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heavy marble statues, each worth a signifigant sum, but which depict the depravities of the wicked cult which once lived here.. (adventure hook: finding a buyer!) ornate and bejeweled holy symbols, and other religious accessories a neet peice i was thinking of was a beadwork hair-net...

well, you certainly can have this helpful theives guild end up the big bad guy - and you are all set up to do so with no problems. from here, what i would do (just an opinion) is play with the power vacuum that is left by the destruction of the old theives guild. who trys to take the power...

this is a tough situation... but i'd play the time lords part out with the pcs. definetly... it will give the players an opportunity to play out the frustrations of their characters, get it out of their system... if you'd had time in your last session, i would have suggested not ending it until...

green star adept: i just don't like the flavor of the prc. it doesn't appeal to me at all, though it's at least an original idea. wild mage: because it just doesn't quite do things interestingly enough for me. wild magic should be WILD magic. i want d1000 tables of random effects and...

my point exactly ;-)

actually, geologic evidence suggests that venus periodically re-surfaces itself in rather cataclysmic events. there is a massive ammount of volcanic activity on venus' surface... what we don't know is how the inside of venus works, becaue its atmosphere is so dense and acidic that we can't get...

it does interact with that idea, but as an opposite - the more polar landmass, the less likely are large ice-caps, since that means MORE equatorial ocean, which helps keep the world warm and wet... well, i did mess up, i should have said a few hundred million, rather than a few billion...

actually, on the albedo scale... (highest to lowest) clouds ice un-vegitated land vegitated land open water ...geology 101.

totally understand that feeling... ;-)

well, i'd stick with the first option personally - for a couple reasons 1) simpler mechanics help speed game play, so people won't whine about it every time you use it. 2) other editions had it set as a language. 3) American Sign Language is still english (technically) but it counts as a...

well, thanks for pointing that out. i read it in a different way, though the way you read it is definetly still valid. however, if you'll note, a lot of the discussion has been about why oceans are really needed for a planet to have created life... so yes, those of us discussing the problem...

...where are you getting your measurements from, out of curiosity? now, on another level, i'm also wondering where your original question came in - i don't really see anyone in this thread assuming mars is anywhere near the same size as earth....

surface area, earth does win, hands down. LAND surface area, however, if you were to use an arbitrary altitude on mars which would fill the northern basin, hellas, and vallis noctis/marinaras, mars comes out about the same, because only 30% of the surface would be covered in water, as opposed...

well, no you diddn't, but it wouldn't have as signifigant an impact as has been implied earlier in this thread. having checked up on it, the science that the tv shows were using is relativly new and unproven. the real fact is that we don't know what impact a large moon has, aside from tides, on...

that's a pretty nice one! the difference between the two hemispheres on mars is really astounding. the only problem with the KSR map is that it also includes storyline features of the changed mars... so if you havn't read the series, it might be rather confusing (or give away too much).

yes actually, it's in the front cover of blue mars - though i havn't actually found an image of it on the net anywhere there's some other neet things i've found online about terraformed mars, also: * http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/fictional.php * a nice pretty map of mars...

on first look my thought was that a high ammount of volcanism would be needed to maintain the planet at a temperate level. there are some problems with high volcansim to low/ocean area though - the biggest one is of oxygen generation, the second largest being of co2 removal.... but we'll skip...

this statement is incorrect. 1) earth's axial tilt has had, over the last several billion years, as signifigant an axial tilt as mars does now. life happened anyway! 2) mars' axial tilt does not vary "wildly." it is, at the moment, within acceptable (earth-like) boundries. the reason that...

with the following assumptions in mind: planet approximatly one astronomical unit from the sun planet's surface covered by same ammount of water as the earth's the big question here is how are the landmasses of this world arranged? if the landmasses were more polar, or all in a single...

you know, the fact that the whole encounter went down that way was even more amusing on some levels - you see, the original poster of this thread was also playing the party's cleric (who's player wasn't there at the time).... the half-orc ranger just happend to go before the cleric, and so...