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<blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 1189158" data-attributes="member: 7177">How about other planets?In terms of fantasy worlds, it is best to portray other worlds not as modern-day SF does, or as Spelljammer did, but how H.P. Lovecraft and other writers of his time did.Lovecraft's universe was filled with myriad life forms - even the smallest planet, it seemed, had its own indigenous life (and not all of them were Great Old Ones, either... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ). Most of them were very bizarre and alien - and none of them could easily fit within our notions of &quot;Good&quot; and &quot;Evil&quot;.There are many worlds out there to explore - and in theory, they are only a &quot;Teleport without Error&quot; spell away...And this certainly fits into D&amp;D as well. Think of creatures like destrachans, yrthaks, aboleths and others - how could they have possibly evolved in a terrestrial environment?The logical answer is, of course, that they didn't - either someone summoned them here, or they arrived under their own power...I've written up a sample D&amp;D solar system <a href="http://juergen.the-huberts.net/dnd/urbis/worlds_beyond.html" target="_blank">here</a>. Tell me what you think!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jürgen Hubert, post: 1189158, member: 7177"] How about other planets? In terms of fantasy worlds, it is best to portray other worlds not as modern-day SF does, or as Spelljammer did, but how H.P. Lovecraft and other writers of his time did. Lovecraft's universe was filled with myriad life forms - even the smallest planet, it seemed, had its own indigenous life (and not all of them were Great Old Ones, either... :) ). Most of them were very bizarre and alien - and none of them could easily fit within our notions of "Good" and "Evil". There are many worlds out there to explore - and in theory, they are only a "Teleport without Error" spell away... And this certainly fits into D&D as well. Think of creatures like destrachans, yrthaks, aboleths and others - how could they have possibly evolved in a terrestrial environment? The logical answer is, of course, that they didn't - either someone summoned them here, or they arrived under their own power... I've written up a sample D&D solar system [URL=http://juergen.the-huberts.net/dnd/urbis/worlds_beyond.html]here[/URL]. Tell me what you think! [/QUOTE]

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