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One of the participants, called the Dungeon Master, runs the game.

Can one really make a living as a D&D Dungeon Master?

I'm a Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master, and this happens all the time.

Motherboard: How did you get to be a D&D dungeon master?

Still, GPT-2 has been employed to develop a kind of Dungeon Master.

I ended up becoming the the world's least successful, but most passionate dungeon master.

For the remote dungeon master, the ease of use is too good to pass up.

"We are eternally humbled," said Matthew Mercer, the dungeon master behind "Critical Role's" two campaigns.

Jerry Only made that puny Chicago jabroni look like a 12-sided dice-carrying Dungeon Master.

LOS ANGELES — Before Dan Harmon was a successful writer and actor, he was a dungeon master.

Assembling the right team makes you feel like both a basketball coach and a dungeon master.

The Dungeon Master (the person who runs the game) pointed me toward China's infamous online marketplace, Taobao.

But none of it works without the dungeon master, the most necessary and difficult role to play.

Earlier this week, the new members of Congress were sworn in by their dungeon master, Paul Ryan.

But it could also be just a teenage dungeon master who thinks this is his magnum opus.

Since 2018, Martin has published work that outlines progress towards the goal of making an AI Dungeon Master.

To successfully complete actions, players must remove an amount of Jenga pieces, as designated by the 'dungeon master.

"Before I start a game, I think, 'I am not their friend, I am their Dungeon Master,' " he says.

It's important for storytellers— Vampire's word for the dungeon master—and players to set boundaries for their play session.

It allows a Dungeon Master to ask philosophical questions of their players: Are players comfortable with extinguishing a species?

The dungeon master either creates a world or presents one to the players, and they create the story together.

"People are into us being silly on the internet," Mercer, dungeon master and voice of McCree from "Overwatch," said.

Well, at least she didn't have to worry about being in the same hotel as Gwen and the dungeon master.

It's a fantasy comic echoing the feel of being a Dungeon Master, and there's plenty of silliness to go around.

I was the guy who had all the books, and I didn't know anybody else who was a dungeon master.

Your moment as dungeon master will come, Dad, but for now I order you to simply let the children play.

And although he's never played Dungeons & Dragons himself, Smith says creating a convincing Dungeon Master seems like a worthwhile challenge.

When the game's Dungeon Master goes rogue, they take matters into their own hands, and things only turn gristlier from there.

An attempt to build an artificial Dungeon Master offers hope that machines able to improvise a good storyline might be built.

There were no beginner's guides to being a for-hire, for-profit dungeon master when Woods started his career, four years ago.

When I'm with Gregory and she's with... god, who knows, some kind of four-foot-eleven Dungeon Master with a patchy beard?

He was the dungeon master and ringleader; he was Eleven's closest friend and ally; he was brother of Nancy, another key character.

Key to those upcoming products are Mike Mearls (the evil dungeon master mentioned at the top) and Chris Perkins, principal story designer.

Kate became our dungeon master, the narrator of our adventure, who sets the scene using maps, dice, flowery language and silly accents.

David Kushner's latest book, Rise of the Dungeon Master, is based on his profile of Dungeons & Dragons cocreator Gary Gygax in issue 16.03.

You tell the Dungeon Master (DM) what you want to do, and then use dice throws to determine whether those actions are successful.

And if you were the designated Dungeon Master, narrating the story and directing the plot you mostly made up, that was even better.

Your dad nudges you, pointing out that you&aposve decided to, say, major in English or become a dungeon master in Dungeons & Dragons.

John Dempsey, who lives in the Toronto area, has played the role of dungeon master since the 80s, when he first started playing D&D.

Amid other characters — a sadistic Minotaur, decomposing prisoners, a sword-wielding dungeon master — Lu's own face appears throughout the show, as generic copy of itself.

Even just being a dungeon master, where you're literally creating a world and social spaces, it's that sort of thinking that requires a sociological eye.

It's made from sustainable European sycamore, and perhaps could find a 2018 reuse by a creative D&D Dungeon Master or just as a handsome paperweight.

It's unlike any traditional D&D campaign, but the origin of Masquerada started with a frustrated dungeon master who couldn't stand the imbalances of the game.

The dungeon master sets the scene, creates the story, voices any characters not controlled by the other players, fights players as enemies, and enforces the rules.

The result is a gigantic text-based role-play campaign where everyone is Dungeon Master, and the world's birth and continuing survival are directly tied to cooperation.

The AI dungeon master has a dream-logic awareness of characters and objects, and it works best when you enter creative commands to drive the story forward.

But even if it were possible to build a perfectly convincing AI Dungeon Master, some experts caution that this certainly wouldn't reflect true intelligence or mastery of language.

Together, the characters were sent on a long quest and had to work in tandem to vanquish enemies, solve puzzles and complete each task set by the dungeon master.

"One thing that's so cool about Dungeons & Dragons is that you can do anything, and the Dungeon Master can decide what happens as a result of that," he says.

Ru the dungeon master descended into the Rajneeshee-toned oubliette to collar the girls into this week's mini-challenge: a screen test for a commercial for his charitable chocolate bars.

There's Roll20, a six-year-old app for playing Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop RPGs with friends over the Internet—a prospect unthinkable to a Dungeon Master back in the 1970s.

Together, the characters would be sent on a long quest and would need to work in tandem to vanquish enemies, solve puzzles and complete each task set by the dungeon master.

The whole game took place in a conversation, not on a board or whatever—you just talked about what you wanted to do and the dungeon master told you what happened.

According to Aaron Klug, a Dungeon Master at the Colorado Department of Corrections, this can be achieved by removing all the Jacks, Queens, and Kings from a set of 103 cards.

Together, the characters have been sent on a long quest and would need to work in tandem to vanquish enemies, solve puzzles and complete each task set by the dungeon master.

The show features Mercer ( "Overwatch") as the dungeon master, the organizer of the game who sets quests for players to complete and describes what the players hear and see on their journeys.

It's true that Muzzle was randomly generated, but Beyond's toolset will still shave hours off of character creation—a task I usually set aside for an entire session as a dungeon master.

My boyfriend is a Dungeon Master running a hybrid online and in person D&D campaign, so the outlets will allow him to keep Roll20 up on his computer during long sessions.

His most devoted fans sat around the table and tried to think about how to capture what it was like having a playwright and actor on hand to serve as Dungeon Master.

Roman Two was a dungeon master in Dungeons and Dragons, an analytical thinker who listened to "Marketplace" on NPR and struggled with sobriety after a friend died and his girlfriend left him.

One day in the store, Woods heard about another NYC-based dungeon master—one so successful that he'd supposedly been flown out to California to run a game for a group of lawyers.

Cristian Vogel - General Arrepentiase I think that Cristian's late Tresor albums (also including Dungeon Master and The Never Engine) travel to the farthest possible point from dance music while still clearly representing techno.

As the dungeon master leads them on quests to kill mythical monsters, concrete and iron bars give way to a haunted forest, a dragon's lair, or a castle's keep—dungeons of another kind.

First of all, the Stephen King adaptation of a Stephen King adaptation already has Stranger Things's second most recognizable young star in Finn Wolfhard, whom we know best as Mike Wheeler, Hawkins's best dungeon master.

For the last couple years, Bey has been playing in a group led by dungeon master Aaron Klug—a reclusive inmate with an affinity for numbers and systems, but who struggles to connect with other people.

The other participants have a character similar to something out of The Lord of the Rings, and they play according to the rules as set out by the Dungeon Master, and then work together as a team.

Character creation can be a ton of fun or it can be a day-long, nightmarish slog flipping through rule books to consult various reference charts, and asking the dungeon master questions that take an hour to answer.

The course of the game is guided by a dungeon master (known as a DM) who has spent hours preparing for the session, using his imagination to create worlds and storylines and to develop quests for his players.

Dungeon master Mitch McConnell, who led the way in the Obama years by violating norm after norm in the Senate, then made good on his threats to do away with the filibuster altogether, dropping a nuclear bomb on it.

" The Adventure Zone is described as a "side-splitting and heart-filled fantasy animated comedy series that follows an unlikely, poorly equipped trio and their beleaguered Dungeon Master as they reluctantly embark on a quest to save their world.

"For a long time people didn't understand what the game was," said Matthew Mercer, a Los Angeles-based dungeon master (the game's chief storyteller and rules referee), for "Critical Role," a web series that features voice actors like him playing.

Basically you and your friends sit around telling a story where you each play as a character, except for the almighty Dungeon Master, who acts as the narrator of the story, describing the people you meet and the places you go.

Back in 2004, at Waupun Correctional Institution in Wisconsin, inmates were banned from playing D&D, and Dungeon Master, Kevin T. Singer's, gaming materials were confiscated, including a 96-page handwritten manuscript outlining a campaign he was developing for the game.

Anyone who's reached for a 20-sided die as their character is attacked by a "displacer beast" or a "gelatinous cube" might just find an artificial Dungeon Master fun, especially if they're struggling to find enough people for a good quest.

About an hour into the prequel, Chloe (Max's best friend/maybe more from the first game, and the protagonist here) meets Steph, a fellow student at Blackwell Academy (and also a rad Dungeon Master) who makes it clear that she likes girls.

The possibilities are really endless, however; this is basically like having a Google Docs equivalent for classroom management, so if you're a Dungeon Master who wants to educate their D&D group on proper observation of rule systems, you can do that, too.

Fans of games like Dungeons & Dragons know that the fun comes, in part, from a creative Dungeon Master—an all-powerful narrator who follows a storyline but has free rein to improvise in response to players' actions and the fate of the dice.

His DM performances—and being a dungeon master is a kind of performance—are often marked by excitable narration and winkingly melodramatic theatrics; at one point during tonight's game, he gleefully pounds a hand into a fist, mimicking an arrow's impact on an opponent.

It's also a pretty transparent plot device when homedog stares into the fire, and you can pretty much hear the Dungeon Master reading from his notebook when he tells Thoros and Beric Dondarrion that they must journey to the Wall, just like the plot says.

"The fifth edition is a remarkable edition that is a lot easier to engage with as a new player and it really supports changing rules," said Deborah Ann Woll, actress and dungeon master of Geek & Sundry's "Relics and Rarities," a "Dungeons and Dragons" show.

Griffin — "your Dungeon Master and best friend" — plays fast and loose with some of the harder rules of D&D, allowing for the kind of wild stories that let the boys solve crab murders on trains, delve into crystal caverns, and ride shotgun in high-stakes battlewagon races.

The bass Hans-Peter König, magnificent in the role of the irascible palace overseer Osmin, made a sly change to spoken dialogue in which Osmin invokes the authority of the dungeon master, or Stockmeister, substituting the word "Kapellmeister" — conductor — with a wink in the direction of Mr. Levine.

If you're wondering why Randy Newman's "Strange Things" seems to radiate nostalgia, then allow me to point you to this overdose of childhood: Now, I am only halfway through Stranger Things, and I don't believe there are any spoilers in this trailer, but as a good Dungeon Master might say to a first-time player: tread carefully.

Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of D&D by David Kushner and Koren Shadmi There are a couple of books out there about the creator of Dungeons & Dragons, but this book casts his origin story in graphic novel form, tracing his life growing up in the 1950s, to game that made him famous decades later.

The armor comes to life and kills their dungeon master. Upon looking at the body, they learn that their dungeon master was Dr. Evil, and by extension, the devil.

Time Tunnels is a 1981 board game published by Uncontrollable Dungeon Master.

The AD&D; 2nd Edition Dungeon Master Guide was released in 1989. This 192-page hardcover book was designed by David "Zeb" Cook, with cover art by Jeff Easley. The book featured interior illustrations by Easley, Clyde Caldwell, John and Laura Lakey, David Dorman, Douglas Chaffee, and Jean E. Martin. This Dungeon Master Guide featured revised second edition rules for the Dungeon Master, totally reorganized and streamlined.

Another version, the Dungeon Master Screen & Master Index was published by TSR in 1995.

A new version of the Dungeon Master Guide, with new art and layout but the same text, was released in 1995, as part of TSR's 25th anniversary. The 2nd edition Dungeon Master Guide was reproduced as a premium reprint on May 21, 2013.

Dungeon Master for Dummies lists Sons of Gruumsh as one of the ten best 3rd edition adventures.

Dungeon Master Nexus is a Dungeon Master sequel released in Japan, solely for Sega Saturn and in Japanese. It is the first game in the series using a 3D graphics engine. The game features 15 levels.Dungeon Master Encyclopaedia Despite being published under the FTL label, it was developed in Japan.

Dungeon Master for Dummies lists Shadows of the Last War as one of the ten best 3rd edition adventures.

Dungeon Master for Dummies lists Whispers of the Vampire's Blade as one of the ten best 3rd edition adventures.

Dungeon Master was ported later to many platforms like PC, Apple IIGS, TurboGrafx-CD, SNES, Sharp X68000, PC-9801 and FM Towns. The game was also translated from English into German, French, Japanese, Chinese and Korean. According to "The Definitive CDTV Retrospective: Part II" by Peter Olafson, Dungeon Master was ported to the Amiga CDTV but this version was never completed because FTL could not obtain reliable information from Commodore about saving games to memory cards. Dungeon Master was also ported to Macintosh but never released.

While Dungeon Master itself was inspired by early Ultima games, it amazed Ultima developer Origin Systems's employees; Origin founder Richard Garriott said that he was "ecstatic" at discovering the "neat new things I could do" in the game. It influenced Ultima VIs graphical user interface and seamless map, and the later Ultima Underworld. Game journalist Niko Nirvi wrote that no 3D role-playing title before Ultima Underworld (1992) could challenge Dungeon Master as a game. In 1989, FTL Games released a Dungeon Master sequel, Chaos Strikes Back.

Chaos Strikes Back is an expansion and sequel to Dungeon Master, the earlier 3D role-playing video game. Chaos Strikes Back was released in 1989 and is also available on several platforms (including Atari ST, Amiga, X68000, PC-98, FM Towns). It uses the same engine as Dungeon Master, with new graphics and a new, far more challenging, dungeon.

A Dungeon Master Screen was published in 2000, developed and assembled by Dale Donovan and Kim Mohan, and featuring cover art by Jeff Easley. A Dungeon Master Screen was also published for the Forgotten Realms campaign, which included a booklet titled "Encounters in Faerûn" designed by Skip Williams and Duane Maxwell, and featuring cover art by Justin Sweet.

In 1984 TSR, Inc. released the board game named Quest for the Dungeonmaster, inspired by the episode "In Search of the Dungeon Master", in which Dungeon Master is captured by Warduke and frozen in a magic crystal, and the kids try to rescue him before Venger gets there. Brazilian company Grow released a Portuguese-language version of this game in 1993.

Dungeon Master gameplay screenshot on SNES In contrast to the traditional turn-based approach that was, in 1987, most common, Dungeon Master added real-time combat elements (akin to Active Time Battle).Matt Barton, Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role- Playing Games, page 236 Other factors in immersion were the use of sound effects to indicate when a creature was nearby, and (primitive) dynamic lighting. Abstract Dungeons and Dragons style experience points and levels were eschewed in favor of a system where the characters' skills were improved directly via using them. Dungeon Master was not the first game to introduce these features.

The Dungeon Master (DM) has his or her own booklet which covers the encounters and monsters and rules he or she needs to play the game.

Hugo Myatt (born 1945) is a British actor, presenter and theatre director, best known for his role as the dungeon master Treguard in the children's game show Knightmare.

In late 1972, Gary Gygax created Castle Greyhawk and the dungeons beneath it. After a few months of almost non-stop play as the Dungeon Master,Gygax: "An average of seven gaming sessions a week was typical even when I was busy working. Often I played more than that. " Gygax asked one of the players, Rob Kuntz, to become co-Dungeon Master, which would allow Gygax an opportunity to experience the game as a player.

Like most early computer RPGs, Temple of Apshai was influenced by Dungeons & Dragons. Both Connelley and Freeman played Dungeons & Dragons in a group where Connelley acted as the Dungeon Master. An advertisement for Temple of Apshai called the game a "version of Dungeons and Dragons" and described Connelly as an experienced "Dungeon Master, running continuous D & D campaigns". The game's documentation included instructions for importing pen-and-paper role-playing game player characters.

The show's dungeon master (carrying over the tradition from before the show was on the air) was Sark. Later those duties were handed off to Blaine Capatch, then Dan Telfer.

Dungeons of Daggorath for the TRS-80 Color Computer first employed them in 1982. Dungeon Master was, however, responsible for popularizing these elements. Other features of Dungeon Master included allowing players to directly manipulate objects and the environment by clicking the mouse in the enlarged first-person view. It also introduced some novel control methods including the spell casting system, which involved learning sequences of runes which represented the form and function of a spell's effect.

The Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, and Monster Manual are collectively referred to as the "core rules" of the Dungeons & Dragons game. Both the Dungeon Master's Guide and the Player's Handbook give advice, tips, and suggestions for various styles of play. While all players, including the Dungeon Master, are expected to have at their disposal a copy of the Player's Handbook, only the Dungeon Master is expected to refer to the Dungeon Master's Guide or Monster Manual during gameplay.

In 1973, Kuntz began running his own "Castle El Raja Key" campaign for Gygax. His campaign world was known as Kalibruhn. By 1974, the group of D&D; players sometimes included over 20 people, so Kuntz became the co-dungeon-master, allowing each dungeon master to referee groups of only a dozen players. Kuntz brought in some elements of his campaign into Greyhawk, and some levels of El Raja Key were incorporated directly into Castle Greyhawk.

Lord of the Iron Fortress won the 2002 Ennie Award for "Best Art (Cover)". Dungeon Master for Dummies lists Lord of the Iron Fortress as one of the ten best 3rd edition adventures.

This short appendix gives references where a Dungeon Master may find 2nd edition AD&D; details on the deities of specific game worlds, such as the Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, Dragonlance, and Dark Sun.

From 1983 to 1987, while with the Organic Theater Company in Chicago, Young created, produced and was a cast member in "Dungeon Master", a fusion of improvisational theatre and live action role-playing; each show was a fantasy adventure scenario with theater cast members playing the monsters and non-player characters and volunteer audience members serving as the player characters. Young restarted Dungeon Master in Los Angeles in 2001, where it is still active, although Young stopped active participation in 2006.

The reviewer said Dungeon Master is an example of a title which "changes the way we think about games" and a "must for all roleplayers".April 1988, Computer and Video Games (issue 78), p.

