Do you enforce "the call of nature"?

[Phaedrus]

For those who wish to spare no expense, why not a Bag of Devouring, planar gate (one way!), or a Sphere of Annihilation? Cheaper would be imprisoned otyughs, gelatinous cubes, or puddings/oozes/jellies.

Could you teleport the contents of a cesspool (into a field in need of fertilizer or such)?

 

[Nifft]

the planar chamberpot

"Beware, for if you poo too hard into the Abyss, the Abyss also poos into you."

or

"Ahhh... hey, watch it with the tentacles! HEY!!"

-- N

 

[Hida Bukkorosu]

what did people use for toiletpaper back then?

 

[Umbra]

I play that it is a problem when the party is obviously in a place where waste disposal may become a problem. For example, a secret room the party was using as a base of operations in a giant dungeon crawl began to generate an odour when the party had been hiding there for more than a day with increased chances of being detected, of disease, etc.

The party also 'encounters' waste pits in any dungeon where a large group of creatures lives whether it be bat guano or a hobgoblin latrine.

The waste can also be an important clue to the party as to what they may encounter next, where creatures may be, how many there might be and how long an area may have been in use.

 

[hong]

Can we get back to arguing about l*w m*gic now?

 

[S'mon]

IMC some cultures have flush toilets (eg the Romanesque Albines), other more western-medieval ones rely on chamber-pots. Not that this usually gets mentioned in-game, but neither do most other necessary functions like eating and (hopefully) bathing, teeth-cleaning & such.

It's not particularly anachronistic to have flushing toilets in a D&D setting, as has been noted the complete absence of public sanitation for 1500 years in western Europe was an interruption between the end of the Classical era & the Victorian reemergence of toiletry.

 

[diaglo]

Regarding, outhouses, what happens to all that waste anyway, does it just accumulate and sit there?

you need to read this book:

http://www.abbeys.com.au/items.asp?id=209553

 

[The_Universe]

In one of my all-time worst DM moments, I had made a carefully constructed map of a small keep. My players were attending a ball held by the noble, and one of them wanted to find a place with a little privacy to prepare some magic she needed to expose the hidden evil of the noble.

She looks up at me and says, "Where is the bathroom?"

I blinked, shocked. "Uh...there is no bathroom." I hadn't even drawn in Garderobes. There was a small bath house attached to the manor, but that's not quite the same thing.

I ended up just saying "There's an outhouse outside" but all my castles/fortresses/dungeons have apropriate waste disposal now!

 

[Henry]

I find it odd to enforce toiletry functions, and then turn around and use hit points and armor class for combat.

what did people use for toiletpaper back then?

There's a reason it is an ancient tradition to only eat with the right hand...

I do place cesspools, sewers, and barderobes in my settings, but I also sometimes leave them absent, or substitute something else in their place ("why does this wizard have three sea shells in his garderobe???") just for the curiosity of it.

 

[Djeta Thernadier]

I now know way more about toilets and their history than I think I ever really wanted to...