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In article <C16CJI.5x9@ecf.toronto.edu> alrashi@ecf.toronto.edu (AL RASHID SHAHIR) writes:
| >Well you can get some more fun out of both by changing the ground
| >rules a bit. Try playing with a party of one only. Try it with a
| >reincarnated character (DM only, I think Chaos Strikes Back would be
| >impossible like this, though I could be wrong!). Try completing in
| >minimal real time (DM takes about four hours, maybe less for all I
| >know. No idea what Chaos Strikes Back takes).

Done that. DM takes a day (a weekend with one character). Chaos takes longer.
I had to spread it out over a couple of weeks. The problem with finishing
Chaos with one character is the area of demons at the end.

| Better still, aren't there some DM dungeon editors out there? I'm not sure
| if there are any for Chaos Strikes Back. ANYWAY, just get the editor, and
| MAKE yer own dungeons!! Much more fun that way!!!! Even better, make an
| impossibly hard dungeon and get a dungeon-aholic games player to play it
| and watch the expression on his face!!!!! B^D

Actually, I am one of the co-authors of the CSB editor that appeared on a
ST Format coverdisk 2.5 years ago, so I know how to edit the dungeon fine.
There are problems: you can't add pits, doors, transporters, objects or
wall features. You can't delete doors or transporters. So there is limited
scope for decoration. The only real reason for the existence of these editors
is cheating (printing maps, opening doors etc). That's how one of my
friends completed Chaos within 11 days of its release :-)

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Simon Oke, 3rd year Computer Science
undergraduate at the University of Essex, UK.