- This article is about the general style of adventure. For the computer game named after it, see Linley's Dungeon Crawl
A dungeon crawl (often referred to as a dungeon crawler or dungeon bash) is a type of role-playing adventure in which the heroes fight their way through an extensive dungeon (or other labyrinthine environment, such as a castle or cave), battling various traps and monsters (often creatures such as dragons and orcs), and looting any treasure they may find. The term can be used in a pejorative sense, since dungeon crawls often lack any meaningful plot or logical consistency. (The parody game Munchkin, as described on its home page, is about "the essence of the dungeon experience... Kill the monsters, steal the treasure, stab your buddy." [1]) Because of the dungeon crawl's simplicity, it can be easier for a gamemaster to run than a more complex adventure, and the "hack and slash" style of play common in dungeon crawls is appreciated by many players who focus on the action and combat aspects of the game. Linleys Dungeon Crawl (or just Dungeon Crawl or Crawl) is a roguelike computer game originally programmed by Linley Henzell in 1995. ...
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Munchkin is a popular card game by Steve Jackson Games, written by Steve Jackson and illustrated by John Kovalic, that has a humorous take on role-playing games, based on the concept of munchkins (immature role-players, playing to win). The card game is itself a spin-off from The...
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In several different types of games, hack and slash refers to a type of game or a style of gameplay which primarily comprises defeating enemies and monsters in combat, typically with swords or other melee weapons, hence the name. ...
Dungeon crawls in Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon crawls in the role playing game Dungeons & Dragons were influenced by J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, the "Lankhmar" short stories by Fritz Leiber, Poul Anderson's "Three Hearts and Three Lions" and by the "Cugel" stories from the Dying Earth books by Jack Vance.[2] This article is about traditional role-playing games. ...
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The word "dungeon" probably became a standard term in the role-playing context through the popularity of Dungeons & Dragons.[citation needed] However, the word does not refer exclusively to prisons but to any dangerous area used as the site for an adventure, such as a cave, ruin, or shipwreck. This article is about the role-playing game. ...
Popularity Visual aids such as maps, models, or miniature figures are often used to represent the landscape of a dungeon in a dungeon crawl. Due to their potential for simplicity and the limited expectations most players have for plot and logical consistency in dungeon crawls, they are fairly popular in computer role-playing games. The roguelike genre is a common and typical example, with endless randomly generated dungeon terrain and randomly placed monsters and treasures scattered throughout. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
A roguelike is a computer game that borrows some of the elements of another computer game, 1980s Rogue. ...
Dugeon crawls in other media The dungeon crawl has also been a major influence on action-based first-person perspective computer games, notably Doom, Doom 2 and Quake.[citation needed] The first dungeon crawl computer game was pedit5 written in 1974 by Rusty Rutherford.[citation needed] pedit5 was the first dungeon crawl. ...
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- ^ DeVarque, Aardy. Literary Sources of D&D. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
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See also Munchkin (role-playing games) A munchkin is a player who plays a normally cooperative game (usually an RPG) to amass as much power and as many kills as possible, whatever the costs to role-playing, the storyline, fairness, logic, or the other players fun. ...
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