Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Asmor" data-source="post: 1543285" data-attributes="member: 1154">Here's a setting idea I came up with, which I call Paradise for lack of a better name. It provides many interesting adventure opportunities, from swashbuckling pirate stories on the high sea- err, clouds to expeditions to the ruins of long forgotten civilization for riches and secrets.There are many hypotheses why clouds cover the planet of Eden. A magical experiment gone horribly wrong. A punishment by the gods for some long forgotten crime. No one knows for sure, the truth is lost to time. All that matters is that thick clouds cover every inch of open sky, blanketing the lands below in eternal darkness and frequent rain and thunderstorms.Caves flooded and crops died. Many of the civilized races moved to mountainous plateaus above the cloud layer, enjoying eternal sunshine. The lack of rain proved a problem, but the ever ingenious Gnomes helped solve that by creating primitive pumping stations, powered by beasts of burden, to bring pooled water above the clouds and rudimentary irrigation systems to disseminate it. Magically created springs helped supplement the water supply and civilization flourished above the skies. Thanks to the domestication of the docile cloudskimmers, creatures capable of traversing the tops of clouds not unlike a jellyfish floating along the surface of an ocean, they were even able to establish trade routes.A notable exception to the migration to the mountain was the elves, who chose instead to stay in the lands below, unable, or unwilling, to cope with the treeless plateaus. The elves, even before wary of outsiders, became xenophobic to the extreme. While society above the clouds flourished, the lands below became more feral. Vegetation fed by the constant rain quickly subsumed every last trace of civilization on the ground and monstrous beasts stalk the lands unchecked.</blockquote>

Verification