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| Developer(s) | Erik Brynjolfsson, Steven Bergstein |
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| Initial release | 1985 |
| Platform | Apple, Commodore, IBM Personal Computer |
Dragonfire II: The Dungeonmaster's Assistant is a computer program published by Magicware for Apple, Commodore and IBM Personal Computers in 1985. The program, and its predecessor, were designed by Erik Brynjolfsson, who later became an MIT professor. [1] Dragonfire II was written by Steven Bergstein, who worked for Magicware and Brynjolfsson at the time.
The program is designed to assist a game master in managing table-top role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons and Tunnels & Trolls , allowing the user to enter material into the menu-driven program's tables for encounters, treasure, and for generating monsters and characters. [2] The software allowed users to customize templates, permitting them to modify the system so that it would generate characters, encounters and other game requirements for a multiple role playing systems. [3]
Ed Curtis reviewed the program for Computer Gaming World . [4]
The software was reviewed in 1986 in Dragon #116 by Hartley and Pattie Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers concluded that "this program is highly recommended to all". [2] Another 1986 review, in Computer Gaming World #33, praised the software's utility, and described it as being the most flexible and thorough of the products that were available on the market at the time. [3]
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