Dungeon Master Forum

Warning: I may flog a dead horse here. But I just want to stress that learning the spells on your own through experimentation is not getting spells before you were supposed to have them! Nor are we not intended to have the spells before we read them on a scroll in DM, CSB or DM2, though that is ...

Like PitD, I find my behavior ingrained by long experience with one browser...but in my case, it's Navigator, not IE. I managed to move from Lynx to Mosaic to Navigator years ago and have been happy ever since. While I have IE installed on my systems for site testing, I find the interface annoying ...

I have actually experienced something very similar, cowsmanaut. Starting back in November, my laptop's install of Norton (sorry, I don't know which version, for reasons that will become obvious soon enough) started "quarantining" seemingly random files on the system. At first I took little notice ...

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It seems to me that the addition of a quick-drop into the quiver, the "chested" quiver, and the spear are all fine ideas that would, to a greater or lesser extent, change the gameplay of the engine, much as the spellbook changes the gameplay. So my suggestion would be to have any attempt at ...

Do you think, then, that the party should make noise?

Aside from the "YUUHH!" when you slam into walls when keyboard-navigating too fast, I mean.

It wouldn't be true to the original, but it might be an interesting gameplay variation. The party could make more noise when encumbered, and still more ...

Yeah, when I played the game for the very first time back in 1986 (hard to believe it was SEVENTEEN years ago!), it took me forever to find that key. In fact, I saved several hours into the game, and (not to bring in the "VI altars" thread) my party starved to death repeatedly as I looked for the ...

I agree wth several of the previous posters. You can always save, and save, and save (though I still use one save slot - old habits die hard), and be secure in the knowledge that you could go back and reload the game if you need to, but that using the altars is preferable and what I lean towards ...

I have to jump in on a couple of points, even though the discussion is a little old.

First, about player knowledge vs. character knowledge: one of the big draws of Dungeon Master, for me, was experimentation with the runes to make a list of all the spells. The first few levels were fascinating ...

...and what's more, the software is smart enough to log a person off when they aren't active for a while!

Now, if only this user was smart enough to check that before clicking "submit"...



Seeker19

So I was reading through the RTC Quick Start Guide, and something mentioned there made me wonder: how specialized have players been? Specifically, have any of you ever managed to play a character in one class without ever gaining levels in another class?

I post this in the Dungeon Master area ...

A quick anecdote about the lightning: about halfway through the game, I was returning through the hedges for some reason, and the rain started. One of the dwarves that steals your items (DM2's outdoor version of the giggler) appeared and started yanking items out of my hands as I was fighting either ...

Lunever, I find it absolutely hilarious that I couldn't find my own post from 2000!

Thanks,

Seeker19

The original topic was about RTC, so I assumed that to be understood.

Seeker19

I was sure that I'd seen this as an earlier topic, but I couldn't find it in any of the places that made sense to me. If it did exist elsewhere, I apologize for the duplication...

Which puzzles in DM gave you the most trouble, when you first played it? Which were your favorites?

For me, I remember ...

Oh?

So interpret the poll that way, if you've played the ST version and so have something to compare RTC to...

Thanks,

Seeker19

While I also store items in the "elevator" (the skeleton key stairway), I have a great fondness for the "secret" room on the Arena level, where the Delta is found. The Delta, I must admit, is probably my favorite weapon. It gives me a fuzzy warm feeling when I finally hold the Delta in my hand ...

...you just have to make sure to remember which way to turn, based on which rank you are in (front or back)...

I'm playing DM, not jsut for nostalgia, but to see how well it has been implemented. At least, that's why I started playing it...now I continue because I'm hooked, all over again ...

I have no idea how fast I play through the game. I find it a bizarre criterion, though an intriguing one, that Gilbert has set up for "scoring" the game. I look forward to finishing DM to see how I "rate". I'm sure I don't play through in four hours, though.

Seeker19

I have to think way, way back to remember a party I played without reincarnating everyone. I think, back then, I used Zed a lot because of his well-rounded abilities. Having a fascination with the reptilian, I tended to pick Hisssa a lot as well. After that, I used Gothmog (cool name) and Nabi a ...

The biggest change in the game I've experienced so far is the way that many monsters make noise when they move. Since my experience of DM and CSB was limited solely to the ST versions (and then the DMuted version of DM on DOS many years later), I don't know if this was a feature on other platforms ...

Now to particulars:

I love that I can play CSB (once I finish DM, of course) without the awful load times of the ST floppy, which I find more irritating with each passing year...

I'm PARTICULARLY impressed with the lighting of the cast spells: it's especially beautiful when you toss a lightning ...

So, I realize I've barely scratched the surface of RTC; feeling that there's no place to start like the original, I'm playing through "Dungeon Master: the original dungeon". I am quite impressed with the fidelity of the reproduction, and am pleased with most of the changes.

While my reading of the ...

Again, George, thank you for creating Return to Chaos! When I was last playing DM, you were still talking about this program you were working on called "Return to Chaos". Life events took me away from playing or posting for a while (how quickly three years pass!) and I returned to find not only a ...

Something someone posted on Dan's board about a "port" of DM got me thinking about this. It was a while ago, and I'm lazy, so I don't know who'd written it, but basically he'd said that "true 3D wouldn't be Dungeon Master" and...it's true.

There are only two computer games that have ever made me ...

What I've thought makes a best character has changed over the years...nowadays I think it's the stamina. But in the past I've preferred vitality, mana, strength, even the character portrait!

The reason I favor stamina so much is that it helps when running around the dungeon, and every other stat in ...

What was your favorite part of CSB?

I simply love the idea of the game's beginning: you go through the Prison, and you have these high-powered characters to choose from. You expect to really be able to whomp some monsters right off, and walk through the dungeon, and then pow! You're in the dark and ...

What a cool idea...every time you touch the switch, it generates another beastie...Thanks!

Does that mean, then, that monster generators are triggered items that need to be set with a pressure plate to generate a monster?

So, I have a few questions about using DMute and achieving certain effects. Hopefully they are simple questions (where I'm overlooking something obvious), but they're not things that I've seen browsing through the archived messages.

As I am not currently using an emulator, all questions refer to ...

I've lived all over this valley, though I could say I'm 'from' Sunnyvale, since that's where I live now.