Planescape Primalshard: other "echo" plane.
LuisCarlos17f
Legend
Thanks for the suggestion, but to do it I would need some ilustrator and legal + technical knownledge.
About the previous plane I had forgotten to add something, the "fluvial net".
Among the floating islands there is something like a neural net, floating rivers what composed of floating rivers that flow towards water bubbles as connecting links. In the "core" of these rivers there are like linear coral reefs, allowing water life. The radio of these water collumns aren't more 200 meters.
The investigators have discovered these reefs contain a special dust working as "caborite", the mineral from the core of the floating islands, and both type of "cavorite" They repel each other like opposite poles of magnets. In some places, or some times when there are certain type of storms, the floating rives suffer a special type of ionization and they lost the repulsion toward the cavorite from the floating islands, allowing sea life in these.
These "dark matter" can be manipulated to create artificial water bubles with hidden submarine strongholds.
Of course the floating rivers are used for fishing and naval trade, although the techniques of fish farms are very advanced.
Some of these water bubles where floating converge are specially interesting because they are "hollow spaces". The main theory to explain this is the "dark matter", some type of incorporeal and invisible matter but with some salt-water repulsion power. These "undersea spaces" can be used for settlers, and towns by tritons or sea elves are very common here. The sweet water falls normally, and drinks can be consumed by air-breather creatures.
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About the previous plane I had forgotten to add something, the "fluvial net".
Among the floating islands there is something like a neural net, floating rivers what composed of floating rivers that flow towards water bubbles as connecting links. In the "core" of these rivers there are like linear coral reefs, allowing water life. The radio of these water collumns aren't more 200 meters.
The investigators have discovered these reefs contain a special dust working as "caborite", the mineral from the core of the floating islands, and both type of "cavorite" They repel each other like opposite poles of magnets. In some places, or some times when there are certain type of storms, the floating rives suffer a special type of ionization and they lost the repulsion toward the cavorite from the floating islands, allowing sea life in these.
These "dark matter" can be manipulated to create artificial water bubles with hidden submarine strongholds.
Of course the floating rivers are used for fishing and naval trade, although the techniques of fish farms are very advanced.
Some of these water bubles where floating converge are specially interesting because they are "hollow spaces". The main theory to explain this is the "dark matter", some type of incorporeal and invisible matter but with some salt-water repulsion power. These "undersea spaces" can be used for settlers, and towns by tritons or sea elves are very common here. The sweet water falls normally, and drinks can be consumed by air-breather creatures.
D&D 5E - Ungodly Heaths (Dark Sun spiritual successor)
I was thinking about how could be possible the return of DS when this does not fit current standards and how to find the right balance between coherence with the previous lore and the gameplay flexibility. I have sound a possible solution where the Athasian Tablelands are within a bigger pack...
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LuisCarlos17f
Legend
Somnica Valley, land of the onironauts.
Nobody could guess the revolutionary impact of the discovery of this place and thanks the fortuitous chance. This started when a group of spellcasters tried to create a project of hibernation chambers, to heal the sick and wounded, and even if the damage was too serious, to be totally frozen for the necessary time. This should work as a cheaper version of the magic for return to the life, but sometimes the results are very different.
The initial tets with volunteers (some of them criminals who accepted in exchange for a reduced sentence) didn't show signs of physical or psychological damage, but some strange side effects, and even, never better said, totally surreal.
The volunteers told when they were sleeping within the experimental chambers they dreamed they were in a totally unknow zone. The most of times was in the ruins of a big city where the buildings were mainly by crystal, metal and mortar. There were in the middle of the street vestiges of vehicles, with smaller wheels, by a material whose touch was reminiscent of resin, and without hitching of horses or draft animals. And the most curious and relevant detail is they were very small, as much as rats, squirels or mice. Without tools the survival had been a true hell without the help of the kercpas, antropomorphic squirrel. There are other "tribes" of native humanoids, but most of them are hostile, like gnolls, goblings, bugbears, kobolds, and even a formian army ruled by a warlord werevernim.
Some dreamers when they could return from that dream and wake up, some times find next to them some items or threasures they found in the dream.
The somnica valley is a very interesting place for the sages, but too little chance of physical reward for the adventurers. The exploration could be worth for some artificers who search remains of advanced technology from those ruins, but without the right tools the reverse ingeneering is too dificult, and a lot of times the onironauts appear in wild zones without remains of advance tech. If they are lucky some times they can return with tissue samples from unknown species, even enoughly good to allow the creation of possible clones. Even when these are shorter-lifed, they can live enough to breed a totally healthy new generation
Some new models of statis chamber mixed with teletransportation magic allow the onironauts or dreamwalkers to visit the Somnica Valley with some items, but magical objects only with low level. This allow more possibilities of phisical rewards.
