Questions tagged [dungeons]
For use in questions concerning locations in a world not commonly populated by general society, such as caves, ruins, and groves, and the traps, puzzles, creatures, rewards, and other detritus found therein.
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How can a vampire navigates a mirror maze? [closed]
Imagine a huge maze consists of mirrors on all sides, these are tempered glass coated with very reflective finishes. The ceiling is also made of tempered glass but it allows a certain wavelength of ...
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"How can adventurers cover long distances quickly within the dungeon?" [closed]
I have been writing a novel, 'The Dungeon,' for a while now (it's been six months already). I've tried to plan almost everything, but there's still a lot before my masterpiece is complete. So, my ...
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Boss attacks for a purple worm [closed]
I am making a boss fight themed quest in Dungeons and Dragons, and I am having trouble coming up with "Boss Attacks" that would be physically possible as well as add diversity to the purple ...
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Would a 4000-year-old booby trap still be poisonous?
I've got a group of characters exploring an ancient ruin who've just set off a classic "darts flying from the walls" booby trap. In theory, when the trap was first built these darts would ...
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What would keep demons existing within pocket realities from entering human domains?
Planet Earth exists as two sides of a coin, with one side containing humans and the other containing demons. These two realities are separated by a barrier that keeps both races from interacting with ...
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This dungeon/ruin has been known to locals for ages. Why would it still have undiscovered portions ripe for looting?
There's a ruin of an ancient structure built by an old powerful civilization thousands of years before. Nearby is one of the fresher cities of this world, currently undergoing an industrial revolution....
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How best could our society explore dungeons?
First of all, for the question of how did the dungeons get there or how we found them let's say that they have been hidden since ancient times by a race of magical wizards. They cast spells making the ...
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Ancient temple booby traps designed for dragons
I grew up watching the Indiana Jones and enjoying the creative death traps and Indy outsmarting them.
What what about dragons?
So this is for a potential novel dealing with a dragon civilization. The ...
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Dungeons for Real: 1. The Bottomless Pit
The bottomless pit
A multi-billionaire has decided to build a dungeon for real as a commercial venture. This is not your reasonably-convincing or VR version. It is a full-blown, full-sized dungeon ...
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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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How can a monster infested dungeon keep out hazardous gases?
There is a newly discovered dungeon believed to be made up of a series of interconnected tunnels and caverns that runs deep beneath the ground, the place is thriving with all kind of terrifying ...
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Why don't monster rulers work together to guard their dungeon against adventurers?
There is a huge dungeon that has been unexplored until recently it was opened up to the public by the authority, adventurers are encouraged to form party to ensure higher chance of survivability.
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Underground dungeon in a swamp
Is it possible to have accessible underground/dungeon in a swamp area? Wouldn't it get flooded? Is there a way around it?
In my case the area was flooded and turned into a swamp - would it make it all ...
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How to hide this underground city from seismologists, oil prospectors, and ground surveying projects?
In my previous question Would this underground city be noticed by seismologists?, it was established that a Goblin city in one of my settings would probably not go unnoticed do to the meddling of ...
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Starting ingredients for perpetual pit of snakes
I want to ensure that my burial tomb is guarded by a pit of snakes for all the ages, similar to that featured in Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark). Initially, I thought I could have an ecosystem ...
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Would this underground city be noticed by seismologists?
The setting is current day Los Angeles... except for the goblin city that exists beneath it. Its chambers range from about 500-2000ft underground and has a population of several thousand. A lot of ...
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Why might any self-respecting dungeon engineer employ a booby trap which isn't lethal?
I've been thinking on it for a while, and it really doesn't make sense.
If I'm a medieval dungeon engineer, designing a dungeon which will guard my vast riches, why in the world would I install a ...
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Dungeon-fed civilization - what are the consequences?
So, I'll start with a short summary:
I wanted to have magic world with other-than-agriculture based civilization. I gave them magic dungeons. I'm afraid that there are many problems I didn't take in ...
