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 ( video game ), an early 3D realtime dungeon-hack computer 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.

* Dungeon Master Nexus

* Dungeon Master Nexus

Don Daglow wrote an enhanced version of the program called Ecala on a PDP-10 mainframe computer at Pomona College in 1973 before writing what was possibly the second or third computer role-playing game, Dungeon ( 1975 ) ( The first was probably " dnd ", written on and for the PLATO system in 1974, and the second may have been Moria, written in 1975 ).

In September 2002, Omega World, a d20 System mini-game based on Gamma World and written by Jonathan Tweet, was published in Dungeon 94 / Polyhedron 153.

The Fortran version of Dungeon was widely available on DEC VAXes, being one of the most popular items distributed by DECUS.

While Paizo Publishing was printing Dragon and Dungeon, covers featuring drow often sold better than other issues in the same year.

Uematsu also works closely with Sakaguchi's development studio Mistwalker, and has composed the games in the Blue Dragon series, Lost Odyssey ( 2007 ), and Away Shuffle Dungeon ( 2008 ); he was also the composer of the cancelled game Cry On.

Originally, TSR Hobbies was created as a separate division to market miniatures and games from several companies, an enterprise which was also connected to the opening of the Dungeon hobby shop in Lake Geneva.

In 1979, the Dungeon Master's Guide was published, and radio ads featuring " Morley the Wizard " were broadcast.

In 1989, the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition was released, with a new Dungeon Master's Guide, Player's Handbook, the first three volumes of the new Monstrous Compendium, The Complete Fighter's Handbook, The Complete Thief's Handbook, and a new campaign setting, Spelljammer, all released in the same year.

Eventually, in early 1986, a 15 minute pilot under the name of Dungeon Doom was recorded.

A second 20 minute pilot was filmed on 27 and 28 January 1987, with the name changed from Dungeon Doom to Knightmare, and ' life force ' added, an idea borrowed from the computer game Atic Atac, which also influenced the show in other ways.

The latter game was an RPG similar to the Dungeon Master and Eye Of The Beholder games which, whilst well received at the time, had very little to do with the TV series besides the fantasy setting.

According to Quorthon, he came up with the name after a visit to the London Dungeon, although Jonas states that it was taken from the Venom song " Countess Bathory ".

Dark Dungeon Music was the personal record label of Mortiis.

The third expansion set, Talisman Dungeon, was released in 1987 and added a second " dungeon " board to the game which is placed alongside the main Talisman game board.

Dungeon of Doom was released later in 1994 and added 2 additional game boards: a " Dungeon realm " and a " Mountain realm " which fit around the 2 corners of the original board not used by the City of Adventure expansion.

It was based loosely on the expansion Talisman Dungeon for the Second Edition.

The Dungeon expansion was released in May 2009 and includes a new region, an L-shaped piece connected to one corner of the board, a new deck of cards called Dungeon cards to be used in the new region, as well as five new characters ( Gladiator, Amazon, Swashbuckler, Gypsy, and Philosopher ).

Cee-Lo was the most visible member of the group prior to his departure in 2000 ( among other projects, he is now recording in collaboration with DJ Danger Mouse as Gnarls Barkley ), while Big Gipp has made several rounds on other Dungeon Family members ' albums, and T-Mo and Khujo form a duo within the group called The Lumberjacks.

Goodie Mob was feeling pressure from the increasing popularity and sales of their fellow Dungeon Family group Outkast.

The technologies included Usenet, MUDs ( Multi-User Dungeon ) and their derivatives MUSHes and MOOs, Internet Relay Chat ( IRC ), chat rooms and electronic mailing lists ; the World Wide Web as we know it today was not yet used by many people.

A Dungeon Master sequel, Chaos Strikes Back, was released in 1989 for most platforms, but notably excluding a PC version.