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Message: <blockquote data-quote="index" data-source="post: 1648452" data-attributes="member: 21195">mapsKerrick wrote:> [....] but how many characters carry around tons of maps?> Might still be useful in a limited sense - say, you have a huge > dungeon and the creator made a series of maps so that he > wouldn't get lost...Most games I've played in had the usual horribly medievalmaps despite magic, so usually my characters MAKE good mapsand sell copies.  In my last game, my Ranger/Wizard had onebook for his spells, one for his maps and journal, and threebooks back home for previous maps and journals.  Every timehe found a good library (not often), he was able to gainaccess by letting them copy his journals and maps.  (He keptthe sensitive information on removable pages expressly forthis purpose.)I don't think the creator of a huge underground complexwould make maps to keep from getting lost -- he alreadyknows the place.  However, if multiple people arecooperating, then the probably WOULD make maps.  Especiallyif they want to be able to charge rent from new residents.Why would anyone want to live underground?  Near constanttemperature, controlled weather, easy to keep biting insectsout, with enough Continual Flame spells you can grow lots ofcrops...  Lots and lots of reasons.  With a 2nd-level spell(Soften Earth and Rock?) that makes digging solid rock easy,and with the relative durability of underground homes, Idon't know why so many D&D houses are above ground.(IMC, the reason there are a noticeable number ofunderground complexes for delving is because theabove-ground cities of the Ancients have already been lootedor destroyed in wars.  The Ancients built underground forsecurity (a few hundred meters of rock will stop a lot) andobscurity (IMC, ten feet of rock will block all mid- andlow-level scrying).)  Most of the 'dungeons' that people canfind are ancient military complexes, 'factories' (why spoilthe wilderness when you can build under it) and bombshelters from the manors of rich ancients.  Abandoned minesare not common as 'dungeons' IMC because I assume thatmining technology progresses somewhat like the real world,so that people dig the same old mines over and over, usingpreviously bad ore.  Most ancient 'dungeons' have not yetbeen found IMC, but wizards with various excavation spellshave done the same over the past three thousand years, andmany of those complexes have been abandoned, then found byothers.)--index</blockquote>

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