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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snapdragyn" data-source="post: 1035664" data-attributes="member: 12432">I have to agree with those voting for turning to fantasy to augment the physics. Granted, using fantasy to explain everything in a world can easily produce something so foreign that there will be no sense of 'realism', but D&D is a system with magic & fantasy, after all. Why not use it?I'm currently working up a game setting which draws on elements of Niven's "The Smoke Ring", Weis & Hickman's "Dragon's Gate" (specifically the first volume), & Reeves's "The Shattered Sphere". The 'world' is a series of shards of what was once a typical fantasy planet in the Prime Material Plane; thousands of years ago it somehow shifted to the Plane of Air & was sundered into these shards which now orbit a glowing fiery ball (the planet's original core? a bit of elemental fire? no one knows).I wanted the shards to have 'normal' gravity with a 'top' & a 'bottom'... so they do. No one in the setting knows why they do, nor do they even think it odd that they do (they're not exactly familiar with Newtonian physics). If someone from outside of their cultures were to ask why this was so, they'd be met with puzzled looks, or at best the supposition that this was simply an inherent property of the original world's material.Now, if the campaign continues long enough, the players may discover some things unknown to the regular inhabitants of the Shards, such as exactly how their unidirectional gravity is maintained (not that I've bothered to flesh that out yet since it isn't relevant to early levels).</blockquote>

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