History VideoGame / Dnd

Being the PLATO Network, the game has graphics, and uses a ThreeQuartersView similar to the dungeons of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'', with the walls in top view, and your character in front view. You explore the dungeon, fighting monsters and collecting treasure. At the end of each level is a MiniBoss guarding a teleporter to the next level.

* MiniBoss: Guarding the entrance to the next level.

* RolePlayingGame: The first RPG videogame that still survives.

* HeroicFantasy: You play an warrior, wizard, or priest charged with rescuing a precious orb from the clutches of an evil dragon who is defended by a horde of demons, ghosts, and other vile monsters.

* DungeonBypass: The "Excelsior Transporter" allows the player to teleport past levels you already completed to reach the lower levels of the dungeon you haven't beaten yet. Notably, this only works on the way into the dungeon, so escaping the dungeon to level up or beat the game still requires you to manually beat each level again.

* HeroicFantasy: You play an warrior, wizard, or priest charged with rescuing a precious orb from the clutches of an evil dragon who is defended by a horde of demons, ghosts, and other vile monsters.

''dnd'' is one of the first DungeonCrawling video games, written in 1974-75 by Gary Whisenhunt and Ray Wood for the [[UsefulNotes/MainframesAndMinicomputers PLATO Network]] and based, as its title says, on ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. It was the first video game to use [[BossBattle bosses]] as well as the UrExample of the genre that would later be known as {{Roguelike}}s.

%%* AnEconomyIsYou: Aumakua's Alchemy and Korona's Armory.

* PoisonMushroom: A lot of loot in these game has a random chance of being trapped and damaging you:

* LevelGrinding: Enemies are deadly, you need 10,000 XP for a level up, and you only level up when you backtrack to the first floor of the dungeon, so the only safe way to level up is to kill weak enemies over and over on early levels of the dungeon and exit. If you press on and get a ton of XP on the bottom floors of the dungeon, odds are you're going to die fighting your way through a dozen levels of dungeon again.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent

You create a character, by [[HonestRollsCharacter rolling the dice]] on five stats and [[CharacterClassSystem choosing a class]]. Then you enter the Whisenwood Dungeon in search of {{Plunder}} and the [[MacGuffin Orb]].

* ThreeQuartersView
* AnAdventurerIsYou
* AnEconomyIsYou: Aumakua's Alchemy and Korona's Armory.
* CharacterLevel
* ClassAndLevelSystem
* CriticalExistenceFailure
* DungeonCrawling
* FinalBoss: The Golden Dragon. The UrExample.
* HitPoints
* HeroicFantasy
* HonestRollsCharacter
* LevelGrinding
* MacGuffin: The Orb.

* {{Plunder}}
* {{Roguelike}}: The UrExample.

* TheSixStats: Minus Charisma.
* TraumaInn: Rest when you leave the dungeon.
* TurnBasedCombat

''dnd'' is one of the first DungeonCrawling video games, written in 1974-75 by Gary Whisenhunt and Ray Wood for the [[MainframesAndMinicomputers PLATO Network]] and based, as its title says, on ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. It was the first video game to use [[BossBattle bosses]] as well as the UrExample of the genre that would later be known as {{Roguelike}}s.

''dnd'' is one of the first DungeonCrawling video games, written in 1974-75 by Gary Whisenhunt and Ray Wood for the [[MainframesAndMinicomputers PLATO Network]] and based, as its title says, on ''DungeonsAndDragons''. It was the first video game to use [[BossBattle bosses]] as well as the UrExample of the genre that would later be known as {{Roguelike}}s.

''dnd'' inspired several more PLATO games, including ''VideoGame/{{Avatar}}'' and ''[[VideoGame/PLATOMoria moria]]''. Daniel Lawrence ported ''dnd'' to the PDP-10 minicomputer, and from there to 8-bit microcomputers as ''Telengard''.

''dnd'' inspired several more PLATO games, including ''[[VideoGame/{{Avatar}}]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/PLATOMoria moria]]''. Daniel Lawrence ported ''dnd'' to the PDP-10 minicomputer, and from there to 8-bit microcomputers as ''Telengard''.

''dnd'' inspired several more PLATO games, including ''avatar'' and ''[[VideoGame/PLATOMoria moria]]''. Daniel Lawrence ported ''dnd'' to the PDP-10 minicomputer, and from there to 8-bit microcomputers as ''Telengard''.

''dnd'' is one of the first DungeonCrawling video games, written in 1974-75 by Gary Whisenhunt and Ray Wood for the [[MainframesAndMinicomputers PLATO Network]] and based, as its title says, on ''DungeonsAndDragons''. It was the first video game to use [[BossBattle bosses]].

''dnd'' inspired several more PLATO games, including ''avatar'' and ''moria''. Daniel Lawrence ported ''dnd'' to the PDP-10 minicomputer, and from there to 8-bit microcomputers as ''Telengard''.