My god! This place smells (spoilers all over the place!)

[captain yesterday]

one little thing i noticed about kingmaker in the background.
the description of the skunk river (ya know where the tatzlwyrm den is) "the unfortunate combination of algae and bubbling geothermal hot springs along the skunk river give it a distinctively unpleasant scent of rotten eggs." who would want to build a town here (i.e. tatzlford). i understand tatzlford is a good name but i think i'll build my cities away from the skunk river, love the adventures tho,

awesome work to everyone involved in them (especially the support staff who do the little things).

[jtokay]

I believe the heavy sulfur smell is fairly limited to the hot springs that originate the river. Tatzlford is a good 24 miles away as the crow flies. So I’m sure it smells less like sulfur and just as wonderful as the rest of the Greenbelt. :D

[Ambrus]

Maybe its founder is looking to cash in on the local hot springs by setting up some sort of therapeutic resort town. It's hardly a new concept; Roman citizens flocked to such communities from all over the empire for a chance to bathe in stinky water thousands of years ago. There's a lot of coin to be made in such places. I've visited one such bath town, Baillie Herculaneum, in Romania that is still operating and, although some areas of town near the springs do smell bad, overall it's a nice place to visit.

[captain yesterday]

jtokay wrote:

I believe the heavy sulfur smell is fairly limited to the hot springs that originate the river. Tatzlford is a good 24 miles away as the crow flies. So I’m sure it smells less like sulfur and just as wonderful as the rest of the Greenbelt. :D

it says they are all along the river not just the originating point, i just found it amusing that no one has noticed or pointed it out was all.

my party has decided not to support the building of tatzylford and instead chose the temple of erastil for their second city, they also decided against including olegs into the new kingdom because of his desire for freedom and privacy.

[DM_aka_Dudemeister]

I justified Tatzlford to my players by telling them Loy Rezbin is a business man seeking to sift the sulfur out of the river, by the time the river reaches Tatzlford the river doesn't smell so bad, and Loy recoups his expenses starting up a village.

[DM_aka_Dudemeister]

I justified Tatzlford to my players by telling them Loy Rezbin is a business man seeking to sift the sulfur out of the river, by the time the river reaches Tatzlford the river doesn't smell so bad, and Loy recoups his expenses starting up a village.

[Ambrus]

Holy multi-post Batman!

[RuyanVe]

makes his words look even more solid, does it!

[Ambrus]

I'm willing to concede that DM_aka_Dudemeister is correct in whatever point he was trying to make.

[jtokay]

It does make you wonder, though, how DM_aka_Dudemeister justified Tatzlford to his players.

[Philip Knowsley]

jtokay wrote:

It does make you wonder, though, how DM_aka_Dudemeister justified Tatzlford to his players.

Bwahahahahahahahahaaaa. Love it.

Back to the OP... I come from New Zealand & we have a city called Rotorua (which I sometimes refer to as
Rottenrua), which has a BIG reputation here & overseas as a major tourist destination - for the geothermal
(& yes - smelly) hot springs, bubbling mud-pools etc.
Rotorua is probably the second largest 'single & purely tourist' destination here (after Queenstown in the South Island).

All I can say to you good sir is "Don't knock it, until you've tried it" & methinks from your post, that you've
never tried it...

In terms of the AP it does give a variety of different options for your players to explore by way of a tourist
destination... Or as one poster above has already mentioned - as a commercial venture mining sulphur. Given
the sulphur in the water, there'd also be sulphur deposits elsewhere in the close vicinity.

Also noted is the geothermal nature of the place as a whole. You're telling me that in a place akin to Northern Europe,
or yes Northern North America, the general populace wouldn't be interested in a way of heating that didn't involve wood?
Imagine - piped underfloor heating in winter...hot baths...clothes drying...

I think you need to perhaps explore your imagination a bit more in terms of possibilities, rather than just
slating it because it smells a bit different to what you're used to.

I can tell you after many visits to Rotorua that the smell does hit you at first, but you get used to it after a
couple of days...& you just don't notice it - unless there's a strong breeze from the wrong direction... ;-p

Besides - how many PCs have you ever come accross that regularly wash clothes or buy new ones...
You can't tell me that they ain't travelling with their own stink already - I'm surprised they'd notice somewhere
like this was even out of the ordinary... heh heh...

[DM_aka_Dudemeister]

Sorry for the multi-post guys. I really need to refrain from posting from my phone.

Smart phone my sulphurous a

[Freehold DM]

DM_aka_Dudemeister wrote:

I justified Tatzlford to my players by telling them Loy Rezbin is a business man seeking to sift the sulfur out of the river, by the time the river reaches Tatzlford the river doesn't smell so bad, and Loy recoups his expenses starting up a village.

Man- you justified the HELL out of Tatzlford!!!!!

[jtokay]

Philip Knowsley wrote:

Back to the OP... I come from New Zealand & we have a city called Rotorua (which I sometimes refer to as Rottenrua), which has a BIG reputation here & overseas as a major tourist destination - for the geothermal (& yes - smelly) hot springs, bubbling mud-pools etc. Rotorua is probably the second largest 'single & purely tourist' destination here (after Queenstown in the South Island).

+1

Made all the more valid by the fact that when I went to New Zealand on holiday I went to 3 places, one of which was…Rotorua!

[Philip Knowsley]

jtokay wrote:

Philip Knowsley wrote:

Back to the OP... I come from New Zealand & we have a city called Rotorua (which I sometimes refer to as Rottenrua), which has a BIG reputation here & overseas as a major tourist destination - for the geothermal (& yes - smelly) hot springs, bubbling mud-pools etc. Rotorua is probably the second largest 'single & purely tourist' destination here (after Queenstown in the South Island).

+1

Made all the more valid by the fact that when I went to New Zealand on holiday I went to 3 places, one of which was…Rotorua!

Booyah! Hope we made you feel welcome when you were here! : )