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<blockquote data-quote="Iry" data-source="post: 7300711" data-attributes="member: 6777378">Yeah, this is an important element of it. It was a homeless migrant worker. Back in the 80s, I remember there was some mild (and somewhat affectionate) social commentary about the term Murderhobo:Murder = Yes, it definitely references the habit of many early roleplayers to primarily overcome their problems with violence even when given the choice of non-violent solutions. It also makes sly commentary about adventurers killing without sufficient provocation because of things like &quot;Evil&quot; races, &quot;Ugly&quot; races, bad attitudes, or just because someone else said so.Hobo = Migrant worker, someone who travels around and finds work. A decent term for a group of adventurers who travel from dungeon to dungeon, or quest to quest, without any focus on settling down in one location. It also makes sly commentary about early roleplayers intentionally minimizing plot hooks like family members, spouses, or children because they thought it was cool to get revenge for dead loved ones, or because they didn't want those things threatened and used against them in the moderately common Party vs DM mentality back in the day.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Iry, post: 7300711, member: 6777378"] Yeah, this is an important element of it. It was a homeless migrant worker. Back in the 80s, I remember there was some mild (and somewhat affectionate) social commentary about the term Murderhobo: [B]Murder[/B] = Yes, it definitely references the habit of many early roleplayers to primarily overcome their problems with violence even when given the choice of non-violent solutions. It also makes sly commentary about adventurers killing without sufficient provocation because of things like "Evil" races, "Ugly" races, bad attitudes, or just because someone else said so. [B]Hobo[/B] = Migrant worker, someone who travels around and finds work. A decent term for a group of adventurers who travel from dungeon to dungeon, or quest to quest, without any focus on settling down in one location. It also makes sly commentary about early roleplayers intentionally minimizing plot hooks like family members, spouses, or children because they thought it was cool to get revenge for dead loved ones, or because they didn't want those things threatened and used against them in the moderately common Party vs DM mentality back in the day. [/QUOTE]

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