The distinction might be so obvious people are overlooking it. I would suspect the difference between a quote "goodie hut" and a dungeon would be that a goodie hut is a single building that requires no exploration and only has the potential for one battle. A dungeon on the other hand I suspect would be larger (several tiles in size) with multiple rooms or levels. The dungeon would also have the potential for multiple battles with a boss or mini-boss in the final level / room / whatever. That is my take on the subject anyway. 

BoogieBack,

Thanks for the awesome update, it's really great to hear some specific stuff going on with the game!

Based on BoogieBac's last post it seems like the distinction probably has nothing to do with combat. BoogieBac's example of a troll encampment makes it seem like it will be something you can interact with on an ongoing basis - the trolls could possibly stray from their encampment and cause problems for your kingdom, or you could befriend them and recruit trolls from it now and then, etc. So my guess is that the only distinction is that goodie huts occupy one tile on the map, and WYSWYG, while dungeons are map objects that lead to a larger area that must be explored and all.

I took interaction to mean there are situations where there is no fighting to get a reward (You find some lost crates) and there are situations where fighting is necessary to get a reward (fighting trolls / bandits). I suppose you could expand the "goodie hut" system to include something like your troll example but that would feel kind of lame to me. I would expect trolls in your situation to have a dungeon / encampment base of operations not a lonely hut on the map. Although, I am assuming that he meant goodie hut singular. 

"Goodie hut," as far as I know is just a term taken from the Civilization (or maybe colonization?) series - where there were literally lone huts on the map that would do something - either give you a bonus of some sort, vanish your explorer, spawn barbarians, etc. The term has grown to mean anything of the sort, regardless of its graphical content. Considering the rarity of magical creatures in Elemental, I wouldn't expect a troll encampment to be very big at all - so a single tile would be believable to me. If a troll encampment could be the size of even a small human city, then I'd expect to see hundreds of not thousands of trolls and that does not sound like what Stardock has in mind.

Pre Odred today.  Very excited to get my hooks into the alpha/beta.

Stradock and Bioware are probably the only developers I would ever guy a game from sight unseen.

Really?  Wow, where do they live, in Africa?  Asia? 

mythical doesn't equate to magical if you ask me. I would also guess that they live in Europe if trolls were real.

I'm excited to visit a goodie hut and encounter one of these troll homes.   African or Asian or whatever.   I just want to be like "I hope my 1 scout unit turns up a 2nd free unit, or perhaps a setlter" to instead turn a swarm of forum trolls lose on my starting town.

Goodie Huts: For All Your Bear Cavalry Needs

I think the term "goody hut" is toooooo Civ-ish.

Maybe something with a bit more pizzazz should be used. For example: sepulcher.

Shoot maybe make a contest of out coming up with a name for it that is befitting this title.

That's a good distinction, though trolls are frequently considered are at least partly magical given they can regenerate to fully healthy even when dead, unless burned. Dragons probably fall under mythical as well though, unless you're considering in some mythos they can cast spells or glamours or some such.

I find a lot of more modern dragon stories actually create a 'reason' that dragons breath fire other than "magic".  Often it comes from some sort of organ that produces a flamable gas (which happens to some extent in real life, it just doesn't come out of our mouths, nor is it expelled in amounts that it could be used for anything other than accidently clearing an elevator) and often lighting it is accidental (either because the gas natuarally combusts when in contact with oxygen, or there is another reason it gets hot enough to ignight)  hints: sleeping dragon puffing flames with its snores

Whats more, a lot of dragons that european dragons that come to mind (in particular the ones found on christian cathedral walls and paintings) did not seem to breath fire at all, but were rather just massive serpant or lizard like creatures of note.

"Goodie" always sounded very elementary school...  so my friends and family would refer to them as  "pizza huts".   Just like pizza hut or any random pizza delivery place... it was usually good and sometimes bad.   Bad such as when they place on the wrong topping ingredients.