After returning from the Lost City, Garrett is off to find the next Talisman. The name of the mission, and the first part of it, play a nice little trick on the player. You're thinking, "Oh no, not more caves!"

But when you reach the Keeper shrine and find the Talisman has already been stolen you know you're in for a cozier and more familiar...

Many, many new improvements including:

* Slowfall potions, invisibilty potions, and gas mines
* Parallax occlusion mapping is now supported, giving textures even more depth and the feeling of being 3D
* Numerous new objects and textures
* Dozens of bug fixes
* AI vision has been improved so that their ability to detect loot and bodies res...

You've got plans to rob a nobleman's mansion tonight, plans which are thrown into disarray when a large earthquake damages your neighbourhood and opens a deep crevasse in the ground nearby. Abandoning the mansion heist idea, you decide to investigate this subterranean mystery.

The best part of the mission is the city section before you descen...

So, this is pretty obviously a beginner's effort. The "castle" consists of enormous, oversized cubical blocks of brick guarded by some apemen, treebeasts, and undead mages and the one door inside is unpickable so you have to go hunt for the key. And what a keyhunt it is!

Allegedly this key is a tiny, almost invisible, grey object at the bott...

This is an early mission from prolific TDM mapper Bikerdude and it's a pretty solid effort. You're tasked with housesitting for an acquaintance, who also has a few other little odd jobs around the town suitable for a master sneak.

The town is about a dozen buildings, plus a fairly extensive sewer section, set during a cold winter night. There...

Sons of Baltona is a fairly average mansion mission. It was originally going to be the first mission in a series, but after such a long time I think it's fair to say the later missions have been cancelled- a shame! Your task is to get into a mansion to investigate the disappearance of another member of your thiefy organisation while helping your...

Living Expenses is a pretty average medium-sized mansion heist. Your goal is to break into the mansion of a crazy nobleman named General Lanton and steal a special treasure he recently aquired. It's fairly standard stuff, but the mission is fun to play nonetheless.

In some respects the mansion is gorgeously designed. The front hall with its i...

TDM's first prison break mission remains an absolute delight to play even fifteen years later.

After being captured and relieved of your belongings by the gang of thieves you were sent to investigate, you've got to break out of your cell, get your stuff back, and escape with all your pockets bulging with their loot. Getting out of the cell sh...

Patently Dangerous starts off innocuously enough: you've been hired by the Inventors' Guild to steal some blueprints from an independent scientist. But things start taking a turn for the worse...

This mission consists of a City district of seven or eight buildings with numerous watchmen patrolling the streets, which are brightly lit in places...

With the key from the Keeper hideout, Garrett now makes his way down beneath the City and into the ruins of a buried precursor civilisation to grab the Talisman of Fire.

I have mixed feelings about this mission. On one hand, the initial City section and descent through waterlogged caves is really cool- and the secret loot in the City part is...

The second mission in the Thief's Den series, Chalice of Kings has you break into the mansion of a former acquaintance who beat you to a rich treasure find years ago and is now living the high life on the proceeds. He's kept a few of the rarest treasures though, and you're going to relieve him of them.

The mansion design is very clever. It ha...

One of the earliest Dark Mod missions, the Outpost is a short mission but with plenty of intricacy. Hearing that a prominent Builder bishop is traveling with a big gold ingot, the protagonist decides to break into the Builders' roadside fortress and grab it for himself.

The building consists of three floors and an outdoor section complete wit...

This mission is pretty standard fare, but a nice little 15-minute diversion.

Garrett has to infiltrate an evil Lord's mansion to recover a kidnapped baby; the reward is all the gold lying around the place as well as the ransom money, if you can find it. That's a fairly credible premise for a mansion heist and the map, though small, has enough...

I liked the city streets with several upstairs apartments you can clamber up to and loot. This is always a nice touch that makes the City feel lived in and gives the player a reward for exploring.

The architecture is unfortunately weirdly oversized, making me and the watchmen seem like little hobbitses walking around a human town.

I though...

This is a tiny but cool mission based on Edgar Allen Poe's famous story. While a terrible plague ravages the City, Prince Prospero and some of his noble friends have holed themselves up and have organised a masquerade ball while they wait for the sickness to run its course. Garrett sneaks wearing a thief masquerade costume and commences looting....

This mission was released in a rush to meet the TDM 15th Anniversary contest deadline, and is clearly still somewhat unfinished. It's very short- with just two or three City alleys and a small but cool underground section- there is only one AI in the whole mission, and the last few rooms are disappointingly empty.

Nonetheless there's a few t...