Thread by @rdonoghue

This, I should note, is why it is very weird to follow different rules for building a town and building a dungeon. In classic terms, the dungeon is just a town full of people you're allowed to murder.

https://twitter.com/lindevi/status/1462442885106831369

Yes, I'm being both tongue in cheek and deadly serious. The dungeon full of murderable intelligent beings *is* a weird, sketchy idea in need of interrogation, but ALSO, if you're going to accept it, then it merits a little bit of thought about logistics. Food, Water & Waste.

(The challenge, of course, is that once you start thinking about WHY they picked this dungeon to live, how they survive, how the community forms, it becomes harder and harder to think of them as murderbags. Weird.)

(This is, I admit, why I lean very heavily on undead, aberrations, constructs and other critters that dodge the question entirely.)

But if you *do* have goblins or whatever, thinking about logistics of food and stuff helps change banditry and such from "stealing cuz they're bad!" To "Stealing for food, which in turn hurts the locals, so the problem is real"

https://twitter.com/fadeaccompli/status/1462445546073989120

And by contextualizing the problem, you open the door to multiple solutions, which is (in theory) exactly why we're doing an RPG rather than a boardgame - so we *can* go outside the box of there being one right answer.

All of which is to say, thinking about this stuff is easy to dismiss as "spoiling the fun", if the entirety of the fun is in the murdering. But with a little thought, you can keep all the tropes you like, but actually make them *more* fun an interesting, which is not so bad.