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Why D&D has a gelatinous cube

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D&D creator Gary Gygax was evidently a stickler for janitorial logic. Realizing it made absolutely no sense for forgotten, monster-infested underground ruins to be free of rotting corpses and trash, he invented a 10-foot by 10-foot cube of acidic Jell-O that slowly roombas its way through the corridors, dissolving all the garbage. It's essentially fantasy waste management.

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