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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 170009" data-attributes="member: 891">This is the system used in modern day Korea as well. It's also vastly more efficient than our western system.It also tends to put people low to the ground. Although the heat rises quite well. I notice in American homes the warm part of the house is near the cieling. Which since I lack the Spider Climb spell is a massive wast of my energy bill...One thing about low to ground heating and keeping people low to the ground is furniture can be about 1/4 to 1/2 height. Which is ideal if you have halflings and gnomes in your city...And part of why much of my own fantasy world uses this system since Halflings are so common there.Humans and halflings can sit at the same floor table with little difficulty.You don't need running water for the system to work either. Until recently the Koreans did it with a coal brick burning in a shack outside the home and heating the water in pipes within a self contained system.In rural areas with older homes you still spot this, and sometimes spot people with 'floor burns' from shoddy made floors...I'm another subscriber to the 'use Rome and not the middle ages' school of thought. So much of the way things were under Roman days is better suited to adventuring than the medival paradigm.I remember learning this in High School. We had an African Studies department and they made sure everyone knew this sort of stuff. People would always try to dismiss it the same way they dismiss all the 'ancient mother goddess' theories.</blockquote>

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