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Technological "dungeon" designed to last for millennia
You are Alien McGee. For some reason ( don't ask why ) you need to hide an artifact in our solar system for roughly 20,000 years before coming back and taking it.
Said artifact is a magical vase ...
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Dungeon Reset: Where Do All the Bodies Go?
Dungeons and the System
Shortly after the year 20XX, portals connected to extra-dimensional dungeons appear in the most densely populated areas on Earth. Chaos ensues as dungeon monsters spill out in ...
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Is it possible for nature to create bubble wrap?
Bubble wrap is a synthetic packing material featuring small bubbles that are designed to provide cushion to the protected object and pop in place of damaging the object under excessive stress. They ...
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Why would guns not work in the dungeon?
In my setting I need to have a dungeon where people cannot use guns or other gunpowder weapons.
The reason can be anything: it's impossible to bring guns in, guns don't work inside the dungeon, ...
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Is segregation inevitable in my unorthodox prison world? [closed]
I came up with this idea of creating this world, where the worst of the worst of a fantastic non-magical world are sent to this prison "realm" which keeps expanding chamber by chamber.
The story ...
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How can I get enough food into my underground empire?
I'd like to have a large underground world. Imagine the "Underdark" which will be familiar with DnD folks. A huge network of large and small caverns connected by winding passageways. The occasional ...
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How would healing potions affect our medical system? [closed]
In my story, dungeon entrances have appeared all over the world (modern earth setting) telling the world to prepare for 'bad things' which will start in 5 years (that is what they are told). ...
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How big does a 2D maze need to be to take two centuries to fully map it?
I was reading a question and had a follow-up question with a story idea that I'd like to develop more fully.
The idea is a HUGE maze, thousands (or more) of square miles, that has small clearings ...
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Silica Aerogel maze
In my story to protect his treasure room, the king of a 12th century kingdom has heavily invested in his alchemists, who managed to create silica aerogel in blocks and made them insoluble in water (...
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How fast can dungeons be covered and how low can they sink?
My plot is to have temples,castles and cities built on top of the remains of previous structures repeatedly to create a multi-level underground dungeon. My goal is to figure out how many levels this ...
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What prevents Dungeons from collapsing?
One of the ideas I've had for a story is to have million year old subterranean buildings/cities/temples which have younger architecture built on top of them, resulting in a "dungeon" which would be an ...
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How do lever controlled mechanic structures in dungeons work and how feasible they are?
This has been bothering me for a while but I was reminded of it when I started playing Skyrim again. In the dungeons there are some mechanic works, examples including:
Lever controlled heavy doors ...
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In a world without corpses, why build "burial halls"?
Across countless worlds, the concept of the "burial hall" is an oft-used construct for adventurers to cut their teeth. These locations are often teeming with the animated dead or other necromantic ...
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Maze of Horrors
Based on this question however, instead of killing off normal humans, I wish to kill off magical humans. I wish to prevent others from entering in my dungeon, so I have set up a multitude of magical ...
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What would the Space/SciFi equivalent of an Adventurer's dungeon look like? [closed]
Here's some relevant info:
The society is entirely space based. (So you can't just have an Earth dungeon, or a crashed spaceship, or a planetary colony)
Artificial Gravity does not exist. Large ...
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Can Dungeon Monsters work together?
After asking why monsters do not leave the dungeons, it was explained that they required mana to survive which is scarce outside the dungeon. However what was puzzling for me, was the fact that the ...
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Migrating Dungeon Monsters / Why do monsters not leave the dungeons?
Background : Consider a typical dungeon, which has weak monsters at the top and the lower you go, the stronger the enemies become.
Some questions about dungeons have already been answered - why are ...
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Why fill a dungeon with puzzles?
While exploring a dwarven/dwemer ruin in Skyrim, it occurred to me that the puzzle I was solving made no sense: a series of levers accessible from the direction of the entrance that each caused a wall ...
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Dungeons in a Medieval fantasy
Suppose the typical Medieval fantasy world with elves, humans, dragons, magic, politics, society, and the rest, such as is found in countless open-world games. Open-world games encourage the player to ...
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