How are toilets handled in your setting?
Do you prefer to use indoor plumbing or just the bucket in your campaigns?
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How are toilets handled in your setting? Do you prefer to use indoor plumbing or just the bucket in your campaigns?
for my medieval fantasy games I like the bucket/hole in the ground for most places
If it's a fantasy, why do they even need to do it in the first place?
don't ask questions you don't want the answer to
>fail the poop check
>you soil your clothes during a blizzard because you shat on a slope and forgot that the turd will roll downhill into the river
>you can't show up at camp all shat up so you try to wash your pants and die of hypothermia on the way back to the camp
>rest of the party drinks contaminated water without mentioning boiling, TPK
An adventuring diaper would have fixed this. Just 1 copper and you'd be alive right now, but noooo.
My character has a diaper of holding. Can shit and piss for months in it without changing.
top kek
Wizards teleport away their business just like Rowling intended.
My races don’t defecate, because that’s gross and they’re not. They do have plumbing for their grey waste though.
I like the way you think.
Elves make little crystalline cubes that vanish on the wind.
My wizard shits in a bag of holding and has been for the last 3 years. In the event of an emergency he turns the bag inside out and unleashes a shit flood to make his escape.
Indoor plumbing is a lot older than people tend to think. The Indus Valley civilization probably had some version of it around 3000 BC, and it remained pretty much a constant in the homes of the wealthy from that point forward up until the collapse of the Roman Empire. I tend to only have the truly destitute resort to public latrines/chamber pots.
I recently learned about the Los Angeles and New York City aqueduct systems and they are fascinatingly huge. Roman aqueducts are just so highly visible and obvious and Indus Valley engineering is impressive, but there's something to be said about just how much larger and more sophisticated modern aqueducts are.
Chamber pot if it's a poorer place, sewers and running water in a developed city, and magical bullshit if it's something possible and affordable by the wealthy.
Kind of like modern times, really. Not everyone gets a toilet heated seat with UV lights for disinfection and an automatic bidet, some people just use a hole or defecate openly. It's kind of fricked up, but it be like that.
Commoners have bucket or hole in the groud.
Nobility, wizards, and clergy magic it away.
Adventurers usually don't shit thanks to Goodberry diet.
>designated shit wizard for the local lord
The Groom of the Stool is indeed much coveted position at the court. Who has king's rear also has his ear.
>spend decades of your life learning the arcane arts just so you can teleport away some inbred morons poop
Designated shitting rune
Meh not really important, what matters is that if you don't specify when your character is doing potty/peepee i will automatically assume he didn't and give him maluses for the discomfort and actually roll of he ends shitting/pissing himself in tense situations.
Who said you have to track only food and ammo?
It's a sliding scale. On one side you've got a hole in the ground and some leaves. On the other side you've got a magical chair that teleports your shit into an airtight container before autocasting Prestigination on your butthole while you get spritzed with rosewater. Overall, sanitation is pretty good since the Clerics, Druids, and Wizards all came out saying that having shit on the streets leads to plague.
Toilets are both unnecessary for my games and the settings of those games.
skibidi dop dop dop
Advantage of enchanted underwear made of snowwhite rams wool. Wise men from ages past noticed that the wool of certain specie of ram stays shiny and clean and after extensive research discovered that particles of dirt get teleported from the wool directly to demiplane of mud. That lead to invention of the weaving and boom of the industry, everybody, even the lowest of the low peasants have clothes made of that magical wool. And as weaving got better and better, the magicians realized that not only dirt can get teleported to the demiplan. Sweat, food particles, everything can get whisked away and you would stay clean. So people in the setting never really invented toilets, or the principle of using a bucket, when you have to let it go, you just let it go and nobody but the goddess imprisoned in the demiplane of dirt notices.
>naughty goddesses get put in the poopjar dimension
Thanks anon I needed that laugh.
I like all manner of fantasy sewers and underground subterranean environments and the concept of a thriving ecosystem with its own set of rules living underneath an urban setting right under everyday ordinary people's feet. So people shitting in pipes and it going into a sewage system is almost default.
>indoor plumbing
Heresy
This is my setting's toilet paper. and yes, it was used as such in real life.
