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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wlmartin" data-source="post: 6520733" data-attributes="member: 6679380">That water has a different manifestation really.It doesn't flow in rivers, it doesn't rain or isn't part of the ecology or climate.I wanted to completely remove it from the campaign and then reinsert it artificially, but for that to make sense to the creatures in the world.From an evolution point of view, I may well put down a historical entry for the world living as a normal run of the mill, a catastrophe happens and we get sand land.This will explain why humans/elves exist since a world where water is in constraint wouldn't produce an evolutionary path that leads to a typical human/elf/dwarf but instead some kind of desertborn creature... i dont want that so if it is needed, i can explain it as such Not really, since water in an animal/creature has to have a source and without water, how do these creatures survive in the first place to be eaten?Plant life may exist in/around the spots where publicly accesible waterstone is available.Plant life may exist underground in some fungus/mushroom typePlant life may be grown if given water to do so (within settlements that work such)Yes and noIf organisms evaporate water, it wouldn't be significant enough to constitute cloud and rainfall.Typically rain is formed when winds pickup moisture from expanses of water and take it up into the clouds.Since there are no water expanses in my world, that really wouldn't happen or it would be close enough to argue that it is explainable that it doesn't (from a "this is d&D after all" argument)I do get what you are coming up with but i am not looking for a perfect system that can be mathematically modeled, i want it to be realistic enough that it can be believed.Telling people that there is no water, thus no rain and water comes from waterstones that people consume but this cycle doesnt contribute to rain or climate is in my opinion believable.Telling people there is no water and miss out on the fact that people need to drink and survive breaks the illusion.</blockquote>

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