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#1 grumpycelt Dec 31, 2009 18:13:23	I have this notion of setting an adventure inside a Sphere of Annihilation. Bear with me here for a moment. A SoA is somewhat like a black hole, or at least a very small one that doesn’t eat the entire planet.   There is some debate in physics about whether or not anything – information in particular – can be destroyed. Some physicists argue that nothing is truly destroyed (it just changes form) not even in a black hole, it just exists on the other side of the event horizon (itself a subject of debate these days).   Taking these points together I had the idea that all the various demons, gods, castles, island, lakes, adventurers, adventurer’s poking fingers and so forth consumed by a SoA actually ended up somewhere strange (i.e. interesting). I envision the inside of the SoA being a great deal like a M.C. Escher painting, time would operate in a peculiar manner and the realm is populated by an assortment of beings that could not be killed even if they were not actually immortal. Once inside, the goal is to get out but not to allow any naughty thing also inside the SoA to escape.
#2 grumpycelt Jan 02, 2010 17:57:13	Bumpity bump bump. No thoughts or comments?
#3 ian.thomson Jan 02, 2010 18:02:31	Holy cow, that's gotta be why noone can get out of Athas! That is an excellent idea, and one I will use to explain my non-campaign-setting-specific campaigns ("Ian, you SOB, I thought we were playing D&D, not Paranoia.")
#4 grumpycelt Jan 03, 2010 0:10:05	I had not thought of that, that all of Athas is in a SoA. An interesting idea.
#5 ian.thomson Jan 03, 2010 11:43:59	I had not thought of that, that all of Athas is in a SoA. An interesting idea. You thought of it.  Well, not the Athas bit, but I say you get the credit.
#6 grumpycelt Jan 03, 2010 18:42:25	I also think the SoA would have interior layers or sections, each devoted to something large the SoA consumed. For example, suppose someone got really, really sick of the Temple of Elemental Evil and they used an SoA to suck the entire complex. Rather than find it as a pile of rubble inside the SoA, the ToEE would be inside, as would any other great and terrible things and places the SoA consumed, each in its own small and surreal realm. Athas could have its own realm.
#7 respectablehobbit Jan 03, 2010 21:27:28	What you need to explain is, if there's a way out, how come no one found it before the PCs? Maybe the PCs would have to locate an artifact that in an Anti-Sphere of Annihilation. Dig out a thesaurus and look up what an antonym of 'annihilation' would be. It would be a floating sphere of blank whiteness that takes you back the material plane.
#8 ian.thomson Jan 03, 2010 21:49:06	The online thesaurus site I use isn't getting anything.  Establishment came up as an antonym for a synonym.  Time for a neologism? An- (to in this case), -nihil- (nothing), -ation (state). What's Latin for "something?"  It's like Cosa in both Spanish and Italian, and Chose in French, so I'm guessing Cosa, maybe Cose.  Ancosation?
#9 grumpycelt Jan 04, 2010 14:18:05	What you need to explain is, if there's a way out, how come no one found it before the PCs? I haven't worked that out yet. I might have then go in, gallavant around for months, and then be pulled out by someone making a wish and discover only three or four rounds had gone by in the real world.
#10 novatack Jan 05, 2010 19:13:24	The online thesaurus site I use isn't getting anything.  Establishment came up as an antonym for a synonym.  Time for a neologism? An- (to in this case), -nihil- (nothing), -ation (state). What's Latin for "something?"  It's like Cosa in both Spanish and Italian, and Chose in French, so I'm guessing Cosa, maybe Cose.  Ancosation? Sphere of Creation? Sphere of Extistance? Sphere of Re-creation? Sphere of Generation?