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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Bowman" data-source="post: 7310299" data-attributes="member: 6925649">Soon. Right now I'm in the planning stage. It is a fusion between D20 Modern and Dungeons & Dragons 3.5. I've created some home brew alterations in the rules to make the two systems mesh smoothly together. I'm swimming against a trend in Role Playing Game design to roll the dice one way for fantasy and another way for Science Fiction. I've examined Starfinder, and I find that it bends more towards fantasy with the science fiction part of it coming more than halfway to meet the fantasy part of it. I would like my setting to be 50/50. I could start playing it now, I am just getting the encounters ready at this point. I have four encounter tables one for Warm Forests, Warm Plains, Warm Mountains, and Warm Aquatic Surface. The Warm Aquatic also includes a lot of things that fly and it assumes the PCs are going to be on a ship when they have these encounters rather than underwater. Venus doesn't have a moon, that means their are no lycanthropes to encounter. Navigation by sea is very difficult because the sky is overcast most of the time, and one can't see the stars to navigate by. If a means of flight is available, it is possible to get above the cloud layer and navigate by stars from above. You need a stable platform however, a flying carpet would be best for this I think. Most boats follow the coast as a result of the difficulty in navigation. There is warm everything on this planet, as it has no temperate zones, there are no seasons after all. Most people on this planet measure time by a span of days and weeks. 100 weeks is about two Earth years. People tend to celebrate 100-week anniversaries of their birthdays for example, for those that bother to keep track. When a human reaches his 800-week birthday, he is considered an adult by most societies on this planet. The only Cold terrain type on this planet is Cold Mountains, and that is because those mountains are so tall, that they get cold near their summits, their peaks pierce through the cloud layer and often experience direct sunlight. Sunlight is intense once you get above the clouds, those clouds are there for a very good reason, you get twice the amount of sunlight you would get on a clear day on Earth, it is best to wear sunglasses or shade you eyes, because the sunlight and the reflection off of the cloud tops could blind you, so you need to protect your eyes, much like a drow for instance, a human who goes above the cloud layer needs to take certain precautions or suffer from light-blindness. I consider any terrain where it never snows a warm terrain, and where it does snow, the snow cap is more or less permanent, what does happen is the snowcaps get so high that the excess snow avalanches down the peaks to warmer altitudes and melts, and of course most Venusian mountains are volcanoes, when they do erupt, the release a lot of melt water and the result is floods!</blockquote>

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