childhood (I won't say infancy because the WWW was established by that point. I'd even say it was ...

Here, drink this.
Pulls out a flask and casts the runes ON VI.


Although I'm more of a member of the Cult of EMACS than a Worshiper of VI.

That sounds odd that the more complex spells give less XP than the light spell, did you do your testing in the same place? IIRC the deeper in the dungeon you are, the more XP you get.

It appears to be down again. I get an
"Erreur 500 - Erreur interne du serveur"

I think some doors can be destroyed, while others can't. You can also hack/bash your way through some doors as well. I'm not sure if some doors can only be meléed while others can only be Fireballed, but certainly plenty of doors are just completely indestructible (especially if they need a very ...

The manual has a little bit of information on Syria, Alex, Halk, and Nabi, and talks a little bit about the outside world, but you wouldn't be able to draw a map from it.
You have to remember that the game shipped on a single 800K diskette and so did not have a lot of room for a lot of exposition in ...

For the armor, the lizard in question is probably strong enough to use the heavy stuff, but for all but the the strongest (in terms of raw strength) champions you want to use the medium or light armor. Halk, Stamn, Daroou, Hissssa, and Sonja are the ones you probably want to wear heavy armor. The ...

Dungeon Master is one game that actually encourages making jack-of-all-trades type of characters. Lower levels advance more rapidly, and you get minor benefits to being a wizard or priest from advancing fighter or ninja levels. Mostly in the form or more mana to play with, and better stats for ...

I've posted elsewhere that poison is particularly effective on trollins and gigglers, and wasps are weak to poison clouds. You can kill any wasp with an ON level poison cloud. Most wasps on level 6 can be killed with LO level clouds.

I didn't even notice that they got more powerful, but the game is really bad about giving feedback on numbers. The only thing that actually gave you numbers were weapon attacks (including punches and kicks), everything else was more or less hidden from the player.
I only found out when I discovered ...