Dungeon Master is a role-playing video game featuring a pseudo-3D first-person perspective. It was developed and published by FTL Games for the Atari ST in 1987, almost identical Amiga and PC (DOS) ports following in 1988 and 1992. Dungeon Master sold 40,000 copies in its year of release alone, and went on to become the ST's best-selling game of all time. The game became the prototype for the genre of the 3D dungeon crawlers with notable clones like Eye of the Beholder.

The first is the Critical Role: Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting published through Green Ronin Publishing. The second is the Explorer's Guide to Wildemount published through Wizards of the Coast, thus making Exandria an official Dungeons and Dragons campaign setting. In 2016, Mercer served as the Dungeon Master for Force Grey: Giant Hunters, which ran for 2 seasons. In 2017, he was the Dungeon Master for the Nerdist show CelebriD&D;, which puts D&D-playing; celebrities into a small, mini- campaign where they are paired with role-players.

Book of Challenges is a supplemental rulebook for the 3rd edition of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game that presents a number of ready-made dungeon encounters that a Dungeon Master can insert into a scenario.

Myatt played the role of Treguard of Dunshelm, the dungeon master and presenter of the Children's ITV game series Knightmare throughout all eight series, between 1987 and 1994. Myatt met Tim Child, the creator of Knightmare, while Child was working as line producer on Anglia Television's regional news programme About Anglia with his wife, presenter Christine Webber. Child believed that Myatt was ideal for a dungeon master role, and arranged to make a pilot, Dungeon Doom. A few months after the first pilot a second pilot was made, which was renamed Knightmare.

Sparks was born on September 25, 1969 in Cincinnati, Ohio, but grew up in Peaks Mill, Kentucky. Sparks would play Dungeons & Dragons every Sunday with a group of friends at the local library in Frankfort. At the age of 11, he became a "de-facto dungeon master" because none of his friends wanted to do the reading required to participate as a dungeon master. When he was 14 years old, he moved to the Chicago area and enrolled at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, where he entered the theater department.

It features a Dungeon Master screen designed for characters from the Basic through Master sets, which collects the most important tables for characters from those sets. This product also included a mini-scenario titled The Spindle of Heaven.

The DSP-2 can only be found in the SNES port of Dungeon Master. Its primary purpose is to convert Atari ST bitmap image data into the SNES bitplane format. It also provides dynamic scaling capability and transparency effects.

There exists a prototype for the Atari Lynx under the name Dungeon Slayers.AtariAge The packaging cover art was designed and illustrated by David R. Darrow,DM Original Artwork - Dungeon Master Encyclopedia for which Andy Jaros posed as the leftmost character pulling on the torch. The woman in the scene was Darrow's wife, Andrea, and the muscular man in the background is unknown, but hired by Darrow from a local fitness club.This is how the cover art of Dungeon Master (1987) was made - Spelpappan.se (2013) The painting itself is 25 to 30 inches high and doesn’t contain the word "Master". Darrow’s painting portrays a scene from the prologue in the manual for Dungeon Master. It shows the three (or four) main characters' last few minutes alive, and is a portrayal of the player’s challenge to defeat the antagonist, Lord Chaos. The heroes in the painting are Halk the Barbarian, Syra Child of Nature, Alex Ander – and Nabi the Prophet who’s been reduced to a bunch of skulls.

From 2016 to 2019, Perkins was the Dungeon Master in the Twitch livestream Dice, Camera, Action, which was a live play-through of Dungeons & Dragons' latest story lines. He has also guest starred twice on the Dungeons & Dragons-based show, Critical Role.

This module features an introduction for the Dungeon Master (DM) on the adventure; an Adventure Background for information for both the DM and the players; and finally a section guiding the DM through the encounters up to the resolution of the module.

Douglas Andrew Bell (born February 24, 1961) is a computer game developer, best known for his role as the lead designer and programmer for the Dungeon Master series of computer games, which met with critical success, from San Diego studio FTL Games.

The Basic Set details the essential concepts of the D&D; game. It gives rules for character creation and advancement for player characters at beginning levels. It also includes information on how to play adventures inside dungeons for both players and the Dungeon Master.

Because Neverwinter Nights lacks a global chat function aside from the supported GameSpy, players typically join pickup games through the game's multiplayer interface, or schedule games in advance with friends. Matchmaking sites can facilitate scheduling of games, and the experience is much like traditional pen-and-paper role-playing games. Persistent worlds do this work for them by inviting players to visit their website and continue to roleplay there. An important feature of Neverwinter Nights is the Dungeon Master Client: a tool that allows an individual to take the role of the Dungeon Master, who guides the players through the story and has complete control of the server.

Perkins wrote a blog, "The Dungeon Master Experience", on the Wizards of the Coast website for over two years, where he shared tricks and advice about the challenge of "dungeon mastering" a campaign through the lens of his homebrew world, Iomandra. However, in the penultimate posting of March 2013, he announced the following posting would be the last "at least for a while", whereupon the blog became inactive. Perkins at the Penny Arcade Expo in 2008, second from the left He was also the longtime Dungeon Master for the Acquisitions Incorporated Dungeons & Dragons games at the Penny Arcade Expo (PAX), until PAX Unplugged 2018.

By 1974, Gygax's Greyhawk group, which had started off with himself, Ernie Gygax, Don Kaye, Rob Kuntz, and Terry Kuntz, had grown to over 20 people, with Rob Kuntz becoming the co-dungeon-master so that each of them could referee groups of only a dozen players.

Woll appeared in the online Dungeons & Dragons series Force Grey (2017), where she was the Dungeon Master for celebrity players and appeared as a guest player on Critical Role. She also appeared on the 2019 show Relics and Rarities, which uses a modified version of Dungeons & Dragons.

The reviewers gave the game 4½ out of 5 stars. The Lessers reviewed the PC/MS-DOS version in 1993 in Dragon #195, giving this version 5 stars. In 1997, ten years after release, Dungeon Master got again a 5 from 5 stars score in a review.

Dungeon Master's Guide 2 gives expansions for the Dungeon Master to add to a campaign. The Dungeon Master's Guide 2 contains information on group storytelling, advanced encounters, skill challenges, customizing monsters, adventures and paragon campaigns. Although it does contain artifacts, it does not contain standard magic items.

Dungeon Master debuted on 15 December 1987 on the Atari ST, and by early 1988 was a strong seller, becoming the best-selling game for the computer of all time; Bell estimated that at one point more than half of all Atari ST owners had purchased the game. Because of FTL's sophisticated copy protection, many who otherwise pirated their software had to purchase Dungeon Master to play the game. The Amiga version was the first prominent game to require 1 MB of RAM, likely causing many to purchase additional memory; at least one manufacturer of Amiga memory bundled Dungeon Master with its memory-expansion kit. As with Wizardry, many others offered for sale strategy guides, game trainers, and map editors, competing with FTL's own hint book. Hosea Battles, Jr. of Computer Gaming World in 1988 praised the attention to detail in the dungeons' graphics, allowing players to "practically feel the damp chill of the dungeons portrayed", as well as those of the monsters, including the multiple facial expressions on the ogres.

Before the game of Russian Roulette can start, the DM dies from the poison. The music video ends with an advertisement for a Dungeon Master named John Dempsey located in the Greater Toronto Area. The video was one of the top ten finalists for the 2017 Prism Prize.

Lawrence Schick, in his 1991 book Heroic Worlds, called this adventure "A three-level dungeon in the classic mode." Dungeon Magazine #112 won the 2005 Gold ENnie for Best Adventure. Dungeon Master For Dummies lists the "Maure Castle" adventure from Dungeon #112 as one of the Ten Best Dungeon Magazine Adventures.

In 1992, Simon Forrest, Brad Freeman and Graeme Davis revised all four adventures in The Complete Dungeon Master Series to become Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay adventures, releasing them as the Doomstone Campaign Book Series. The Halls of the Dwarven Kings was retitled Fire in the Mountains, and was published by Flame Publications.

The reviewer from Pyramid commented that unlike The Sunless Citadel and The Forge of Fury, "this isn't solely a site-based encounter. That's right, there's more than just running around the dungeon this time." Dungeon Master for Dummies lists The Speaker in Dreams as one of the ten best 3rd edition adventures.

Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil was ranked the 8th greatest Dungeons & Dragons adventure of all time by Dungeon magazine in 2004, on the 30th anniversary of the Dungeons & Dragons game. Dungeon Master for Dummies lists Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil as one of the ten best 3rd edition adventures.

Upon their meeting, Egbert asked the investigator to conceal the truth of his story. Dear agreed and released Egbert to the custody of his uncle, Marvin Gross, on September 13, 1979. Egbert died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on August 16, 1980. In 1984, Dear revealed Egbert's story in The Dungeon Master.

The One gave the Amiga version of Eye of the Beholder an overall score of 92%, heavily comparing it to Dungeon Master, stating that "Comparisons to the [aging] classic - Dungeon Master - are inevitable. When two games look this similar, even their programmers would have trouble telling them apart." The One praises Eye of the Beholder's gameplay, stating that "in contrast to previous AD&D; titles, there's more emphasis on puzzle-solving than combat - a refreshing change ... Combat is also handled extremely well, the spells and 'ranged weapons' rules are all faithful to the original game ... The gameplay works wonderfully, conjuring up both the spirit and the atmosphere that you get from [tabletop AD&D;]." Despite this, The One expresses that Eye of the Beholder is on par with Dungeon Master and Chaos Strikes Back, but states that Eye of the Beholder is still "an essential purchase for followers of the AD&D; series". Hailing the game as "a dream come true" for Dungeons & Dragons fans, Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the Super NES version a 6.2 out of 10, praising its 3-D graphics and variety of characters.

If a lawful neutral character consistently performs good acts, when neutral or evil actions were possible, the character's alignment will shift to lawful good. In games, the Dungeon Master (referee) decides when alignment violations occur, as it is subjective and often frowned upon, if not outright disallowed. Characters acting as a party should have compatible alignments; a party with both good and evil characters may turn against itself. Bill Slavicsek and Richard Baker's Dungeon Master For Dummies noted that a party of good or neutral characters works better as the motivations for adventures are easier, the group dynamics are smoother, and the "heroic aspects of D&D; shine through in ways that just don't happen when players play evil characters".

The Dungeon Master's Guide (DMG or DM's Guide; in earlier editions, the Dungeon Masters Guide or Dungeon Master Guide) is a book of rules for the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. The Dungeon Master's Guide contains rules concerning the arbitration and administration of a game, and is intended for use primarily or only by the game's Dungeon Master. The original Dungeon Master's Guide was published in 1979, and gave Dungeon Masters everything they needed to run a D&D; game campaign. It is intended as a companion book to the Player's Handbook, which contains all of the basic rules of gameplay, and the Monster Manual, which is a reference book giving statistics and characteristics to various animals and monsters.

The Complete Book of Necromancers is a sourcebook for the second edition of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy adventure role-playing game. As part of the DMGR series, the information in this book is intended for use by the Dungeon Master to develop villains and NPCs, and is not recommended for use by players.

Bodett's name was used humorously for various non-playable characters in the Dungeons and Dragons podcast series The Adventure Zone, though these were voiced by dungeon master Griffin McElroy, not Bodett himself. In the graphic novel under the same name, an uncanny likeness of Bodett can be seen interacting with the series' main characters.

It features 96 pages of monsters unique to the Forgotten Realms campaign setting. It was the first 3rd edition book to feature the now-common "in the Realms" section for each monster, offering helpful and concise hints to the Dungeon Master as to how and where to incorporate the creature into the campaign setting.

It was reproduced into a Classic Poster. With her hair styled in an Afro, Johari modeled for a poster entitled "Supernatural Dreams." This poster can be seen in the movie The Shining (1980), when Dick Halloran (Scatman Corothers) is lying in bed, watching television. She appears in the 1987 video game Dungeon Master as Azizi, a female playable character.

One addition to the game is that it allows players to be a "dungeon master" (or DM), as in the tabletop version of Dungeons & Dragons. It features single-player and co- operative multiplayer modes. The game is available on several platforms including Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. It was released in 2015.

While working at TSR, Otus was a runner-up in TSR's 4th Invitational AD&D; Masters Tournament at Gen Con XIII, a contest to choose the game's best overall dungeon master. He competed against the likes of Lenard Lakofka and first place was taken by Frank Mentzer."He's the Top Dungeon Mentzer" Annarchive.com. Dragon. Lake Geneva WI: TSR.

The Rogues Gallery was a supplement listing hundreds of pre-generated non-player characters for use by the Dungeon Master, including characters from all the standard first edition AD&D; character classes, plus other characters such as sages, caravans, and city guards. The book also includes statistics for characters from Gary Gygax's original D&D; campaign.

Upchurch's death sentence was commuted to life in 1992; he is serving his term. True crime authors Joe McGinniss and Jerry Bledsoe played up the role-playing angle. Much attention was given to Upchurch's influence and power as a Dungeon Master. Bledsoe's book, Blood Games, was made into a TV movie, Honor Thy Mother, in 1992.

Alegado returned to International Championship Wrestling where he formed a tag team with Tom Brandi. They won the ICW Tag Team Championship together that summer. The two remained champions until losing the belts to The Moondogs (Moondog Spike and Moondog Spot) on December 28, 1987. On July 11, 1988, Alegado wrestled The Dungeon Master in Rockland, Maine.

Williams; Dungeon Master Option: High Level Campaigns, p. 45 Popular commercially published campaign settings for Dungeons & Dragons include Greyhawk, Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, Mystara, Spelljammer, Ravenloft, Dark Sun, Planescape, Birthright, and Eberron. In addition to first-party campaigns and modules, two campaigns based on popular culture have been created. The first, based on Stranger Things, was released in May 2019.

The Gold & Glory product provides additional information on mercenaries in the AD&D; Forgotten Realms. It provides information on thirty mercenary groups "from small gatherings to veritable armies". The book also provides a significant amount of general history for the Forgotten Realms, making the work useful as a reference for any dungeon master running a related campaign.

The Master Tier subscription primarily allows the user to share their purchased content with others in a campaign group with them on D&D; Beyond, in addition to all the benefits of the Hero Tier subscription. Though private homebrew content is automatically shared without a subscription, published homebrew content and official content requires a Master Tier subscription to be shared. With a Master Tier subscription, the user can enable content sharing for up to 3 campaigns they are in of up to 12 players each (as well as the Dungeon Master of each campaign). If content sharing is enabled, any official content owned by any of the players or the Dungeon Master (DM), as well as any published homebrew content in any of their collections, is shared with the other members of the group.

Computer Gaming World criticized the IBM version's "weak graphics", but concluded that "Bloodwych scores very solidly on game-play and deserves serious consideration from dungeon fanatics". CU Amiga-64 gave the game additionally a CU Screen Star, stating that the game had even more varied gameplay than Dungeon Master. It also praised that the puzzles could be solved by pure logic.

AROUND YOU IS A FOREST. A SMALL STREAM FLOWS OUT OF THE BUILDING AND DOWN A GULLY. go south YOU ARE IN A VALLEY IN THE FOREST BESIDE A STREAM TUMBLING ALONG A ROCKY BED. The program's replies are typically in a humorous, conversational tone, much as a dungeon master would use in leading players in a tabletop role-playing game.

The Dungeon Master: The Disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III is a 1984 book by private investigator William Dear, in which the author gives his explanation of the 1979 "steam tunnel incident" involving the disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III, a student at Michigan State University. In the book, Dear explained that he feels the incident was misrepresented by the news media.

The standard adventure is essentially an adventure kit including a backstory, maps and one or more objectives for the players to fulfill. Some include numerous illustrations. A Dungeon Master could purchase these pre-made adventures and use it or parts of it for a gaming session. The early format was a single booklet inserted, but not fixed, in a cardboard cover.

He also plays Dungeons & Dragons often (the website's previous banner illustrated him holding a 20-sided die), and adopts a wildly theatrical style when acting as a dungeon master. Tycho occasionally makes reference to his scarring childhood, during which his mother physically abused him. Tycho also has a drinking problem. In Poker Night at the Inventory, Tycho is voiced by Kid Beyond.

The story takes place in the ruins of the mysterious, cursed city of Eriden, in the dungeons below the hero must destroy four magic mirrors. The player controls one character out of a choice of nine - each has three basic attributes - strength, mana, and health. Like in Dungeon Master, there are also hunger and thirst game mechanics for the main character.

Captive is a science fiction role-playing video game released by Mindscape in 1990. In the style of Dungeon Master, it uses pseudo-3D realtime graphics from a first-person perspective. It was released for Amiga, Atari ST, and, in 1992, MS-DOS. The player characters are androids (termed "droids" in the game) operated remotely by a prisoner trying to free himself.

Goblins are the protagonists in the Dungeons & Dragons- influenced webcomic Goblins. Goblins also feature prominently in another Dungeons & Dragons-influenced work, The Order of the Stick; a major antagonist, Redcloak, is a goblin cleric serving a deity known as the "Dark One". A "Goblin Lair" is used as one of the sample encounters in the book Dungeon Master 4th Edition for Dummies.

She is the Dungeon Master for The Mavrus Chronicles, a bonus campaign featuring Zac Oyama. Axford is also a player on Dimension 20, a Dungeons & Dragons actual play show from CollegeHumor's streaming service Dropout. Her characters include Figueroth "Fig" Faeth (Fantasy High), Sofia Bicicleta (The Unsleeping City), Princess Jet Rocks (A Crown of Candy), Saccharina Frostwhip (A Crown of Candy).

Adventure contained many D&D; features and references, including a computer controlled dungeon master. Inspired by Adventure, a group of students at MIT, in the summer of 1977 wrote a game called Zork for the PDP-10. It became quite popular on the ARPANET. Zork was ported under the name Dungeon to FORTRAN by a programmer working at DEC in 1978.

The Sorcerer's Cave is a fantasy board/card game designed by Terence Peter Donnelly and first published in 1978. Though greatly simplified, it was inspired by the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. Unlike D&D;, however, Sorcerer's Cave does not require "Dungeon Master" or referee. One of its strengths is that it can be played solo or competitively, as well as cooperatively.

He also cited Dungeon Master, the Wizardry and Sorcerian series. The loot system and its surrounding mechanics were suggested by Ohnishi, based on those in Diablo. Random dungeon generation similar to Diablo was dropped early in development so players could enjoy memorising and mastering each dungeon. The increased difficulty options were incorporated based on Ignition's request for elements that would appeal to the Western market.

The volume begins by highlighting various approaches to world creation, explaining the merits of each and detailing how the Dungeon Master can use the book to create a unique fictional universe (aka a fantasy setting) from scratch. A selection of blank maps is included at the end of the book, ranging from grids to draw a whole planet overview to smaller separate regions and individual kingdoms.

