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<blockquote data-quote="Greenstone.Walker" data-source="post: 9089957" data-attributes="member: 6788312">I should have included my references. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />&quot;The Book of the Long Sun&quot; by Gene Wolfe.The various Ringworld books by Larry Niven.The movie &quot;Pandorum&quot; (2009).I also did a lot of thinking about how you could support large flyers and giant insects and other creatures that the square-cube laws work against. A steep gravity gradiant allows for such life, as well as adding the dramatic ideas that for a high-living creature, going down into a valley is death (in the same way that for an air-breather going into the an ocean is death).I also really like the idea of some sort of high-tech overlords keeping the majority of the world in ignorance, that technology like gunpowder exists but the D&amp;D world doesn't have it because some group is actively supressing it. For example the the Priest-Kings in the Gor books by John Norman.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greenstone.Walker, post: 9089957, member: 6788312"] I should have included my references. :-) "The Book of the Long Sun" by Gene Wolfe. The various Ringworld books by Larry Niven. The movie "Pandorum" (2009). I also did a lot of thinking about how you could support large flyers and giant insects and other creatures that the square-cube laws work against. A steep gravity gradiant allows for such life, as well as adding the dramatic ideas that for a high-living creature, going down into a valley is death (in the same way that for an air-breather going into the an ocean is death). I also really like the idea of some sort of high-tech overlords keeping the majority of the world in ignorance, that technology like gunpowder exists but the D&D world doesn't have it because some group is actively supressing it. For example the the Priest-Kings in the Gor books by John Norman. [/QUOTE]

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