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<blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 5699629" data-attributes="member: 6957">The one downside of the Maiden, which is also a big upside, is that the thing is huge - about two feet long and almost that tall. It dominates a table, and with the number of cannon that it can carry.... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil&nbsp; &nbsp; :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" />One comment that I got from the kids when I used Canals with the Dwarf Halls sets was that it made the place seem large - that they were only seeing part of a vast underground empire.This was in the same scenario where they listened to a dragon's theories of economics... 'Wealth, true wealth, is organic. It feeds, grows, and multiplies. It creates lines of communication, it promotes travel and enterprise. These coins that I bed on were the least part of my wealth, and what I commanded was the least part of the wealth of this city. These coins are static, cold, and dead....' They went in expecting to battle a dragon, and instead they got a lecture on economics and were recruited to help rebirth a city.... The dragon promising one tenth of one percent of the city's income for one hundred years.... A vast fortune, if they can pull it off. The dragon was not the city's destroyer, but rather its last defender, who's breath had once fired the forges, and who considered itself the foster son of this fallen kingdom.The Auld Grump</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheAuldGrump, post: 5699629, member: 6957"] The one downside of the Maiden, which is also a big upside, is that the thing is [i]huge[/i] - about two feet long and almost that tall. It dominates a table, and with the number of cannon that it can carry.... :devil: One comment that I got from the kids when I used Canals with the Dwarf Halls sets was that it made the place seem [i]large[/i] - that they were only seeing part of a vast underground empire. This was in the same scenario where they listened to a dragon's theories of economics... 'Wealth, true wealth, is organic. It feeds, grows, and multiplies. It creates lines of communication, it promotes travel and enterprise. These coins that I bed on were the least part of my wealth, and what I commanded was the least part of the wealth of this city. These coins are static, cold, and dead....' They went in expecting to battle a dragon, and instead they got a lecture on economics and were recruited to help rebirth a city.... The dragon promising one tenth of one percent of the city's income for one hundred years.... A vast fortune, if they can pull it off. The dragon was not the city's destroyer, but rather its last defender, who's breath had once fired the forges, and who considered itself the foster son of this fallen kingdom. The Auld Grump [/QUOTE]

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