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That's one way to do it, but that's not consistent with others, earlier in the thread, who said that there's only one Material Plane. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks for your input. I'm not too worried about how little life there is in a typical "living" cave; if that's not fixed by surface water coming in, it can be fixed by fantastic creatures that can eat rock, or something similar. If you make the thing deep enough, the ecosystem can be powered by...

*Casts Resurrect Thread* Okay, I'm with you that there's only one Prime Material Plane (or only one per campaign?). But then, where is Earth? Earth canonically exists in D&D. Elminster has visited it, PCs in certain modules visited it, etc. So where is it? Is our world in its own crystal...

On the other hand, having a living ecosystem in a dead cave makes much less sense. Some level of realism (along with how much more interesting the real world can be than randomly generated dungeons) is why I want this in the first place. And the fact that Mammoth Cave is long stretches of...

Are you aware of any effort to convert Mammoth Cave (or parts of it, at least) into a playable dungeon? I've been looking (which is how I found this thread), and I haven't found anything. I may have to do it myself.

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Is there a PDF checklist or database/spreadsheet version?

The 4e Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide says, Did this ever happen? Were there ever any official updates to the Grand History?

I think calling someone names after they've blocked you is warranted. You'll notice I did no such thing before that.

People are so funny. I know why you don't want to talk anymore: You know you're wrong and there's no way you could construct a dwelling and lifestyle that would be equivalent to Comfortable in two weeks, and don't want to admit it. And so you and Sacrosanct run away instead of debating what I...

Oh, Jesus. Sacrosanct deleted all his posts. What a moron. I guess he realized he was being an idiot and got embarrassed. Sad; I think he was close to admitting that you couldn't construct a Comfortable lifestyle in the woods in anything short of several months, and so we could actually start...

Certainly maintenance is not just repair, but it includes repair. And it's very difficult to do this sort of maintenance and repair on metal weapons and armor in the woods, wouldn't you say?

Caliban's entirely right. You and Sacrosanct are trying to talk up the benefits of homesteading; I'm talking about rules for the few weeks between adventures. Those seem pretty clearly different things.

False. Wretched: "Violence…follows you wherever you go." Squalid: "you have few legal protections." Once you have legal protections, it isn't mentioned past that, as all the levels above that are presumed to have them too. So, obviously, someone Comfortable has all the legal protections a Poor...

This really illustrates the problem here. The standard for the woodsman is self-sufficiency. He is, by definition, not trading with others to get things like books, candles, and clothes. The artisan, however, trades for everything. He makes nothing for himself (depending on exactly what his art...

I'm not. I'm debating whether those experiences satisfy the rules description of "Comfortable." I'm taking your experiences for granted, though asking questions to nail things down like whether you literally never miss meals (which seems implausible to me). Shelter at a comfortable level? A...

Are you saying that you would do much better than he seems to be doing if plopped down in an unfamilar terrain, with the equipment he has, in the time he's there (a couple of days, usually)? You know, you could just say, "I don't think the rules imply that you're only there for a few weeks, as...

Good Lord. You have literally gone off the rails here. You're talking about homesteading, not woodland survival. You're not "surviving" at all anymore. You are not in anything that might be called a "survival situation," so it would seem you're not even really using the Survival skill anymore...

What other maintenance does adventuring gear need? Are you saying that this part of the rule is meaningless?

All of Economics. You can start with Wealth of Nations and go from there. Yes, but "equipment" in this context means adventuring gear: Swords, shields, armor, spellbooks, etc. Um…what? If you are contracting, trading or bartering, you are receiving assistance. By your definiton, the blacksmith...