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beccaelizabeth) wrote2020-01-26 05:38 pm
beccaelizabeth) wrote2020-01-26 05:38 pm
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When they've got to go
I was just now thinking, it's got to be really difficult to design WCs for fantasy worlds.
I mean, even the standard Pathfinder dudes need loos ins Small and Medium sizes.
And Small will do for children of Medium, but Small still have children too, so really you need Tiny loos.
And what if a Large visits?
But you'd still need wheelchair access, because disability still exists even if wheelchairs aren't industrial standardised yet.
But the wheelchairs would be in all those sizes too?
And then there's like Locathah who are usually aquatic and you wonder what merperson loos are like but probably don't want to know.
And there's Tengu who are like birds, don't know what facilities they'd need.
Lots of different kinds of humanoid ish species.
And that's just for starters.
I mean I'm sure centaurs and driders need the loo too, somehow. I'm not sure they'd fit in a regular building. They should though, people is people is people.
And I was thinking all this because the Lavatory building is up to four squares, and they can be separate squares, five by five feet.
That is just not a lot of toilets.
There's no game advantage to buying extras but... that's really not a lot of room for all the humans you can fit in a building, let alone everyone else.
Game designers put a lot more thought into weapons stats than that.
I mean I can see why, I'm just thinking about it now.
Fantasy bathroom sales would be, like, waaaaay specialised, and they'd need to stock so many things. Or, wait, they could have display models and then just make the rest, because not industrialised yet so workshops typically on the premises.
... need a fancy ceramics workshop...
... or wood, actually, they did a lot with wood.
But loos on spaceships ought to be just as complicated.
In B5 they had ones for methane breathers too. Like, I don't see why they'd need that and not methane corridors... oh wait, even environment suits got to go sometimes... yikes that's complex.
There needs to be a spell. There are cleaning spells, this should be easy too. Except, er, significantly more complex than laundry even before the variables.
But like, for most people it's going to be stuff like this as needs fixing, not monsters.
Though in Pathfinder there are official sewer monsters that exist to eat the garbage etc. They get big and break out to go find new sewers sometimes. Lots of teeth.
Kind of disturbing in the tentacle department.
I personally would not want one of those living at the other end of the loo.
... I just looked themmup and they can talk
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Otyugh
I mean, a waste eating sewer monster that is intelligent enough to speak Common and chat with you is just... a lot.
... I just realised, a tavern with loos is waste disposal and fine dining, for multiple species.
... well that's... efficient.
There's also Sewer Oozes. Like you get gelatinous cubes in dungeons? And assorted colorful puddles that try and digest without the whole having a body thing? They have sewer varieties too.
... maintenance workers in Pathfinder must be low level adventurers. Or, like, not so low...
I am looking on the wiki and there's a module called 'Sewer Dragons of Absalom'.
Dragons.
It might mean Kobolds, but it says Dragons.
Fantasy sewers are a whole problem of their very own.
I started out thinking about accessability across multiple races, I end up finding out the sewer ecosystem is suitable for level seven adventurers at least.
A building needs a Sewer Access room to connect to the town's sewers.
I now realise decent locks and so forth on that are essential.
Unless you want sewer based customers.
So okay. Fantasy world bathrooms. Way more complicated than you'd think.
I mean, even the standard Pathfinder dudes need loos ins Small and Medium sizes.
And Small will do for children of Medium, but Small still have children too, so really you need Tiny loos.
And what if a Large visits?
But you'd still need wheelchair access, because disability still exists even if wheelchairs aren't industrial standardised yet.
But the wheelchairs would be in all those sizes too?
And then there's like Locathah who are usually aquatic and you wonder what merperson loos are like but probably don't want to know.
And there's Tengu who are like birds, don't know what facilities they'd need.
Lots of different kinds of humanoid ish species.
And that's just for starters.
I mean I'm sure centaurs and driders need the loo too, somehow. I'm not sure they'd fit in a regular building. They should though, people is people is people.
And I was thinking all this because the Lavatory building is up to four squares, and they can be separate squares, five by five feet.
That is just not a lot of toilets.
There's no game advantage to buying extras but... that's really not a lot of room for all the humans you can fit in a building, let alone everyone else.
Game designers put a lot more thought into weapons stats than that.
I mean I can see why, I'm just thinking about it now.
Fantasy bathroom sales would be, like, waaaaay specialised, and they'd need to stock so many things. Or, wait, they could have display models and then just make the rest, because not industrialised yet so workshops typically on the premises.
... need a fancy ceramics workshop...
... or wood, actually, they did a lot with wood.
But loos on spaceships ought to be just as complicated.
In B5 they had ones for methane breathers too. Like, I don't see why they'd need that and not methane corridors... oh wait, even environment suits got to go sometimes... yikes that's complex.
There needs to be a spell. There are cleaning spells, this should be easy too. Except, er, significantly more complex than laundry even before the variables.
But like, for most people it's going to be stuff like this as needs fixing, not monsters.
Though in Pathfinder there are official sewer monsters that exist to eat the garbage etc. They get big and break out to go find new sewers sometimes. Lots of teeth.
Kind of disturbing in the tentacle department.
I personally would not want one of those living at the other end of the loo.
... I just looked themmup and they can talk
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Otyugh
I mean, a waste eating sewer monster that is intelligent enough to speak Common and chat with you is just... a lot.
... I just realised, a tavern with loos is waste disposal and fine dining, for multiple species.
... well that's... efficient.
There's also Sewer Oozes. Like you get gelatinous cubes in dungeons? And assorted colorful puddles that try and digest without the whole having a body thing? They have sewer varieties too.
... maintenance workers in Pathfinder must be low level adventurers. Or, like, not so low...
I am looking on the wiki and there's a module called 'Sewer Dragons of Absalom'.
Dragons.
It might mean Kobolds, but it says Dragons.
Fantasy sewers are a whole problem of their very own.
I started out thinking about accessability across multiple races, I end up finding out the sewer ecosystem is suitable for level seven adventurers at least.
A building needs a Sewer Access room to connect to the town's sewers.
I now realise decent locks and so forth on that are essential.
Unless you want sewer based customers.
So okay. Fantasy world bathrooms. Way more complicated than you'd think.