Clean the anus with the cob? Idk anon, that sounds kinda gay--- oh you meant the leaf, I see yeah that makes sense
I'm in favour of the Roman, communal sponge-on-stick method.
poop scooper.
There are no toilets in my setting. People take shits out in public. Groups of men stand around and perv on women with fat asses taking big meaty shits.
Why did you think it was good idea to post that shit?
Who hurt you?
That's not your setting. That's India.
The sewer system is a complex and well maintained eco-system by druids who corral slimes to perform a number of tasks from eating the wastes and bio buildup in pipes to just sitting in flows of water and filter feeding.
There are also otyughs who sort through the trash, sort it, and pick out the bits and pieces they want to eat along with the regular feeding of food waste.
They also get to eat any intruders so if your kids decide it's fun to frick around in the sewer than to bad, so sad, your kid is going in the next batch of fertilizer.
I recently learned that S bends exist in the Forgotten Realms, so I don't see how I can avoid them in my own games moving forward.
The poop goblin steals it when you aren't looking. What he does with it is one of the great mysteries of the setting.
Only the real man's option in my setting.
>shit on the blade and then fling it far away from the camp
Not how I do it but I approve.
if you take that on camp especially to dig foxholes you're a fricking LARPer
I have one of those shovels and it weighs a frickton. A trowel is already overkill
Nah, I keep one in my truck though. I live in a rural area and it's been useful more than once.
Institutions and people who can afford it use slimes and jellies to deal with waste (mostly just holes with jellies at the bottom, really - after a while they become big enough to divide and then you have more jellies to feed and expand the system) but most people who aren't rich and/or don't live in large cities with running water or communal toilets have outhouses and/or shit in buckets or behind a convenient bush or alleyway or whatever and use whatever is on hand to wipe - soft leaves, paper, straw, a washable scraper, etc. Also, magically self-cleaning cloths are a thing but production is both expensive and bottlenecked and most of the production goes to the military because people have realized that cleaner soldiers tend to die of infection much less and being able to keep your self-cleaning rag after your service is over is a not-insignificant enticement to join up.
Never came up. I mostly play games that are less narrativistic
But If I had to choose one id say as closely tovhistorically accurate as possible
>he needs to shit
Humans are just filthy savages
I am going to choose to believe that that's a real translation.
>Eldar "crystals'
There was a literal isekai about the history of toilets, and yet everybody posts about elfs' pooping?
Various mangas give various level of detail on the topic...
>Anal only without prep needed is on the table
That's it, I'm going to slip disappearing shit magical realm in my game under the guise of "it's fantasy, where and how people shit is not relevant in any way whatsoever, their shit just magically disappears or whatever" while furiously fondling my diamond hard dick under the table for the implications.
Please get professional help.
There are professional stealth magical realm inserters?
A bucket with salt water, a hand and some rags.
THEY SHIT ON THE FLOOOOOOOOR AND MAGIC IT AWAAYYYYYYYYY
THEY SHIT ON THE FLOOOOOOR
People shit in the open in my setting and use a Dwarf slave's beard to wipe.
Like this
I like sewer spelunking so I it fully depends on plot convenience
My primary setting is contemporary modern with fantasy elements. So walk into your bathroom and you'll have your answer.
>walk into your bathroom and you'll have your answer.
A hole in the floor is pretty unimaginative for a fantasy setting.
It has never come up because it adds nothing to the game experience.
>player gets uppity
>when was the last time your character took a shit?
>uuh never?
>roll to save v. petrification else shit thyself for 5 charisma damage
I've actually been to a castle toilet IRL. Now, this isn't the default, but it was pretty common, but the toilet-room (I note to differentiate that there wouldn't be a bathtub here) would be hanging out in a bulge from the castle walls, so that it hangs over the moat, and when you use it the sewage just drops through the air into the moat.
Dumping sewage there was pretty common, and often times the inhabitants tossed flower petals into the moat cause the FRICKING STUNK.
>and often times the inhabitants tossed flower petals into the moat cause the FRICKING STUNK.
Would that even work?
I play SotDL, people just erupt into poosplosions when they gotta
Manure golem.
Depends on where in the setting.
In some areas there is a working sewage system.
In rural areas its just shovel and digging a hole and using leaves.