The gameplay of Knights of Pen & Paper 2 is similar to the first game in the series. It is a turn-based RPG in which the player controls a group of role-playing game players during a Dungeons & Dragons-style game session, as well as their Dungeon Master. The gameplay was streamlined from the first game, requiring less grinding, but is also less difficult overall.

The adventure is written in a very open-ended fashion, giving the Dungeon Master (DM) free rein to script any number of mini-campaigns or adventures taking place inside the drow capital. An extensive overview of the drow power structure is given for just this purpose. Eventually, the players may discover an astral gate leading to the plane of the Abyss, leading into the Q1 module.

The opening credits served as an introduction to the series and an explanation as to how the children ended up in the realm. It begins with the group getting on the "Dungeons & Dragons" ride, which then transports them to the realm. Dungeon Master appears to give them their individual weapons to defend themselves from Tiamat and Venger. The credits were altered for the second and third seasons.

While the technical implementation of the game was done by the now defunct British company M4, two employees of Capcom were involved with the development as well. Shinji Mikami served as an advisor for the game and the story was written by Hiroki Kato, the director of Resident Evil - Code: Veronica. The game's first-person combat was inspired by the 1987 role-playing video game Dungeon Master.

A feature of the first edition Dungeon Masters Guide was the random dungeon generator. The generator allowed the Dungeon Master, by the rolling of dice, to generate a dungeon adventure "on the fly". A dungeon complete with passageways, rooms, treasure, monsters, and other encounters could easily and randomly be constructed as the player progressed. It could be used with several people or a single player.

As part of the Essentials line of products, which were intended as an easy entry point for new players, Wizards of the Coast released a Dungeon Master's Kit (2010) that included a digest- sized book for the Dungeon Master containing much of the same material as the 4th edition Dungeon Master's Guide along with a two-part adventure module and a set of cardboard tokens for monsters.

The movement and fighting is similar to traditional Dungeon Master clones like Eye of the Beholder. It does play in real time, but most of the opponents move relatively slowly, so much of the gameplay relies not so much on reflexes as on the basic strategy of minimizing damage taken, not getting backed into corners or cul- de-sacs, and not running out of ammunition.

An in-game screenshot from Legend of Grimrock a first-person tile-based dungeon crawler in the style of Dungeon Master. In the center of the image, the view into the Dungeon. On the right, the open inventory of a party member. This subgenre consists of RPGs where the player leads a party of adventurers in first-person perspective, typically in a grid-based environment.

The book sorts ghosts into several general categories according to their power levels (first through fifth magnitude), physical appearance (spectral, humanoid, bestial), and origin (sudden death, reincarnation, dark pacts). By mixing the characteristics associated with these and other categories, the Dungeon Master can create customized spirits. Ghostly powers and vulnerabilities are discussed at length, and a chapter is devoted to the investigation of hauntings.

Elisabeth Barrington reviewed Sword of Hope in The Space Gamer No. 28. She commented that "The background information in Tower of Ulission is not essential to Sword of Hope. Barrington added: "Sword of Hope assumes a reasonable amount of intelligence and wit on the part of both the characters and the Dungeon Master. Cryptic clues and warnings give the character a challenging and interesting trip.

Critics liked the variety of monsters and the combat system. Computer Gaming World wrote that "not since Dungeon Master had such a good and explicit graphic combat system been seen". Computer Entertainer felt the game's large scope and deep gameplay was more typically seen in computer games than on consoles. This large scope made critics thankful for the cart's battery back-up, an unusual hardware feature at the time.

In the revision, the designers added additional background material, as well as staging tips for the Dungeon Master. The details of various elements that had been open-ended elements were spelled out. Desert of Desolation includes a 128-page adventure booklet, a sixteen-page maps booklet, and a large A1 sheet of maps and handouts. The compilation module contains new maps, including an isometric map of the tomb of Amun-Re.

A soundtrack album, titled Dungeon Master: The Album, was released later. This album featured music composed by Darrell Harvey, Rex Baca, and Kip Martin. The original ST version and its faithful Amiga and PC ports contain no music. The album features music composed for the FM Towns game, as well as FM Towns version of Chaos Strikes Back, and some original tracks that were inspired by the games.

After this victorious discovery, the Dungeon Master appears and transforms the player into a duplicate of himself, signifying the player's succession to his position. Steve Meretzky said in 1984 that "the worst bug that ever got out was in Zork III"; having the sword during the last puzzle makes the game unwinnable. "We call things like that our 'fatal errors'; we caught that one relatively early on", he said.

On August 12, 2000, Lillard married Heather Helm, with whom he has two daughters, Addison and Macey, and a son, Liam. They live in Los Angeles. In October 2005, he participated in a Dungeons & Dragons tournament, against members of the Quest Club Gaming Organization, at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, California. Lillard has also played Dungeons & Dragons with the online series Dice, Camera, Action with Christopher Perkins as the Dungeon Master.

The film, with Billy's scenes intact was released in 2012. Two of Gram's old Ghostdance Tribe songs are included as part of the soundtrack. Also in 2010, Billy was cast as The Demon/Indian in The Cemetery by director Adam Ahlbrandt and The Dungeon Master in director Tom Savini's Wet Dreams segment for the anthology film The Theatre Bizarre. The Theater Bizarre debuted at The Fantasia Film Festival in July 2011.

The Dungeon Master is a ZX Spectrum video game developed and released by Crystal Computing in 1983. The game allows you to create dungeons based in an underground labyrinth, and then venture into them with your lone adventurer, searching for a number of turquoise rings. The game is an early text based role-playing game, you move from room to room fighting various monsters, picking up equipment and gaining levels.

Lord British is the ruler of Britannia, and an in-game personification of the creator of the series, Richard Garriott.EL33TONLINE: News - Richard Garriott in space! Retrieved 2008-10-15 His name comes from a nickname given to him by friends at a computer camp, who felt that his way of saying "hello" was distinctly "British." The "Lord" prefix was added when he played the dungeon master in Dungeons & Dragons games.

" Due to Dungeon Master's impact on the 16-bit gaming scene, Lester notes RPGs as an 'increasingly important element of the gaming market in the future', further stating that "Expectations are getting higher as standards improve, and the best way to fufil [sic] those expectations is with a complex mouse-driven strategy game, not just another shoot'em up." Shadowlands is designed with an 'arcade-style' isometric viewpoint and its controls & UI are 'simplified' due to Lester's design philosophy that "if a game system is relatively familiar to games players, it has more chance of success". Shadowlands utilizes burst scrolling, stating in regards to this design decision that "A burst scrolling isometric game is rare: flick-screen RPGs tend to be room-based and lose integrity; and it would be unplayable if the screen scrolled every time a character moved." Further expressing Dungeon Master as an inspiration, Lester states that "There are lots of things we liked about Dungeon Master but we wanted to do it differently.

The Gem and the Staff, by John and Laurie Van De Graaf, is an adventure module for the Dungeons & Dragons Expert Set. Rather than being a typical group adventure, The Gem and the Staff was designed for head-to-head tournament- style play, with players separately playing the same adventure and competing against each other for points earned by accomplishing certain goals. The adventure is only playable with one dungeon master (DM) and one player.

Colossal Cave Adventure, created in 1975 by Will Crowther on a DEC PDP-10 computer, was the first widely used adventure game. The game was significantly expanded in 1976 by Don Woods. Also called Adventure, it contained many D&D; features and references, including a computer controlled dungeon master. Numerous dungeon crawlers were created on the PLATO system at the University of Illinois and other American universities that used PLATO, beginning in 1975.

Gygax also performed voiceover narration for cartoons and video games. In 2000, he voiced his own cartoon self for an episode of Futurama, "Anthology of Interest I" that also included the voices of Al Gore, Stephen Hawking and Nichelle Nichols. Gygax also performed as a guest Dungeon Master in the Delera's Tomb quest series of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach. Gary Gygax at Gen Con in 2003.

BloodSpell was in development for more than two years. In late 2003, executive producer Hugh Hancock first began to work on the project in response to a claim that his work had lost its "punk edge".Krotoski. Production costs were under £10,000.Price. The film was made using the Neverwinter Nights Aurora game engine, which provides a Dungeon Master (DM) client that allows actor models to be created or removed at will.

Unlike most role- playing video games of the time, such as Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, Rings of Power has a style that shared many similarities to PC role-playing games such as Dungeon Master, Wizardry, and A Bard's Tale. The game is very open- ended, contains hundreds of non-player characters with many different dialog choices, and dozens of quests and random events. Practically every location is available from very early in the game.

Zork III: The Dungeon Master is an interactive fiction video game written by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling, Bruce Daniels, and Tim Anderson and published by Infocom in 1982. Infocom's fourth game, it's the third game in the Zork trilogy. It was released for the Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64, CP/M, IBM PC (as a self-booting disk), MSX, TRS-80, then later for Macintosh, Atari ST, and Amiga.

Advertisements from corporate sponsors and paid messages from listeners are read by the Dungeon Master in the middle segment of the program. Fans tweeting about the show using "#thezonecast" may be selected to become the namesakes for various non-player characters in the story lines. This trend has continued with the experimental arcs. During the Balance Arc, fans could also suggest items to stock at "Fantasy Costco" for the characters to buy between quests.

Upon its initial release, Crystals of Arborea received mixed reviews. Some critics praised the graphics and user-interface, remarking, for instance, that the "characters and other creatures are well- drawn and accompanied by some superb, realistic looking, background artwork." The music and sound effects were also singled out as impressive. Amiga Action acknowledged the developer's attempt to blend strategy and role-playing genres, and noted the influence of Dungeon Master on the game.

The generic nature of the campaign was seen as both a strength and a limitation. While it permitted the material to be inserted into existing campaigns and game worlds, it was acknowledged that doing so might be a difficult task, and that the publication lacked sufficient information for such a task, especially for non-standard campaigns. Dungeon Master for Dummies lists Red Hand of Doom as one of the ten best 3rd edition adventures.

A player may have an additional character sheet if he also controls a second character, a cohort or a hireling, but this is less common. The dungeon master, who runs the game, may optionally keep proper character sheets for non-player characters (NPCs) if he wishes to keep full information on the character. Some rulebooks offer special “NPC sheets” for this purpose that are considerably smaller than the usual (main) character sheets.

The adventure's packaging is similar to "previous Dark Sun modules". It provides useful reference materials for the dungeon master, to include a non-player character table, and extensive maps. It also contains a short work of fiction for context as well as comparatively good artwork related to earlier modules. The contents of the module are as follows: > Arcane Shadows places four to six 5th to 8th level characters in the City- > State of Urik.

Each character's actions and attitudes determine that character's character class. Each character's behavior also determines their alignment. The Dungeon Master (DM) makes alignment checks, and keeps track of how the characters behave in terms of role-playing and with handling magic and combat, recording how a character is developing towards a first-level character with a character class. The module includes record sheets as handouts for the DM to track PC behaviors.

As a D&D; player, Kuntz developed the character of Robilar, the first character to successfully complete Tomb of Horrors, among other exploits. Because of Kuntz' imaginative play of this character, Gary Gygax awarded him co-Dungeon Master status for Gygax's original Greyhawk home campaign. As Gygax's friend and co- DM, Kuntz influenced the development of the Greyhawk milieu. For example, Gygax adapted Kuntz' dark god "Tharzduun" into the entity known today as Tharizdun.

Melvin was an early fan of Dungeons & Dragons. At 15 years old, Melvin met Gary Gygax at a fan convention, where the two discussed an idea for automating the role of the Dungeon Master. At the urging of Gygax, Melvin created GameAssist using Z80 assembly on TRS-80 computers. GameAssist was a tool to assist Dungeon Masters in the Dungeons & Dragons game with tracking player statistics and inventory and in managing and generating creature encounters.

Eventually returning to the U.S., she resumed her studies and graduated from the University of California at San Diego with a Communications degree. She occasionally teaches courses in writing and on Buffy the Vampire Slayer at UCSD. Holder contributed to the design of Dungeon Master, developed and sold by her husband Wayne Holder's company FTL Games. She has a daughter, Belle Claire Christine Holder (born October 28, 1996), with whom she has begun collaborating on published short stories.

Queen of the Demonweb Pits is an open-ended adventure; each portal can lead to a large area, from which the dungeon master can launch a new campaign. The player characters make their way through Lolth's webs, where they are confronted by her minions, slaves, guards and captives. At the end of the module the players face a final, difficult confrontation with Lolth,Sutherland III, David C, and Gygax, Gary. Queen of the Demonweb Pits (TSR, 1980) .

Initial reviews for Innsmouth no Yakata were lukewarm. Famitsu was critical towards the game's lack of ambition and the presence of a time limit, saying that most players would not be able to fully immerse themselves in its world due to the short length of the timer. They unfavorably compared it Dungeon Master (1987), disliking its limited ammunition and a relatively low level of difficulty. VB Guide felt similarly about the game, criticizing its gameplay and horror elements.

The cast own the intellectual property from the show, and the show also lends its name to the studio owned by the cast; Critical Role Productions. The studio has produced Critical Role and Talks Machina since 2018. It also develops and produces other programming for the studio's Twitch and YouTube channels. A number of licensed works based on the show have been released, such as the two official campaign setting guides written by the show's dungeon master, Matthew Mercer.

Originally, Dungeon Master was started with the name Crystal Dragon coded in Pascal, and targeted the Apple II platform. Doug Bell and Andy Jaros (Artwork) began development in their development studio PVC Dragon, before they joined in 1983 FTL Games. It was finished there in C programming language and published in 1987 for the Atari ST first. A slightly updated Amiga version was released the following year, which was the first video game to use 3D sound effects.

The book ends with a set of three appendices. Appendix A, on page 137 is a list of common rechargeable magical items, referring to the book's previous section. Appendix B, on pages 138-158, is a set of random power tables that some artifacts may possess. Appendix C, on page 159, is simply a blank chart for the Dungeon Master to fill out to assign a list of songs, and their effects, for the Heward's Mystical Organ artifact.

This system makes it possible for the player to have all 7 points without being close to finishing the game. This game contains the payoff to the "Hello, Sailor" joke that was introduced in Zork I. Saying "" has the effect of: : For the rest of the game, saying elicits the response "" Everywhere else, saying "" induces the response, ""Game response to "hello sailor" at the first prompt. ZORK III: The Dungeon Master; 1982; Infocom, Inc.; Release 17, serial number 840727.

The book detailed options for character creation, handling alignment, new money and equipment rules, treasure and magical items, encounters, time and movement, and handling non-player characters. The book is indexed, and contains many full-page color illustrations. The second edition Dungeon Master Guide is an ORIGINS and Gamer's Choice award-winner. In his 1991 book Heroic Worlds, Lawrence Schick commented that this book contained "lots of excellent new advice on how to run AD&D;".

Some outcomes are determined by the game system, and some are chosen by the GM. Specific tabletop RPGs may have a unique name for the GM role, such as Dungeon Master (DM) in Dungeons & Dragons, Referee in all Game Designers' Workshop games, or Storyteller for the Storytelling System. The terms pen-and-paper and tabletop are generally only used to distinguish this format of RPG from other formats, since neither pen and paper nor a table are strictly necessary.

The Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide includes everything a Dungeon Master needs to run a 4th edition D&D; campaign in the Forgotten Realms setting, as well as elements that DMs can incorporate into their own D&D; campaigns. The book provides background information on the lands of Faerûn, a fully detailed town in which to start a campaign, adventure seeds, new monsters, ready-to-play non-player characters, and a full-color poster map of Faerûn.

A game often continues over a series of meetings to complete a single adventure, and longer into a series of related gaming adventures, called a "campaign"."Encounters are to adventures what adventures are to campaigns" (Cook, Williams, Tweet; Dungeon Master's Guide v3.5., p. 129) The results of the party's choices and the overall storyline for the game are determined by the Dungeon Master (DM) according to the rules of the game and the DM's interpretation of those rules.

Wilson wrestled for the promotion Canadian Wrestling's Elite during 2016, he performed as a tag-team named Armed & Dangerous with “Dynamite” Dan Myers, they debuted in the main event of CWE's first event in Calgary against “Dungeon Master” Johnny Devine & “Hotshot” Danny Duggan. In August 2017 they had a match together with Matt Hart against Silas Young, Tony Kozina and The Big Chief which was a tribute match to Matt's father Smith Hart who died in July.

Dragons of Glory is a Dungeons & Dragons source book in a series of modules from the Dragonlance campaign setting. It is one of the 16 DL modules published by TSR between 1984 and 1986. This module is "a complete and self- contained simulation game" centered on the War of the Lance. While other modules focus on the journeys of characters such as Tanis Half-Elven, this module allows the dungeon master (DM) to recreate larger battles.

It explains the common elements of how all artifacts function within a game, and details two common types of special curses an artifact might cause: artifact possession, where an artifact's will can possess a character using the item, and artifact transformation, where the artifact literally transforms a character physically and mentally over time into something else entirely. The format for the artifact descriptions found in the next section is also explained. Each artifact is given a detailed in-game history consisting of one or more paragraphs, and each one provides a section of advice on how the Dungeon Master may use the item within a campaign. Each artifact has its most significant powers detailed, each of which falls into one of five categories: constant (always in effect), invoked (activated intentionally by the character), random (determined by the Dungeon Master or by random roll), resonating (only functioning when two or more pieces of a matched set are joined), and curse (such as artifact possession, artifact transformation, or something else).

The basic role of the gamemaster is the same in almost all traditional role- playing games, although differing rule sets make the specific duties of the gamemaster unique to that system. The role of a gamemaster in an online game is to enforce the game's rules and provide general customer service. Also, unlike gamemasters in traditional role-playing games, gamemasters for online games in some cases are paid employees. In Dungeons & Dragons, the game master is referred to as the dungeon master.

The company needed a new product. Gygax announced in 1988 in a company newsletter that he and Rob Kuntz, his co-Dungeon Master during the early days of the Greyhawk campaign, were working as a team again. This time they would create a new multi-genre fantasy RPG called "Infinite Adventures", which would be supported by different gamebooks for different genres. This line would detail the Castle and City of Greyhawk as Gygax and Kuntz had originally envisioned them, now called "Castle Dunfalcon".

