Re: (TFT) Re: TFT Digest V4 #253

[Jim Kundert <gypsycomet@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:36 AM, David Bofinger
<bofinger.david@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Speaking of agriculture, how do dungeons and dwarf cities feed
> themselves? Is it trade, with farmers outside, or do they have a food
> production method that works underground? I think I prefer the latter.

Probably all three. Dwarf-owned farming and ranching in high protected
places, trade with lowlanders, and mushrooms.  Lots of mushrooms.

> I once had a theory of dungeons that they are places of leakage
> between worlds. Nobody built them - the rock just leaked away. And the
> wandering monsters are just arrived in our world without benefit of
> ecology. It explains a lot.

Following this idea with a bit of Niven, don't walk into fogs in
dungeons.  The world on the other side of the fog won't be your own.
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