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<blockquote data-quote="Melan" data-source="post: 2983449" data-attributes="member: 1713">What should I do with the ogres and stuff? Talk to them? Invite them to a pleasant afternoon of tea and biscuits?It states right up it is not an ecology experiment. In the text. I also see that as a good thing... really, why should dungeons have functional ecologies? What's wrong with improbability, surrealism and plainly fantastic stuff that doesn't make sense from a conventional viewpoint? IMHO dungeons per definitionem &quot;don't make sense&quot;. I see no need to &quot;explain&quot; the rationales for why monsters and traps are there. They are there because the players will find them entertaining. Of course, I wouldn't put live goblins in an abandoned pyramid otherwise inhabited by undead, but that's still only thematic appropriateness and not a real ecology.What do the monsters eat? Probably adventurers. What are 22 trolls doing with a jug of alchemy? We don't know either.Recognise this bit? I hope you do.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Melan, post: 2983449, member: 1713"] What should I do with the ogres and stuff? Talk to them? Invite them to a pleasant afternoon of tea and biscuits? It states right up it is not an ecology experiment. In the text. I also see that as a good thing... really, why should dungeons have functional ecologies? What's wrong with improbability, surrealism and plainly fantastic stuff that doesn't make sense from a conventional viewpoint? IMHO dungeons per definitionem "don't make sense". I see no need to "explain" the rationales for why monsters and traps are there. They are there because the players will find them entertaining. Of course, I wouldn't put live goblins in an abandoned pyramid otherwise inhabited by undead, but that's still only thematic appropriateness and not a real ecology. What do the monsters eat? Probably adventurers. What are 22 trolls doing with a jug of alchemy? We don't know either. Recognise this bit? I hope you do. [/QUOTE]

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