le grand fromage
Explorer
The Troika supplement "Get it at Sutler's" has lots of "scenario generation ideas" for a "Mall based local/campaign"? Tends a bit more towards Pythonesque than Tolkien but could be "an inspirational asset"?
D&D General How would you do a fantasy mall?
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Paul Farquhar
Legend
A slightly adjacent topic, but I recently reread REH's Red Nails, and I was stuck by how his lost city resembled an abandoned shopping mall. A large low rectangular building, lots of glass in the roof for light, a closed environment, wide east-west and north-south boulevards surrounded by dwellings (some called out as shops) on two levels, a large central atrium under a glass dome, an underground level infested with undead monsters, ornamental turrets and cupolas on the outside, etc.
The problem is, the novella was written 20 years before shopping malls were invented. So I got to thinking what else it resembled, and I thought of the Crystal Palace. I'm pretty sure REH never visited it in London, but it burned down the same year the novella was written, so he may have read descriptions in the newspapers. In addition, there were several copies built in the late 19th century, including a short-lived one in New York. REH couldn't have seen that either. But my research dried up when it came to copies of copies. I suspect there were quite a number built, and furthermore went on to become the architectural inspiration for the original shopping malls.
The problem is, the novella was written 20 years before shopping malls were invented. So I got to thinking what else it resembled, and I thought of the Crystal Palace. I'm pretty sure REH never visited it in London, but it burned down the same year the novella was written, so he may have read descriptions in the newspapers. In addition, there were several copies built in the late 19th century, including a short-lived one in New York. REH couldn't have seen that either. But my research dried up when it came to copies of copies. I suspect there were quite a number built, and furthermore went on to become the architectural inspiration for the original shopping malls.
MarkB
Legend
Reminds me of Skyrim, where simple potions are easy enough to make that you see health and stamina potions set out at peoples' dinner tables.
In D&D healing potions are too expensive to be so ubiquitous, but maybe these are diluted versions that only heal a hit point or two - that'd be good enough for most civilians.
Actually, that gives an idea - maybe this is a franchise run by druids, and these concoctions are based on juiced Goodberries, with all the variants being based upon which type of berry was enchanted, whether they're served as juices or smoothies or flavoured yogurts etc.
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