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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agback" data-source="post: 2819788" data-attributes="member: 5328">I heard it was Dave Arneson's fondness for spelunking that did it, though of course both might have been influential.I suspect that the keyed map is a more obvious way to space encounters than the keyed flowchart, which is in turn more obvious than the plot-driven adventure. If we hadn't been exploring underground labyrinths we might have been doing essentially the same in castles and temple complexes.De gustibus, non disputandem est. I loathe dungeons, and haven't played a dungeon-crawl since 1984. If an early genesis had produced a game that borrowed its structure and not just features from the inspirational literature I would have found that good.You mileage might of course vary.</blockquote>