If Jennell doesn’t like her name being associated with it, then that’s out as far as I’m concerned, and I can understand “Xandering” leaving a bad taste. But I think there’s value in having it be a verb. As an adjective, it’s a quality a dungeon either has or doesn’t have. As a verb, it’s something a GM does to a dungeon, either during its initial design, or by making changes to a dungeon that was not initially designed in that way. Perhaps “Thraciafying”?
I might just be showing my age, but I have real trouble mentally adjusting to the fact that in some parts of the world, ‘Xander’ is an actual name that real human beings have, rather than just being a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reference.
I’m sure there must be some people whose parents actually put Xander on their birth certificate, but typically it’s short for Alexander, which is a fairly common name. Though it’s much more commonly shortened to Alex.
Come to think of it, “interconnecting” is a pretty good exactly-what-it-sounds-like verb form…
If it helps, you now officially know a Xandra, though to be fair that wasn't the name my parents put on my birth certificate.
It's not new, either: see surnames like Sanders or Sanderson.
"Megadungeon" can be parsed instantly. It's a mega-sized dungeon -- an enormous dungeon. That's not opaque jargon.
I think we can take it as read that any prominent trans person is going to be getting an awful lot of very horrible harassment. I don't think we need to ask for receipts on this one.
