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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7470881" data-attributes="member: 29398">They aren't discussed because they are assumed.Every item in the equipment list in the PH is given a weight.  The unwritten assumption behind this is that gravity exists, otherwise "weight" would be a meaningless term and he'd instead use "mass".  Ditto for encumbrance rules...they're irrelevant in a gravity-free environment and so their existence assumes the existence of gravity.  Ditto for ranges of ranged weapons - in a gravity-free environment they'd just keep going until they hit something or until air resistance slowed them down.Once we agree that gravity exists in the game world as evidenced by these rules, we-as-DMs are then free to ask ourselves how it works; and to ask whether there's any good reason to have it work differently than in the real world other than where modified by magic*.* - by the way, whatever system you're running, check the duration on the "Reverse Gravity" spell in that system and then hit one of the sites that do the acceleration calcs for you - you might be a little surprised... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Heh - in your D&D, maybe. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />In mine a character can travel to the Elemental Plane of Earth and 99.99%-likely immediately die, unless ahead of time it has turned itself into a Xorn or some other creature that can survive in solid earth or rock.The tiny chance of survival is that there's occasional air pockets and caves, kind of like how open space has occasional solid objects in it (stars, planets, etc.).This is ne I've given quite a bit of thought to over the years...I've sort of got a vague theory half-built that covers this, and spirits in general, and how they relate to being alive-dead-undead, and revival from death, and a bunch of other metaphysical stuff; but it's by no means solid enough yet to apply to the game.  Which means I still kinda wing a lot of it, for the time being.Lanefan</blockquote>

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