Dungeon Master Forum

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 ...

@Jay - Still, as you mentionned, the spell died out by itself. I too (almost sure of it), have encontered similiar bugs in my previous playthrough. The thing that (here too), it just lasted couple of seconds. So in the end i didn't much pay attention.



If it only lasts a couple seconds, then ...

I can't imagine playing it without the keyboard shortcuts.

As a kid i only made it to the dragon lvl but never figured out the firestaff.
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I remember for the first year thinking the game had a downer ending because of what happens when you bring the Firestaff back to the start.

Then I figured out how to get the power gem, but ...

I agree with everything the post above said including to fill your bags with rat drumsticks later if needed .. which is what i did back in the day.. but my recent run thru, i went back and farmed and filled my bags with so much screamer meat (and so many chests full)i never needed the rats at all ...

Just a few I can think of, some of which are corrected errors or have since been implemented in DM2 or clones:

- give the solid key to a Giggler in the arena, meaning it can appear anywhere on the level rather than just being stuck in one place
- something a bit less confusing than the "Clockwise ...

Annotated maps are an absolute must for this game. Make sure you have meticulous ones.

It almost looks like the IIGS version of the Kid's dungeon was unfinished. Like they accidentally shipped an earlier file by mistake. That actually might make some sense.

So, in the IIGS version of the Kid's Dungeon, in the "Shooting Gallery" if you look across the pits you can see what appears to ...

Don't bother filling chests with worm rounds. Fill them with drumsticks, cheese, bread, or corn. You can get unlimited drumsticks on level 9 in a room near the fountain.
You'll want to bring them as food is at a shortage on all levels after level 9. So is water.
Screamer slices are lighter and more ...

Do creatures move on levels other than the one the party is on? I'd think for memory purposes that the game might only concentrate on the current level.
So freezing the creature long enough to get to the stairs might be enough.
On the other hand I find the dragon in a different place every time I ...

I only found out about that on accident something like 20 years after I first played the game. Because I got startled by the phone ringing and accidentally hit the wrong direction button, and fell into a pit, then saw the "smoke" you see when a monster is killed, and a bunch of dragon steaks at my ...

I'm surprised that this is about the PC version, I didn't think it was copy protected.


The Apple IIGS version most definitely does have copy protection. I was never able to copy the damn disk. When the Asimov FTP site came out half way through my high school years I was finally able to download a ...

Personally I think you should do both.
Do a bit of training in the Screamer Room when you pass by it, then when you are done with level 5 (or 4 if you are starting from zero. I had the hint book and it has you start on level 1 with the screamer room on level 4 and the rat room on level 9) use the ...

They used to sell blanks stickers with pin-feed sized for floppy disks back at the end of the '80s. I imagine in the '90s they sold them without the pin-feed since printers had largely switched to sheet feeders.
Doing the floppy disk should be relatively easy if you can locate such a sheet.
On the ...

I am not sure if punches count for special purpose weapons, but they can be useful against rockpiles and stone golems. To a lessor extent animated armors, but those attack so quickly that you're better off using hit and run or the step-dance.
Rockpiles and stone golems have high resistance to ...

1) melee weapon : the ultimate weapon you will hold in your hand throughout the game once you find it
In the beginning, I find axes to be quite good. You don't get one until level 4 however unless you take Stamn. However another weapon easily overlooked in the beginning is the Saber found in The ...

I tend to prefer stronger champions because I'm a packrat and hoarder. Both in-game and in real life.
Also I've noticed that champions like Tiggy, Gando, and Wu Tse tend to be rather fragile even later in the dungeons, such that they can be 1-hit-ko by a mummy, trollin, rockpile, scorpion, or ...

So, I added this game called "Super Dungeon Master Ace RPG" from Steam to my library for free, but never got around to playing it due to lack of HD space. Due to only working temp jobs since COVID I've not been able to upgrade due to unsteady and low income.
I have finally upgraded the HD.

Is the ...

I'm sure it was not an Apple IIgs. I remember the guy inserting the disk frontaly in the MAC computer.

There must be a story behind......

The disk he used was printed, and i saw the box as well. It was the purple one from mirrorsoft, and the disk was blue, with the dungeon master sticker.

It ...

It's really not that bad if you're as used to using an SNES controller as I am. I don't think I would be able to do it substantially faster on a PC unless I actually went through with assigning hotkey shortcuts for specific functions or something like that.....


--Jay

Most hotkeys were hard ...

The thing is, the "can only steal from your off-hand" does NOT apply to all versions of Dungeon Master. I tried that tactic in the Apple IIGS version as a kid over 30 years ago and they wound up stealing from my backpack.

IIRC the gigglers/kleptomaniacs (First time I saw that word was in Dungeon ...

It's too bad you can't create the guard minions from DMII, or set some kind of traps.
For some reason I really hate most enemies that can steal from you in most games. I dislike the hit & run thieves like Gigglers in Dungeon Master and the thief bots in Descent II. At least the Gigglers are easier ...

Apple has reused the name "Mac Mini" several times, if it's the old PPC Mac, you can probably run an old emulator to do so.
I'd recommend looking at archive.org's snapshot from the early 2000's of www.emulation.net. Then see if you can track down the programs listed for the Amiga or Atari. I was ...

If it's a small room, it sounds like a good candidate to fill with poison clouds. That way the gigglers run into the poison and take damage while running away.

I did, but it was 20-25 years ago running at the latest Mac OS 8.6. It might have been Mac OS 8.1 at the time.
The problem is that modern Macs are completely different from late '90s Macs. Different architecture, different OS. You can't even run '90s Mac software on a modern Mac.They might as well ...

PROBLEM :
now I am playing (again :D ) via Return to Chaos program. I am playing the ''Original'' one.
after clearing everything but lord chaos, and farming, I struggle to level up. my characters are:
Fighter: Adept
Ninja: Craftsman/ Journeyman
Priest: Adept
Wizzard: 2nd Master

I am talking ...

Yeah, impressive amount of patience. I always found grinding boring in video games, and disliked the ones where I needed to do so.
I had more patience for it back when I was in junior high, but as I grew up and had less free time my patience for pointless grinding wore thin, to the point that I'd ...