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Aremthis 12-20-04, 04:23 PM	I'm making my first campain. What just happend was a portal to the abyss has opend and 300 years have passed. (Won't go into explanatoin how yet because then I'd probobly have to explain the whole main plot.) What I have planned is that the world has entirley been resculpted. The world is now like a flatend cardboard box that is used to make a circle out of. The interior is the actual world. The interior is divided into different ring sectoins. (The water is divided up into 5 sectoins.) Plains, water, Mountains, water, (dead) trees, water, ice plains, water, City's/Architecture, water, desert. And the Extirior is like a baren wasteland were the floor is rock. When you look into the sky, there is a endless feild of planets. Above is a planet of fire, and a ring wich apears to have a gap in it. (Wich also it plot wise.) There is magical lighting. There is a constant light breeze. No weather, no clouds, no sky. Do you think that would work as a planet? And sorry if I'm a little vauge at some points.
Dash Branaghan 12-20-04, 04:39 PM	I'm confused on the ring issues. From what I do understand, the entire planet is inside the sphere, while the outside of the planet is a dead shell...right? If that's the case, then you have support for that sort of "inside the planet" world...Star Trek II, The Underdark, Magrathea...just to name a few. However, I don't understand how you worked the interior, unless you are talking about a bullseye style ring configuration. If that is the case, I would consider (and this is just my thoughts), having the core of the planet be similar to the timeclock of Narbondel in Underdark...each day, the appointed mage heats it up and as it cools, it acts as a timeclock. Except in your world, you can have the object heat/cool like a prolonged heart beat. It "beats" every 24 hours (or whatever length you want for time in your world). I would also have the dessert and plain regions on the outside of the ring...the flaming planet orbiting your dead shell would make the surface unbearably hot, so I would have the hot related places closer to the outer ring. Have the very center be your icy plains/tundra...far inside, so cold, so very cold. Incorporate the Mountains into this, so the edge of the arctic area ends with the mountains, which are half and half...half arctic, half temperate. Then you can have your dead trees, plains, dessert. I wouldn't bother intersecting each section with water...just have water flowing around with giant lakes, oceans, but areas where each zone crosses over to the other zone. Now all you have to figure out how everything grows with no weather. Also, consider the effects of evaporation and condensation within this inner planet, and how it will affect the growth of, oh, say, reverse mountains (stalagtites) that may or may not contain civilations (say kenku/aarakroca or other flying creatures). Essentially, there is a civilization on the roof as well as on the "ground." Hope those ideas help. Dash
starfire311 12-20-04, 05:16 PM	yeah I am a little confused about the cardboard box analogy... Is your world a Dyson Sphere(sp?) I been toying with the idea of a Dyson sphere... I was thinking about the Elven Star from the Death Gate Cycle again... I have always wanted to make a campaign world losely based on the concepts from Death Gate Cycle.
Aremthis 12-20-04, 07:10 PM	Ok, heres what I was thinking. Imagine there were a bunch of rings floating threw space. All the same dimentoins. Each one of them on them had a different area on the inside of it, (Like desert, mountain, etc.) the outside is just rock. All the rings form together to make a cylinder of some sort. Like a tube almost. I like the Idea of the outside being warm and making the extirior really hot. I think I'm going to add that in.
Dash Branaghan 12-20-04, 08:53 PM	Ok, heres what I was thinking. Imagine there were a bunch of rings floating threw space. All the same dimentoins. Each one of them on them had a different area on the inside of it, (Like desert, mountain, etc.) the outside is just rock. All the rings form together to make a cylinder of some sort. Like a tube almost. The image is losing me. Are we talking inner tube style rings, with gradually smaller inner tube style rings inside where each new environment is located? Or are we talking rings like the ones around Saturn or a tree or a bullseye? Of course, you could be talking rings like circles, in which each hole contains the land you are thinking of, like floating round islands of environment floating in this giant sea of water. I still need clarification of this concept of rings...I find it confusing still. Maybe draw it in paint and post it somewhere for us to get an idea. Dash