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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Dungeons in the Wild West?
I'm working on a story set in the Wild West (modern enough to have at least one nearby city but still old enough for horses to be the primary mode of transport; I'm aware this is probably artistic ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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