What's the next "Scape" book?

[Matrix Sorcica]

There wasn't a lot on gates in there.

What he said.

So, Gatescape.

 

[hamishspence]

Keep the two categories separate

Scape books should be more for the DM, to make it easier to run adventures

Environment books should be just that: weather, terrain, hazards natural and supernatural, monsters adapted to same. And should have a subtitle: Mastering the perils of X and Y.

 

[Snapdragyn]

If by Forest you mean anything that resembles the difficulties of crossing a fully-grown woodland, where the trees block out nearly all sunlight, where visibility is 60 feet at most, where flat ground is nearly impossible to find, where rivers can flood miles to each side during rainy seasons, where humidity and heat can cause dehydration faster than in the desert, I think there's still a lot to add.

I've been in forests & jungles all over the world, but never have I seen sunlight 'nearly all' blocked out. Dimmer, sure, but not so much so that it was difficult to see (but maybe I have inherent Low-Light Vision & don't know it ).

'60' at most' would really depend on the forest. I can think of many temperate zone woodlands where visibility is much further (most mature pine forests I've been in, for example), but in the tropics it'd be much less -- say 20' max for the denser areas, & that with some level of concealment (unless something is up in the canopy, or flying between the canopy & understorey). Even within specific forests, though, it'll vary greatly within small areas (e.g. in Thailand I noticed places where the understorey would open up & visibility would extend much further).

 

[Klaus]

I've been in forests & jungles all over the world, but never have I seen sunlight 'nearly all' blocked out. Dimmer, sure, but not so much so that it was difficult to see (but maybe I have inherent Low-Light Vision & don't know it ).

'60' at most' would really depend on the forest. I can think of many temperate zone woodlands where visibility is much further (most mature pine forests I've been in, for example), but in the tropics it'd be much less -- say 20' max for the denser areas, & that with some level of concealment (unless something is up in the canopy, or flying between the canopy & understorey). Even within specific forests, though, it'll vary greatly within small areas (e.g. in Thailand I noticed places where the understorey would open up & visibility would extend much further).

I was describing the Amazon rainforest pretty accuratedly. With the ammount of rain in the region and the dense foliage, twilight-level light is the most common condition at the forest floor. The growth is so dense that the police in the amazionian island of Marajó (at the mouth of the Amazon River) regularly uses buffalo as mounts, since the buffalo just crash through the growth (which is beginning to become a problem, now that the buffalo herds are getting to large).

 

[Aus_Snow]

Just for the inevitable mistakes in pronunciation and spelling: Spacescape.

But really, Skyscape and possibly Junglescape sound good (maybe likely, even).

 

[trollwad]

a previous poster mentioned that he had a stone age environment supplement, what was that?

 

[Shadowslayer]

I've been in forests & jungles all over the world, but never have I seen sunlight 'nearly all' blocked out.

Yeah but we're talking fantasy...Fangorn Forest type stuff.

I can go get a textbook if I want to learn about a rain forest.

 

[DMH]

a previous poster mentioned that he had a stone age environment supplement, what was that?

Possibly Frost and Fur (Monkey God) or Lost Prehistorica (Dark Quest Games).

 

[DarkKestral]

Yeah but we're talking fantasy...Fangorn Forest type stuff.

I can go get a textbook if I want to learn about a rain forest.

Whereas I WANT my fantasy forests to be these perenially dark places where day is almost night, and where the trees tower hundreds of feet into the sky... places that are capable of being inviting and foreboding in equal measure. That's what I want in a forest book. Those feel like my style of fantasy forest. Something that kinda has a feel of myth. Something that a environment book could be useful for.

 

[Nifft]

Dreamscape -- Bringing Psionic Combat Back!

"Because we didn't annoy you enough with Complete Psionic!"

Cheers, -- N

PS: Yes, it's 128 pages of psionic combat tables.