I’ve played a lot of D&D over the years. Hundreds of hours.

But these so-called “dungeons”? No captives. Not even any cells. That’s not a dungeon. that’s a glorified cave.

And don’t even get me started on the dragons. Dragonborn? Sure, I’ve seen plenty. Heard my fair share of Draconic. And wyverns are fairly common I suppose but that’s like pointing at all the dogs in the world and saying “we’re infested with wolves!”

I’m beginning to feel like I’ve been lied to all this time.

  • _NetNomad@fedia.io
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    19 hours ago

    But these so-called “dungeons”? No captives. Not even any cells. That’s not a dungeon. that’s a glorified cave.

    I’ve always wondered how the term “dungeon” as it’s used in RPGs came to be. a lot of appendix N literature had locations we would now consider dungeons, but were they called that at the time? and then the first RPG dungeon was the literal dungeon under Blackmoor Castle, but very early on we had dungeons that stopped being literal dungeons- didn’t B1 and B2 exclusively have cave “dungeons?” and the Ruined Tower of Zenopus in the first Basic book had underground portions but I think those were caves too!