Retardo? Toilet Designs in an RPG

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

I've been sipping coffee and thinking about ways to deal with worldbuilding, character building, and narrative design.

Eventually, I came to a conclusion: instead of wasting millions of dollars on voice acting and hiring 10 monkeys to produce walls of text, the money should be spent on a more important aspect that can tell you a lot about the world and each particular character.

That's right -- the money should be spent on designing unique toilets that contain the 'personal touch' of its owner(s) (or users if the toilet happens to be in a public place).

Imagine romancing a nice girl only to find out that she never bothers to flush after doing a number two, which makes her house smell like shit, which gives your character a stat debuff -- and imagine being able to find out about that BEFORE you get a chance to romance her. I bet it make you think carefully about your choices.

 

[JarlFrank]

 

[Thac0]

 

[Stormcrowfleet]

Star Citizen has toilet on their ships no? Great game I heard.

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

https://store.steampowered.com/developer/larianstudios

 

[Casual Hero]

can you carry more things if you poo?

 

[Sukhāvatī]

can you carry more things if you poo?

The extra internal pressure can sometimes let your valsalva be stronger, so excreting before/during a strength training session isn't always a prime course of action.

 

[I'm Big Into Anal]

This is a Poos Approved Thread

 

[laclongquan]

Speaking of sexy toilet design

Spoiler

 

[JarlFrank]

can you carry more things if you poo?

Morrowind's "Feather" spell is actually a magical laxative.

 

[IDtenT]

So I'm chaotic good.

 

[Ghulgothas]

You lack vision, why not use the toilets to inform the player about the values of the very world they've found themselves in?

 

[IDtenT]

You lack vision, why not use the toilets to inform the player about the values of the very world they've found themselves in?

My problem with public toilets (at office or elsewhere) is that my dick touches the rim.

Creeps me out. So I can't sit very long in any case.

 

[Krice]

One of the room types in Kaduria is a toilet, but it's just a hole with a stone ring to sit on. I think it would be good if it had some kind of water.. fountain in it to flush everything down the pipe for sure. And then you could drink from that fountain in case of emergency. If you didn't have water fountain it would smell bad in the dungeon, I know this because I have visited an old school toilet where everything just lands on a pile. The smell is something you want to forget.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

You lack vision, why not use the toilets to inform the player about the values of the very world they've found themselves in?

Sitting on the toilet for long periods of time is extremely unhealthy, this should be the standard.
Probably one of those things that should get some public health warnings with the rise of smartphones.

 

[mondblut]

You lack vision, why not use the toilets to inform the player about the values of the very world they've found themselves in?

Sitting on the toilet for long periods of time is extremely unhealthy, this should be the standard.
Probably one of those things that should get some public health warnings with the rise of smartphones.

Before smartphones there was those obscure things called "books" and "newspapers", you know.

They could serve double purpose, too.

 

[vlzvl]

Are you telling me those holes are not some spooky entrances to fantastic caves, full of wonders & exploration?

 

[samsam]

Sitting on the toilet for long periods of time is extremely unhealthy, this should be the standard.
Probably one of those things that should get some public health warnings with the rise of smartphones

Squatting is even healthier than sitting. Helps with the bowel movement or something and beneficial in the long run.

 

[Mastermind]

Proverbs 26:11 As a dog returns to his vomit, so a German's attention returns to the topic of toilets.

 

[The Red Knight]

I have to say I'm disappointed by how few toilets there are in Albion. Seems like all the design time was spent on furry ones:

But even that only applies to German naturist catpeople. The ones living on the bigger continent with more cultural exchange with Celts forego toiletting.

Hard to say if it's a bath-filling bucket or the toilet one.

Druids might be using those to collect excrements to later dump into the unused dungeon. Would explain why the creatures living there are so angry.

Only desert people seem to be technologically-advanced enough to be interested in poop management.

Even the enlightened peoples' luxury house has no proper bathroom. They possibly bathe in and poop into the giant lake-fountain they keep indoors, judging by water's color.

You can find their stools scattered outside, though.

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I don't think the cabinet above the space toilet gets an explanation.

 

[RobotSquirrel]

South parks had mini-games associated with theirs. The only way you could improve on that would be to put in a dice roll mechanic for varying levels of bowel activities.
Whoops rolled a 2 looks like I'm gonna be a while.

 

[Glop_dweller]

Organic toilets have been done (in fiction), they could do do the same with magic & science in RPGs.

 

[deuxhero]

Eberron canonicly does have bathrooms with a magical cleaning device to clean your hands and everything else when you're done. Presumably it does clean the toilets themselves as well. Sadly both Eberron video games are set far away from civilization and didn't care much for the lore in the first place so this isn't exactly shown.

 

[JarlFrank]

Eberron canonicly does have bathrooms with a magical cleaning device to clean your hands and everything else when you're done. Presumably it does clean the toilets themselves as well. Sadly both Eberron video games are set far away from civilization and didn't care much for the lore in the first place so this isn't exactly shown.

They made Eberron video games?

 

[Silly Germans]

Eberron canonicly does have bathrooms with a magical cleaning device to clean your hands and everything else when you're done. Presumably it does clean the toilets themselves as well. Sadly both Eberron video games are set far away from civilization and didn't care much for the lore in the first place so this isn't exactly shown.

They made Eberron video games?

There is a strategy game but it doesn't really make use of the setting. It plays a bit like a poor mans version of WC3 with simplified base building. It was ok back then but it hasn't aged gracefully in my opinion. It's not terrible nor good, so not worth a recommendation.
https://af.gog.com/game/dungeons_dragons_dragonshard?as=1649904300