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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6386672" data-attributes="member: 4937">My justifications are typically of the form:&quot;In the real world, when people built a city out of stone, they tended to quarry that stone from beneath the city.&nbsp; The result was often massive quarry and mine complexes that vastly exceed the scale of the largest published dungeons.&nbsp; So in my fantasy world, where quarrying stone is typically a more refined art, which can be aided by magic, and where the technologies that allow for deep mining have been known back into prehistory, it's highly realistic that large underground complexes exist and that as in the real world these spaces are often repurposed after their original purpose as stone quarries is no longer necessary.&quot;&quot;In the real world, people built underground cities as a means of defense.&nbsp; So in my fantasy world, where quarrying stone is typically....&quot;The real difficulty in a realistic justification for dungeons isn't so much their existence, but that they are interesting.&nbsp; Real world abandoned structures are almost never interesting in the way that fantasy dungeons are on just about every level.&nbsp; It's at that point that I have to start referencing 'magic' as not only the primary explanation, but the sole explanation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 6386672, member: 4937"] My justifications are typically of the form: "In the real world, when people built a city out of stone, they tended to quarry that stone from beneath the city. The result was often massive quarry and mine complexes that vastly exceed the scale of the largest published dungeons. So in my fantasy world, where quarrying stone is typically a more refined art, which can be aided by magic, and where the technologies that allow for deep mining have been known back into prehistory, it's highly realistic that large underground complexes exist and that as in the real world these spaces are often repurposed after their original purpose as stone quarries is no longer necessary." "In the real world, people built underground cities as a means of defense. So in my fantasy world, where quarrying stone is typically...." The real difficulty in a realistic justification for dungeons isn't so much their existence, but that they are interesting. Real world abandoned structures are almost never interesting in the way that fantasy dungeons are on just about every level. It's at that point that I have to start referencing 'magic' as not only the primary explanation, but the sole explanation. [/QUOTE]

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