White Plume Mountain was well received by critics. Dungeon Master for Dummies lists White Plume Mountain as one of the ten best classic adventures, referring to it as a "classic dungeon crawl." It was ranked the 9th greatest Dungeons & Dragons adventure of all time by Dungeon magazine in 2004, on the 30th anniversary of the Dungeons & Dragons game. Judge Mike Mearls commented on the ingenuity required to complete the adventure, describing it as "the puzzle dungeon to end all puzzle dungeons".

Wheaton also starred in the Kickstarter-funded game There Came an Echo by Iridium Studios. In Dungeons and Dragons Online, he became the dungeon master of the Temple of Elemental Evil quests. Nintendo of America announced on Twitter that Wheaton would be voicing Abraham Lincoln in Code Name: STEAM. Wheaton announced in February 2015 that he was chosen to provide voiceover talent for the upcoming strategy role-playing video game Firefly Online, a game based on Joss Whedon's Firefly sci-fi franchise.

Screenshot of Damnation of Gods, a Dungeon Master clone. All four members of the players' party move around the game world as a single unit, or "blob", in first-person perspective. This subgenre consists of RPGs where the player leads a party of adventurers in first-person perspective, typically through a dungeon or labyrinth in a grid- based environment. Examples include the aforementioned Wizardry, Might and Magic and Bard's Tale series; as well as the Etrian Odyssey and Elminage series.

D&D; publication is commonly recognized as the beginning of modern role-playing games and the role-playing game industry. D&D; departs from traditional wargaming by allowing each player to create their own character to play instead of a military formation. These characters embark upon imaginary adventures within a fantasy setting. A Dungeon Master (DM) serves as the game's referee and storyteller, while maintaining the setting in which the adventures occur, and playing the role of the inhabitants of the game world.

At one interview he said that gaming is a completely useless hobby. On the first issue of Pelit (1992) he wrote that gaming helps people overcome their fears towards computers (that is typical for some old people). In another interview he declared that many strategy games can develop the players' intellectual capabilities: they can teach English, history and strategic thinking. Nirvi's favorite games from the 1980s are Star Wars (Atari's arcade game), Ultima IV, Hack (the precursor of NetHack), Elite and Dungeon Master.

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A large number of artists provide full-color art throughout the book. The rulebook is based on the D20 rules system used by the third edition of Dungeons and Dragons, also published by Wizards of the Coast, and follows a similar layout and format to the D&D; core rulebooks. However, the term 'Dungeon Master' is not used (as this is reserved for D&D; products only), being replaced by the more generic 'gamemaster' to refer to the player running the game.

The game's format is first-person, much similar to Dungeon Master or the Might and Magic franchise. The combat is turn based with traditional RPG elements, although they are limited with several distinctions from now-traditional RPGs. Unlike traditional RPGs, a complete level-up system is not provided in the game, making the player oblivious to what experience level they are on. Another distinction is that when the player's health gets low, then healing is only available by way of resting.

Players are given sixty minutes to escape from the halls of a bard, Egad, before he destroys them for following him in. Two characters are provided: a druid and a ranger. Their characteristics are given in full in the back. The Dungeon Master awards points or subtracts them for various feats performs of mistakes made. This dungeon was designed to be a limited-time (real-time) dungeon with the players being allowed only an hour to complete their characters’ quest.

Scott attempts to cheat his way out of it but Miles's girlfriend catches him. The players tell Scott the game has become too serious and it's no longer fun when he's the dungeon master. Scott has a meltdown and orders them all to leave, but his friends opt to stay and play with Miles instead, which further enrages Scott. Back at his grandmother's house, Scott finds out his mother wants to sell Wanda's house to settle debt she has accumulated.

Magliaro competed for then-International Championship Wrestling (ICW) in 1984. As "Tony Rummell", he faced Abdullah the Butcher and Bruiser Brody during his rookie year as well as former WWF wrestlers the Tonga Kid and Superstar Billy Graham during his singles career. In 1986, he briefly teamed with Rocky Raymond as The Boston Bad Boys who together faced The Midnight Rockers in an interpromotional match with the American Wrestling Association before feuding with "Mr. USA" Tony Atlas as the masked "Dungeon Master" the following year.

Critical Role Productions and Stephen Colbert teamed up for Red Nose Day for a special one-on-one adventure with Matthew Mercer as Dungeon Master that aired on May 23, 2019. Fans were able to donate to the cause and vote for elements of the adventure such as Colbert's companion, his class, his legendary weapon, and the villain. In the one-shot campaign, Colbert played a half-elf bard named Capo, and had a bee named Eric as a companion. The event raised $117,176.20 for the charity.

Granada became a popular title among the X68000 userbase from Wolf Team during its release for a brief period and was eventually nominated for a "Game of the Year" award by Oh!X magazine but lost against other titles such as Dungeon Master. The Sega Genesis port garnered generally positive reception from critics who commended several aspects such as the presentation, graphics, sound design, controls, gameplay and replay value. In their respective retrospective reviews, gaming websites HonestGamers and IGN praised the Genesis version as well.

Screenshot of Damnation of Gods, a Dungeon Master clone. All four members of the players's party move around the game world as a single unit in first-person perspective. Also known as DRPG (Dungeon RPG), this subgenre consists of RPGs where the player leads a party of adventurers in first-person perspective through a dungeon or labyrinth, typically in a grid-based environment. Examples include the aforementioned Wizardry, Might and Magic and Bard's Tale series; as well as the Etrian Odyssey and Elminage series.

The 3rd Edition Manual of the Planes, the 3.5 Edition Dungeon Master's Guide, and the 2004 Planar Handbook also used the general layout of the planes and some of the details from the setting, including Sigil, but these are not part of the Planescape line. Similar material has surfaced in 4th Edition rulebooks, as the Dungeon Master Guide 2 includes a section on Sigil. The 5th Edition Player's Handbook also contains a section explaining the planes and Sigil. The series had a small number of novels.

Ranson's first work for 2000 AD was a one-off Judge Dredd story "Dungeon Master" by John Wagner. It was followed by the ten-part Anderson: Psi Division - "Triad" storyline, which started in Prog #635 (15 July, 1989).2000AD Art- Droids (Progs #1-1100 + Megazines Vol 1/1 - Vol 3/50) compiled by Julia Hayden: Arthur Ranson . Accessed September 4, 2008 David Bishop, in the 2000 AD history volume Thrill Power Overload says that Ranson's Sample of Arthur Ranson's art on Judge Anderson story The Jesus Syndrome.

The original cover art was by D.A. Trampier, who also provided interior illustrations along with David C. Sutherland III. In this edition, the game rules were divided between the Players Handbook and the Dungeon Masters Guide, which was printed later. Later editions of the game moved the bulk of the game rules to the Player's Handbook, leaving information needed chiefly by the DM in the Dungeon Master's Guide. The new rules were so open-ended that game campaigns required a referee or Dungeon Master.

The TV program's second season premiered in September 2019. Murphy was also one of the hosts of "8-Bit Book Club" alongside Axford and Caldwell Tanner, a podcast where the hosts read and discuss books and other media relating to video games. He is now the host and Dungeon Master of the HeadGum podcast "Not Another D&D; Podcast" with Axford, Tanner, and Jake Hurwitz. He is also a player on Dimension 20, a Dungeons & Dragons actual play show from CollegeHumor's streaming service Dropout.

The module is described as a low-level scenario that involves evil creatures prowling the unexplored reaches of Bone Hill. (preview) The campaign setting and scenario featured in the book detail a complete town in the Lendore Isles, along with nearby monster lairs. The player characters adventure in and around the fishing port of Restenford. The module is more of a mini-setting than an adventure, offering several adventure locations, and may require a Dungeon Master to expand it using the World of Greyhawk milieu.

Jim Bambra reviewed the green version of Palace of the Silver Princess for White Dwarf magazine, giving it a 10/10 and calling it "an excellent introduction to the game for new DMs and players, being fairly simple to complete and play." He made note of the glossary of unfamiliar terms for the Dungeon Master to reference and helpful hints on play, and concluded with the suggestion that Palace of the Silver Princess should replace The Keep on the Borderlands in the D&D; Basic Set.

Using procedural generation in games had origins in the tabletop role playing game (RPG) venue. The leading tabletop system, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, provided ways for the "dungeon master" to generate dungeons and terrain using random die rolls, expanded in later editions with complex branching procedural tables. Strategic Simulations under license from TSR released the Dungeon Master's Assistant, a computer program that generated dungeons based on these published tables. Tunnels & Trolls, also published by TSR, was designed primarily around solitary play and used similar procedural generation for its dungeons.

The game is therefore pitched at a much higher difficulty level than its predecessor. The player can choose from a selection of moderately high-level characters or can import characters from a Dungeon Master saved game. In an indication of the game's uncompromising toughness, the player's very first task is to get out of a dark, enclosed room filled with ferociously toothed man-eating giant worms. The game is made a little easier by the inclusion of a separate program which dispenses cryptic hints based on the player's current saved game.

Legend of Grimrock is an action role-playing game video game developed and published by Almost Human. The title is a 3D grid-based, real-time dungeon crawler based on the 1987 game Dungeon Master. It was originally released for Microsoft Windows in April 2012, and later ported for OS X and Linux in December 2012 and iOS in May 2015. Legend of Grimrock was the debut game of Almost Human, a four-man Finnish indie development team formed in February 2011, which self-financed the title's development.

Concerning the permanently dark room that houses a vampire, he commented on the ease with which one player's character can easily hit that of another in the gloom. He describes the room where a giant crab guards the trident Wave as "basically a bubble inside a tank of boiling water", noting the crab knows not to pierce the walls and asks, "Are you that smart?" Also, if the players end the adventure with the magic weapons, they need to "bribe" their Dungeon Master to allow them to keep the items.

Soon after joining TSR, he was invited to participate in TSR's first "DM Invitational", a contest to choose D&D;'s best overall dungeon master; other contestants included Len Lakofka and Erol Otus. At Gen Con 1980, it was announced that Mentzer was the winner, and he was awarded a silver cup and a gold dragon chain of office. Mike Carr of TSR had been contemplating starting a TSR-sponsored D&D; fan club. Shortly after Mentzer won the DM Invitational, Carr approached him about taking on that task.

A skill check is always a d20 roll, with bonuses added. Sometimes, a skill check may be aided by favorable circumstances (such as you brandishing a weapon while using Intimidate) or hampered by unfavorable circumstances (such as using improvised tools to pick a lock). A "check" is successful when the roll is higher than or equal to the difficulty class (DC) of the task. Usually, the Dungeon Master sets the DC. Sometimes the DC is set by the result of something else's check, this is an "opposed check".

To date, Dungeon Master retains a small but faithful following online, with several fan-made ports and remakes available or in development. Notable reception received a faithful reconstruction of the Atari ST version, called "CSBWin", which was released in 2001. Reverse engineered in six months work from the original by Paul R. Stevens, the available source code of CSBwin led to many ports for modern platforms like Windows and Linux. In 2014, Christophe Fontanel released another reverse engineering project which tries to recreate all existing versions and ports.

Antoine eventually provided a rough sketch to the producers when taking them to Paris to view a full-size Crystal Dome created by the French, revealing it would be the centrepiece and surrounded by four other sets. The sketch was used as inspiration for the concept of The Crystal Maze, which was developed in just "two days", creating a show which although was similar to Fort Boyard, had substantial differences in presentation and style, creating a show akin to "Dungeons and Dragons", with the host acting as the "Dungeon master".

Knights of Pen & Paper is a turn-based RPG with the twist that the game itself exists in the imaginations of a group of Dungeons & Dragons-style role-playing game players, who are also shown. The player can control not only the players of the in-universe game, but also the Dungeon Master, allowing them to choose which battles to fight. The table upon which the in-universe game is being played is also a constant presence. Sometimes the role-players will break character and talk amongst themselves informally.

Dungeon Master for Dummies lists Steading of the Hill Giant Chief as one of the ten best classic adventures. Stephen Colbert, who played Dungeons & Dragons as a child, reminisced about these modules: "Those old "Giants" modules, those were tremendous. Those are some of my favorite memories: working my way through fire giant, frost giant, and storm giant castles." Ken Denmead of Wired said the first module is a "pretty easy crash- and-grab," the second contains "some really excellent treasure," but the third is "the end-all, be-all of hack-fests".

Tomb of Horrors was ranked the 3rd greatest Dungeons & Dragons adventure of all time by Dungeon magazine in 2004. Dungeon Master for Dummies lists Tomb of Horrors as one of the ten best classic adventures and posits that many of the adventure's traps would kill a character just for making poor choices. Lawrence Schick, in his 1991 book Heroic Worlds, calls the adventure "A very difficult scenario". Don Turnbull reviewed Tomb of Horrors in issue No. 13 of the magazine White Dwarf and gave the module a rating of 10 out of 10.

The film was adapted from a novel of the same name by Rona Jaffe. Jaffe had based her 1981 novel on inaccurate newspaper stories about the disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III from Michigan State University in 1979. Early media accounts had over- emphasized Egbert's participation in fantasy role playing, often speculating that his hobby of Dungeons & Dragons might have been a factor in his disappearance. William Dear, the private investigator on the case, explained actual events and the reasons behind the media myth in his 1984 book The Dungeon Master.

Frank Mentzer, one of the first full-time employees of TSR, Inc., the original publishers of the Dungeons and Dragons game, conceived of the Role Playing Game Association (RPGA) in order to promote quality roleplaying and to allow fans of roleplaying games to meet and play games with each other. Mentzer founded RPGA in November 1980 primarily to run tournaments at gaming conventions using TSR's top sellers: AD&D;, Gamma World and Top Secret. At each tournament, a Dungeon Master and four to eight players would play a 4-hour adventure supplied by the RPGA.

The Maze War style view was first adopted by Moria in 1975, an early RPG on the PLATO network, and further popularized by Ultima and Wizardry, eventually appearing in bitmapped form in games like Dungeon Master, Phantasy Star, Eye of the Beholder and countless others. Gameplay is simple by later standards. Players wander around a maze, being capable of moving backward or forwards, turning right or left in 90-degree increments, and peeking around corners through doorways. The game also uses simple tile-based movement, where the player moves from square to square.

Dungeons & Dragons is an American animated television series based on TSR's Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. A co-production of Marvel Productions and TSR, the show originally ran from 1983 through 1985 for three seasons on CBS for a total of twenty-seven episodes. The Japanese company Toei Animation did the animation for the series. The show focused on a group of six friends who are transported into the titular realm and followed their adventures as they tried to find a way home with the help of their guide, Dungeon Master.

It started in a similar way to the first with the group getting onto the roller coaster. Once in the realm, however, the characters can be seen in a castle and already in possession of their weapons fighting various enemies before Venger appears and says – The credits featured an orchestral score composed by Johnny Douglas, which played alongside the soundtrack of Dungeon Master. However, in France it ran with the song "Le Sourire du Dragon" sung by Dorothée. In Spain, the theme song "Dragones y Mazmorras" ("Dragons and Dungeons") sung by Dulces became very popular.

The adventure text directs the Dungeon Master to play certain tracks at various points to reveal clues or enhance the atmosphere. The rules are streamlined AD&D; rules, intended for novice players and first-time Dungeon Masters (DM). The 16-page rule book covers the basics of character creation, combat and spell-casting. The Adventure Book contains four scenarios, two of which use the CD. Symbols highlight key sections of the text; an exclamation point indicates information requiring the DM's scrutiny, a foot impaled on a spike notes the location of a trap.

Night's Dark Terror is a wilderness scenario in which the player characters travel by river and over mountains, from the Grand Duchy of Karameikos to the chaotic lands. The characters encounter a town under siege by goblins, a ruined city, and a lost valley. The module teaches the Dungeon Master (DM) how to handle wilderness conditions, and includes new rules for weather. The module also includes statistics for eleven new monsters, and comes with a battle map and counters for use in staging a battle in one of the towns.

50 pages. Tricolor provides rules for a game that can be played more quickly than many other games with miniatures. It allows for the re-creation of many of the important features of Napoleonic war: the interplay of combined arms, skirmishing by light infantry, and the importance of grape and canister shot by horse artillery. Along with Jeff Perrin, Crane was one of the first wargaming associates of Gary Gygax, who knew Gygax when the future dungeon master worked at Fireman's Insurance Company, and repaired shoes on the side.

Most games follow the pattern established by the first published role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons. Participants usually conduct the game as a small social gathering. One participant, called the Dungeon Master (DM) in Dungeons and Dragons, more commonly called the game master or GM, purchases or prepares a set of rules and a fictional setting in which players can act out the roles of their characters. This setting includes challenges for the player characters to overcome through play, such as traps to be avoided or adversaries to be fought.

BioWare intended to create a game system which emulated the interactions in a pen-and-paper version of Dungeons & Dragons including the role of Dungeon Master. They worked alongside the AD&D; to ensure the game framework was faithful to the tabletop game. A posting at the Neverwinter Nights 2 Vault on June 4, 2008 contained information from what appeared to be original Neverwinter Nights documentation. At the BioWare forums, Neverwinter lead designer Rob Bartel confirmed that the "series of excerpts from the game's design doc" were not a hoax.

The VHS tape boasted that it was filmed in "HyperReality," which looked good at the time, if not a little rough around the edges. At the end of the tape was a section for the Dragon Master, which served as the Dragon Strike equivalent to D&D;'s Dungeon Master. The host of the video gave a video tutorial for the people who would like to be a Dragon Master. This included tips and tricks that helped the players have fun, as well as making the game challenging at the same time.

The Dragon Master—the Dragon Strike equivalent of a Dungeon Master—prepares a session by selecting a mission from the Adventure Book, locates the indicated markers and cards, then responds with monsters, traps, and treasures as the characters wander around the colorful map board. A mission must be completed within a fixed number of turns. The Dragon Master controls the actions of the monsters and non-player characters. To resolve combat, the DM compares the Attack Strength to the target's Armor Class; if the Attack Roll is higher, the target loses one Hit Point.

Bambra noted that parts of the adventure were created for tournament play. The tournament section deals with getting into the city, and he felt the rest of the module seemed to be tacked on to that. He did like the mini-campaign included in the adventure, and the ideas included on how to expand on it. However, he felt that any Dungeon Master who used Dwellers of the Forbidden City would have to expend so much effort to make it more than "just a series of encounters," that they were better off "starting from scratch".

Zakhara is a peninsula on the continent of Faerûn in the world of Toril, the locale of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, although Al-Qadim is designed to stand on its own or be added to any existing campaign setting. The basic campaign setting was divided between two game products: Al-Qadim: Arabian Adventures, a sourcebook describing character creation rules, equipment, and spells unique to the setting, and Al-Qadim: Land of Fate, a boxed set describing the land of Zakhara, with separate sourcebooks for the players and the Dungeon Master.

