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From: rjung@sal13.usc.edu (Robert  allen Jung)
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Subject: Re: Dungeon Master
Summary: Nothing to do with NeXT!
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Date: 19 Oct 88 17:27:59 GMT
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In article <9167@watdragon.waterloo.edu> jafischer@spurge.waterloo.edu (Jonathan A. Fischer) writes:
>	All this talk of Dungeon Master brings to my mind the
>question: when is the next FTL DM-type game coming out?  There appear
>to be a few netters with better ties to the FTL rumour mill than most.
>Enquiring minds want to know!  Will it be basically another Dungeon
>Master but just with a different dungeon?  If so, I'm not likely to
>buy it.  Dungeon Master is the best game I've played, but heck, I've
>done the thing twice now, so why buy a clone?

  First, the bad news: FTL wants to release an "expanded adventure" for DM.
You boot up your current copy of DM, insert the new adventure disk, and then
click on "Enter". The adventure's supposed to be a LOT tougher, tho, so you
just might be interested in getting this "clone". Should be out (hopefully)
in a few months (early '89?)

>	What I'd be interested (and what I've heard of, I seem to
>remember) is, say, a space-based adventure, one that had the same
>general look and feel of DM, but *wasn't* a dungeon & dragons type
>game, and had a slightly different way of interacting

  FTL has also said that they want to take the basic (No, no, not *that*
BASIC! B-) Dungeon Master interface and use it for other types of games. A
space adventure seems possible (and fun), and the programmers hinted as much.
Who knows?

(No release dates for anything...Just what *is* FTL doing right now, anyway?)

						--R.J.
						B-)

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