So, tell us about yourself...

[Paul Stevens]

Welcome to Dungeon Master. Haven't we met somewhere before?

[tiamat1968]

Hey, Paul! Yippers, it's me. Lovely to see you again.

Hey, are you on Discord or Steam? I've been plugging away at my mod and would love to catch up.

[Ameena]

Hi, welcome to the forum . Feel free to post any stories of your time playing DM/CSB or whatever - it's always cool to see someone else who had the same kind of experiences as we did. You can also join the Discord if you want - some of us are there and it's generally pretty quiet, but sometimes a conversation will start up. And often we get people who join without reading the description and think they're getting a DnD-related Discord, sigh...
That said, some of us do play/run DnD and other tabletop RPGs, so talking about that isn't entirely off the table . Link here if you want -https://discord.gg/2T8CSCR

[tiamat1968]

Thank you so much for your kindness, Ameena.

And thank you for your invitation. I'm sort of exploring the retro gamerverse at the moment, so I'd love to have a look at your discord server.

[Ameena]

It's not actually mine, it's run by ParuNexus ("DMologist" in the Discord server), though I have "ownership" status to act as a kind of backup from one time when Paru was having some account issues and decided to just leave me as-is once said issues were sorted .

[Ksloth]

Hi everybody. I'm a bit of an old fantasy dork/AD&D/CRPG/SCA...
I play electric guitar, do art, and space-out/daydream a lot.
Dungeon Crawlers are my favorite genre as I just really enjoy the tension, risk, and claustrophobic tunnels.
In fact I spent a good deal of time as a teenager exploring the water tunnels under the city with handmade torches, weapons, etc. with my like-minded friends. We basically tried to live as close to the life of a D&D adventurer as we could manage (in the pre-videogame days).

Nowadays I enjoy life with my family and work as an IT professional, but I am still 100% an adventurer in my daydreamy ADHD addled brain

Cheers!

[Ameena]

Have you played Barony? It's a kind of first-person Rogue-like dungeon-crawler with old-school-style, pixelly graphics. You pick a class (which have various different benefits/penalties and starting gear and such) and go into the dungeon which has randomly-generated levels...well, the layout and loot and stuff are randomly-generated, but the "biome" is the same (those change as you get deeper down), with certain monster types that live there. If you die, game over, start again from scratch. And you will most likely die a lot . There is, somewhere, a bottom-most level with a boss (the titular Baron, as implied in the intro), but I've not managed to get there yet. I don't even know how many levels there are. But it's pretty fun and you can play it with friends as well (max four players, I think).

[Selie]

I was just reminiscing about Dungeon Master with some folks in a Discord community and mentioned this forum in conversation, and then wondered if the forum was still here and active, and ... it is! Just wanted to say I hope everyone is doing well. It's been a minute

[Ameena]

Oh heya, not een you for a while . Yeah we're still here, so is the Discord server. And still new people join every now and then .

[celemtine]

Hey guys, I'm celemtine from California, I'm a Dungeon Master fan, and I'm entering the forums hoping to get more tips on the game, so please give me some advice!

[Prince of Elves]

Welcome here

Questions like that trigger something with me, so please forgive me for being silly: You use the arrow keys to move through the tunnels and you can pick up stuff by clicking on it with your mouse.

[jayrshaw]

Hi celemtine,

Welcome to the forum - glad to see people are still showing an interest in this classic game. Feel free to post any questions you have about the game or areas where you need advice in the Dungeon Master forum, and I'll do my best to answer as best as I can if it is an area I know about.


--Jay

[Ameena]

Hey there, welcome to the forum. Feel free to reminisce about any adventures/experiences/stupid deaths you had back in the day. There are various clones/remakes here that you can download if you want the original experience or a slightly different one, and plenty of fan-made custom dungeons if you want to try something different. We also have a Discord...there are a few links around somewhere but I can always post up a new one if you can't find any .

[ian_scho]

Hi.
... hoping to get more tips on the game, so please give me some advice!