CollegeHumor alumni Brian K. Murphy, Emily Axford, Jake Hurwitz and Caldwell Tanner present this Dungeons & Dragons actual play podcast. The main campaign follows the adventures of "the band of boobs"composed of Axford, Hurwitz, and Tanner's respective characters: Moonshine Cybin, a Crick elf Druid; Hardwon Surefoot, a human fighter raised by dwarves; and Beverly ToegoldV, a teenaged "City Halfling". Murphy serves as the dungeon-master for the campaign, which frequently features guest appearances. Not Another D&D; Podcast, or "NADDPod", has amassed over 10,000 patrons for the show's Patreon account.

The adventure begins with PCs falling down an earthen tunnel. It is suggested that the portal to Dungeonland be a barrel within the dungeon of Castle Greyhawk, but the Dungeon Master (DM) may work in any premise to get them to this stage. Upon landing, the PCs find themselves in a surreal, oddly- shaped hallway which contains The Pool of Tears and the entrance to a diminutive garden. Once they have explored these areas, they cross a fungi forest and arrive at The Wilds of Dungeonland, which is essentially a wooded area containing several connected clearings.

A rules lawyer is a participant in a rules-based environment who attempts to use the letter of the law without reference to the spirit, usually in order to gain an advantage within that environment. The term is commonly used in wargaming and role playing game communities, often pejoratively, as the "rules lawyer" is seen as an impediment to moving the game forward. The habit of players to argue in a legal fashion over rule implementation was noted early on in the history of Dungeons & Dragons. Rules lawyers are one of the "player styles" covered in Dungeon Master for Dummies.

The SNES version of Drakkhen is drastically different to its PC predecessor, especially in visual layout and color scheme. Predating both Ultima Underworld (1992) and Eye of the Beholder (1991), Drakkhen was among the first action RPGs to utilize a permanent, real-time, text-adventure log window, demonstrating large influence from MUD games. This log functions like a dungeon master, frequently telling the player how much damage an attack did, explaining the outcome of intended actions, acting as the player's five senses, et cetera. This feature was de-emphasized and presented more elegantly for the SNES.

Eye of the Beholder gameplay screenshot on SNES Eye of the Beholder featured a first- person perspective in a three-dimensional dungeon, very similar to the earlier Dungeon Master. The player controls four characters, initially, using a point- and-click interface to fight monsters. This can be increased to a maximum of six characters, by resurrecting one or more skeletons from dead non-player characters (NPC), or finding NPCs that are found throughout the dungeons. The possibility to increase the size of the player's party through the recruiting of NPCs was a tradition in all of the Eye of the Beholder series.

Eye of the Beholder was reviewed in 1991 in Dragon #171 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column, who gave it 5 out of 5 stars. It was #1 on the Software Publishers Association's list of top MS-DOS games for April 1991, the last SSI D&D; game to reach the rank. Dennis Owens of Computer Gaming World called it "a stunning, brilliantly graphic and agonizingly tricky" 3-D CRPG. The magazine stated that the game's VGA graphics and sound card audio finally gave IBM PC owners a Dungeon Master- like game.

Demons on the FULYA Pit level. Although Chaos Strikes Back describes itself as an expansion pack, the original Dungeon Master is not required. Whereas the first game saw the player following a fairly linear path through the adventure, with the completion of each flat level marked by a staircase leading down onto a new slightly harder level below, Chaos Strikes Back features a choice of paths which twist back and forth over all levels. The puzzles are far more convoluted, often demanding quick mastery of the control system to deal with intense combat, along with brain vexing riddles and room layouts.

Elisabeth Barrington reviewed Queen of the Demonweb Pits in 1981 as part of a review in the 35th issue of The Space Gamer. According to Barrington, players and the Dungeon Master need to be fairly experienced because some spell effects have been altered: "It takes skill, courage, and ingenuity to make your way into (and possibly, if you're lucky, out of) the pits. A good challenge for experienced players." Barrington did complain that some of the spell alterations felt unnecessary, as some of the spells which were very useful under ordinary circumstances became almost useless due to the alterations.

The following year, he and Arneson created D&D;, which expanded on Gygax's Chainmail and included elements of the fantasy stories he loved as a child. In the same year, he founded The Dragon, a magazine based around the new game. In 1977, Gygax began work on a more comprehensive version of the game, called Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. Gygax designed numerous manuals for the game system, as well as several pre-packaged adventures called "modules" that gave a person running a D&D; game (the "Dungeon Master") a rough script and ideas on how to run a particular gaming scenario.

The Forge of War is an accessory for the Eberron setting that explores the history of the Last War. New character options allow players to explore battlefield backgrounds, the magic of war, battle scars, and the benefits of working as a team. Campaign seeds help the Dungeon Master introduce the themes and events of the Last War in a current- day campaign or send characters back to their wartime days through flashbacks or actual time travel. A comprehensive overview of the Last War provides details on the events, armies, battlefields, and themes of Eberron's greatest clash of nations.

A group of riders led by the ruler of Daggerdale, Randal Morn, informs the characters that a strange fever called the Dream Fever is leaving the locals unable to wake up. The module reveals secretly to the Dungeon Master the real story behind the troubles. Eragyn the Dark, a priestess of the god Cyric, resurrected Randal Morn's great- grandfather, Colderan the Mage-Lord. Colderan began using a magic item called a net of dreams, which is what has been causing the Dream Fever by capturing a sleeper's life energy, and he also used it to trap Eragyn in his crypt.

" He also admired the floor plans, calling them "well- designed" and "clearly rendered, not cluttered with illustration-style detail." He also thought the gamemaster screen was "the most useful, detailed and well-designed DM screen I've ever used." Rolston did note that the dungeon was very complex; while he admitted that the result was "pretty spectatcular", he warned that "studying and understanding the Dwarven Halls is no simple matter." He concluded with a strong recommendation for this and the other three adventures in the Complete Dungeon Master Series, saying, "On presentation alone, it qualifies for the FRPG Supplement Hall of Fame.

Butler was the brand manager of the Alternity role-playing game for Wizards of the Coast. He was part of the Alternity team with Bill Slavicsek, Rich Baker, Kim Mohan, David Eckelberry, and rk post. In 2000, Butler wrote an open letter announcing the cancellation of the Alternity and SAGA lines and explaining the reasons. His design work for D&D; includes The Sword of the Dales (1995), The Secret of Spiderhaunt (1995), The Return of Randal Morn (1995), AD&D; Dungeon Master Screen & Master Index (1995), Netheril: Empire of Magic (1996), and Cormanthyr: Empire of the Elves (1998).

Steve Jackson reviewed the 1980 compilation of Dungeon Geomorphs in The Space Gamer #41 in 1981. Jackson felt that the geomorphs would be nice for any Dungeon Master who needed a complex dungeon level in a hurry. Since they are well-keyed, he noted that a given layout could be quickly written down for later use, and they allow for many possible combinations. Jackson also commented on the lack of scale on the grid squares, and that one square could be taken as being anywhere from 5 to 20 feet, although he felt that the designers probably intended them to be 10 feet.

He considered the choice of color a disappointment and the only real drawback, as the light-blue ink in which all the maps are printed in makes them difficult to read. Jackson concluded that the Dungeon Geomorphs is a nice buy for its price, but not a "must". Kurt Butterfield's review of the Outdoor Geomorphs appeared in same issue. According to Butterfield, this set of city plans helps a Dungeon Master to construct a fairly large walled city in a matter of minutes, saving an enormous amount of time and leaving the DM only to populate the city and add special details.

Dungeon Masters Adventure Log was a DM's aid containing important tables which were not included on the original Dungeon Masters Screen, plus pages of blank forms to help keep track of characters and events during game sessions. The Dungeon Masters Adventure Log contains two formats for record sheets. These allow the Dungeon Master to keep track of characters and their special abilities, and for recording the monsters they encounter, treasure they find, their marching order, or anything the DM might need to know at a moment's glance. Several abbreviations are given in the front of the book for consistency.

In the editions of Dungeons & Dragons published by TSR, the setting of the game had not been specifically defined—Dungeon Masters were expected to either create a new world, or purchase a commercial campaign setting such as Greyhawk or Forgotten Realms. In 2000, after two years of work and playtesting, WotC released the 3rd edition of D&D;, and defined a default setting for the game for the first time. Under third edition rules, unless a Dungeon Master specifically chose to use a different campaign setting, his or her D&D; game would be set in the world of Greyhawk.

Bethea also co-created and produced the original Slime Time Live, a long-running Nickelodeon daytime franchise that was the forerunner of sister network MTV's TRL. In 1997, Bethea was hired by Viacom's UPN as Director of ProgrammingUPN taps Bethea for programming, by Ray Richmond, Variety, May 20, 1997 and promoted shortly after to Head of Current Programming.UPN's inside moves, Variety, November 14, 1997 In this capacity, he supervised the production of the network's entire primetime slate, including comedy, drama and alternative series. He also appeared as a D&D; Dungeon Master in high school classmate Jon Favreau's 1999 pilot Smog.

Play is initially conducted aboveground in a rural setting, which provides many small-scale encounters from which characters can gain experience, treasure, and clues. There is a village that characters can use as a base, with its own supporting cast of Non-player characters for potential friends, including rangers, a druid, and a wizard. The players then unearth the entrance to a vast cave system, where they will contend with the sinister plot hatching far below. The adventure recommends that the Dungeon Master reward the characters with experience points for accumulating the powerful magic items that they find.

The show focuses on a group of friends aged between 8 and 15 who are transported to the "realm of Dungeons & Dragons" by taking a magical dark ride on an amusement park roller coaster. Upon arriving in the realm they meet Dungeon Master (named for the referee in the role-playing game) who gives each child a magical item. The children's main goal is to find a way home, but they often take detours to help people or find that their fates are intertwined with that of others. The group comes across many different enemies, but their primary antagonist is Venger.

Role-playing games often rely on mechanics that determine the effectiveness of in-game actions by how well the player acts out the role of a fictional character. While early role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons relied heavily on either group consensus or the judgement of a single player (deemed the Dungeon Master or Game Master) or on randomizers such as dice, later generations of narrativist games use more structured and integrated systems to allow role-playing to influence the creative input and output of the players, so both acting out roles and employing rules take part in shaping the gameplay.

The original cover art was by David C. Sutherland III, and interior illustrations were provided by Sutherland, D. A. Trampier, Darlene Pekul, Will McLean, David S. LaForce, and Erol Otus. The first edition Dungeon Masters Guide covered all the essential rules for the Dungeon Master: creating and maintaining player characters and managing non-player characters, handling combat, and running adventures and multi-session campaigns. The book also included descriptions of magic items and treasure, random monster encounters, and statistics for the basic monsters and creatures of the game. New magic items were introduced, including the Apparatus of Kwalish.

In video games, he voices Leon S. Kennedy in Resident Evil 6, Chrom and Ryoma in Fire Emblem, Jack Cooper in Titanfall 2, McCree in Overwatch, Yusuke Kitagawa in Persona 5, MacCready in Fallout 4, Midas and Syd in Fortnite, Edér Teylecg in Pillars of Eternity, and Gangplank and Kindred's Wolf in League of Legends. He also voices Raidou Kuzunoha in the 3DS port of Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, and Walter in Shin Megami Tensei IV. In addition to his voice work, Mercer also developed and is the Dungeon Master for the Dungeons & Dragons web series Critical Role.

An experience points system is utilized that enables characters to increase their skill levels in spells and vocations, making their characters more formidable. Experience is used to 'purchase' new and improved abilities, rather than conferring a blanket increase in character skills as in D&D.; As characters grow in skills and proficiency, the cost to raise to higher skill levels increases greatly, but the amount of base experience points awarded at the successful completion of an adventure increases as well. In addition, the Dungeon Master may award characters bonus experience points for valiant, clever or outstanding performance during gameplay.

Yule highlighted that the sourcebook includes 50 pages of new monsters including new Mythic level monsters that add "a brand new mechanic to help DMs keep their players guessing. Each of these creatures has Mythic Traits and Actions which the Dungeon Master can use to ramp up the difficulty and really hammer home the sense of a truly terrifying and world-ending threat". Yule also highlighted that the sourcebook adds new player races and reprints some races, however, "in Theros they have their own unique traits, abilities, and characteristics that distinguish them from their Forgotten Realms counterparts".

Critical Role is an American web series in which a group of professional voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons with Mercer as the Dungeon Master and creator of the world Exandria. A number of licensed works based on the show have been created, including the Explorer's Guide to Wildemount. The continent of Wildemount, created by Mercer, was first mentioned in "Campaign one" of Critical Role as the place the villainous Delilah and Sylas Briarwood originated from and later as the home continent of Sam Riegel's player character Taryon Darrington. Wildemount is the main setting of "Campaign two" of Critical Role.

AI Dungeon also features a multiplayer mode, whereby different players each have a dedicated character, and can take turns interacting with the AI within the same game session. This supports both online play across multiple devices or local "pass-n-play" style using a shared device. Unlike the single-player game, in which actions and stories use second person narration ("you..."), multiplayer game stories are presented using third-person narration. Each game's host player is given additional permissions (likened to that of a Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master) whereby they can supervise the AI and make modifications to its output.

The core rulebook is a 317-page large-format hardcover book. It was written and compiled by Charles Ryan, Steven Long, Christian Moore and Owen K.C. Stephens for Wizards of the Coast. Robert Jordan served as creative consultant and contributed an introduction, in which he revealed that he used to serve as Dungeon Master in Dungeons and Dragons games played by his stepson Will and his friends. The book has a cover by Darrell K. Sweet, who also provides the covers for the novels, and maps by Ellisa Mitchell, who likewise provides cartography for the novels.

While pre-rolled player characters are provided with the module, Bambra felt that it was worth using a player's own character because "there are some nice goodies to be had". Bambra did note that the module was a victim of sloppy printing in places, but felt that the mistakes should be obvious enough to pose no problems to a competent Dungeon Master. He concluded by describing the module as "[a] good module for those who enjoy challenging gaming sessions with plenty of opportunity to be cautious, thoughtful and aggressive." In his 1991 book Heroic Worlds, Lawrence Schick calls the Lizard King "extremely nasty".

The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh is the first installment in a series of three modules designed and developed in the United Kingdom, for beginning adventures with AD&D; rules. The adventure was written by David J. Browne with Don Turnbull, and published in 1981 as a thirty-two page booklet with an outer folder. The publication contains large-scale maps, a full background story, and detailed encounter descriptions for the players and Dungeon Master (DM). The module serves as the introduction to an underwater campaign set in the town of Saltmarsh, which the DM can design from the guidelines provided.

Dragons of Faith is a continuation of the Dragonlance story. It begins about a month after the party leaves the elven forest of Silvanesti and concludes some time after they leave the city of Istar. The prologue gives the background and the story up to that point, as well as an overview of the way events should proceed in the module for the Dungeon Master to reference. In this scenario, the player characters flee the evil city of Flotsam and cross the Blood Sea, where they encounter Istar, the City of the Deep, and become involved in an undersea battle.

Some dungeons require several visits to the quest giver to complete the entire quest chain. Speaking to the quest giver allows players to repeat the quest, although each time through reduces the amount of XP and loot awarded. Once enough quests are completed, the character will attract the attention of patrons, who give special rewards, such as long-lasting spells or exclusive items, and in some cases, unlocking special races or classes (which can also be purchased through the DDO Store). Quests are narrated by a Dungeon Master, with some voiceover work done by D&D; co-creators Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.

Examples include the aforementioned Wizardry, Might and Magic and Bard's Tale series; as well as the Etrian Odyssey and Elminage series. Games of this type are also known as "blobbers", since the player moves the entire party around the playing field as a single unit, or "blob". Most "blobbers" are turn-based, but some games such as the Dungeon Master, Legend of Grimrock and Eye of the Beholder series are played in real-time. Early games in this genre lack an automap feature, forcing players to draw their own maps in order to keep track of their progress.

Zork is one of the earliest interactive fiction computer games, with roots drawn from the original genre game Colossal Cave Adventure. The first version of Zork was written between 1977 and 1979 using the MDL programming language on a DEC PDP-10 computer. The authors—Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling—were members of the MIT Dynamic Modelling Group. When Zork was published commercially, it was split up into three games: Zork: The Great Underground Empire – Part I (later known as Zork I), Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz, and Zork III: The Dungeon Master.

Zork is set in "the ruins of an ancient empire lying far underground". The player is a nameless adventurer "who is venturing into this dangerous land in search of wealth and adventure". The goal is to return from exploring the "Great Underground Empire" (GUE, for short) alive and with all treasures needed to complete each adventure, ultimately inheriting the title of Dungeon Master. The dungeons are stocked with many novel creatures, objects, and locations, among them the ferocious but light-fearing grues, zorkmids (the GUE's currency), and Flood Control Dam #3—all of which are referenced by subsequent Infocom text adventures.

The player begins at the bottom of the Endless Stair from Zork II. Zork III is somewhat less of a straightforward treasure hunt than previous installments. Instead, the player—in the role of the same "adventurer" played in Zork I and Zork II—must demonstrate worthiness to assume the role of the Dungeon Master. Steve Meretzky said in 1984 that "the worst bug that ever got out was in Zork III"; having the sword during the last puzzle makes the game unwinnable. "We call things like that our 'fatal errors'; we caught that one relatively early on", he said.

In Golden Voyages, the player characters are cast adrift on the Crowded Sea, then sent on side-trips to the Strait of Sorrow and the Steaming Isles. Cook calls this "Sinbad in a box." The linking story sends the PCs on a rambling ocean voyage to seek a Great Treasure in an archipelago thick with wonders. The Dungeon Master (DM) chooses one of ten Treasures suited to the inclinations of his group (power gamers, warlords, role-players, story-tellers, or puzzle solvers), then plants clues that lure the PCs through seven mini-adventures in any order the DM likes.

A popular D&D; animated television series was produced in 1983. The cartoon was based upon the concept of a small group of young adults and children who get transported to a D&D-based; fantasy realm by riding a magical roller coaster. When they arrive, they are given potent magical weapons and must survive against the chromatic dragon Tiamat and a power-hungry nemesis called Venger. They are assisted in each episode by a gnome-like creature called Dungeon Master and a baby unicorn named Uni. A D&D; movie was released in 2000 to largely negative critical reception.

