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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenjib" data-source="post: 178408" data-attributes="member: 530">Hey guys, are you doing some good science research and explaining things like where these ecosystems form and the kind of environmental elements are needed to create them?  Coastal situation, ocean current, prevailing winds, rain shadows, river basins, latitude, etc?  Different types of forests for example, and how weather patterns, vegetation, support for animal ecosystem (info on large predators is esp. important to D&D), tend to differ for each:  temperate rainforest, temperate dry, tropical rainforest, cloud forest, boreal/taiga, alpine, etc.  What types of trees are more common in these different forest types.  Also toss in some notes about magic, druids, divine power, presence of monsters and how this changes things.Perhaps I'm the only one interested in this sort of thing, but for a generic supplement that a DM could use to really bring a forest to life this is one thing that I would definitely be looking for - help with getting a feel for how the forest and all organisms in it live and breathe in a great network.  In fact, this would probably be the main reason I would possibly get something like this - all of it dramatically simplified and presented in terms of what's relevant to the DM.  It would help me to determine what kinds of trees (very important in decribing the forest and giving it a feel) and animals would be in a given forest just based on map location.  Zing!Other terrain types could have different types of info - info on stone type and minerals found within certain types of stone, how age of mountains effect mineral types and richness, different ways mountains are formed and how this effects the shape of the mountains (jagged vs. rolling, etc.), the treeline, how mountains effect climate (what kind of ecosystem will we see on a mountain), the relationship between mountains, clouds, and precipitation, etc., etc.</blockquote>

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