Dungeon Master Forum

Gambit37 wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 10:50 pm 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. Why couldn't they leave well enough alone? It was awesome for 25 years, why did they have to ruin it updating for updating sake just because it looked "dated"? The game itself is dated), but you can still download various versions from here
http://dmweb.free.fr/

slickrcbd: I went to that site and didn't see any way to download DM2: Stonekeep.

Is it downloadable?

slickrcbd wrote: Fri Dec 05, 2025 7:15 am Since they revamped the website it is much harder to find the downloads (or most of the things I'm actually trying to find. Why couldn't they leave well enough alone? It was awesome for 25 years, why did they have to ruin it updating for updating sake just because it looked "dated"? The game itself is dated), but you can still download various versions from here
http://dmweb.free.fr/

I'm not sure it's any harder than it was before to find downloads on dmweb.free.fr. You go to the page of the edition you want, and scroll down to find the Downloads section, for example: http://dmweb.free.fr/games/dungeon-mast ... ons/amiga/

Having said that, it is quite hard to find things on there by browsing. I find the search is better. Make sure you put your search term in quotes, otherwise you'll match too many results. For example "amiga download" gives me 7 results.

http://dmweb.free.fr/search/

You can find things on the Dungeon Master Encyclopaedia by:

• Browsing the site using the menus,
• Using tags (link on top of all pages):
  For example the Downloads tag has a list of all pages containing downloads, including DM2 Skullkeep for all platforms
• Using the built-in search engine on the site (link on top of all pages)
• Using Google. Enter this kind of search string to focus your search on dmweb: dungeon master 2 pc site:dmweb.free.fr

On the bottom left of the home page, you have a preview of the last few pages added, and links to the full list of pages and files in reverse chronological order so you can find the latest additions.
The Magazines pages shows a list of all magazine scans in a filterable table.

Please tell me what I should improve, I'm open to good suggestions. The site has grown quite large over the last 26 years: 570 pages of content (excluding tags and listings of other pages) and 12020 files (downloads, images, music, etc.) as of today.

ChristopheF wrote: Fri Dec 05, 2025 5:28 pm Please tell me what I should improve, I'm open to good suggestions.

I'm not a fan of the AI art thumbnails used throughout. They don't really add anything useful, in fact I find them quite confusing and they kind of get in the way. Plus, theyre AI, so you know, not great and it kind of makes things look a bit second rate. Especially since people are getting wise to what genAI really is, and they're now rejecting it and works associated with it.

I'd suggest that these thumbnails should be an example of whatever they're guiding the user to: so if it's a Maps section, then use a thumbnail of a relevant map. (I appreciate this makes managing the content a bit harder, but I think it would be a lot more useful than arbitrary/generic thumbnails.)

The site has grown quite large over the last 26 years: 570 pages of content (excluding tags and listings of other pages) and 12020 files (downloads, images, music, etc.) as of today.

That is quite incredible! I still find it amazing you can host all that for free!

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.

Gambit37 wrote: Fri Dec 05, 2025 7:45 pm I'm not a fan of the AI art thumbnails used throughout.

I have replaced all AI thumbnails with screenshots or collages that hopefully look better.

Wow, that must have been a big job! Looks great now, much more useful and really helps to show the depth of content "at a glance". Fantastic job, Christophe!

On a different note, I'm seeing this error pop up infrequently recently. Looks like an intermittent issue with the certificate?

uh oh, never seen that one. No cert issues on my side. Anyone else ?

I don't go on there much, but I don't recall seeing that issue. Just had a look on there now and it was fine, though admittedly I did only go to the homepage (going away for Christmas shortly so don't have much time to poke around extensively).

@Ameena you are mixing things up:
- the certificate error message posted by Gambit37 is about here, the forum, not the encyclopaedia
- there is no https, hence no certificate at all on the encyclopaedia

ChristopheF wrote: Tue Dec 23, 2025 12:06 am I have replaced all AI thumbnails with screenshots or collages that hopefully look better.

That looks DM for sure, good job !
Did not see forum issues on my side.

Oh sorry, I was reading too fast and must've misread that message the other day (I was trying to be quick checking all my daily stuff as I was gonna be going out not long after to go away for Christmas, but I'm back now ). Yeah the forum is fine, then, no weird messages for me .

Since you went back to "here" with the forum, I didn't get any messages either. Had one (only one) occasion where it took too long to load so it got aborted, but it's running pretty nice these days. Thank you for that.

Not that I want to play it down, but Gambit's issue might also be due to an overprotective browser. I know I had a lot of blocked sites when https protocols became standard but a lot of websites still ran on http. Firefox decided over my head that those sites are not secure and wouldn't even let me override that.