Doug Bell worked as director, lead designer and developer for Dungeon Master. But before he joined in 1983 FTL Games, the game was titled Crystal Dragon, and developed together with Andy Jaros (Artwork) in their development studio PVC Dragon for the 8-bit Apple II computer. Then after the merger, the game was rescheduled to be launched after the release, and for the target platform of the 16-bit Atari ST computer, which offered more possibilities. Bell was the lead developer and technical director of FTL from 1986 until 1995, the company ceased operations in 1996.

It explains that, while the book is set in the Forgotten Realms setting, it can be used in different fantasy campaign settings. The introduction gives details on undead in the Forgotten Realms, advice for a Dungeon Master (DM) to use undead in a campaign, alternatives to some of the more deadly powers of the undead, and information on non-evil types of undead. "Tales From Beyond the Grave" (pages 4–75) presents ten complete adventure scenarios, each one highlighting a "classic" undead type, with the challenges increasing from one scenario to the next. Creature notes accompany each adventure.

Expedition to Undermountain presents an adventure campaign designed to cover a number of levels of play. Undermountain, as it is presented here, is a huge adventuring area for any D&D; campaign, containing nine main levels and more than twenty sublevels, connecting to more extensive dungeons and caverns, and ultimately to the Underdark. The book treats Undermountain as an unexplored underground region, and provides plots, power groups, and lore to enable a Dungeon Master to detail any corner of Undermountain to create a long-term adventure setting. Encounters are presented in the book, which are designed to take a party of player characters from 1st level to 10th level.

This module features the first appearance of Draconians and Aghar (Gully Dwarves) in the game, and new locations such as Xak Tsaroth, Solace and Haven. It is the first appearance of the pre-generated player characters (PCs) that form the Heroes of the Lance group of characters–Tanis Half-Elven, Sturm Brightblade, Caramon Majere, Raistlin Majere, Flint Fireforge, Tasslehoff Burrfoot and Goldmoon. Riverwind is played as a non-player character (NPC) by the Dungeon Master. Tika Waylan makes her first appearance as an NPC; she is available for use as a PC and joins up with the Heroes of the Lance in Chapter 7 of Dragons of Flame.

Unlike Dungeons & Dragons, which like most role-playing games has players playing the part of a single character, the Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures Game is a miniatures wargame in which two opponents pit armies of creatures against each other. In order to allow rule adjudication without a Dungeon Master, the DDM rules are a streamlined form of the d20 system, with a few additional features unique to the skirmish game. The game has gone through several revisions since the original Harbinger rules set, including revisions after Aberrations and Wardrums. In early 2008, the game was updated to be consistent with the fourth edition Dungeons & Dragons rules.

The end." Webb felt that the designer failed to offer a proper scope to the adventure, by not allowing it to be flexible so that it could be shaped to suit the party playing it, or pulling the players along with plot tidbits while giving the Dungeon Master the power to push them. He criticized that the adventure enforces its will on the characters with "edicts" where actions come to the same result regardless of how cautious the player characters are, which "directly discourages creative play". He calls the scenario's encounters "unfortunately mundane", with the party "repeatedly facing large groups of humans and orc warriors.

Critical Role is a creator-owned streaming show where the cast play an ongoing Dungeons & Dragons campaign, with Matthew Mercer serving as the show's Dungeon Master for the seven other cast members. The group's first campaign began two years prior to the start of the series as a one-off, simplified Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition game for Liam O'Brien's birthday. The players enjoyed this initial game so much that they continued to play while switching to Pathfinder. After Felicia Day heard about the private home game from Ashley Johnson, she approached the group about playing it in a live-streamed format for Geek & Sundry.

Games of this type are also known as "blobbers", since the player moves the entire party around the playing field as a single unit, or "blob". Most "blobbers" are turn-based, but some titles such as the Dungeon Master, Legend of Grimrock, and Eye of the Beholder series are played in real-time. Early games in this genre lack an automap feature, forcing players to draw their own maps in order to keep track of their progress. Environmental and spatial puzzles are common, meaning players may have to, for instance, move a stone in one part of the level in order to open a gate in another part of the level.

The introduction, with instructions that the Dungeon Master read it aloud to the players, outlines that there is a treasure in the Yatil Mountains south of the Greyhawk realm of Perrenland. The player characters must investigate rumors of a lost treasure that scores of adventurers have perished attempting to find. The treasure is a remnant of the wealth amassed by the archmage Iggwilv, former ruler of Perrenland, prior to her presumed death at the hands of the demon Graz'zt, whom she had "imprisoned and forced into servitude." The players must first traverse a wilderness area with 20 numbered encounters before arriving at the caverns.

Xenomorph is a science-fiction role-playing video game, viewed from a first-person perspective with an icon- driven interface that drew comparisons with Dungeon Master. The storyline is influenced by the early Alien franchise. The player controls a janitor on a two-year supply run to Sirius who wakes from cryosleep after traversing hyperspace (the big empty) to find his ship, the Mombassa Oak, has been crippled on arrival at its destination (part of it remaining in hyperspace) leaving the ship's computer system failing. The janitor manually pilots the failing ship to the mining platform, Astargatis, to find that the human population has vanished.

Another light source, the torch from the Scenic Vista, is used to retrieve the repellent from Zork II and deposit it in the Damp Passage via the teleportation table to provide a light source for the return journey after retrieving the key. Once the player has all the items, they must give the waybread to the elderly man in the Engravings Room, who reveals himself as the Dungeon Master once fed, to find the doorway leading to the final hallway. Here the "elvish sword of great antiquity" is used to block the beam in the Beam Room. Next the adventurer must get through the Guardians of Zork.

A dungeon monitor (sometimes referred to as a Dungeon Master or simply a DM) is a person charged with supervising a playspace (or "dungeon") at BDSM events such as play parties and fetish clubs. These people may be of any sex and may normally identify as any role (dominant, submissive, or switch), but while on duty their authority is absolute. If a Dungeon Monitor orders a play scene to stop, it must be stopped immediately. Dungeon Monitors are usually people with significant experience and/or explicit education in BDSM and safer sex practices, and who also have verifiable training both in BDSM safety practices and first aid techniques.

In a review of the first edition for White Dwarf, Graeme Davis observed that the volume lacked maps, and would thus require additional preparation by the Dungeon Master before use. He noted that the encounters range from the fairly straightforward, such as encountering one bear, to the "positively frightening," such as one with 876 Undead creatures. He stated that although the volume had weaknesses, such as some of the encounters feeling a little "random," it was overall a worthwhile volume. In a similar review of the second volume, Davis said that the first thing he noticed was the "impressive credits list" that the book contained.

Each player was given a pre-generated character with a background, equipment, and some limited information about the other characters at the table. At the end of the adventure, the players and Dungeon Master would select one player at the table as the "winner" of the adventure, based on his or her knowledge of the rules and role-playing ability. All players were awarded experience points based on how well they did in competitive events, and could add to that experience point total at the next event, allowing them, over time to advance to higher levels. Membership was originally paid by a yearly fee, and included a subscription to Polyhedron magazine.

The book was adapted into a made-for-television movie in 1982 starring Tom Hanks, and the publicity surrounding both the novel and film heightened the public's unease regarding role-playing games. In 1983, the Canadian film Skullduggery depicted a role- playing game similar to D&D; as tool of the devil to transform a young man into a serial killer. Dear revealed the truth of the incident in his 1984 book The Dungeon Master, in which he repudiated the link between D&D; and Egbert's disappearance. Dear acknowledged that Egbert's domineering mother had more to do with his problems than his interest in role-playing games.

The two previous sourcebooks of its type, Xanathar's Guide to Everything and Volo's Guide to Monsters, are both books that I use constantly as a Dungeon Master. The former is a rules expansion and clarification that helps to build out the interactions of any campaign, and the latter is a book of monsters that any party could come upon during any given romp through the world. They are books that are grounded in the dusty roads and dirty swords of fantasy tabletop campaigns, and they slot easily into the workflow that I have to make those kinds of adventures feel good. Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes doesn’t work that way.

T1 Dungeon Module Cover, an example of an early Adventure for Dungeons & Dragons published by TSR In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, an adventure or module is a guide for managing player knowledge and activities within a specific scenario. Commercially, a published adventure comes as a pre-packaged book or box set that is used exclusively by the Dungeon Master. It typically contains background information for the plot or story, maps, vignettes of interesting locations, site inventories, creature descriptions and statistics, player visual aids, and suggested rules for evaluating events and likely player actions. The term adventure is currently used by the game's publisher Wizards of the Coast.

He called Curse of Xanathon a "detective adventure", though he said that it was "very much a programmed affair" and "players move through a series of distinct and logical stages, discovering clues as they go." He noted that if the players fail to follow the clues, the Dungeon Master must direct them to the next encounter, which cuts down on the amount of freedom available to them. Bambra deemed the module to be not as good as the contemporaneous releases for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, but said it was superior to the two modules preceding it in the series, Isle of Dread and Castle Amber.

As play progressed, Arneson added such innovations as character classes, experience points, level advancement, armor class, and others. Having partnered previously with Gygax on Don't Give Up the Ship!, Arneson introduced Gygax to his Blackmoor game and the two then collaborated on developing "The Fantasy Game", the role-playing game (RPG) that became Dungeons & Dragons, with the final writing and preparation of the text being done by Gygax. Kushner; Dungeon Master: The Life and Legacy of Gary GygaxWizards of the Coast; The History of TSR Many Dungeons & Dragons elements also appear in hobbies of the mid- to late twentieth century (though these elements also existed previously).

Games of this type are sometimes called "blobbers", since the player moves the entire party around the playing field as a single unit, or "blob". Most "blobbers" are turn-based, but some titles such as the Dungeon Master, Legend of Grimrock and Eye of the Beholder series are played in real-time. Early games in this genre lacked an automap feature, forcing players to draw their own maps in order to keep track of their progress. Environmental and spatial puzzles are common, meaning players may need to, for instance, move a stone in one part of the level in order to open a gate in another part of the level.

Most of the games from this era are turn-based, although Dungeon Master and its imitators have real-time combat. Other classic titles from this era include The Bard's Tale (1985), Wasteland (1988), the start of the Might and Magic (1986-2014) series and the continuing Ultima (1981-1999) series. Later, in the middle to late 1990s, isometric, sprite-based RPGs became commonplace, with video game publishers Interplay Entertainment and Blizzard North playing a lead role with such titles as the Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale and the action-RPG Diablo series, as well as the dialogue-heavy Planescape: Torment and cult classics Fallout and Fallout 2.

Like its predecessor, Legend of Grimrock II is a tile-based real-time dungeon crawler, inspired by titles such as Dungeon Master, but it adds a number of modern features, such as nonlinear gameplay, multi-height levels, persistent injuries, and underwater sequences. In the game, players control a party of one to four characters which they move through a 3D rendered grid-based world in first-person view. The party characters have skill levels for different types of weapons, magic spells, and additional traits such as evasion or alchemy. Their starting skills vary depending on their race and background, and they gain further skill points by defeating enemies.

The 128-page Unearthed Arcana was written for use with the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons first edition rules and was divided into two sections: one for players and one for the Dungeon Master (or "DM", the game organizer). The book provided new races, classes, and other expansion material. The book gives details on using "subraces" of the standard races, such as dark elves (drow), and deep gnomes (svirfneblin), for use as player characters and non-player characters. Unearthed Arcana includes the barbarian (found in Dragon #63), cavalier (found in Dragon #72), and thief-acrobat (found in Dragon #69) character classes, and also includes expansions and revisions of the druid and ranger classes.

The Ur-grue is revealed to be the primary villain of the story. The player, sent to retrieve the Coconut of Quendor from the Implementors, arrives at the Implementors' Luncheon on the Ethereal Plane of Atrii only to find he has been followed by the Ur-grue in shadow form, who takes the opportunity to steal it for himself. The player must then venture into the Ur-grue's extensive underground lair and retrieve it. The Ur-grue is shown to be a dungeon master of sorts, controlling huge parts of the Zork underground and having accumulated an enormous hoard of treasure, of which the Coconut is his crowning acquisition.

The maps are interspersed with rosters for the whitestone and dragon armies for use with the Battlesystem rules. If Battlesystem is being used, all necessary details are included in order to allow the rest of the characters to help lead forces of the whitestone armies against the combined might of the white, green, black, blue, and red Dragon armies. Multiple ways to defeat the Dark Queen are given so that each Dungeon Master (DM) can choose the one that best fits the campaign. This also gives DMs the chance to present any players who have read the novels with a different and more challenging adventure.

The story involves a party of player characters (PCs) who travel to the land of Barovia, a small nation surrounded by a deadly magical fog. The master of nearby Castle Ravenloft, Count Strahd von Zarovich, tyrannically rules the country, and a prologue explains that the residents must barricade their doors each night to avoid attacks by Strahd and his minions. The Burgomaster's mansion is the focus of these attacks, and, for reasons that are not initially explained, Strahd is after the Burgomaster's adopted daughter, Ireena Kolyana. Before play begins, the Dungeon Master (or DM, the player who organizes and directs the game play) randomly draws five cards from a deck of six.

Towards the end of the 1980s, the Japanese PC game platform slowly shifted from PC-88 to PC-98, as X68000 and FM TOWNS also had a niche market. In the 1990s, many computer role-playing games were developed for PC-98 or imported from other platforms, such as Brandish, Dungeon Master and the Alone in the Dark series. The higher display resolution and higher storage capacity allowed better graphics, but drawing animations on the PC-98 was hard because it took a long time to draw the screen. As a result of this limitation, adult dating sims and visual novels appeared as a revival of 1980's adventure games and gained popularity, such as Dōkyūsei and YU-NO.

In 1977, Susan Lee- Merrow invited Jon Freeman to join a Dungeons & Dragons game hosted by Jim Connelley and Jeff Johnson. Connelley later purchased a Commodore PET computer to help with the bookkeeping involved in being a dungeon master, and came up with the idea of writing a computer game for the machine before the end of the year so he could write it off on his taxes. Freeman had written on gaming for several publications, and joined Connelley in the design of a new space-themed wargame. Starting work around August 1978, Freeman wrote the basic rules, mission sets, background stories and the manual, while Connelley coded up the system in PET BASIC.

King of the Trollhaunt Warrens is the first part of a three-part series of adventures belonging to the 4th edition Dungeons & Dragons concept of Points of Light, a loosely connected and open-ended setting designed to allow modules and Dungeon Masters created materials to be seamlessly integrated into either a single, largely unmapped fantasy world or a Dungeon Master custom made setting. The adventure, written by Richard Baker and Logan Bonner was published in 2008 by Wizards of the Coast. The adventure is designed for character of levels 11-13 and the module code "P" stands for Paragon Tier. This module is set in a region of the world called Trollhaunt and the town of Moonstar.

Demon Queen's Enclave is the second part of a three-part series of adventures belonging to the 4th edition Dungeons & Dragons concept of Points of Light, a loosely connected and open-ended setting designed to allow modules and Dungeon Masters created materials to be seamlessly integrated into either a single, largely unmapped fantasy world or a Dungeon Master custom made setting. The adventure, written by David Noonan and Chris Sims was published in 2008 by Wizards of the Coast. The adventure is designed for character of levels 14-17 and the module code "P" stands for Paragon Tier. This module is set on Phaervorul, a small drow settlement deep in the Underdark.

The previous adventure ends with the capture of a map to a fortress citadel in the hills, used by the slavers as a waypoint on their route. The A2 module gives the Dungeon Master the option to run an overland adventure of 110 miles (177 kilometers) through the Drachensgrab Hills to reach the fort shown on the map, or simply start the adventure with the party overlooking the fort itself. The object of the module is to enter the fort through stealthy means and slowly eliminate the slavers before a general alarm can be raised. Eventually the group of adventurers makes their way through the fort, avoiding hobgoblin patrols, and reaches a dungeon area.

For example, a fireball spell was created by mixing the fire symbol with the wing symbol.. While many previous games such as Alternate Reality: The Dungeon, The Bard's Tale, Ultima, and Wizardry offered Dungeons & Dragons-style role-playing, Dungeon Master established several new standards for role-playing video games and first-person video games in general, such as the paper doll interface. As Theron, the player cannot progress past the first section of the game until they have selected up to four champions from a small dungeon containing 24 mirrors, each containing a frozen champion. The frozen champions are based upon a variety of fantasy archetypes to allow diversity within the player's party.

The psychological concept of a hole as a physical object is taken to its logical extreme in the fictional concept of a portable hole, exemplified in role-playing games and characterized as a "hole" that a person can carry with them, keep things in, and enter themselves as needed.David Zeb Cook, Jean Rabe, Warren Spector, Dungeon Master Guide for the AD&D; Game (1995), p. 235. Some people have an aversion to the sight of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes, a condition called trypophobia. Researchers hypothesize that this is the result of a biological revulsion that associates trypophobic shapes with danger or disease, and may therefore have an evolutionary basis.

Paul Pettengale reviewed Volo's Guide to All Things Magical for Arcane magazine, rating it a 7 out of 10 overall. He refers to Volo (whom Pettengale consistently calls "Rolo" instead) as "a famous AD&D; adventurer" who is "one of those characters that everyone's heard about, and one that just about every Dungeon Master must have been tempted to introduce to their campaign at some point or another. Anyhow, Rolo's now branched out trying his hand at compiling a guide to, well, All Things Magical." Pettengale comments on how the book's contents may not actually be true: "that's up to the ref - you can't have the players thinking they know everything about magic in the Realms".

Judge Clark Peterson compared it favorably to City State of the Invincible Overlord, which also had a complicated city environment, saying "this was an underground city of evil monsters--the Drow, who, then, were new and mysterious as opposed to tired and overused as they are today." Dungeon Master for Dummies lists Descent into the Depths of the Earth as one of the ten best classic adventures, noting that it takes "the player characters into the underground world of the Drow--the wildly popular dark elves of D&D; lore." The series has received considerable praise. It was reviewed by Don Turnbull in British RPG magazine White Dwarf No. 11, who gave it 10 out of 10.

Dragonlance Adventures describes the world of Krynn, with info on the Knight of Solamnia (as a character class), tinker gnomes and their devices, wizards and the Towers of High Sorcery, the gods and races of Krynn, monsters and dragons, history, magic items, and characters from the Dragonlance novels. Dragonlance Adventures provides information for a Dungeon Master running adventures in Krynn, including how to create characters for the setting or import them from other campaigns. The book encourages players to create characters who adventure during or after the War of the Lance, or in the distant past before the Cataclysm. Options for player characters include the Knights of Solamnia, kender, gnomes, and Wizards of High Sorcery.

