Settling the Anarouch/Great Glacier debate.

[Prince of Happiness]

Oh, as if creating climate and terrain through natural means hasn't been done more often?

In gaming, it's more like it has been done many times since. The FR Cyclopedia is back from 1987. TSR had done similar stuff once before - with the Invoked Devastation and Rain of Colorless Fire destroying an empire and creating the Sea of Dust in Greyhawk. How many popular game worlds were out there before FR to have such a feature?

Yeah, but supernatural deserts made by angry windsocks with four hands is one too many!

 

[green slime]

Hello, SHARK. Good to see you again. I hope you are well?

I would like to reiterate these sentiments.

Long time no see SHARK!

 

[green slime]

Sorry, but this had me cracking up:

... were disappointments... I would have wished that..... The other thing that's annoying is ... been done a bajizilliongoogleplex times before.

The other thing that annoyed me was...., but I have to ask...

....analogue wasn't too thrilling.... and the teeth gritting moment when ...

Comments from the "Prince of Happiness"

Thank goodness it wasn't the Duke of Gloom!

 

[Prince of Happiness]

Sorry, but this had me cracking up:


Comments from the "Prince of Happiness"

Thank goodness it wasn't the Duke of Gloom!

Two points:

1) I.......do.......not post.....like....Captain Kirk!

2) No, "Duke of Gloom" isn't cool enough. Now if it was "Prynsse of Darquenesse" then we'd be talking business. "Duke of Gloome," see? Not as easily and oh-so-spookily misspellable (damn, I love making up my own words).

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

How many popular game worlds were out there before FR to have such a feature?

Mystara/Known World, with Nithia/Ylaruam. Sind nearly qualifies, as an Immortal raised a plateau thousands of feet up caused the moisture that came through the nation of Sind to dry up as weather patterns changed from the height of this new magically created plateau, turning it to a desert from a slightly arid region. Ylaruam was affected by elven weather pattern altering, but was more drastically affected, going straight into an Arabian Peninsula climate from a moderate temperate. It is beneath this desert where B4 Lost City takes place.


Regards,
Eric Anondson

 

[Dr Simon]

Oh, as if creating climate and terrain through natural means hasn't been done more often?

In gaming, it's more like it has been done many times since. The FR Cyclopedia is back from 1987. TSR had done similar stuff once before - with the Invoked Devastation and Rain of Colorless Fire destroying an empire and creating the Sea of Dust in Greyhawk. How many popular game worlds were out there before FR to have such a feature?

Glorantha.

You may dispute "popular", but back in the late 70s-early 80s "Golden Age" of RPG, RuneQuest was acquitted one of the Big Three (with DnD and Traveller).

All of Glorantha is magically created through the actions of gods. If you want a magical wasteland then you need go no further than, well, the Wastelands, ruined when Urox the Storm Bull battled Wakboth the Devil, where the life is leeched from the ground because Storm Bull's missus the Earth Goddess gave him her strength when he fell in battle.

As a side issue, I've always had a fancy that Athas, the world of Dark Sun, is what happens thousands of years in the future of Toril when Anauroch has completely taken over. I know it *isn't*, but I like to think it is, so there!