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Where did the term cantrip originate?
The other answers correctly assert the origin of "cantrip" dating back centuries before D&D, but I'd like to add some context for how it made its way into D&D.
In Dragon Magazine #59 ...
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Where did the term cantrip originate?
It is archeic scottish.
It means a spell, charm, or trick.
Sc. 1725 Ramsay Gentle Shepherd Act II. Sc. ii. in Poems (1728):
Here Mausy lives, a Witch, that for sma' Price Can cast her Cantraips, and ...
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Where did the term cantrip originate?
The etymology is unclear, but cantrip is a word whose usage long predates (at least back to the 1710s) its modern use in RPGs.
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What are known portals to the Abyss in Greyhawk?
Dagon's Maw, or the Pit of Hatred
Some SPOILERS follow for the Tammeraut's Fate adventure (in 3.5e version and also a part of the 5e Ghosts of Saltmarsh book).
The module Tammeraut's Fate from Dungeon ...
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What are known portals to hell in the Forgotten Realms?
According to Elminster's Candlekeep Companion, there is a
hellgate on the Fields of the Dead.
Descent into Avernus also mentions a gate in the Fields of the
Dead, but doesn't provide any more ...
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What is the etymology of Mind Blank?
Other answers are in error as to the first appearance of the mind blank spell in D&D. The first appearance was in Supplement-I for the original Dungeons & Dragons game, the Greyhawk booklet by ...
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What is the etymology of Mind Blank?
Given the name "mind blank" and especially given that it was first introduced in an eastern/oriental themed supplement, seems that the inspiration is "no-mind" (or "mushin&...
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What is the etymology of Mind Blank?
The first spell named mind blank in D&D was in the original Oriental Adventures, from 1985, for AD&D 1st Edition (it was originally a wu jen spell).
The mind blank spell protects the ...
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