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Post by jeff on Apr 11, 2022 15:45:53 GMT
I'm thinking of running Warriors of the Red Planet in my own setting of a science fantasy version of Saturn. The various city states are named after what various cultures called Saturn. The airships can travel to the eight major moons that have been settled by those prospecting for the vril crystals that power Saturn's technology.
In an act of extreme laziness I'm calling it Warriors of the Ringed Planet.
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Post by evilscientist42 on Apr 12, 2022 6:41:01 GMT
In an act of extreme laziness I'm calling it Warriors of the Ringed Planet. At least you are not calling it Lords of the Rings!  Sounds like a cool campaign setup! Is Saturn itself habitable? Or are the city states located on the moons? |
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Post by Tim Fox on Apr 13, 2022 12:34:37 GMT
Sounds like an interesting take on WoRP! Are the rings of Saturn something of a danger zone? Are the different cultures allies, distrusting, or outright enemies?
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Post by jeff on Apr 13, 2022 17:14:51 GMT
In an act of extreme laziness I'm calling it Warriors of the Ringed Planet. At least you are not calling it Lords of the Rings!  Sounds like a cool campaign setup! Is Saturn itself habitable? Or are the city states located on the moons? Saturn itself is inhabited. It's where the primary city-states are located. The moons are more like the colonies. I picture them having a California gold rush vibe as prospectors looking to strike it rich travel to them to mine for vril crystals. |
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Post by jeff on Apr 13, 2022 17:29:58 GMT
Sounds like an interesting take on WoRP! Are the rings of Saturn something of a danger zone? Are the different cultures allies, distrusting, or outright enemies? I'm thinking that the rings could hide bases for pirates and smugglers. As far as the city-states, alliances and enmities can shift depending on politics. |
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Post by evilscientist42 on Apr 13, 2022 18:23:24 GMT
At least you are not calling it Lords of the Rings! Sounds like a cool campaign setup! Is Saturn itself habitable? Or are the city states located on the moons? Saturn itself is inhabited. It's where the primary city-states are located. The moons are more like the colonies. I picture them having a California gold rush vibe as prospectors looking to strike it rich travel to them to mine for vril crystals. Cool! In my mind, I had it in reverse, which, now that I think about it, can also make for an interesting campaign. There is a single god-planet, by itself uninhabitable, maybe indeed a gas giant, and the city-states on the various moons try to gain control of it. |
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Post by Kathulos on Apr 19, 2022 3:01:53 GMT
Not so much an idea for an adventure as a possible alternate setting for your WotRP game. Came across this when looking through a set of essays based on the worlds created by ERB. So, let me present an interesting paper on a possible hollow Barsoom...... www.erbzine.com/mag14/1497.html |
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Post by evilscientist42 on Apr 19, 2022 8:23:30 GMT
Not so much an idea for an adventure as a possible alternate setting for your WotRP game. Came across this when looking through a set of essays based on the worlds created by ERB. So, let me present an interesting paper on a possible hollow Barsoom...... www.erbzine.com/mag14/1497.htmlI love ERBZine, it itself is like a hollow planet, you always find something new and weird in the backlog! |
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Post by evilscientist42 on Apr 21, 2022 5:59:58 GMT
I mentioned Lin Carter's Green Star cycle in the planetary romance topic, but it fits here as well, because, damn, I really want to do a setting based on its world. In a nutshell: a planet full of trees tall as mountains, teeming with giant insects and lizards*. The human inhabitants have medieval fairy-tale like kingdoms and cities built up on the thick branches. Their knights and scouts ride around on dragonflies, their noble's chariots are pulled by moths. There are Robin Hood-like enclaves of outcasts. There are towers built by the ancient wizards, with lost technology indistinguishable from magic. Somewhere, high above the foliage, there is the floating city of sky-pirates. But this culture is mostly in the upper reaches of the world-forest, where there is still light from the Green Star. The lower you descend, the darker it gets, and there are more and more dangerous creatures and monstrous humanoids. And down on ground level, there are tunnels between giant roots and deadly swamps, cannibal tribes and shadowy monsters. So there are many things to solve. On the system-level, one needs solid mechanics for dealing with flying mounts. Random wilderness encounters could be based on "tiers": upper foliage, dim middle branches, deep dark, ground level. There are warring city states, many of them ruled by high priestess queens. There is danger from above - the sky pirates; and from below - the monsters from the dark crawling up, seeking prey, or even organizing raids. Overall, there are many types of adventures to be had. Regular dungeon crawls through abandoned wizard towers. Wilderness treks. Court intrigue. Spying. Descent into the darkest tiers... Very evocative setting. * There is an ambivalence in the books whether it's the trees that are so gigantic, or the humanoids so small...  |
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Post by steelhand on May 12, 2022 12:58:55 GMT
[By the standards of the novelty of this board, this reply may count as thread necromancy?!]
What form does habitable-Saturn take? Is it a big Earthlike world? Or a Flash-Gordon-the-Movie-style giant bubble of air?
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