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This is just my curiosity about DROD happening, but why exactly is the term "level" used instead of "floor"? Like I understand that nowdays it works a lot better cause holds have diversified their settings so using "level" makes more sense in that regard, but the term's been used even when the series was still fresh and KDD-only, where I personally feel like "floor" would've fit better.

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Whoever heard of a dungeon having floors?

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Oh, huh, well then. I have never seen that webcomic before and I absolutely love you for introducing this to me.

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Perhaps it's because King Dugan's Dungeon, the 'original' DROD and what DROD originally consisted entirely of, persistently and continuously refers to its floors as "Level [number]". And so does the second offical DROD hold, JtRH (because it's in "the same location" to some extent as KDD). That much exposure to the insistent terminology led to lots of user-made holds of the time also referring to their levels as "levels", which one imagines continued the linguistic phenomenon.

On the other hand, the transition from calling everything a "dungeon" to consistently calling them "holds" seems to have occurred in-setting either after or alongside the transition in the real world? I'm less sure of that since I'm not entirely familiar with the history.

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The first recorded instance of them being called "Holds" seems to be Mike's post here. That's in topic #21 on this forum, so it seems like the name hold may have been used from the creation of DROD... or perhaps the development of JtRH.

Also in that thread: the first instance of "puzzle potential".
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Well, Rooted Hold is mentioned in the ending to KDD, but I don't think the term "hold" is explained there. Still, the word in conjunction with DROD clearly goes that far back.
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Because everything in DROD is floorlessly consistent.
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The term "hold" makes a lot of lore sense given their purpose, but was that really planned 11 years in advance?

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Yes.

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