This "level" is from a dungeon that is actually a magical tower. PC's climb up through the "manhole," marked red in the image. Each color is about 5-10' below the previous color. The colors by height: red, orange, yellow, brown, light green, dark green.
The light blue areas are ramps. As it happens, this structure was not built to cater to human type creatures. The grade on most of the ramps is extreme. Gentle enough to go down perhaps, but going back up will prove difficult. Imagine moving from the brown level to the green level via the ramp in the image above, only to discover an indigenous inhabitant(s) who chooses to behave aggressively in response to your trespassing. Going back the way you came will prove difficult.
This ramp is about twenty feet high. Maybe you could slide down. Maybe you're about to feed something nasty that has learned that sometimes dinner comes from above.
This idea could be used for pre-human cities buried beneath Portown, with the direction reversed. Non-human cities would have an infrastructure and geometry that looks very different from what we might be used to.
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Mergar questioned aloud the construction techniques of the massive stone blocks used in building the walls and ceiling of the domed space they had entered after climbing up the tube from the level below.
ReplyDeleteArdir the elf looked incredulously at the human, Mergar.
"I would visit your land, my friend, should we survive our present circumstances. I must know what manner of country gives birth to a man so brazen that not only does he enter the halls of the Gods uninvited, he still has some nerve left to question their decorating."