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<blockquote data-quote="Springheel" data-source="post: 6853089" data-attributes="member: 6828720">Since I only have personal experience with &quot;what humans do&quot;, that's probably unavoidable. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As I said above, while I want an elven city to make sense and feel different from a human one, I don't want to have to stop the adventure every time my players ask a question about their home and try to work out the answer.&nbsp; So the more I can fall back on typical fantasy tropes, the better.&nbsp; I realize those are two opposing goals, so I'm hoping for some broad strokes that would help me improvise on the spot.For example, if players ask a normal question like, &quot;does the city have sewers we can use to try to access the [insert building x]?&quot; that would stop me in my tracks.&nbsp; Do elven cities have sewer systems??&nbsp; The notion of dark, grimy sewers being shoveled out by dung farmers does not fit into any conception of elves I've seen.&nbsp; How would that even work if they live in the trees?&nbsp; So my first inclination would be to say no.&nbsp; But then, how does their waste system work?&nbsp; Do they use chamber pots and dump them onto the forest floor?&nbsp; Do they use magic somehow?Most human cities would typically dump refuse into a highly polluted river, but again, that doesn't seem to fit how elves are viewed, so what do they do?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Springheel, post: 6853089, member: 6828720"] Since I only have personal experience with "what humans do", that's probably unavoidable. :) As I said above, while I want an elven city to make sense and feel different from a human one, I don't want to have to stop the adventure every time my players ask a question about their home and try to work out the answer. So the more I can fall back on typical fantasy tropes, the better. I realize those are two opposing goals, so I'm hoping for some broad strokes that would help me improvise on the spot. For example, if players ask a normal question like, "does the city have sewers we can use to try to access the [insert building x]?" that would stop me in my tracks. Do elven cities have sewer systems?? The notion of dark, grimy sewers being shoveled out by dung farmers does not fit into any conception of elves I've seen. How would that even work if they live in the trees? So my first inclination would be to say no. But then, how does their waste system work? Do they use chamber pots and dump them onto the forest floor? Do they use magic somehow? Most human cities would typically dump refuse into a highly polluted river, but again, that doesn't seem to fit how elves are viewed, so what do they do? [/QUOTE]

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