The booklet also contains a "Monster Guide" of statblocks and descriptions of monsters not otherwise featured in the boxed set, and a description of the city of Skullport. The booklet has a detached cover, with cover art by Jeff Easley, and maps of some of the encounters on the inside, with cartography by David Sutherland. The monster sheets detail 11 monsters in the Monstrous Compendium style: elder orb beholder, death kiss beholder-kin, darktentacles, ibrandlin, scaladar, sharn, slithermorph, flying snakes (flying fang and deathfang), steel shadow, and watchghost. The cards are adventure aids for the Dungeon Master, detailing traps, encounters, treasure, and sundries that can be placed in the midst of adventures.

Reading the book here reveals a map of "The Dungeon and Treasury of Zork" which has 8 cells, one of which with a bronze door that leads to the Treasury of Zork. The eight positions of the dial in the parapet correspond to the 8 cells. The adventurer must use trial and error at this point to summon the cell with the bronze door and have the dungeon master return it to its original position by replacing it with any other cell. The key will now unlock the door revealing the Treasury of Zork, which contains the wealth of the Great Underground Empire as well as a controlling share in FrobozzCo International.

It starts at a very high level of the D&D; cosmology, and it feels harder to borrow from or augment than other D&D; source books". Rob Hudak, for SLUG Magazine, wrote that "Tome of Foes has little mechanical application for most players outside of the additional playable races, save for probably the most important facet in all role-playing games—inspiration.[...] Tome of Foes may have the pages you need to conjure richly imagined facets for both playable characters and narrative threads alike, and I think it’s in that latter category where this book offers the greatest value. From the position as a dungeon master, Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes is a must-buy.

Sheperd noted that the monk was in its proper Eastern context, and that the ninja was the best version the reviewer had seen. Shepherd stated that the skill system of "proficiency slots" was a "sensible extension of the character rules, and should be extended to cover the whole system, not just this Eastern supplement". Shepherd also felt that the honor system was a good touch, and that the real strength of the new martial arts system was that the Dungeon Master was now able to construct any number of new styles. Shepherd compared the sourcebook favorably with Bushido, another oriental role-playing game of the time, feeling that Oriental Adventures was a better choice as a game system.

From 1983-1985, Miller played the voice of The Dungeon Master in the animated series Dungeons & Dragons, which was based on the role-playing game of the same name. He also provided voices for several other animated shows. In 1980, Miller and O'Connor had a nightclub show described as "a fast-paced vaudeville act" that they performed in cities including Denver, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. In the 1980s and 1990s, he had a small role as Slow-Burn in Memories of Me, appeared as Sol on The Father Dowling Mysteries episode "The Confidence Mystery" in 1990 and also dubbed the voice of Oompe for the 1992 American version of Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland.

A Saxon Knight named Treguard, or Treguard of Dunshelm, was the dungeon master and was played by Hugo Myatt for the show's eight series. Information about his supposed background can be found in the related literature (see merchandise section). During the show, it was Treguard's job to assist the dungeoneer and his team of helpers wherever possible, also explaining a team's cause of death whenever they died. At first, Treguard directed the contestants on his own. However, from Series 4, Treguard had an assistant: Pickle the elf, played by David Learner, and (from Series 7) after Pickle had "gone back to the forest", Majida, a princess and genie of Arabian descent played by Jackie Sawiris.

Previous games such as Vampire: The Masquerade – Redemption, based on the printed gamebooks by White Wolf Publishing, utilized this feature to a limited extent. When it was released, Neverwinter Nights was viewed as the first successful implementation of the feature. The DM Client allows players to participate in regular campaigns, while also allowing persistent world servers to flourish by permitting the DMs of those servers to take control of non-player characters (NPCs) in mid-game for added realism and flexibility. The Dungeon Master Client also permits the user to spawn and control masses of monsters and NPCs much in the same way as units would be controlled in a real-time strategy game.

In some systems, such as the classic tabletop role-playing games Traveller, Call of Cthulhu and Basic Role-Playing, and the role-playing video games Dungeon Master, Final Fantasy II, The Elder Scrolls, the SaGa series, and Grandia series, progression is based on increasing individual statistics (skills, rank and other features) of the character, and is not driven by the acquisition of (general) experience points. The skills and attributes are made to grow through exercised use. Some authors believe that activity-based progression encourages tedious grinding processes, like intentionally taking damage and attacking allied characters to increase health in Final Fantasy II, or forcing player to jump constantly to increase acrobatics skill in The Elder Scrolls series.

Griffin McElroy acted as the Dungeon Master for the initial 69-episode Balance arc, and later took on the similar role of "Keeper" for the Monster of the Week - Powered by the Apocalypse based Amnesty arc. Griffin McElroy also composes much of the original soundtrack for the series. The first sub-arc of The Adventure Zone: Balance, named Here There Be Gerblins, has been adapted into a graphic novel in collaboration with artist Carey Pietsch, published by First Second Books, with a sequel following the plot of the second sub-arc "Murder on the Rockport Limited" released July 2019. The graphic novel for the third arc of The Adventure Zone, "Petals to The Metal," also illustrated by Carey Pietsch was released in Summer 2020.

He gave it 9/10 overall, but complained that some of the maps were printed on both sides of the same sheet, making them useless as a Dungeon Master's shield (a visual barrier that allows dice rolls and other activities to be conducted without the players knowing the outcome.)He recommended at least a week's study by the Dungeon Master before attempting to play it. He also noted that the cover "reveals the secret of the creatures". In 2004, on the 30th anniversary of the publication of D&D;, Dungeon magazine published a list of The 30 Greatest D&D; Adventures of All Time and ranked Expedition to the Barrier Peaks as 5th. Judge Bill Slavicsek felt the adventure was a "classic clash of genres".

Each player plays typically one character (warrior, ranger, wizard etc.), except for one player - the gamemaster (called Pán jeskyně in Czech, which can be translated literally as Lord of the cavern or more freely as dungeon master). He/she prepares a map and then describes to the players what their characters see and hear. The players say what the characters do and the gamemaster says what was the result of their actions. There are rules for most actions (fighting with monsters, spellcasting, buying equipment, opening a chest with an arrow trap, speed of a movement, point of tiredness, trying to frighten an enemy to run away etc.), but the characters can try to do anything, even if it is not described in the rules.

A fuzzy bit may be an unwanted side effect of a defective storage medium or reader, but can also be a deliberately generated effect. For example, in the 1980's and 1990's, with magnetic media such as floppy disks such bits were deliberately created by poor formatting to serve as a copy protection mechanism. An example of this is the game Dungeon Master, in which inconsistency in multiple read access to such a bit was checked when loading the software and was a prerequisite for operation. Since usual floppy disk drives could not produce such bits, this was an effective mechanism for preventing illegal copies and one of the only possible approaches to circumvent such protection was to disable the check routine in the software.

Between 1984 and 1987, Simon Forrest and Basil Barrett wrote a series of four fantasy role-playing adventures that were published by Integrated Games as The Complete Dungeon Master Series. The first adventure published in 1984, The Halls of the Dwarven Kings, was written by Forrest, with art by Judith Hickling, Jes Goodwin, Jon Baker, Paul Ward, Toby Hardwick, and Selina Goodman, and was published by Integrated Games (U.K.) in 1984 as a boxed set containing a 24-page book, an 8-page pamphlet, a 12-page illustration booklet, a cardstock screen, 12 color cardstock floor plans, and 4 pages of play aids. The sequels are The Lost Shrine of Kasar-Khan, The Watchers of the Sacred Flame, and The Feathered Priests.

Assault on Nightwyrm Fortress is the third part of a three-part series of adventures belonging to the 4th edition Dungeons & Dragons concept of Points of Light, a loosely connected and open-ended setting designed to allow modules and Dungeon Masters created materials to be seamlessly integrated into either a single, largely unmapped fantasy world or a Dungeon Master custom made setting. The adventure, written by Bruce R. Cordell and Shawn Merwin, was published in March 2009 by Wizards of the Coast. The adventure is designed for character of levels 17-20 and the module code "P" stands for Paragon Tier. The adventure is largely set in the Shadowfell, an alternate plane of death and gloom mirroring the mortal realm.

Some users had criticized the app's lack of a character sheet or builder, which was one of the main offerings of D&D; Beyond; however, DDB disclosed that character management functionality was planned. In a D&D; Beyond development update stream on October 31, 2019, Adam Bradford discussed DDB's plans to develop two additional mobile apps focused on the player experience and the Dungeon Master experience respectively; he explained that character management functionality would be included in this new player app, leaving the existing mobile app as a reader for compendium content. In March 2020, D&D; Beyond opened up limited alpha testing for this player app to those current subscribers who signed up, and the alpha test began the following month.

The Players' Screen contained standard tables on spells, weapons, and equipment, as well as the "to hit" tables and, according to Keen, allocates "an extraordinary amount of space" to grenade-like missiles. As for the DM Screen, Keen noted that the tables contain nothing surprising but since the reference tables in the Dungeon Master's Guide are much less useful than those in the Player's Handbook, the reviewer "has used them and will continue to do so". Trenton Webb reviewed the AD&D; second edition Dungeon Master Screen & Master Index for Arcane magazine, rating it a 7 out of 10 overall. He felt that finding information on the screens "can prove a little tricky, since the screens were obviously laid out by Jackson Pollock".

In case characters don't advance in level quickly enough, hooks and suggestions for mini-adventures both above and below ground are provided. The set consists of three 64-page booklets detailing the epic dungeon-based campaign (all three with cover art by Easley; book 3 having the same cover art as the box itself), 6 large color fold-out poster maps, an 8-page booklet of monster statistics pages, 8 reference cards for the Dungeon Master, and sixteen sheets containing player handouts. Book I: The Evils of Haranshire provides an introduction to Night Below, a campaign designed to take player characters from 1st level to 10th level and beyond. This campaign was expressly designed to be usable into any ongoing campaign setting.

Both groups however manage to reach the final destination, a tomb containing a key that Venger wants destroyed. Realizing Venger is a prisoner of the realm as much as they are, instead of destroying the key Hank persuades Eric to use it to open a locked magic door in the tomb that transforms Venger back to human form and creates portals allowing others trapped in the realm to escape. Dungeon Master opens a portal back to the amusement park and offers the children the opportunity to stay and continue fighting evil. The original script ends on an open ending; the fan animation sees the group returning home except for Presto, who stays behind to look after Uni and to become a wizard.

The adventure was written by B. Matthew Conklin and illustrated by Michael William Kaluta. Zargon and the Cynidiceans received a re-interpretation in the 3.5 edition product, Elder Evils, which places the temple in the default, Greyhawk-like setting. Goodman Games has announced the fourth entry into their licensed Original Adventures Reincarnated line of 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons hardcovers to be an update to B4 The Lost City at Gen Con 2019, aiming for a Summer 2020 release. At the Gen Con panel, staff working on the project said they would greatly expand on the original module, fully mapping out and stocking the parts of the module which were only mentioned, and originally left to the Dungeon Master to expand upon.

Richard Garriott in his "Lord British" persona, along with Starr Long (right) at the 2018 Game Developers Conference Ultima series creator Richard Garriott acquired the nickname "British" as a teenager from friends at computer camp who claimed his greeting to them, "hello", was distinct from the usual American "hi". The Lord title was later added when he played the dungeon master in Dungeons & Dragons games. When his first published game Akalabeth was released, the president of the publishing company suggested he use the name in the game, since it was more memorable than his real name. Garriott released Akalabeth: World of Doom and all other Ultima games under the pseudonym, and occasionally appeared in Ultima Online playing as Lord British and meting out justice to his players.

A reviewer from Pyramid commented that the "first few pages are very good at walking new Dungeon Masters through the steps needed to properly prepare for the adventure", also noting that "like the Sunless Citadel, the main focus is on the adventure." Conversely, an RPGnet review criticized the lack of hints in the package, but praised the adventure as following "in the mold of the great classics of the first edition". The Forge of Fury was ranked as the 12th greatest Dungeons & Dragons adventure of all time by Dungeon magazine in 2004, on the 30th anniversary of the original Dungeons & Dragons game. Dungeon Master for Dummies lists The Forge of Fury as one of the ten best adventures from the 3rd edition.

Dungeons & Dragons Set 5: Immortal Rules (TSR, 1986) Instead of an adventure module, the Basic Set rulebooks included a solo adventure and an introductory scenario to be run by the Dungeon Master. The rules for the game were little changed from the Moldvay set, but the presentation was overhauled into a more tutorial form, to make the game easier for younger players to learn. The 10th Anniversary Dungeons & Dragons Collector's Set boxed set, published by TSR in 1984, included the rulebooks from the Basic, Expert, and Companion sets; modules AC2, AC3, B1, B2, and M1 Blizzard Pass; Player Character Record Sheets; and dice. This set was limited to a thousand copies, and was sold by mail and at GenCon 17.

In this scenario, the player characters flee the evil city of Flotsam, crossing the Blood Sea, where they may encounter Istar the City of the Deep and become involved in an undersea battle. The Dungeon Master draws from a deck of Talis cards (the tarot of Krynn), to determine the events of the adventure. The module includes a sheet of cut-apart Talis cards, as well as statistics and counters for an underwater Battlesystem battle. DL12 Dragons of Faith was written by Harold Johnson and Bruce Heard, with a cover by Jeff Easley and interior illustrations by Diana Magnuson, and was published by TSR in 1986 as a 64-page booklet with a large map, cardstock sheet, cardstock counter sheet, and an outer folder.

The 10th Anniversary Dungeons & Dragons Collector's Set boxed set, published by TSR in 1984, included the rulebooks from the Basic, Expert, and Companion sets; modules AC2 Combat Shield and Mini-adventure, AC3 The Kidnapping of Princess Arelina, In Search of the Unknown, B2 The Keep on the Borderlands, and M1 Blizzard Pass; Player Character Record Sheets; and dice. The set was limited to a thousand copies, and was sold by mail and at GenCon 17. None of the text or background from In Search of the Unknown was included in the compilation module In Search of Adventure, despite its inclusion in the title. Its map was included in the back of the book as an extra dungeon that the dungeon master may wish to populate and use.

In Publishers Weekly's "Best-selling Books Week Ending October 2, 2017", Tomb of Annihilation was #14 in "Hardcover Nonfiction" and sold 7,152 units. Alex Springer, for SLUG Magazine, reported that the "Tomb of Annihilation is the type of campaign that can bring out the best—or worst—in a dungeon master" and highlighted mechanics such as new character backgrounds, exploration checks, the jungle themed creature appendix, and the lingering threat of permadeath due to the Soulmonger artifact. Springer wrote "When stacked up against Storm King’s Thunder, Tomb of Annihilation feels blessedly streamlined and adventure-focused. There are no politics to navigate, no sieges to weather—it’s just a deep dive into an unforgiving wilderness to destroy an artifact that can’t be destroyed".

The origin of both the "Complete Series" and eventual "Atlantean Trilogy" came out of a group of friends, including Vernie "Butch" Taylor, Steve Cordovano, and dungeon master Stephen Michael Sechi, who were somewhat incessant D&D;/FRP gamers in the early 1980s. This little group also had a penchant for fantasy/sci-fi literature, world mythology, and crypto-zoology, as well as mysticism and the occult. Wanting to expand the magic system and player options available in the FRP games of the time while also minimizing game complexity, they experimented with new and various ideas in their own game play. This culminated in the Arcanum/Atlantean game system which included the introduction of schools of magic and added character classes and monsters.

An in-game screenshot with the open inventory of a party member Legend of Grimrock is a first-person action role-playing game with tile-based movement and realtime game mechanics. Players control a party of one to four characters which they move through a 3D rendered grid-based dungeon, a style of gameplay popular in RPG games from the 1990s such as Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder, from which Legend of Grimrock draws heavy inspiration. Gameplay consists of a combination of puzzle solving and combat. Characters within the party gain experience for slaying creatures and beasts within the dungeon, allowing them to increase in level and progress skills which enhance combat abilities and allow the casting of new spells, and equipment is obtained through exploration and solving of puzzles throughout the dungeon.

In 1972, after seeing a demonstration of Dave Arneson's Castle Blackmoor game, Gary Gygax agreed with Arneson to co-develop a set of rules for a game that would eventually become known as Dungeons & Dragons. Gygax liked the idea of a castle and dungeon that players could explore, and created his own imaginary place called Castle Greyhawk, which he used to test and develop the game. With almost continuous play during the years 1972–1975, Gygax, and later his co-Dungeon Master (co-DM), Rob Kuntz, expanded the setting to include an entire world. After the creation of TSR, publication of D&D; and the release of several adventures set in his world of Greyhawk, Gygax was surprised to learn that there was strong player demand for access to his fantasy setting.

Chris Hunter for Imagine magazine called its description in Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure a "dungeon in the traditional sense", but criticized "the feel of an early generation dungeon, having traps with no real explanation; instant kill encounters" and logical errors such as allowing the dungeon's denizens no exit past the unopenable doors that seal it. Lawrence Schick, in his 1991 book Heroic Worlds, called the castle "A three-level dungeon in the classic mode." Dungeon Magazine #112 won the 2005 Gold ENnie for Best Adventure, and was one of the first "modern" issues of Dungeon to sell out, even with a much larger print-run than usual (per Erik Mona, editor and publisher). Dungeon Master For Dummies lists the "Maure Castle" adventure from Dungeon #112 as one of the Ten Best Dungeon Magazine Adventures.

On 30 January 2010, Tripod held the world premiere of their comedic musical Tripod versus the Dragon at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, Massachusetts, United States. Elana Stone co-starred in the production in the role of "The Dungeon Master"/"Dragon" after Megan Washington, who had been co-writing songs for the production, declined the role due to scheduling conflicts. The production is based on the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game.MASS MoCA Event page for Tripod versus the Dragon Tripod went on to perform this show at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the Sydney Opera House, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2010, as well as subsequent seasons in Perth, Brisbane, regional Victoria and the Przeglad Piosenki Aktorskiej festival in Wroclaw, Poland.

The first Savage Tide adventure set on the Isle of Dread is "Here There Be Monsters", found in Dungeon No. 142 (January 2007). The Isle of Dread remains the setting for the next three adventures: "Tides of Dread," in issue No. 143; "The Lightless Depths," in issue No. 144; and "City of Broken Idols," in issue No. 145. The D&D; 4th edition supplement Manual of the Planes (2008) establishes the Isle of Dread as a location in the Feywild (a parallel plane dominated by faeries and unspoiled natural life) as part of its general reorganisation of the D&D; cosmos. The D&D; 5th edition Dungeon Master Guide (2014) places the Isle of Dread in the Plane of Water, though it mentions that the island has the ability to appear in the Material Plane.