I really enjoyed groping around on my own bouncing off the walls and getting nose bleed from the local fauna for the first few levels... Then hit the excellent DM Encyclopedia for the maps when it started getting serious.

Enjoy!

[DrKryzz]

Hi i'm Kristoffer (alias DrKryzz) lives in Sweden and used to play DM on Atari in the old days.
Now i'm hobby programming and started looking into DM again. And also playing the windows clones

[Ameena]

Nice, welcome to the forum and feel free to share any stories about your time playing the game. Did you play CSB too? If not, that's one for you to get started on - good luck and don't feel bad if you die a million times whilst wandering arond in confusion .

[DrKryzz]

Played CSB with my friend on Amiga, died a ton

[Ameena]

Haha yeah, that'll happen . Don't worry, we've all been there - spending your early days wandering around completely lost, finding yourself suddenly in an area with loads of monsters trying to murder you, then falling down a random pit which ends up being like five pits in a row...fun times . Eventually it all starts to make sense and you can start to learn your way around, figure out which areas are linked together and so on. And get loads of cool loot and hopefully find how/where to finish the game .

[donaldmbw]

Hey everyone, Donald Mubaiwa here.

I'm excited to join this community of fellow game enthusiasts! I've been a passionate gamer for years, with a special love for tabletop role-playing games, particularly Dungeons & Dragons. I've spent the last few years as a Dungeon Master, creating immersive worlds and weaving stories with my players.

As a DM, I've run campaigns across various settings—from dark, gothic realms filled with political intrigue to high-fantasy adventures with epic quests. I enjoy crafting complex narratives, designing challenging puzzles, and keeping the players on their toes with unexpected plot twists. Whether it's managing homebrew systems or sticking to traditional rule sets, I love building interactive, engaging experiences for my players.

I look forward to sharing tips, learning from other experienced DMs, and diving into discussions about game mechanics, storytelling, and world-building. I’m also happy to contribute advice for new DMs or players looking to refine their skills.

Looking forward to connecting with everyone!

[ParuNexus]

welcome not sure if you noticed yet but this forum is for the video game series dungeon master not tabletop rpg. I think there is play by email forums and im sure there might be a thread about D&D or something but those might be kinda old or dead.

[Ameena]

Ahh, we got another one!
Welcome to the forum, but as Paru says, this is primarily for a different kind of Dungeon Master, that being a grid-based, first-person, dungeon-crawling game released on Atari and Amiga in 1987. Every now and then we get a new member who didn't read the description and thinks it's a DnD forum but that's okay - a bunch of us do do tabletop RP stuff too. I think that stuff is in the "Creative Endeavours" section - feel free to start a thread there if you want to chat about it or something. We also have a Discord if you want to chat "live" with any of us - it's pretty quiet there generally, as it is here, but if someone starts a conversation there are those of us around regularly enough to carry it on .

[7bitretro]

Hey all, just come across this forum and obvs new to it. I'm an original child of the 70's & 80's growing up with C64 and then Amiga. While there were tons of brilliant games for it, I got hooked on Dungeon Master when it was originally released and have been playing those types of games ever since, through the decades (how old do I sound!) as they've iterated into more modern forms. DM being the original (although C64 Bards Tale was my original dungeon crawler RPG in the C64).

Many years on, I've started recollecting these old games I had but sadly had to sell when the next generation of computer came out.

I'm also a hobby artist, creating general retro, C64 & Amiga game inspired artworks & posters in my spare time.

[jayrshaw]

Welcome to the forum, 7bitretro! You'll find a lot of people here who have a background similar to your own. I'm a bit younger and didn't come across Dungeon Master until it had been ported to the SNES - I've always liked the game a lot, though, and I always felt it offered a unique style of gameplay compared to other games which were available for console gaming systems during my youth.


--Jay

[Ameena]

Hi, welcome to the forum . It sounds like I'm slightly younger than you but I'm still a bit older than DM. Feel free to share any stories of your time playing DM/CSB back in the day, or any experiences in any of the more recent ports/clones/remakes that various people have done. Oh, we also have a Discord if you want to check that out .