Comments on: The classic dungeon crawl promotes a play style that is very cautious, methodical, and calculated https://www.isegoria.net/2022/11/the-classic-dungeon-crawl-promotes-a-play-style-that-is-very-cautious-methodical-and-calculated/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:05:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Longarch https://www.isegoria.net/2022/11/the-classic-dungeon-crawl-promotes-a-play-style-that-is-very-cautious-methodical-and-calculated/comment-page-1/#comment-3573524 Longarch Wed, 16 Nov 2022 04:19:18 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49413#comment-3573524 R.E. Howard inspired many (including Gygax) with his vision of Conan getting severely injured by a booby trap and continuing to fight against a wand-wielding wizard regardless. However, although booby traps showed up at least twice in the original Conan stories, Gygax exaggerated the frequency of traps far beyond Howard’s vision, possibly due to Gygax’s interest in real-world boobytraps in Vietnam.

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