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, the mainframe precursor to the commercial Zork trilogy, is generally assumed to be in the public domain and is available from The Interactive Fiction Archive as original FORTRAN source code, a Z-machine story file and as various native source ports.

A MUD (; originally Multi-User Dungeon, with later variants Multi-User Dimension and Multi-User Domain ), is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, usually text-based.

The online game Wheel of Time Multi-User Dungeon is the oldest authorized game based on the series, started in 1993 ; however, older, offline games have been in existence since as far back as the series started.

Planescape is an expansion of ideas presented in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide ( First Edition ) and the original Manual of the Planes.

In the Detention / Dungeon scene, Tim Douglas is told NOT to pull on his chains by the principal.

Charmander is also a deuteragonist of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters Out Of The Gate !.

He is the proprietor of a comic book store, The Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop.

Comic Book Guy is the owner of The Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop, a local comic book store.

* In the online game Dungeon and Fighter by Nexon there is a class named Slayer who has an arm of a demon.

Another popular wax museum is the Musée Conti Wax Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, which features wax figures portraying the city's history as well as a " Haunted Dungeon " section of wax figures of famous characters from horror films and literature.

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.

There is an option to play Dungeon without the main game board.

Outside of the main series, Blastoise is seen in Pokémon Pinball, Pokémon Trozei !, the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon titles, the Pokémon Ranger titles, Pokémon Rumble, and PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure.

Squirtle is also the main protagonist of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters Out Of The Gate!

All four members were born in Atlanta, and the group is based there with the rest of the Dungeon Family, a collective that includes OutKast and P. A.

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.

The fanmade game design program Dungeon Craft ( originally called UA Forever ) is a standalone program that partially emulates FRUAs engine, but with a greater ease of user modification.

The Castle is also home to " The Castle Dungeon ", a live actor experience similar to that of " London Dungeons ".

This is extremely common in games such as Dungeon Defenders which is made easy for players to take loot instead of sharing.

In Mabinogi, a Bandersnatch is an ice monster located in " Par Dungeon ".