03-03-2021, 08:55 AM | #12 |
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Re: How much did the labyrinth of doom cost to dig?
That is how I envision creating a dungeon. Finding a natural cave system with only minor adjustments needed compared to a fully blown virgin dig.
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03-04-2021, 06:24 PM | #13 | |
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Location: Boston area
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Re: How much did the labyrinth of doom cost to dig?
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It's all a matter of balance. Cidri is really quite civilized in its way, with an implicit social contract including ogres, trolls and demons, each knowing their place for the most part. And if it weren't for the occasional miscreant who steps over the line, what would a PC do anyway? The campaign can't always be about economic issues, after all, or have we learned nothing from George Lucas? |
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03-04-2021, 07:16 PM | #14 |
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Location: Pacheco, California
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Re: How much did the labyrinth of doom cost to dig?
The dwarves of Dran dig a Tollenkar's every week to month. (Depending on your assumptions about their economy) They've been doing this for at least two centuries.
You're not going to run low on labyrinths any time soon.
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03-04-2021, 07:51 PM | #15 | |
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After two centuries, Dwarven population density in the mountains would surely be lower than Wyoming. Unless they breed like rabbits and that just doesn't seem dwarfish to me. |
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03-04-2021, 08:28 PM | #16 | |
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Re: How much did the labyrinth of doom cost to dig?
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A Wyoming population density of dwarves gives 12k in the mountains, which is comfortably in the range. Wyoming mines 40 million ITL hexes a year, but they don't have magic or dwarves.
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03-04-2021, 10:32 PM | #17 |
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Re: How much did the labyrinth of doom cost to dig?
Modern mining is a red queen's race. As we exhaust the ore/oil/coal/whatever in mines we switch to others. But this is only possible because our technology keeps improving so mining that was impossible becomes possible. If our society falls then our successors won't have much to mine (other than our ruins) because they won't have the technology to mine the places that haven't been exhausted.
How does this relate to Cidri?
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03-04-2021, 11:00 PM | #18 |
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Location: Sydney, Australia
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Re: How much did the labyrinth of doom cost to dig?
Dungeons are the sites of gates into other worlds. Rock from our world falls through these wandering gates to become rocks rolling out of nowhere in the other world. It leaves voids in our world. Later, wandering monsters from their world blunder through the gates to find themselves underground in ours.
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03-05-2021, 01:19 AM | #19 | |
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03-05-2021, 01:45 AM | #20 | |
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