tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842087556081043371.post7028470017681773682..comments2022-04-01T16:46:42.462-05:00Comments on Board Enterprises: Reasons for DungeonsBoardEnthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15462361536278304286noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842087556081043371.post-43293709002003533872015-09-07T18:42:56.216-05:002015-09-07T18:42:56.216-05:00First off - Glad you liked Pockets!
Second - I lov...First off - Glad you liked Pockets!<br />Second - I love the way you mentioned that different races are crafting different mines. I have a massive, underground city inhabited by the dwarves. It started out as a titan mine thousands of years ago. But they got to a point where they couldn’t get enough jewelry quality diamonds out of it for the amount of money/resources it was costing them. (It was on a distant continent from their home city, the mine actually ran under the sea, etc.)<br />But then the dwarves came along. This was their home country, so they had better support. They were smaller so they could make smaller, more easily braced tunnels. They utilize a more earth magic based magic, and so were better able to manage the tunnels and the diamonds. Probably most importantly, the dwarves were using the uglier diamonds in tools and were therefore happy to have the non-jewelry grade gems, though they have found some jewelry grade as well.<br />So how does this mesh with his points? One of the main points of this city is that the main tunnels into the city and in some of the larger caverns are huge - big enough for carts and wagons or titans. No, they do not have livestock this deep down, but they have dwarven powered carts. Then you get into the newer areas, and they are dwarven sized - only about 4’8” and nowhere near as wide. So I agree completely!BoardEnthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15462361536278304286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842087556081043371.post-8631941758958509652015-09-05T21:48:31.442-05:002015-09-05T21:48:31.442-05:00I happen to live n an area that was heavily exploi...I happen to live n an area that was heavily exploited for its resources during the 1600s-1900s; everything from ship masts of great white pines, to gold and other minerals. I was driving back an old logging / mining road the other week, and saw the many century old manganese / gold mines that have been flooded and left for many decades now. The topsoil here is very thick,; glaciers just ground the Appalachians and dumped it here. Dig a few feet and you are standing in water, even on the hills. However, the experience lead me to thinking about this blog entry about dungeons.<br />I thought to mysself; of course! successive explorers, settlers, resource hunters, would have set up mines throughout the aeons of the fantasy worlds we create; they probably follow a cycle of seeing and old hole, digging in to see what the fuss was about, maybe find a nugget, and keep going, until whatever happened to the last poor souls hits them, and so on. Mining tunnels by various races would be different in shape, size, safety and construction...they might cross an underground lake, where the spring water river running in is wearing the sediment from the denser minerals, Bingo! large cavern around the underground lake!<br />It makes sense that a savvy adventurer might build himself a fort over the entrance to the mineshaft; over the years, now a thriving trade town has been sitting atop it and maybe the shaft has been forgotten; maybe it leads to the monastery out of town, maybe it collapses. <br />Here, in our old manganese mines, the operations released a lot of uranium into the water supply, and arsenic. Unintended consequences that don't really show up right away, but suddenly a curse has befell the town in it's greed for gold! Can an alchemist figure it out before the zealots hang the miners?<br />I know I'm not into original territory here, but I just wanted to share that even us old gamers can get rejuvenated by asking some tough questions and observing the world around us. Now, I know that is what BE is all about, and I am glad that it is rubbing off a bit!<br />BTW, picked up D1000 pockets!! I think it is my favourite BE product yet. Now I know how to make those ancient miner's corpses very interesting indeed...Nova Scotia Dreamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00442827914256027088noreply@blogger.com