Shape of the world
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Lets get the ball rolling with a big idea. Does our new game world have to be spherical?
It's always easy to just go with something normal when creating a world but if we want to make this world distinct from other run of the mill fantasy worlds then why not go crazy and create a world that's a Niven ring? It would give us much more space to play with than a regular world and allow for unusual scenarios when we get to gaming in it.
Let the protests begin...--Alex 13:22, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Crikey, if we go for a Niven ring then we're going for an ultra-hi-tech setting, no? Unless the ring was built long ago by persons unknown. Ed 14:35, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
The original idea that my brother and I thought of involved a world at 20th/21st century level technology, which would make unusual shaped worlds seem a little odd.
If at all possible, I would like to keep the number of fantastic, world spanning asumptions to a minimum. Too many of them and I find that my ability to believe in the setting vanishes. The existence of a real world level of technology doesn't count in this respect - because it actually can exist!
We've already got one asumption - magic exists. From there certain other things become exceptable - people that use, things that are magic and so on. Saying the world is a wierd shape is a second assumption, unless it somehow ties in with the first. That might be the case if magic exists because of the shape of the world, if say the planet was in the shape of somethig like the eldar sign!
To be honest, unless you have some major reason for wanting to set the champaign on a doughnut, biscuit or inside a gobstopper then the standard roundish blob will do. Andy 15:26, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
I was thinking if it was in the past a fantasy world then we could have it created by the gods. In fact I was thinking of maybe having a world that is made of the same stuff as ours (molten core, mantle, crust, etc.) but which happens to be in the shape of a Niven ring, with inner planets of a more normal shape blocking the sun to create night and day.
Or we could go for a slightly saner option of a normal sphere... Alex 15:41, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
So if that is agreed upon, and he are going for the standard issue spherical planet, then I think we have enough to start. If any further issues come up, we can discuse them here. Andy 12:26, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
