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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Liminal Syzygy" data-source="post: 1184045" data-attributes="member: 1373">Just to fill in details to give people more information to give input...Tidal Locking- Just to define what this is, in the case of the planet, it means the planet's day is one year.  Thus, the same face of the planet would be towards the sun forever.  The moon is tidally locked to the earth, which is why the same face is always turned towards the earth.So generally, if a planet was tidally locked, the only portions of the planet that would continue to be temperate and suitable to human life would be the twilight zones, where you are getting some but not too much sunlight.  And the sun generally wouldn't change it's position, over a year it might back and forth due to seasonal variations resulting from the tilt of the planet's axis, but it wouldn't vary it's height above the horizon.I've seen on the Web that if earth was tidally locked the average temperature right under the sun would be 61 degrees centigrade.  Not sure about the far/dark side but it would be well under freezing.  I've tried to find some information on how wide the habitable zone would be but not much success yet.What caused the planet to become tidally locked? Admittedly a cliche answer that I haven't thought through much yet, but I'm thinking some kind of magical disaster.  The ultimate goal of the heroes of the world being to return the planet to it's regular rotation.What would be the result of tidal locking on an earth-like planet? It seems the theory used to be that all the water would eventually end up in glaicers on the dark side, but that has lost a bit of support recently due to some new models.The main thing I'm trying to figure out going forward brainstorming about this campaign world is what would be some of the weather patterns and other phenomena a recently tidally locked world might see?  And what would be the impact of this on the typical D&D fantasy milieu?Just totally going forward on my own amatuer knowledge, I would guess it would be quite likely that super-hurricanes would build up in the hot side of the planet (due to the high temperature of the oceans), at times spinning off to create massive destruction on the habitable rims.  This and other factors might make Druids (with their weather control powers) the last line of defense for civilization, so to speak.I could see where the Dwarves might retreat underground, burrowing deeply towards the warm mantle to harness energy sources there.With the destruction of most of the world's forests, elves might also withdraw, becoming violently reactionary in protecting the few remaining forested areas.</blockquote>

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