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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 5338841" data-attributes="member: 41321">I'm imagining a world with life stacked on one side, steaming jungles with plant life so thick in places that you need to tunnel through it or climb over it to travel.Civilization lives in the narrow band of twilight, the sun being a constant spot on the horizon, an unerring point of reference, like our north star.And the other side, which lives in an underdark-like state of blackness except for the glowing sky, alight with stars that could not be imagined on the jungle side.  It is silent and dead.  The little bit of life there is on this side of the world is made up of super stealthy predators.  It is eat or be eaten on the dark side.  They only way for life energy to make its way around from the sun is through creatures stupid enough to wander their way into the black and be consumed.The sun side draws the civilized folk because it's teeming with wood, exotic foods, spices, and medicinal wonders.The star side might draw civilization because of the stars themselves.  It is a religious experience for these people to see the spots of light on that side of the planet.  Maybe they believe that both sides of the planet had a sun at one time, but some godling shattered the one on the dark side, and that the stars are the dust that was left over.Or maybe the star side is rich in minerals or other wonders just below the surface, something that is impossible to reach under the thick plant life of the jungle side.  Metals and gems just sit on the surface of the dark side with no plant life to anchor the soil, but silent death waits among the stars for those who try for it.Damnit, now I wanna scrap my old idea for a campaign setting and use this instead. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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