D&D General Jaquaying the dungeon - a term to avoid

[Cordwainer Fish]

How does "derailroad(ing)" sound to you?

Not as good as veeblefetzering.

 

[Charlaquin]

As an aside, just thinking out aloud, really:

How does "derailroad(ing)" sound to you?

(Yes, I know guess the polar opposite of a railroad is a sandbox in rpg context. "Derailroading" could be the verb for moving a railroaded, tunnel-like construct towards a sandbox without getting it completely, well, sandboxed. )

That’s lacking in a number of ways - most glaringly, a dungeon can be “Xandered” either in its initial design, or after the fact by a home brewer. But a dungeon has to have been designed as a railroad to be “derailroaded.” Also, there are a lot of ways a dungeon can be not a railroad or be changed to make it not a railroad, that have nothing to do with the design elements featured in Jaquays’ work. That’s also the problem with “nonlinearize.” There are lots of ways a dungeon can be made nonlinear without “Xandering” it.

 

[This Effin’ GM]

Not as good as veeblefetzering.

That one is taken, it’s that moment when a player thinks they rolled a 9 but actually rolled a 6, named of course after the lead singer of the band by the name Veeblefetzer, Andrea 'Mondocane' Cota, repeatedly mixed up songs 6 and 9 on their third album
Proof:

 

[the Jester]

Why do we care?

That's the point here - He has a right to rename it. She has a right to ask to remove her name. Any scenario within those rights should be acceptable to us.

Unless the change is because he was a transphobic jerkwad (or some other form of jerkwad) to her, what do we care?

He puts up a vague, awkward post about it, because if he were silent, many in the community would decide that he was being that transphobic jerkwad, or something. He has a vested interest in avoiding that perception. But beyond that, what do we care?

The point is that we don't know that she asked to have her name removed. All we know is that she asked that her name be spelled correctly, and that there are fewer possible legal issues for Justin if it's not named after her. In fact, from the blog post, after rereading it again, I am even less inclined to read it as "she asked her name to be removed". But as I said, if there are really interviews where she states a preference, I'd love to see them so that I can make an informed judgment.

 

[ersatzphil]

This.

I'm certainly not going to use "xandering" as a term, but I don't think I ever used the term "Jaquay(s)ing" for that matter, either.

To toss another hat into the ring, I personally like the idea of rhizomatic dungeons vs arborescent ones.

 

[Charlaquin]

To toss another hat into the ring, I personally like the idea of rhizomatic dungeons vs arborescent ones.

So the verb form would be… Rhizomify?Rhizomate? Rhizomize?

 

[J.Quondam]

So the verb form would be… Rhizomify?Rhizomate? Rhizomize?

Oh, please make it be "rhizomize" because that's a word too wondrous not to exist!

 

[ersatzphil]

So the verb form would be… Rhizomify?Rhizomate? Rhizomize?

"Make it rhizomatic" or "rhizomize", I suppose? I like the idea of it being an adjective over a verb, as a quality a dungeon may or may not possess.

 

[This Effin’ GM]

Rhizomized is fun to say, just gonna throw that out there

 

[J.Quondam]

And "rhizomizery" could be the noun.
"Jennel Jaquays' skill at dungeon rhizomizery is truly unparallelled."