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Murderhobo

Joking description of adventurers as rootless wanderers who kill everything they meet and loot the bodies. It captures, and mocks, the default morality of the classic Dungeon crawl.

Joking description of adventurers as rootless wanderers who kill everything they meet and loot the bodies. It captures, and mocks, the default morality of the classic Dungeon crawl.

Origin

Online gamer slang, widespread by the 2010s.

Quick answers

What does "Murderhobo" mean?
Joking description of adventurers as rootless wanderers who kill everything they meet and loot the bodies. It captures, and mocks, the default morality of the classic Dungeon crawl.
Where does the term "Murderhobo" come from?
Online gamer slang, widespread by the 2010s.

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Dungeon crawl

Tabletop term

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