Or possibly "The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters. "
Depends on if you ask Douglas Addams or Genghis Khan.
Games of imagination are never truly done. Yet tomorrow we shall start another one.
The towel thing was a joke (at the time, not now).
My character was a cleric. All my D&D characters are clerics. So after his ablutions, he had some means of drying off. After trudging through a swamp, he had some means of wiping off. When kneeling to pray in a desert, he had something to kneel on. When rescuing the princess, he had some means of drying her eyes. It is in fact impossible to get through any day without using a towel several times, in real life at least.
But there is no rule penalizing dampness in AD&D or any RPG that I can think of.
So while the towel was constantly useful, it was never necessary.
Although now that I think about it, there was one time we got to shoot an invisible opponent with arrows because I hit him with a wet towel.