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<blockquote data-quote="The Dungeon Nazi" data-source="post: 195592" data-attributes="member: 4520">I'll shut up in a minute, I swear.While all those colonies were ridiculously-organized and planned out for maximum efficiency, Rome itself -- because of its history and just because of how it grew and evolved over the many centuries that it thrived as the seat of a huge empire -- was a mish-mash hodgepodge patchwork at best.&nbsp; Like that house that rich old widow whose husband owned a huge gun manufacturer before he died (Remington, maybe?), who went nuts just adding on stuff to her house because the voices told her to -- stairs that don't lead anywhere, doors that open to nothing two or three floors up.&nbsp; During the most opulent eras of the high empire, things were just built for the sake of being built, but there was no real modern-day-type city planning going on for Rome itself.&nbsp; Whenever an emperor decided the city wanted or needed a structure, it'd be built wherever there was room.Although I suppose that in a high-magic campaign, you could say that 2,800 years later, an epic-level psion with the Tuning feat could just rearrange everything nice and orderly and throw in Shell Beach free of charge.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Dungeon Nazi, post: 195592, member: 4520"] I'll shut up in a minute, I swear. While all those colonies were ridiculously-organized and planned out for maximum efficiency, Rome itself -- because of its history and just because of how it grew and evolved over the many centuries that it thrived as the seat of a huge empire -- was a mish-mash hodgepodge patchwork at best. Like that house that rich old widow whose husband owned a huge gun manufacturer before he died (Remington, maybe?), who went nuts just adding on stuff to her house because the voices told her to -- stairs that don't lead anywhere, doors that open to nothing two or three floors up. During the most opulent eras of the high empire, things were just built for the sake of being built, but there was no real modern-day-type city planning going on for Rome itself. Whenever an emperor decided the city wanted or needed a structure, it'd be built wherever there was room. Although I suppose that in a high-magic campaign, you could say that 2,800 years later, an epic-level psion with the Tuning feat could just rearrange everything nice and orderly and throw in Shell Beach free of charge. [/QUOTE]

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