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

[Jim Kundert <gypsycomet@gmail.com>]

The Niven I'm refering to is the short "For a Foggy Night".

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Joel BoardgameRpger
<joel.siragher@gmail.com> wrote:
> I liked your post. I have to think about it for a while.
>
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Jim Kundert <gypsycomet@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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