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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 2678021" data-attributes="member: 13966">Considering that we're talking about D&D and flying islands, I'd say: whatever kind of ecology you like.  D&D doesn't need flying islands to have mountaintop-style ecology, they can be tropical, desert, arctic, temperate, or whatever you like.  Whatever magical forces make the island float could also make the island's top surface count as sea level for purposes of determining climate at different elevations on the island.  The further one gets from the island, the more the climate resembles what one would expect at the real elevation.  But while on the island or a few (dozen?) miles away from it, climate is centered on the island's own personal geography and relative elevation.Otherwise:It could be very cold, with thin air, and home to various hardy plants, plant creatures, giant insects, giants (as in the creature type), very hairy and fatty dire animals (think ice-age sort of stuff; i.e. dire elephants as wooly mammoths, dire tigers as sabertooth tigers, dire rhinocerii as, uhh, whatever their ice-age ancestors were (the name's on the tip of my tongue, darnit!), etc.), certain races of aberration and magical beast, and critters such as rocs, owlbears, griffins, hippogriffs, pegasi, asperi, grey (gray?) renders, minotaurs, lizardfolk, and perhaps sahuagin and/or locathah.I imagine it would be quite windy (and thus noisy) up there, though that would be mitigated somewhat if the island is surrounded by a ring of mountains.  However, if surrounded by mountains, then the interior would hardly get any rain, if any, and would be exceedingly dry.  Otherwise, it might be rather temperate or wet in environment; being that high up, it would probably have an odd effect on wind currents and perhaps jetstreams, as well as hot and cold fronts.  It might be very stormy just above, or just below, the center of the island, or perhaps all around the perimeter of the island.  Or it might just be rather rainy over the island and windy below it, or something.  It might prevent any rain from getting to the surface far below the floating island, or it might be the reverse, with all rainclouds forming below the island and leaving the island itself parched.  I'm no meteorologist or climatologist, so I can't really say for sure which of these outcomes is most probable.</blockquote>

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