Dragonstar: Planet types?

[Heretic Apostate]

Are all worlds assumed to be Terran-standard? Or will there be a mixture of planet types? Will there be tide-locked worlds circling gas giants? Worlds with harsh atmospheric conditions? Worlds uninhabitable to humans, but still livable for their native species? Worlds with non-standards gravities and atmospheric pressures?

Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[Psychotic Dreamer]

I'm not sure what will be in the Galaxy Guide, but I would guess they will go with the more scientific type planets. I doubt you will see anything like what was in Spelljammer.

 

[d20Dwarf]

There will be some planets in the Guide to the Galaxy, and also a kick butt planet creation system.

 

[Gez]

Will it allows creation of "cool" planets also ? An example I have is in a comic-book, there's a planet who's a gasous giant (non-habitable, and non-habited), but with a liquid ring around it (like saturn, but made of liquid water rather than dust), and with a thin atmosphere around the "river". That place is known as Limavan, is inhabitable (and inhabited) by humans, and is really a weird place: a river flowing into itself eternally, with gravity decreasing and inversing as you dive in (to finally emerge from the other side)... Scientifically speaking, it's impossible as far as my poor grasp of physics goes. However, it's a very fun place.

 

[Heretic Apostate]

There will be some planets in the Guide to the Galaxy, and also a kick butt planet creation system.

Okay, we have a planet creation system. Will it be like Manual of the Planes, and have environmental effects? Heavy worlds, hot worlds, thin atmosphere worlds?

Also, will there be something to create monsters from scratch? With all those worlds in the draconic empire, there's got to be some variety, right?

 

[d20Dwarf]

The details of my life are...inconsequential.

Seriously, though, Greg's the man to ask about the world-creation system.

As far as monster creation, what could we include that isn't already covered in the core rulebooks?

 

[BadMojo]

I'm also quite interested in the Planet Building rules. Any hint of a release date for the Galaxy Guide???

 

[Heretic Apostate]

As far as monster creation, what could we include that isn't already covered in the core rulebooks?

The core rulebooks start require you to start from a concept, and help you build your creation.

What I'm talking about is building monsters from the ground up. No concepts, no ideas, just random. Like what you'd encounter on another world. Not "ho, hum, another werewolf variant."

 

[Zarrock God of Evil]

Until the real GG comes out you can check out an adaption of the MotP model for planets on my site: Zarrock's Dragonstar

It's fairly simple and straightforward - the example is a dead magic world called Terminus Delta - you can find it in the AstroLab section...

-Zarrock

 

[fauxgemini]

Another cool world.

Or like my Dune/Tatonie-esk world in my game that has deep pockets connected to the elemental plane of earth. Where Xorns are common and the deep desert is a dangerous place from all the predetors.