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#1 Clay_Bird Apr 29, 2015 14:29:34	We have recently started a town, and now my dm is pressing us about waste management, and I am drawing a blank on this one. The area is surrounded by forests that a high lvl druid has climed as his and a stream runs through the village, any ideas?
#2 Krusk May 02, 2015 12:34:46	see if you can convince an otyough to live in some sewers you made with magic spells (3.5 stone shape or wall of stone or move earth or something). It can live down there like a king.   Or some googling for less exciting answers.  https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110101095158AA2k5wA   for instance.
#3 Matyr May 02, 2015 19:51:31	I had a dungeon that was a magical managerie that used an Otyugh and a spell that cycled water to dispose of the droppings from all of the managerie's inhabitants.  Just depends on what level of magic / fantastic you are working with.
#4 Imaculata May 03, 2015 4:13:34	I have a city in my campaign with some slumps outside the city walls, where there is no waste management. People simply dump their waste into the canal, or on the street. Welcome to the middle ages!
#5 Fimbrial May 08, 2015 22:14:36	Step 1: Throw it into the streets until your people build outhouses.   Step 2: Dump it in outhouses until your people invent a sewer system.   Step 3: Hire a mayor to manage the sewer system project.   Step 4: Why are you playing with poop? This is not pooping time. This is a heroic fantasy game-playing time. Pooping time happens before heroic fantasy game-playing time.
#6 Mad_Jack May 09, 2015 13:17:57	First of all, it's necessary to realize that throughout most of human history, humanity had a much different view of waste disposal than our current outlook on it - nobody would think twice about defecating into a bucket and then just emptying it out a window into the back yard or into the street. People on a farm might have an outhouse, or a village might have "night soil" barrels posted in a certain area downwind that everyone emptied their chamber pots into and possibly someone who came around every so often to collect them. A city would hire someone with a horse and cart to patrol the streets every day and clean up whatever people had tossed into the street. In fact, it wasn't until the invention of modern plumbing in the early 20th century that people's perceptions of the disposal of bodily waste changed and it began to be viewed as disgusting.     Now, on to logistics...   If you have a town, it won't be very large and thus not produce a huge amount of excrement. Probably only enough to fertilize a decent-sized town garden planted somewhere on the outskirts of the downstream side of town. The simplest solution is that every house uses chamber pots, which are emptied into "night soil" buckets and once a week or so someone comes around to collect the buckets just like a modern recycling operation. Depending on the size of the stream, you could bury a series of pipes that divert part of the stream past outhouses, carrying away waste towards the garden.  A cistern collects the water, and a series of pullies and counterweights raises a barrier allowing the cistern to drain when the water level reaches a certain point. The water drains out into a system similar to what they use for mining gold, which filters off most of the solid waste which can then be composted and used for fertilizer (which means waste food could also be dumped into the system) or dried and used for fuel. The liquid waste is then filtered through a barrel or two of sandy soil to filter out impurities and used to irrigate the garden, with the excess water then flowing back into the stream - water no dirtier than what it was before the stream entered the village.
#7 Zathris May 09, 2015 23:18:42	Fimbrial wrote:
#8 BRJN May 16, 2015 20:28:40	Clay_Bird wrote: