A Dungeon Master serves as the game's referee and storyteller, while also maintaining the setting in which the adventures occur and playing the role of the inhabitants.

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.

Dungeon Master may mean:

* Dungeon Master ( sometimes called a dungeonmaster or DM ), the organizer of a Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game

* Dungeon Master, a 1986 dungeon crawl role-playing game by ASCII.

* Dungeon Master, a main character on the Dungeons & Dragons animated TV series

* Dungeon Master, the owner or master of a BDSM dungeon ( a place equipped for the playing out of BDSM sexual fantasies )

* The Dungeon Master, the 1985 non-fiction book by William C. Dear regarding the disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III

* Dungeon Master, the master of Lord Ao, a god in the fictional world of Abeir-Toril

* Dungeon Master, an alias of serial killer David Parker Ray

* dm ( for Dungeon Master ), a program included in some versions of BSD Unix and operating systems derived from it, which could be used to restrict the playing of games on a computer to certain times of the day ( dm manual page from 4. 4BSD )

* Zork III: The Dungeon Master, a 1982 computer game

* The Dungeon Master ( video game ), a 1983 computer game

A few games apply system-or setting-specific flavorful names to the GM, such as the Hollyhock God ( Nobilis, in which the hollyhock represents vanity ), or the most famous of such terms, " Dungeon Master " ( or " DM ") in Dungeons & Dragons.

* Dungeon Master

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.

*** Zork III: The Dungeon Master ( 1982 )

The goal is to return from the " Great Underground Empire " alive with the treasures, ultimately inheriting the title of Dungeon Master.

* Zork III: The Dungeon Master ( 1982, Infocom )

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.

Similar material has surfaced in 4th Edition rulebooks, as the Dungeon Master Guide 2 includes a section on Sigil.

* Tresor 192: Cristian Vogel – Dungeon Master ( 2x12 "/ 2xCD )

* Dungeon Master, the storyteller and referee in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons

Each character is individually controllable and occupies their own square, unlike Dungeon Master, in which the entire party occupies the same square.

Don Daglow created the first computer baseball game ( 1971 ) and Dungeon ( 1975 ), the first role-playing video game on a PDP-10.

and Rebel Planet ) for the Commodore 64, Amstrad, BBC, and Sinclair ZX Spectrum ( 1984 ) and Deathtrap Dungeon video game for the PC and PlayStation by Eidos Interactive ( 1998 ).

Eye of the Beholder is similar to the early Role-playing video game Dungeon Master, released in 1987 by FTL Games.

It appears in several other video games, including Pokémon Pinball, the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games, Pokémon Ranger, and Pokémon Snap.

She starred as the leading character in the 2006 film version of the video game BloodRayne, and appeared in director Uwe Boll's film version of the video game Dungeon Siege, called In the Name of the King.

The soundtrack's eight melodies ( Opening, Castle, Town, Field, Dungeon, Battle, Final Battle, and Ending ) set the template for most role-playing video game soundtracks released since then, hundreds of which have been organized in a similar manner.

He founded Gas Powered Games in May 1998 and designed the action-role-playing video game Dungeon Siege.

Dungeon Siege is a role-playing video game developed by Gas Powered Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios.

An in-game screenshot from Legend of Grimrock a real-time, first person view, tile-based dungeon crawler in the style of Dungeon Master ( video game ) | Dungeon Master.

Dungeon Keeper is a strategy video game developed by Bullfrog Productions under Peter Molyneux and released by Electronic Arts in July 1997 for the PC in which the player attempts to build and manage a dungeon or lair while protecting it from ( computer-controlled ) ' hero ' characters intent on stealing the user's accumulated treasures and killing various monsters.

Due to the popularity and cult status of the series, many reviews of video games that have similar elements mention Dungeon Keeper as both an influence for the designers and a standard for comparison.

* 2009's ( Full version 2011 ) Minecraft an independent sandbox-building video game that was developed by Markus Persson, who was partially inspired by Dungeon Keeper.

Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep is the sequel to the dungeon crawler role-playing video game Dungeon Master.

Chaos Strikes Back is an expansion and sequel to Dungeon Master, the first 3D real-time action role-playing video game.

Dungeon Master ( short: DM ) is an early grid-based 3D realtime action role-playing video game.

His notable music compositions are used in titles such as Dungeon Keeper 2, Populous: The Beginning, Warhammer: Dark Omen, Wing Commander amiga version, Duke Nukem 3D Total Meltdown, and he has since had sound design credits in games such as the Develop Magazine Audio Accomplishment nominated Race Driver: GRID, Develop Magazine Best art and sound nominated Sudeki, Shox, Formula One, and Theme Park World-which won a BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards award in 2000 for ' best sound in a video game '.

Also, the doctor is seen playing Dungeon Keeper in the intro video, and several Dungeon Keeper characters appear in the hospital waiting room, along with a character from an earlier Bullfrog title, Syndicate.

* Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, a series of games for the Nintendo DS and Wii video game systems

* The Morden, an enemy race from the video game Dungeon Siege II