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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!

plenty of folks are playing old editions or clones thereof now though

+1 for Bandcamp. they often run a “bandcamp friday” event where they waive their cut of all music sold that day, so almost everything (payment processors still take a cut) goes to the artist. there are also self-hosted alternatives to bandcamp like faircamp

i guess they hit a little too close to home now…

clone wars and farscape teach us that oceanic (oceaniac?) accents come from space so it’s probably a character option in one of the spelljammer books

AND WHEN THE NIGHT IS OVER, LIKE A BAT OUT OF HELL, I’LL BE GAWN, GAWN, GAWN…