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Getting to Space

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#1
AdmiralRanger
Aug 08, 2010 3:50:24
I am planning a predominantly skill based adventure about the gnomes quest to get to the stars. The pc's will be hired to help build and protect a spaceship. I need to preempt any plans the pc's will have about getting to space so I need as many ideas as I can. The initial plan is to get to space with a combination of magic and the world's bigest hot air ballon. As I plan it the baloon will burst when they gat to space before the pc's can die of oxygen deprivation. However they will suffer from reentry. I was thinking would the gnomes be able to predict that in space their is a vacum or the threat of reentry? Also any other holes to pick in my plan (other than the fact that a hot air ballon would not get that high in the first place)? Finally any other plans? This is not a Spelljammer adventure but I thought that this would be the best place to post it as the people who watch this are likely to know a lot about space flight.
#2
taradusis
Aug 08, 2010 11:18:08 The first idea is parachutes or rings of Feather Falling? Maybe even a Flying rug would work when the Uber Hindenberg goes down?
#3
taradusis
Aug 08, 2010 21:49:15
Are the Pcs gnomes or competitors of the gnomes?
#4
AdmiralRanger
Aug 09, 2010 2:47:51 The pc's are hired by the Gnomes.
#5
taradusis
Aug 09, 2010 22:32:40 Reasons to oppose the Gnomes.
wealth
In most settings the Gnomes are well off. They dominate in gem cutting,jewelry,coin-minting and banking. Many humans resent this wealth.
#6
taradusis
Aug 10, 2010 22:30:26 Consider handing them a lot of minor opposition then finish with a gargantuan red dragon attack. As for the science of what's happening. It doesn't matter in D+D. Whenever you mention science and D+D another kitten dies(sorry MR. Mistoflees). In the Spelljammer universe space travel is all mythological. You can breed 6 huge geese,hitch them to a chariot and fly to the moon. You biggest challenge is getting past Apollo who is flying around in his Sun chariot and might shoot his bow at you.
#7
taradusis
Aug 14, 2010 22:05:59
I remember watching a documentary about the Manhattan Project. The bombs going off at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were shown during the end credits. Some design thoughts.
oakland
The Manhattan project created a city to build the bombs,and employed 100,000 people. Suppose the gnomes had to build a city of 20,000 with another 20,000 in towns to build the Uber-Zeppelin?
#8
taradusis
Aug 21, 2010 16:02:00 How about a motive for the Gnomes to go to space? The Gnomes love a really good prank. Suppose they figured out how to carve the surface of the moon into a pair of giant buttocks. This means that when people allover the world look up they are getting "mooned". On the buttocks there could be a black mole. Astronomers who examine the mole thru a telescope realise that it's printing and the printing says"GNOMES RULE,OK!".
#9
taradusis
Oct 02, 2010 22:11:12 There are 15 books in the Oz series. In them all Dorothy Gale seems to be a sort of air bender. Even the name Gale is wind related. Now if Kansas had an inter-dimensional portal that Dorothy could access if she flew high enough that could be added to your universe. The gnomes fly up and instead of a god shooting them down or a gargantuan red dragon attack supposed a vortex formed and sucked them to an alternate universe or the opposite side of the world?

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#1 AdmiralRanger Aug 08, 2010 3:50:24	I am planning a predominantly skill based adventure about the gnomes quest to get to the stars. The pc's will be hired to help build and protect a spaceship. I need to preempt any plans the pc's will have about getting to space so I need as many ideas as I can. The initial plan is to get to space with a combination of magic and the world's bigest hot air ballon. As I plan it the baloon will burst when they gat to space before the pc's can die of oxygen deprivation. However they will suffer from reentry. I was thinking would the gnomes be able to predict that in space their is a vacum or the threat of reentry? Also any other holes to pick in my plan (other than the fact that a hot air ballon would not get that high in the first place)? Finally any other plans? This is not a Spelljammer adventure but I thought that this would be the best place to post it as the people who watch this are likely to know a lot about space flight.
#2 taradusis Aug 08, 2010 11:18:08	The first idea is parachutes or rings of Feather Falling? Maybe even a Flying rug would work when the Uber Hindenberg goes down?
#3 taradusis Aug 08, 2010 21:49:15	Are the Pcs gnomes or competitors of the gnomes?
#4 AdmiralRanger Aug 09, 2010 2:47:51	The pc's are hired by the Gnomes.
#5 taradusis Aug 09, 2010 22:32:40	Reasons to oppose the Gnomes. wealth In most settings the Gnomes are well off. They dominate in gem cutting,jewelry,coin-minting and banking. Many humans resent this wealth.
#6 taradusis Aug 10, 2010 22:30:26	Consider handing them a lot of minor opposition then finish with a gargantuan red dragon attack. As for the science of what's happening. It doesn't matter in D+D. Whenever you mention science and D+D another kitten dies(sorry MR. Mistoflees). In the Spelljammer universe space travel is all mythological. You can breed 6 huge geese,hitch them to a chariot and fly to the moon. You biggest challenge is getting past Apollo who is flying around in his Sun chariot and might shoot his bow at you.
#7 taradusis Aug 14, 2010 22:05:59	I remember watching a documentary about the Manhattan Project. The bombs going off at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were shown during the end credits. Some design thoughts. oakland The Manhattan project created a city to build the bombs,and employed 100,000 people. Suppose the gnomes had to build a city of 20,000 with another 20,000 in towns to build the Uber-Zeppelin?
#8 taradusis Aug 21, 2010 16:02:00	How about a motive for the Gnomes to go to space? The Gnomes love a really good prank. Suppose they figured out how to carve the surface of the moon into a pair of giant buttocks. This means that when people allover the world look up they are getting "mooned". On the buttocks there could be a black mole. Astronomers who examine the mole thru a telescope realise that it's printing and the printing says"GNOMES RULE,OK!".
#9 taradusis Oct 02, 2010 22:11:12	There are 15 books in the Oz series. In them all Dorothy Gale seems to be a sort of air bender. Even the name Gale is wind related. Now if Kansas had an inter-dimensional portal that Dorothy could access if she flew high enough that could be added to your universe. The gnomes fly up and instead of a god shooting them down or a gargantuan red dragon attack supposed a vortex formed and sucked them to an alternate universe or the opposite side of the world?