Tell your DM you have a fever, and the only cure is real dungeons and dragons with cowbells.

As someone who has played alot of Call of Cthulhu there is a distinct lack of Cthulhu. But I am presently playing Traveler and let me tell you something - there is A LOT of traveling.

It really depends on who your DM is.

I have not yet played a campaign without either dungeons or dragons. A gold dragon is typically the one giving us quests, which requires delving into dungeons or we end up being captured and thrown in one by the BBG.

Like you said, it's been around for a while, so most of the actual dungeons have been picked clean and all we've really been left with over the last 30-40 years barely fit the legal definition!

You made me realize Balder's Gate 3 does in fact contain ample dungeons and even multiple dragons.

My players have yet to discover any paths. They just keep following the ones that are readily visible on the map!

Blame it on two year old Cindy Gygax who picked the name out of a few choices.

I started a campaign where, after 20 years of gaming with this group, we were finally going to have a dragon for a big bad. Then my entire country collapsed irl, destroying the game. It's like the universe abhors actually having dragons in your D&D game.

But these so-called "dungeons"? No captives. Not even any cells. That's not a dungeon. that's a glorified cave.

I've always wondered how the term "dungeon" as it's used in RPGs came to be. a lot of appendix N literature had locations we would now consider dungeons, but were they called that at the time? and then the first RPG dungeon was the literal dungeon under Blackmoor Castle, but very early on we had dungeons that stopped being literal dungeons- didn't B1 and B2 exclusively have cave "dungeons?" and the Ruined Tower of Zenopus in the first Basic book had underground portions but I think those were caves too!

Dragon Delves exists, it is, I believe 12 different dragon focused adventures for levels 1-12.

I recently ran a group of high school kids through The Shattered Obelisk Phandelver and Below, which has a dragon in it. The group kept avoiding the area with it. I finally had it make an appearance to save their bacon.

We asked our DM to avoid using flying enemies after a dragon tpk’d us by breath weaponing and retreating for 30 rounds. Give me a tarasque before you even consider offering me a competent dragon

The Dungeon is YOUR MIIIIIND. The Dragons are the friends we made along the way. At least I assume so. I don’t play Dungeons & Dragons, I play Deeandy Fivey.

Be the change you want to see

Not with that attitude.

If you compare it with most other rpg:s there's actually a lot of both dungeons and dragons in DnD.

Funny story, it's to fix the second half of this complaint that TSR got Dragonlance going

My players have finally encountered a dragon for the first time last week. They managed to resolve the situation peacefully and have taken up a quest to do for the dragon. Currently they are being mogged by a Blob of Annihalation instead. Fun times.

Oubliettes and nebbishes?