Is your fantasy world hollow?

[Krieg]

What's a dyson sphere?

Basically a giant circular shell surrounding a star roughly 1AU away (1AU = 1 Astronomical Unit, which is the distance between the Earth & the Sun). The inside of the shell would have a surface area rougly 600million times that of earth. Essentially it is a ringworld that has expanded from a ring to a globe.

 

[the Jester]

My world, Cydra, is an gigantic air bubble in an infinite ocean. The islands, continents, etc are on the inside surface. So I put other, cuz the answer's yes, but not like you think.

 

[Tonguez]

It's partly Arthur Conan Doyle's fault. He coined the "Lost World" genre with a novel brilliantly titled "The Lost World." It takes a group of Victorian adventurers to a plateau in South American where dinosaurs still existed. Part of his Professor Challenger series. A decent read.

Actually it was Edgar Rice Burroughs and his Pellucidar series that introduced us to the Hollow-world at the earths core populated by dinosaurs and ape-men which had a permanent sun and thus permanent daylight (and no sense of time).
First book (published 1922) was called 'At the Earths Core' whereby David Innes and Abner Perry find there way in and discover primitive humans oppressed by an evil Reptilian race.

Most absurd scene was in Tarzan at the Earth Core (a crossover between the two series) when a Stegosaur flattens out its back plates and uses them to glide down of a cliff top!

As to my world - its the body of the earth mother and in her womb you will find her baby, the god of volcanoes and earthquakes.

In my other world I had a molten core surrounded by a series of deep crystal caverns in which it is possible (albeit difficult) for humanoids to survive (the natives are the crystal gnomes who grow and eat living gems)

 

[Mark]

Soild (molten core)

 

[Tonguez]

Try this for another Pellucidar link - with maps and geographic measurements

 

[Raven Crowking]

I remember there was an old film based on a Jules Vernes novel (?) called "Journey to the Center of the Earth", or something like that. Can someone tell me whether the Earth was hollow in these stories, or where they exploring a lot of tunnels and caverns?

Pretty well tunnels and caverns. Verne was using the (erroneous) idea that, since as you dig into the earth you keep hitting earlier layers of fossils, you might perhaps also reach earlier layers of living things.

RC

 

[L0rd_Dark0n]

solid w/ the good ol' molten core for my campaign world, though I have contemplated creating a campaign on the inside of a dyson sphere

I've thought of doing that myself. That would be HUGE!

 

[Graywolf-ELM]

I also use the Hollow World setting, along with Mystara. Yes, it is officially part of Mystara/Known World. It's where the Immortals place the remnants of dying civilizations as a way of preserving them. There is a powerful Spell of Preservation in effect in the Hollow World, that ensures that no group there ever disappears entirely.

It's not all based on Ancient Egypt. That's only part of it (the Empire of Nithia). There are many other groups there, as well. The Milenians (based on Ancient Greece), Azcans (Aztecs), and a whole bunch more.

The sun of the Hollow World is actually a permanent gate to the Plane of Fire. There is no night, which has led the populace to be very frightened of darkness.

It's a great setting for "Lost World" style games, and I'd recommend it if that's what you're looking for. It could take quite a bit of work to convert it to 3.X, however.

I use the Mystara/Known World setting, and find little problem converting it to 3.X. I don't try converting the whole thing, just what I need for various adventures. NPC's that are expected to be met is about it. The specialty classes introduced in many of the Gazeteers can be met with alternate PC types or PRC's that have been created. The Hollow world Boxed set is not yet in my posession.

Hollow world, if needed, otherwise, whatever is needed if my players delve that deep, or I come up with a story arch that it makes sense for.

GW

 

[dead]

Basically a giant circular shell surrounding a star roughly 1AU away (1AU = 1 Astronomical Unit, which is the distance between the Earth & the Sun). The inside of the shell would have a surface area rougly 600million times that of earth. Essentially it is a ringworld that has expanded from a ring to a globe.

Egads! Who came up with this!? When was it first invented?

Would it have continents and seas like our world?

What would be on the outside? Continents and seas?

Would the entire inside be a breathable atmosphere?

 

[beepeearr]

Whoops