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14 questions linked to/from Giving Tolkien Architecture a Reality Check: Dwarvish Kingdoms
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How can Dwarves produce honey underground?
I have often heard/read/watched in fantasy about dwarves drinking mead and lots of it. I recently learned that mead is made from honey which requires bees and flowers which require sunlight. I doubt ...
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How many people can you feed per square-kilometer of farmland?
Questions about how to feed a large population keep popping up on this website quite frequently. One obvious option is farming. But how many people can you feed per square-kilometer of farmland?
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Why don't adventurers (and monsters) suffocate in lower levels of dungeons?
Why don't adventurers (and monsters) suffocate in lower levels of dungeons?
Gases in mines and dungeons can be unbreathable
I asked a question about this on Physics to check my reasoning. Why does ...
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What food production methods would allow a metropolis like New York to become self sufficient
In my overcrowded future setting the Hegemony (government of the Earth) wants to make the metropolises of the world self sufficient when it comes to food production. What farming/food production ...
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How would fantasy dwarves exist, realistically? [duplicate]
I've never ever seen even a suggestion of an idea of how dwarves actually can live how they are most often depicted - underground without handwaving or magic (which is just a fancy word for "...
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How large would a mega structure have to be to host 1 billion people indefinitely?
Ruins of buildings, abandoned cities and suburbs dot the coasts of Earth's landmasses, inhabited by wild animals and the pieces of a once vibrant civilization. The oceans are relatively empty, the ...
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Would "lab meat" be able to feed a much larger global population
I read a prediction that if the global fertility rate stayed at the same rate as it was in 1995 by 2150 the population would be 256 billion people. That sounds crazy, but for my sci-fi I'm rolling ...
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How Many Soldiers are Needed to Patrol/Defend a Medieval Wall?
I have a walled city in a medieval RPG setting. It's out in the middle of a desert and has an impossibly efficient means of acquiring water and producing food off of farmland inside the walls (magic ...
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How big would a city of crops need to be to minimise all agricultural land use?
I made these sketches to envision a world where food is grown in buildings and people can live in forests covered lands instead of the land being used for agriculture. But how big would such a city ...
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Arctic City part 1: Electricity
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So a humanoid species has been found in the arctic. Or rather, a humanoid subspecies. That subspecies is Humanoidus Keplerianus Arcticus. They have dense hair all over, sort of like a ...
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How would a group of floating medieval kingdoms sustain themselves
I started creating a world where benders exist - people who can control the elements earth, air, fire and water. All benders control their element by using their "mana" to control it. They can't ...
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How would Elves survive underground without prior experience? [duplicate]
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An Elven nation that once thrived for thousands of years as a predominantly agricultural race was forced underground because of unexplainable occurrences of extreme weather conditions (...
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How much space would a city need within a ringwall to survive for an indefinite period of time?
I'm writing a D&D campaign and the premise is that a big bad thing happened and sent waves of energy pulsing over the landscape. A High Mage type character throws up an enormous wall, surmounted ...
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The optimal professional mix for a space colony
I am the multi trillionaire owner of Handwaveum Inc. who has always been fascinated with travel and living among the stars. I live in your near future where we have developed technology that allows ...
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