Nobody could guess the revolutionary impact of the discovery of this place and thanks the fortuitous chance. This started when a group of spellcasters tried to create a project of hibernation chambers, to heal the sick and wounded, and even if the damage was too serious, to be totally frozen for the necessary time. This should work as a cheaper version of the magic for return to the life, but sometimes the results are very different.
The initial tets with volunteers (some of them criminals who accepted in exchange for a reduced sentence) didn't show signs of physical or psychological damage, but some strange side effects, and even, never better said, totally surreal.
The volunteers told when they were sleeping within the experimental chambers they dreamed they were in a totally unknow zone. The most of times was in the ruins of a big city where the buildings were mainly by crystal, metal and mortar. There were in the middle of the street vestiges of vehicles, with smaller wheels, by a material whose touch was reminiscent of resin, and without hitching of horses or draft animals. And the most curious and relevant detail is they were very small, as much as rats, squirels or mice. Without tools the survival had been a true hell without the help of the kercpas, antropomorphic squirrel. There are other "tribes" of native humanoids, but most of them are hostile, like gnolls, goblings, bugbears, kobolds, and even a formian army ruled by a warlord werevernim.
Some dreamers when they could return from that dream and wake up, some times find next to them some items or threasures they found in the dream.
The somnica valley is a very interesting place for the sages, but too little chance of physical reward for the adventurers. The exploration could be worth for some artificers who search remains of advanced technology from those ruins, but without the right tools the reverse ingeneering is too dificult, and a lot of times the onironauts appear in wild zones without remains of advance tech. If they are lucky some times they can return with tissue samples from unknown species, even enoughly good to allow the creation of possible clones. Even when these are shorter-lifed, they can live enough to breed a totally healthy new generation
Some new models of statis chamber mixed with teletransportation magic allow the onironauts or dreamwalkers to visit the Somnica Valley with some items, but magical objects only with low level. This allow more possibilities of phisical rewards.
LuisCarlos17f
Legend
Dreamhollow.
I am thinking about the plane of the dreams. It could be very interesting for storytelling and roleplaying but not so interesting if there isn't some crunchy reward.
Dreamhollow is a zone within the plane of the dream rebuilt, retouched and altered conscientely by artificial means thanks special magitek chambers of stasis. This happened when gem dragons discovered the classical crashed alien spaceships. The crew were fraals within special hibernation chambers. While their original and biological bodies were in stasis their minds were very busy remote-control constructs (do you remember the movie "surrogate"?).
Later with help of psionic powers and reverse engineering the stasis chambers were created by the naives, some times like penal colonies, to punish criminals. Other times it was used to heal innocent people turned into undead. A slower but aslo cheaper path.
After when teletransporation was added to the stasis chambers for safety reasons some times the sleepers wake up with physical version of objects got in the dream plane, for example a lightsaber from Star Wars (but this is not the original gadget, only a magitek "copy". If reverse engineering was possible, the product would be so expensive like the equivalent magic item.
The concept of Dreamhollow not only could become a new setting itself, but with the right explanation it could allow crossovers with no-frantasy franchises. The power balance could be in the PCs even with lower tech-level enjoy special adventages because they aren't using the original and biological bodies but a computer-simulated avatars, adding special resistance against ballistic damage. They could visit and explore Gamma World, or go to "Walking Dead" and they shouldn't be worry too much because they can't be infected by zombies' bites. Or they could appear within some MMO videogames from some isekai anime.
I am thinking about the plane of the dreams. It could be very interesting for storytelling and roleplaying but not so interesting if there isn't some crunchy reward.
Dreamhollow is a zone within the plane of the dream rebuilt, retouched and altered conscientely by artificial means thanks special magitek chambers of stasis. This happened when gem dragons discovered the classical crashed alien spaceships. The crew were fraals within special hibernation chambers. While their original and biological bodies were in stasis their minds were very busy remote-control constructs (do you remember the movie "surrogate"?).
Later with help of psionic powers and reverse engineering the stasis chambers were created by the naives, some times like penal colonies, to punish criminals. Other times it was used to heal innocent people turned into undead. A slower but aslo cheaper path.
After when teletransporation was added to the stasis chambers for safety reasons some times the sleepers wake up with physical version of objects got in the dream plane, for example a lightsaber from Star Wars (but this is not the original gadget, only a magitek "copy". If reverse engineering was possible, the product would be so expensive like the equivalent magic item.
The concept of Dreamhollow not only could become a new setting itself, but with the right explanation it could allow crossovers with no-frantasy franchises. The power balance could be in the PCs even with lower tech-level enjoy special adventages because they aren't using the original and biological bodies but a computer-simulated avatars, adding special resistance against ballistic damage. They could visit and explore Gamma World, or go to "Walking Dead" and they shouldn't be worry too much because they can't be infected by zombies' bites. Or they could appear within some MMO videogames from some isekai anime.
