Frostmarrow
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lukelightning said:
That's none of your business!
D&D Setting Advice: Planet with Rings
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That's none of your business!
Savage Wombat
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lukelightning said:
Don't be silly - they changed the name to get rid of that stupid joke.
It's now called Urectum.
Frostmarrow
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Besides, it has 11 rings. Are you happy now?
lukelightning
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You can do all sorts of cool things with a planetary ring...perhaps it has multicolored bands, each corresponding to a certain element/energy/plane/alignment/whatever. Perhaps the ring swivels around the orbit, so it is not always over the equator.
Perhaps the ring is solid and spins to create an artificial gravity effect and beings live on the inner surface (idea blatantly ripped off from Rinworld...).
Perhaps the ring is solid and spins to create an artificial gravity effect and beings live on the inner surface (idea blatantly ripped off from Rinworld...).
Ralts Bloodthorne
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In my campaign world, there was once 4 moons.
The red moon, small and bright, also called the sailor's moon, as it's orbit was directly West to East, and revolved approximately 6 times a day (once every 5 hours). This moon still exists, but recently has had a growing black dot in the middle of it.
The blue moon, no living PC has seen it. It was hit by a Hammer of the God's, and destroyed, it's corpse pluging into the Great Pacacum Ocean.
The green moon, which still exists, is in a long, elleptical orbit and moves slowly around the northen hemisphere. Recently the players discovered it is inhabited by the MEANEST jungle plants ever.
The white moon, and this, my friends, is where our story becomes relevant. The white moon was roughly half again the size of Luna (Shtar is roughly the size of Minerva, rather than Earth) and during the First Lich King War, it exploded. (No, I won't say why, suffice to say I was a player, it was my fault)
The shards did NOT rain down upon the world, but rather accumulated over several years into a ring, with the core of the moon being a lopsided, chunky bulge in the ring. Now, the white moon was known as the oath moon, and considered the home of the Gods (not true), and the chunk left over is now known as "The throne of the Gods".
Now, as for what can be found there: Dragons go there to die and be reborn. Ghosts of previous inhabitants. Undead who have suffered a misteleportation during life. All manner of strange and curious creatures.
And find an old module called "Expidition to Barrier Peaks" and convert it to 3.5E. Now, place a magical "circle" somewhere, and allow the PC's to go through it, exiting in the "garden" of the starship. Instead of the robots hucking them out the door, have the robots huck them into a rock containing atmosphere.
Each of the larger rocks (say, city block sized or larger) could each have it's own atmosphere, own magical laws, own creatures of various sizes. Imagine a rock the size of the Chrysler Building, upon which a race of Githyanki are locked in war with a race of Illithid. Both of which are 0.3mm high.
Anything else you want help with?
The red moon, small and bright, also called the sailor's moon, as it's orbit was directly West to East, and revolved approximately 6 times a day (once every 5 hours). This moon still exists, but recently has had a growing black dot in the middle of it.
The blue moon, no living PC has seen it. It was hit by a Hammer of the God's, and destroyed, it's corpse pluging into the Great Pacacum Ocean.
The green moon, which still exists, is in a long, elleptical orbit and moves slowly around the northen hemisphere. Recently the players discovered it is inhabited by the MEANEST jungle plants ever.
The white moon, and this, my friends, is where our story becomes relevant. The white moon was roughly half again the size of Luna (Shtar is roughly the size of Minerva, rather than Earth) and during the First Lich King War, it exploded. (No, I won't say why, suffice to say I was a player, it was my fault)
The shards did NOT rain down upon the world, but rather accumulated over several years into a ring, with the core of the moon being a lopsided, chunky bulge in the ring. Now, the white moon was known as the oath moon, and considered the home of the Gods (not true), and the chunk left over is now known as "The throne of the Gods".
Now, as for what can be found there: Dragons go there to die and be reborn. Ghosts of previous inhabitants. Undead who have suffered a misteleportation during life. All manner of strange and curious creatures.
And find an old module called "Expidition to Barrier Peaks" and convert it to 3.5E. Now, place a magical "circle" somewhere, and allow the PC's to go through it, exiting in the "garden" of the starship. Instead of the robots hucking them out the door, have the robots huck them into a rock containing atmosphere.
Each of the larger rocks (say, city block sized or larger) could each have it's own atmosphere, own magical laws, own creatures of various sizes. Imagine a rock the size of the Chrysler Building, upon which a race of Githyanki are locked in war with a race of Illithid. Both of which are 0.3mm high.
Anything else you want help with?
lukelightning said:
I am thinking of having multiple colored rings here, such as Red, Gold, and Silver. The rings range from red which is the largest and most visible to silver, which only faint outline can be readily seen by acute viewers.
Warlord Ralts said:
I am going to borrow this and say a green moon is a Shepard moon in the orbit of the Red Ring. Upon this moon is a mysterious atmosphere, which harbors large trees (about fifty to one hundred feet tall). Creatures that call the Green Moon home are small, furry creatures that possess primitive culture and outlook. I call them Kowe.
Warlord Ralts said:
I won't ask.
Warlord Ralts said:
oooooooooooookay. A diminutive war between Illithids and Githyanki? How about a gangster war between astral Beholders and Drow?
Warlord Ralts said:
How many minds could a mindflayer mine if a mindflayer could mine minds?
Thanks for your help.
)Eventually, Earth's Moon will tear itself apart and become a ring due to tidal stress.
So, not everything must involve a massive catastrophe. It makes sense then, that there may be some parts in fairly decent shape. Say, extraplanetary ruins, from an ancient civilization that lived in orbit, up on the chunks of planet.
So, not everything must involve a massive catastrophe. It makes sense then, that there may be some parts in fairly decent shape. Say, extraplanetary ruins, from an ancient civilization that lived in orbit, up on the chunks of planet.
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