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Message: <blockquote data-quote="efreund" data-source="post: 8079379" data-attributes="member: 6799797">Do planet's influence other planets?  I had thought that the planets only influence earth.However, in another thread, Ranger Wickett dropped this anecdote from an upcoming book, specifically a writeup of Jiese:That's a reference to Urim's gold-blocks-teleport power.I struggle to make sense of the idea that planets exert their powers over other planets.  For example, there's not a Dreaming (and Bleak Gate) version of Jiese (or is there?).  Likewise, does Avilona affect Jiese's weather patterns?  Does Mavisha break up Jiese's landmasses into smaller islands?  Is Mojang helping the Salamanders tame the jungles?  Would Padyer flood Jiese with boiling oceans?  Would Shabboath create an underdark inside Jiese?I'm actually confused as to why Urim still "works."  When the party rediscovers Urim in adv12, it has been strip-mined of all of its gold.  I know this is only a "mote" and not the real planet, but I would imagine that this would somehow disrupt its metaphysics.  I'm not sure how exactly planets get their "powers", but I would imagine that at this point, Urim would have lost its gold-blocks-teleport power, and instead adapt to the new theme, something like "makes precious metals scarce."  (Then again, Av gets blasted into nothing but a twenty-mile stretch around Flint, and somehow it ends up fully-restored for the upcoming campaign-book.)Anyway, I'll admit these aren't really "questions", as the answers are obvious here, I'm more just trying to make conversation about my favorite adventure path <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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