genres have murky origins. two years before 'rogue' there was 'beneath apple manor'. interestingly, it has more organic level generation than rogue. i'd love to know how this algorithm works!
we can learn both from the history we hear about and the history we don't.
for posterity, this is the plate tectonics sim which derailed one of my earlier attempts at making this RPG. the project folder after that was called 'no plate tectonics'.