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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DDK" data-source="post: 712323" data-attributes="member: 6469">Two things:1) The whelk thing is cool. If it was an ancient sea-bed, I can imagine that the shells wouldn't just be laying on the surface but rather would be embedded in the earth. Was that what you meant? If so, quite a cool idea as it would provide the structure for various levels. The inner part of a shell like this is essentially a spiralling tube/tunnel which could be further sectioned off.Due to the tapering, it would be logical to assume that most would either be upright (with the base being the wider part) or on their sides. For those that are upright, I could see just the tip remaining above the surface, creating a sortof iceberg effect where the majority of the object is hidden from view. A tiny little entrance of some obscure material leading to a labyrinth below... sounds like a great dungeon too!Perhaps, being an ancient sea-bed, some could be near a cliff face out to sea. The ones that landed on their sides near the cliff would have thier tips or maybe bases exposed, creating another neat effect with access points sticking out of the cliff face.Or, even better, like in Australia, the center of Australia was once a sea-bed and is now a sandy desert. Imagine a race of desert dwellers living in these cool, underground palaces!Also, underground, you could have tunnels linking to other ones, perhaps ones entirely buried and on their sides, maybe even a few giant conch shells as well! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />2) To a certain extent, different and fantastic materials have already been used in fantasy quite a lot. Some for instances I can recall from Greyhawk are the various castles and towers built to avoid a tax placed on stone structures (tax avoidance and magic, who woulda thunk it? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ). From memory there is a Sand Castle (haha), a castle of shells, a castle of bones and a castle of adamantine.There are also some others like Onyxgate and Bloodcrystal (which sprang up overnight and looks like congealed blood) and then there's Dorakaa: City of Skulls and the Road of Skulls (a road literally built of skulls).Tenser's tower I think was also made of a blue stone although, I'm tired and I can't recall properly. Then there's the Causeway of Fiends, a stone walkway from which Delglath the Undying used a piece of to craft his Talisman of Ultimate Evil (at 13th level no less!), and the Cauldron of Night which is essentially a cavern of black stone that radiates pure evil from which the Malachite Throne was built.Oh... then there's also Oerthblood... the literal blood of the planet... cool, huh?</blockquote>

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