Re: Places: Dragon Rock Map

My email access has been limited by computer problems and is still
limited.  As well, I need to check my write-up.  Now, for a few answers
(more probably to come).

> did anyone ever draw a map of the place? atm, i am searching the
> 6-part
> writeup and the description about the mages guilds for all
> geographical
> clues, but i know i am a terrible carthographer. :o(

I didn't and I've never seen one.  More info can also be found in my SJ
religion write-ups for Tyr and Bane.

> i find several unclear points in the writeups:
>
> - size & form of the asteroid: dragon rock is described as a 10 mile
> long "spearhead" (i imagine it´s supposed to be something like a
> wedge?),

Yes.  When I say spearhead or arrowhead shape I think similar to a
rough flint one, though sometimes thicker.

> about 2 miles broad at it´s blunt end. i´d go for about 1 mile
> thickness at
> the blunt end, please correct me if i am "wrong".

I thought I stated in the write-up.  1/2 to 1 mile sounds good.

 there´s a lake in
> the
> middle - on both sides or only one?

IIRC, it's in the center of the asteroid, it's not open to the "sky".

> - site density: the whole asteroid (apart from the goveremt hill and
> the
> elven embassy) is described as densely populated. how many
> inhabitants
> would a city of THIS size (it´s a two-sided city, so the area (and
> it´s
> population) is doubled!) have?

Lots.  Of ocurse, there's also warehouses, inns, taverns, and such so
it's not all population.  I generally have people live over/beside
their businesses, however, so you can imagine a lot of people.

> - population: "uncounted thousands" => that may reach from a medium
> sized
> city like tilverton (about 12000 inhabitants) to a metropolis like
> waterdeep. also, the question of food comes up, and with it the
> magnitude
> of spelljamming traffic from nearby farming asteroids.

I assume it trades heavily with Selune for food so farming asteroids
aren't as much of an issue.  Also the Shou will trade with them
heavily.

 personally, i
> see "the rock" as a city with not more than 30.000 permanent
> citizens, and
> perhaps 10.000 visitors. remember, all visitors must have come on
> spelljamming ships, so if we can come up with an "average crew
> number", we
> could roughly calculate the number of ships visiting - and with that
> the
> number of docks in the city.

I think more permanent and fewer visitors, but that's me.  I
deliberately left it vague (as I do many things in my write-ups) for
individual DMs to tailor to their campaigns.  :)

I'm being forced off the library computer.  More to come.  Probably
this weekend.

I'm glad soemone's using it. :)





__________________________________
Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday!
Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web
http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/