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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 3835699" data-attributes="member: 41321">I'm not sure, but I think this may have come from Tolkein.  There's a scene in the movies where Glimli talks about it, but I don't know if that was made up for the movie or came straight from the book.  (There are other things that I thought were added for a 21st century audience that turned out to have been in the original book, so I'm not sure.)I think people here and in other RPG forums love to talk about female dwarves with beards because it's funny and it certainly would be something to set them apart, but at the same time people find it disturbing deep down inside, so you don't really see it as an official part of any campaign setting or rule set (except in books by weird people, like Terry Pratchett).I don't think real dungeons did either.  Most prisoners were simply given a bucket if they were given anything at all.  But you're probably talking about the broad term "dungeon" as it's used in D&D to refer to any enclosed space with monsters and/or traps. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I recall hearing about a party who came upon a small room in a wizard's castle that had a ledge that took up half the room and a hole in the middle of that ledge.  The party was curious and ended up sending people down the hole to investigate.  Turns out the room was a latrine, and the wizard had the bright idea of making his castle without a cesspool.  Instead, each latrine had a sphere of annihilation hanging inside.  So much for DMs trying to add realism. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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