Dungeon Master Forum

I've had this game well over a quarter of a century, almost 30 years and yet I can't believe this thought never occurred to me.

When you jab or cleave (and possibly disrupt) with the Vorpal Blade, shouldn't it make a "snicker-snack" sound instead of the standard "shwoot" sound used by almost every weapon in the game?

The embarrassing thing is, I know I read a certain Lewis Carroll poem in 5th grade, the same year I got Dungeon Master. Although I think I read the poem in the fall, and didn't get DM until my birthday in February. Yet I never connected it until now.

They mismatched even more things... we have a red dragon and no jabberwock. We have screamers and no Tulgey woods. And why did they place rusters instead of Jabjab birds?

Lol...I think maybe it's just a coincidence? Or did Lewis Carroll actually invent the term "vorpal blade" for his poem?

It was invented for the poem, and FTL pinched it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorpal_sword

Gambit37 wrote:It was invented for the poem, and FTL pinched it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorpal_sword

It's interesting to read about the origins. vorpal is a pretty cool word.

Plus the dragon isn't even a dragon really is it, it's a giant lizard or a dinosaur. It doesn't have any wings!

Yeah, he's more of a wyrm than a dragon, unless your definition of a wyrm is "huge serpentine creature with legs" rather than simply "wingless dragon" - these things vary, after all...