Thanks to the AD&D DM’s Guide, I know that 16 gnomes can work at once on a ten foot wide tunnel through hard rock and can excavate 480 cubic feet in an 8 hour shift.

I won’t count how many times this has come up in my games.

#TTRPG #DND #ADND #OSR #GMTips #Gygax

@deinol Umpteen bloggers: "This means that in the implied setting, adding segments to the existing mythic underworld is a common thing, and thus we need to add a temporal layer of post-primal-construction-Jacquaysing to our own subterranean structures. In the following series of posts…"
@deinol Blessed be Gygax, for his name shall be revered for eternity!!! in Chainmail and Greyhawk we trust! dont make me reach for Vecna's wand ;-)

@deinol I've had actual sappers & counter-mining come up in games, reifying Arneson's dungeon mapping, but it was always Dwarfs or Kobolds, I never even thought of Gnomes for it.

That's why they paid Gary the big cocaine baggies.

@mdhughes

Don’t worry, Gary’s got you covered!