For example, Joyce Saricks states in The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction that the novels have been among the most requested books by fans of the fantasy genre. Brian Silliman, for SYFY Wire, described the Forgotten Realms "a classic fantasy backdrop" and highlighted that "at one time in our history, our world and this one were connected, but over time this magical realm was, well, forgotten. It is an ideal place for any D&D; adventure, inspiring limitless possibilities for any smirking dungeon master". The 4th Edition update to the Forgotten Realms brought massive lore changes which were "tied to a number of other design philosophies" and the Forgotten Realms "simultaneously had become a grittier setting, on the edge of collapse, while also becoming a more fantastic one, full of wonder and mystery".

Mahars of Pellucidar by John Eric Holmes, Ace Books, 1976, cover art by Boris Vallejo. Holmes was a long-time science fiction fan, particularly of the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. P. Lovecraft, and an enthusiast of fantasy role-playing games. His writings reflected both his chosen profession and his hobbies, beginning with an early short story published in 1951 and factual articles on neurology for the science fiction magazine Astounding and its successor Analog in the early 1960s. He later wrote on Dungeons & Dragons, from the perspectives of both a Dungeon Master and an authority on the psychology of gaming, serving as editor of the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set RPG rule book, and writing a series of fantasies set in a D&D-influenced; world, including four short stories and one novel.

Thunderspire Labyrinth is the second in the three part series of adventures introducing the new 4th edition Dungeons & Dragons concept of Points of Light, a loosely connected and open-ended setting designed to allow modules and Dungeon Masters created materials to be seamlessly integrated into either a single, largely unmapped fantasy world or a Dungeon Master custom made setting. The adventure, written by Mike Mearls and Richard Baker was published in 2008 by Wizards of the Coast, as a sequel to the adventure Keep on the Shadowfell. The adventure is designed for character of levels 4-6 and the module code "H" stands for Heroic Tier. This module is set in a region of the world called the Nentir Vale, the details of which are given in the 4th edition Dungeon Master's Guide.

Each gaming system has its own name for the role of the gamemaster, such as "judge", "narrator", "referee", "director", or "storyteller", and these terms not only describe the role of the gamemaster in general but also help define how the game is intended to be run. For example, the Storyteller System used in White Wolf Game Studio's storytelling games calls its GM the "storyteller", while the rules- and setting-focused Marvel Super Heroes role-playing game calls its GM the "judge". The cartoon inspired role-playing game Toon calls its GM the "animator". A few games apply system- or setting-specific flavorful names to the GM, such as the Keeper of Arcane Lore (in Call of Cthulhu); the Hollyhock God (Nobilis, in which the hollyhock represents vanity), or the most famous of such terms, "Dungeon Master" (or "DM") in Dungeons & Dragons.

Planes of Chaos is an expansion set for the Planescape campaign setting which details the five chaotic Outer Planes: Arborea, Ysgard, Limbo, Pandemonium, and the Abyss. The boxed set contains the "Travelogue," a 48-page player's guide; "The Book of Chaos," a 128-page book for the Dungeon Master; "Chaos Adventures," a 32-page book which outlines three adventures for each of the five planes; a 32-page "Monstrous Supplement" which described 15 new creatures ; and one poster for each plane. The set's four volumes, spanning some 240 pages, reveal the secrets of the spectre wars of airless Naratyr, describe an elven city concealed in the limbs of Grandfather Oak, and explore the Infinite Staircase of Ysgard that winds through all time and space. A text-packed poster map summarizes dozens of the layers of Abyss.

A well-publicized search for Egbert began, and a private investigator speculated in the press that Egbert had gotten lost in the steam tunnels during a live-action version of the game after finding what he thought to be a clue in his room. The press largely reported the story as fact, which served as the kernel of a persistent urban legend regarding such "steam tunnel incidents." Egbert's suicide attempts, including his completed suicide the following year had no connection whatsoever to D&D;, being brought on by his being a talented but highly depressed young man under incredible stress.Dear, William C. Dungeon Master: The Disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III, Houghton Mifflin, 1984 Rona Jaffe's 1981 novel, Mazes and Monsters, was a thinly disguised fictionalization of the press exaggerations of the Egbert case mixed with elements from horror RPGs.

The four DVDs each have different original cover artwork (by Eamon O'Donoghue) that form a panorama when placed side by side, depicting the series' main characters: Hank and Sheila with Venger, Presto with Tiamat, Eric and Diana with Shadow Demon, and Bobby with Uni and Dungeon Master. The first Region 1 DVD release, Dungeons & Dragons - The Complete Animated Series, was on December 5, 2006 by BCI Eclipse LLC, under its Ink & Paint classic animation entertainment brand (under license from Disney). The 5-disc set featured all 27 episodes, uncut, digitally re-mastered, and presented in story continuity order, as well as an extensive array of special features including documentaries, commentaries, character profiles, a radio play of the unproduced finale episode "Requiem", and more. This release is now out of print, as BCI Eclipse ceased operations in December 2008.

In 1978 he became a Senior Editor at Houghton Mifflin, where he was responsible for publishing The Mosquito Coast, The Marrakesh One-Two, Shoeless Joe, and several works of nonfiction such as Breaking the Ring: The Bizarre Case of the Walker Family Spy Ring, Techno- Bandits, Getting to Yes, The Puzzle Palace, The Bunker, The Dungeon Master, and The Nine Nations of North America."Writer, Playboy Editor Robie Macauley (obituary)", The Boston Globe, November 22, 1995 He later taught at the Harvard Extension School and during 1990 co-initiated and co-directed the Ploughshares International Writing Seminars,"Novelist and Editor Robie Macauley Dies", Star News, Nov 22, 1995, p. 4B a summer program of the Emerson College European Center at Kasteel Well in the Netherlands."Robie Macauley", [obituary] The San Francisco Chronicle, November 25, 1995, p. D4.

In late 1987, FTL Games released Dungeon Master, a dungeon crawler that had a real-time game world and some real-time combat elements (akin to Active Time Battle), requiring players to quickly issue orders to the characters, setting the standard for first-person computer RPGs for several years. It inspired many other developers to make real-time dungeon crawlers, such as Eye of the Beholder and Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos. Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss, released in 1992, has been cited as the first RPG to feature first-person action in a 3D environment. Ultima Underworld is considered the first example of an immersive sim, a genre that combines elements from other genres to create a game with strong player agency and emergent gameplay, and has influenced many games since its release.

Crawl, a roguelite dungeon game Due to their potential for simplicity and the limited expectations most players have for plot and logical consistency in dungeon crawls, they are fairly popular in role-playing video games. The roguelike genre is a common and typical example, with endless procedurally generated dungeon terrain and randomly placed monsters and treasures scattered throughout. Computer games and series from the 1980s, such as Wizardry, Ultima, The Bard's Tale, Cosmic Soldier, Might and Magic, Megami Tensei, Phantasy Star, Dungeon Master, Madō Monogatari and Gauntlet, helped set the genre's standards, while the primitive graphics were actually conducive to this style, due to the need for repetitive tiles or similar-looking graphics to create effective mazes. Some dungeon crawlers from this era also employed action role-playing game combat, such as Dragon Slayer, and The Tower of Druaga.

Graeme Davis reviewed Saga of the Shadow Lord for White Dwarf #89. He stated that the Elvenstar adventure was designed in an old-fashioned style, with a series of fixed but random-seeming encounters along the way to a dungeon where the serious business takes place. He pointed out that the "village [was] packed with adventurers (of up to 7th level!)" and the "agoraphobic" cloud giant living in the "smallest castle [he's] ever seen", but felt that the "interesting encounter with the Shadow Lord's army lightens the otherwise fairly uninspiring zoo-dungeon journey until the adventurers reach the Shadow Lord's lair for the really serious dungeon-bashing". He noted some good aspects about the final encounter, particularly how the villains' tactics are outlined, as well as notes for the Dungeon Master on what to do next based on whether the PCs win, lose, or even miss the object of their quest.

A screen for the second edition AD&D; rules was designed by Jean and Bruce Rabe, with a cover by Jeff Easley, and was published by TSR in 1989 as a cardstock screen with a 16-page booklet. The 1989 second edition AD&D; version of REF1 included a scenario called Terrible Trouble at Tragidore, which contained suggestions on how to be a better, more experienced DM. The second edition's revised Dungeon Master Screen & Master Index contains a screen and an index. There are two screens included with a complete list of tables for quick reference including every table: critical hits, miscellaneous equipment and the location of various planes. The two indices contained within the Master Index codify rules and lists from the seven core second edition books, detailing every rule, adjustment, bonus, modifier, magic item, spell and scroll in alphabetical order and cross-referenced with their location in the books.

While early role- playing games relied heavily on either group consensus or the judgement of a single player (the "Dungeon Master" or Game Master) or on randomizers such as dice, later generations of narrativist games allow role-playing to influence the creative input and output of the players, so both acting out roles and employing rules take part in shaping the outcome of the game. An RPG system also affects the game environment, which can take any of several forms. Generic role-playing game systems, such as Basic Role-Playing, GURPS, and Fate, are not tied to a specific storytelling genre or campaign setting and can be used as a framework to play many different types of RPG. Others, such as Dungeons & Dragons, are designed to depict a specific genre or style of play, and still others, such as Paranoia, are not only genre-specific but come bundled with a specific campaign setting to which the game mechanics are inseparably tied.

After college, Chaffee worked at IBM for nearly 20 years, eventually becoming head of the Art Department. After retiring, Chaffee started up his own design company, and produced artwork for TSR's Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, including Dungeoneer's Survival Guide (1986); The Emirates of Ylaruam (1987); Needle (1987); both the 2nd edition Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master Guide (1989); The Complete Fighter's Handbook (1989); The Complete Book of Humanoids (1993); Player's Option: Combat & Tactics; Player's Option: Skills & Powers (1995); and the cover art for Cleric's Challenge II (1995). He also created paintings for other games companies, including Wizards of the Coast's Magic: The Gathering collectible card game, and the cover art for FASA's The Fall of Terra. Outside of the games industry, Chaffeee also created art and illustrations for NASA, the United States military — Chaffee did the official program painting for the Trident submarine — as well as for Sunday School and Vacation Bible School literature and Christian-School textbooks.

" Edge said that the game wasn't "a love letter to Dungeon Master" but "a near-facsimile", saying that "Legend Of Grimrock replicates a classic faithfully enough to massage the nostalgia glands of anyone who played the original, and it's a test of the timelessness of an almost universally loved game." Some reviewers commented negatively on the game's combat system. Jon Blyth of PC Gamer praised the game's revival of Dungeon Master's classic gameplay, but commented on the "exploitability" of the enemy AI, as "any single enemy, no matter how tough, can be dominated by a series of cowardly stab-retreats and sidesteps". In their 7.25/10 review, Game Informer also stated that while the game's modern presentation of an old-school game format was a "beautiful marriage", it failed in that "its lazy monster design encourages the worst kind of tedious, mechanically abusive player behavior, though, which is a grave offense in the world of party-based RPGs.

Sega Pro reviewed the game in 1991 and gave it a 93% score, describing the dungeon crawler as "superior to all other RPGs of this style", praising its detailed "background preparation", detailed graphics (including scaling sprites and water effects), character conversations, sound design (especially around taverns), replayability ("Every game is different"), and its innovative icon-based menu system. Computer Gaming World compared Shining to Dungeon Master, and favorably cited the combat and animation. The magazine concluded, however, that the game was a "hack-and-slash adventure" that was superior to others on the Genesis but inferior to computer RPGs. Dragon reviewers praised the game's smooth interface and gave it 4 out of 5 stars, saying that it "combines the icons and combat of Phantasy Star III, the first person perspective of Phantasy Star I, and the great close-up graphics of Phantasy Star II." Mega placed the game at #28 in their Top Mega Drive Games of All Time.

Leonard, Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Howard (Simon Helberg) each inform their girlfriends that they are participating in a game of Dungeons & Dragons and that the girls are banned from participating, while Raj informs Stuart (Kevin Sussman). The game begins at Leonard and Sheldon's apartment, with Leonard as the dungeon master, who reveals the game has a Christmas theme by giving Sheldon a scroll in a Christmas stocking and telling them that their characters have to save Santa Claus from hungry ogres. Sheldon is not happy, but the game begins with Raj's character dying in the first room of the dungeon after walking into a trap. The girls enter the apartment and do a runway show for the boys in sexy dresses (with the exception of Amy (Mayim Bialik), who has a dress Penny describes as from "Forever 63") in an attempt to persuade their boyfriends to go with them to the bar.

Even though the quality of the whole demo suffered from the fact, that some of its content was nearly three years old, the Phaleon Giga Demo managed to remain in the collections of classic Atari ST demos, because it managed to somewhat push the envelope. It was the first demo on the Atari ST to require four floppy discs (hence the Giga in the name instead of more common Mega, which was used to distinguish the two floppy disc demos from single disc ones). It contained four different selection menus (an Amiga-like trackloader, a simple list selector, a Dungeon Master-clone and a Shadow of the Beast-clone). It was one of the first demos that tried to exploit the Atari STE, (all palettes are compatible with the enhanced color palette, all soundtracks are enhanced on the STE), including the Illusion STE screen (still considered today as a landmark in the STE intro history).

Mentzer agreed to form some sort of group but, rather than a simple fan club, he was interested in promoting better quality role-playing, especially during scored D&D; events at conventions. Mentzer felt that the system as it stood rewarded those players that stayed quiet at the table, in effect punishing good role-players. He came up with a scoring system where the dungeon master and the players all voted on who had been the best role-player at the table. With this in place, Mentzer formed the Role Playing Game Association (RPGA), an organization that would promote quality role-playing and allow fans of role-playing games to meet and play games with each other. Mentzer wrote four RPGA tournament adventures set in his home campaign setting of "Aquaria", which he had been running since 1976; these were published by TSR as the first four of the R-series modules: R1 To the Aid of Falx, R2 The Investigation of Hydell, R3 The Egg of the Phoenix, and R4 Doc's Island.

On May 9, 2011, Brown announced via his Twitter that he was "retiring" the show after 249 episodes, and there would be three new one-hour episodes to be produced and premiered in 2011. The back catalog of shows were added to the repeat rotation of sister network Cooking Channel in the fall of 2011, and Brown announced that his contract with Food Network had expired and moved to Cooking Channel in 2011. The crew of the show with their families were shown at the end of the first hour-long episodes ("Right On Q") eating BBQ while Brown narrated that truly a BBQ is just an event meant to be shared with friends and family. In the special Thanksgiving episode of 2011, "Reromancing the Bird," favorite characters of the show—sister Marsha, niece Marsha Jr., neighbor Chuck, the southerner Uncle Colonel Bob Boatwright, the food agent Sid, Frances Andersen portraying Uncle Bob's nurse, and the Dungeon Master—reappeared for a last time as a final tribute to their contribution to the show.

Not only did it have us building a base underground (far, far underground), but also put us in the shoes of a sadistic dungeon master with imps, demons, and horned reapers to "control." There are quite a few differences in the two titles, but the influence is certainly there" but went on to say that "Had there been more interactivity with during acts of infamy on the World Domination Map, less micromanagement for taking care of enemies, more information passing between the map and the base screens, and more useful information about why things happened the way they did, Evil Genius really could have been genius... but in a good way." Eurogamer gave Evil Genius a 7 out of 10, commenting that "even as we sit here picking over the carcass, we're not actually all that angry about the things that are wrong with the game. They're bad on paper, but they didn't interfere hugely with our having fun - a sure sign that that Evil Genius overcomes its flaws and ultimately satisfies.

The book's 8-page introduction on pages 3–10 provides an overview of the contents and the significance of artifacts within the game. One page is spent in an attempt to clear up some misconceptions regarding artifacts, including "Artifacts are too powerful for a campaign," "All artifacts have horrible curses that keep them from being useful," "Artifacts are just collections of random powers," "Artifacts are all created by gods that shouldn't be involved in the campaign," "Artifacts are found only in the Greyhawk campaign," "If the characters stumble across an artifact, it could ruin the campaign," "A character with an artifact will ruin the adventure," and "Artifacts are nothing but a headache." The next four pages of the introduction provide an explanation of the book's contents by chapter, defines what makes an artifact different from other magic items (an artifact is unique, has a special history, and provides an impetus for a story to be centered on it) and includes a set of guidelines on how a Dungeon Master can create a new artifact for the campaign. The remaining three pages of the introduction serve to explain how the specific artifacts described within the book operate.

His Dungeons & Dragons work has included The Republic of Darokin (1989), Monstrous Compendium Volume One (1989), Monstrous Compendium Volume Two (1989), Monstrous Compendium Forgotten Realms Appendix (1989), Monstrous Compendium Dragonlance Appendix (1990), Monstrous Compendium Greyhawk Appendix (1990), Monstrous Compendium Spelljammer Appendix (1990), Legends & Lore (1990), Greyhawk Ruins (1990), Campaign Sourcebook and Catacomb Guide (1990), The Castle Guide (1990), Monstrous Compendium Ravenloft Appendix (1991), Monstrous Compendium Forgotten Realms Appendix II (1991), Darklords (1991), Dark Sun Boxed Set (1991), The Atruaghin Clans (1991), Van Richten's Guide to Ghosts (1992), Quest for the Silver Sword (1992), Hordes of Dragonspear (1992), Forbidden Lore (1992), Dark Sun Monstrous Compendium Appendix: Terrors of the Desert (1992), Web of Illusion (1993), Monstrous Compendium Ravenloft Appendix II: Children of the Night (1993), Marauders of Nibenay (1993), Book of Artifacts (1993), Wizard's Player's Pack (1994), Thief's Player Pack (1994), Ravenloft Campaign Setting, 2nd Ed. (1994), Priest's Player Pack (1994), Masque of the Red Death and Other Tales (1994), Fighter's Player Pack (1994), Wizards and Rogues of the Realms (1995), The Gothic Earth Gazetteer (1995), Dungeon Master Survival Kit (1995), A Light in the Belfry (1995), Requiem: The Grim Harvest (1996), Dragonlance: Fifth Age (1996), The Shadow Rift (1997), Domains of Dread (1997), Servants of Darkness (1998), The Inner Planes (1998), Champions of the Mists (1998), A Saga Companion (1998), and Children of the Night: The Created (1999).