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yellowdingo 03-24-07, 03:25 AM	So the Books have lots of stuff on how much it costs to build a castle and wizards towers but You want to be remembered as Emperor <insertnamehere> the First. You want a monument to your greatness (or Brutality depending on which side of the KFC bucket you eat from). Monumental Works Great Wall Description: Stone Wall, Turreted Length: 1,400 miles Buttress every 600’ Width: 20’ Height: 30’ Buttress: 30’ x 30’ x 45’ Construction: Time: 2 years, Seasonal Workers: 373,560 Cost: 1,870,176,000gp Great Pyramid Description: Stone Pyramid Base: 1 mile x 1 mile Height: 2640’ Construction: Time: 20 years, Seasonal Workers: 257,013 Cost: 9,984,927,444gp Subterranean Aqueduct Description: 10’ wide x 10’ high x 8 miles Labourers:1,500 Time: 2 years, Seasonal Cost: 500,000gp Stone Faced Canal Description: 50’ wide x 20’ deep x 8 miles 2' thick stone retaining walls Labourers: 10,000 Time:2 years, seasonal Cost: 1,700,000gp Stone Paved Road Description: 2’ thick blocks, 20’ wide x 800 miles Workers: 50,000 Time: 20 years, seasonal Cost: 80,000,000gp
Reign_of_Ice 03-24-07, 03:32 AM	I have a book (pretty old) Treasure Quests: Tomb of Ra, which as alot about pyramids for the d20 Fantasy setting (it's 3.0 however). I've not seen much on anything like the Great Wall or the others for that matter though.
taradusis 03-24-07, 04:42 PM	I wonder what the stats would be for the great sphinx?Probably similar to the pyramid?Could also do a Coliseum?RANDOM THOUGHTS
ShadowDragon8685 03-24-07, 08:15 PM	Bah. If I'm going to have a monument, I'm going to build it with my own two hands and my own one spellbook. :) Something like... I dunno... Archmage Saladin's Memorial Tomb, Skyhook Station and Orbital Force Cannon. :) Nothing like a testament to your grandness that will be an adventure location for millenia, and a national resource to be fought over... :)
HarlequinHelsing 03-24-07, 08:23 PM	This is pretty intriguing. It's interesting how the aqueduct is the least expensive despite its difficulty to build, given the time period. I'm curious, though; how'd you come up with the number of workers required? (And does the total cost include payment for them, or do we assume them slaves?)
yellowdingo 03-24-07, 09:10 PM	The Subterranean Aquaduct is based on the assumption that cutting through rock and removing it is easier and less expensive than quarrying the rock to specific shapes, transporting the rock over great distances, and fitting them in seamless structures. Certainly it is time consuming and requires sections to be built and joined just so labourers have air to breathe. Considering the cave network under Mexico has air holes along its length (dug from the inside out as needed) and the subterranean aqueducts of Arabia, although probably not several thousand miles long would undoubtably require such structures, it allows workers to move is secret to people on the surface. Conceivably the cost of any quarrying and tunneling meets the one ounce of gold per ton of rock mining rule. A 10' x 10' x 10' block of granite weighs 75 tons and must be worth a minimum of 75 ounce of gold (4.68lb or 46.8gp or 468 sp) as its cost to mine (not the for sale price). Stone masons employed are on top of that. This is pretty much why Egypt and China used Work for Unemployment Benifits to get the Great Wall and the Pyramids built. As to the cost of a Sphinx, What is the cost of employing Artisans to carve a giant statue from a small hill? Or even further What is the cost and time of carving Your face from a mountain? If of course you want to build the Orbital Massdriver from magic, then you are using the D&D rules on enchanting framework with flight spells and create air spells (Ironform 1000 square feet of iron (2" thick) a meshed framework adds 25% to the area and costs Ironform L6 spell + create air L3spell + fly L3 = 12 levels per frame component x528 (a a mile of 10' wide mesh modules x 2 sides to the "Cannon") x 5 for permanent magic item +create big ball of stone (stoneform 6th level spell) 4xPI x r x r x r)/1000cubic feet per stoneform (75 ton per thousand cubic feet) x 5 for permanent magic item x 5000 (the cost of encanting big things) All up somwhere in the hundred billion gp cost range.
taradusis 03-25-07, 09:15 PM	What would it take to carve the moon to look like your face?How about carving the moon to loke like your buttocks?RANDOM THOUGHTS
Toran_A_Sunder 03-25-07, 09:22 PM	Wow...all that info is great...but I have a much simpler solution. It'll only run you a few thousand gp. By yourself a Lyre of Building, and pay a decent bard to play it for you for a few months. Voila! No slave labor or millions of gp spent. Woohoo!
_Jayne_Cobb_ 03-26-07, 02:33 PM	Great Pyramid Description: Stone Pyramid Base: 1 mile x 1 mile Holy ****, that is frakking huge! That is like 48 times the area of the actual great pyramid in Egypt. Wow.
yellowdingo 03-26-07, 08:35 PM	Holy ****, that is frakking huge! That is like 48 times the area of the actual great pyramid in Egypt. Wow. Why build small when you can throw money at something bigger. The Mausoleum of Doomnathy Description: A one mile x one mile x one mile black stone cube sitting in the middle of the Desert. Construction Notes Cost: 60 Billion Gold Pieces Time: 120 Years Labour: 1.5 million labourers over the 120 year construction time DM Note: A Single Vault of 20' x 20' x 20' sits at it's heart in which the Diamond Sarcophagus of the Emperor of Doomnathy is located (carved from a single Diamond- it is worth 10,000,000,000gp). Protected by three Liches (his wives).