Dr. Yes
2012-02-13, 10:01 PM
Skyscrapers are basically the coolest structures that regular people will ever have access to. They're these enormous monuments to a society's engineering prowess, made possible only by large numbers of people wanting to set up shop in the same location at once. Property values have to be high enough to support the cost of building a tower, otherwise the thing doesn't get made or people don't move in.
That got me thinking that the Create Demiplane line of spells is the obvious magical means of solving the same problem. Five dozen merchants want to set up shop in the city's main square, and they're willing to pay a premium for it? Great! They can each set up on a 5'x5' square of wall that leads into their own private demiplane. The thing is, making a demiplane permanent is expensive. The Pathfinder (my group's go-to system) SRD says it costs 17,500 gp---three and a half times the price of a large house.
How densely populated do you think an area would have to be to make demiplane "buildings" in the city center economically viable?
That got me thinking that the Create Demiplane line of spells is the obvious magical means of solving the same problem. Five dozen merchants want to set up shop in the city's main square, and they're willing to pay a premium for it? Great! They can each set up on a 5'x5' square of wall that leads into their own private demiplane. The thing is, making a demiplane permanent is expensive. The Pathfinder (my group's go-to system) SRD says it costs 17,500 gp---three and a half times the price of a large house.
How densely populated do you think an area would have to be to make demiplane "buildings" in the city center economically viable?