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There have already been plenty of more "modern" games like DM - Legend of Grimrock was explicitly a homage to it, for example, even if it wasn't exactly identical in terms of mechanics and stuff. You can think of later first-person party-based Fantasy games (like Stonekeep or the Might and Magic ...

I don't think I ever thought anything was immune to anything (except non-materials being untouchable except by certain attacks, of course), but based on how slowly some stuff died to certain effects I figured they were at least highly resistant. Makes sense, though - if you're entirely made out of ...

Yeah I would consider it more fiddly to click, more expensive to cast, and not really worth it compared to good old lazy Fireball :D. If Fireball doesn't really work on something (not counting non-material creatures, of course) then I'll just hack it to death physically with some help from any ...

I just step-dance the Dragon to death. It's fun, and there's no risk of being unexpectedly attacked by something else because there's nothing else down there to attack you :D. I never use any of the freeze items at all, that's just junk to me that I don't bother picking up.
I think the whole ...

Haha yeah I use Fireball all the time as well. It's the only offensive spell I use except Harm Non-Material Being. Vorpal Blades also give Wizzy exp so those count as well.

I've only been on the new version of the Encyclopaedia a couple of times but it did seem more difficult to find anything, as the categories/sections didn't seem quite so obviously-labelled any more, from what I can remember.

Oh, I didn't know Fireballs would heal them - I know they're non-material so I know not to bother using Fireballs on them at all, though, so maybe that's never come up (and I'm not sure it would be obvious they'd been healed anyway - it's not like they have any hitpoint indicators ).

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 kill the previous one, but sometimes they stay dead for ages. Maybe they slowly regenerate over time and "queue up", respawning instantly when ...

I hav noticed one thing about the new dark theme - it doesn't seem to know how to mark that there are new posts in a sub-forum. I saw there was a marker for new posts in "Custom Dungeons", for example, which has a line of links directly to each of its sections, but none of them were in a different ...

Oh you can certainly skip a whole bunch of sections, yeah - basically all of Level Five (there's nothing there that you need, just some treasure items like the Staff of Claws) and at least one big chunk of Level Twelve (the whole section with the Darc armour set, also the Spider Room near the end of ...

Trying out the new theme - the dark grey is reminiscent of the old skin we used to have (with the DM artwork at the top), so I'll keep it for now .

Yeah CSB had the Gor coin and a "map" - I still have both.

I mean, I've been playing computer games for multiple hours a day on literally every day that I've been able to since I was like, four or five or something. More so since I got my first proper job in 2007 and had money to buy my own computer instead of using my dad's .

Oh I missed that you were using RTC. Okay yeah, RTC was made from scratch to try and get as close as possible to the originals, but there are certainly some differences so maybe that's it. CSBWin is more accurate as it's ported from the Atari version. I'm not sure about the fullscreen thing - CSBWin ...

If it's the bit I'm thinking of (having recently seen it in a YouTube playthrough which makes it somewhat easier to remember than thinking back several years to whenever I last played it myself ;)), the pressure plates are right next to the doors, and doors take a second to start closing once you ...

I didn't see it when loading the forum today, and in fact had forgotten about it until I was reading the new posts in this thread. Maybe it just came up too quickly this time.

When I loaded the forum just now, there was very briefly a kind of beigey-yellow screen with a large cogwheel on it. I don't know what that was all about and it was only there for about half a second so I didn't have time to see anything else, but the forum seemed to load fine right after that. Wasn ...

Hi :). I feel like I've seen your username somewhere before. Maybe it was on YouTube or something...and there's every chance that it just happened to be a completely different person with the same username :D.
Always nice to have a new person here, anyway, especially one who did actually read the ...

The food and water bars are fine - it means no food as in "your inventory is completely empty" .

I don't actually remember having to copy/paste any files - as far as I remember, you just choose to import an old party from DM and it brings up the correct folder for you to choose a save file from there.
At least it doesn't involve swapping a bunch of floppy disks in and out like it did back in ...

For CSBWin, yes you have to change that sound setting every time (also the "Use DM rules" one so recruited heroes don't lose a whole load of hp when you get them).
Don't know about the keyboard/mouse issue - the version of CSBWin I have is many years old and works fine so I don't know what might've ...

Oh nice, glad you got it fixed. Phew!

Oh yeah, wow, it's just a server hosting page now, no Encyclopaedia :O. That's ominous...

Hiya, welcome to the forum - we also have a Discord (there's probably a link around here somewhere that I've posted on a previous occasion, but I can get you a new one if you want) if you want to chat "live" to some of us. I used to play the game on the Atari back in the day, when I was about six. I ...

Oh hey Trantor! Omg you're still using that picture I drew as your avatar however many years ago .

Yeah, people who were around when you were a kid seem to have been around forever, and then suddenly they aren't any more.

Weird, yesterday it was the forum that didn't load for me. At least in the morning - I tried again a few hours later and it was back up again. Temporary DM-focused Internet glitch?

Pretty sure there is no map of the outside world, nor any information about anyone's origins except what you can guess from their names and starting gear. I seem to recall Hissssa doesn't start with any gear at all (I really should be able to remember this, given he's one half of my party every time ...

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 ...

And a Lo-Fireball also one-shots them, I certainly remember that from back in the day. Works the same on Munchers in CSB.