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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1035025" data-attributes="member: 5171">Shoot, there's a great book out there -- it's aimed at writers, but works well for DMs, too, if you're interested in scientific plausability.I believe that multiple moons have been covered.  For multiple suns, it depends on whether you're having the world orbit a mass of close-together suns or swirl between a bunch of far-apart suns (like doing a figure-eight between two suns in a binary system).  The former is easy, although you'd probably be so far out that the suns wouldn't provide a ton of heat, OR moving so fast in order to not get sucked into the suns that you'd have veyr short years.  The latter involves a lot of time when you're moving between suns, not close to either (or too close to either), and that's gonna mess things up.I did a binary star system with one planet moving in a figure-eight between the suns.  The inhabitants never figured this out -- they just knew that the odd-numbered years were warmer than the even numbered years, that the Watcher was the brightest star in the sky, and it moved around during the year, and that on New Year's Eve, the sun wanes and vanishes, and there is a two-day period where the sun doesn't shine, and only the blessings of the gods keep the cold from killing everything.  The odd/even thing was because one sun was larger, the Watcher was whichever sun was farther away at the moment, and the Day of Darkness (New Year's Eve) was when the planet was moving from one sun to the other.  It was a pretty cold world.</blockquote>

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