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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7332691" data-attributes="member: 20323">Ideas:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Stilts support wooden walkways over the marshy areas of the city on Swamp World, and where they cross through the portals they are stone slabs traversing treacherous silt sinkholes or quicksand.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sa'id Kambahiir is an artificer (originally of the Desert World) who devised a means of using the hot air passing through a portal from the Desert World into the Swamp World to serve as a modest energy source, mainly for convective-type ovens and similar technology.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Brisk markets in the Desert World sell rafts fashioned from a volcanic pumice-like stone that is buoyant. These rafts are especially valued on the Swamp World, where mineral resources & quarries are rare, but the government on the Desert World imposes stiff tariffs to any Swamp Worlders who try to buy these "stone rafts" in bulk; thus, a black market flourishes. Here may also be found rare poisons harvested from giant scorpions and adders, as well as enchanted sands which serve as enhanced spell components.</li> </ul>Questions for you:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Who are the PCs? Merchants who travel back and forth between the two planes? Police let in on the secret of a doppelganger conspiracy? Diplomats seeking to prevent brewing war? Mercenaries/spies for one side ("good guys") undertaking covert action on the other side ("bad guys")? Belong to displaced/marginalized people who have no true home on either plane? Adventurers who discover something extraordinary about the portals or other planar passages?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What sort of environmental effects are caused by the portals? Do they exist in isolation or do they have an effect on their surroundings (like a gate-town), allowing bits of the other plane to seep through?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What are politics like between the two planes? Who are the movers and shakers? Does knowing there's a whole other world out there bring out the best in people, driving them to be better "world citizens" and thinking of the big picture? Or does it exacerbate tribal tendencies and superstition?</li> </ul></blockquote>

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