05-27-2020, 10:40 AM | #11 |
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Re: Cidri's Moon
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05-27-2020, 01:13 PM | #12 |
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Re: Cidri's Moon
Any astrophysicists in the house? Assuming Cidri is a planetary sphere the size of Jupiter (just for the sake of argument), how far would the orbit of a moon the size of Earth need to be for it to appear at a similar observable size to our own moon?
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05-27-2020, 03:08 PM | #14 |
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Re: Cidri's Moon
I don't know, sometimes I think the extreme thrown and missile weapon range penalties could be indicative of a higher gravity constant. ;)
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05-27-2020, 03:30 PM | #15 |
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Re: Cidri's Moon
Given the plethora of magical phenomena, I don't sweat this particular part of unrealism. Cidri is big, and so is its moon. EZPZ
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Re: Cidri's Moon
Not me, but I happen to know one. He says, via e-mail:
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06-05-2020, 01:05 PM | #17 |
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Re: Cidri's Moon
Very cool!
(and my version of Cidri is mostly hollow, BTW)
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06-08-2020, 08:47 AM | #18 |
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Re: Cidri's Moon
Cidri has the same mass as Earth and therefore the same gravity, because beneath the surface it is 90% dungeon. ;)
Seriously, I think almost anything can be put down to Mnoren planetary engineering. With the science and magic of all those parallel Earths to draw on, it's not a stretch to imagine that the physics of the world could accommodate a huge surface and still have Earth-normal gravity. Incidentally, if your version of Cidri doesn't have a Moon, it also doesn't have significant tides. The Sun does produce tidal effects, but nowhere at the magnitude of the Moon. Multiple moons would make for some complex tidal calculus, depending on the sizes and orbits of each. And if you want to open another can of worms, feel free to debate whether or not Cidri orbits a class G2V star like Earth does. One presumes it does, since that's what the life is adapted for and Cidri likely occupies a space where a parallel Earth would have been. But it could orbit a red giant, or a blue dwarf, or multiple suns, in some campaigns.
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06-08-2020, 08:50 AM | #19 |
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Re: Cidri's Moon
Or maybe the sun (and everything else) orbits Cidri.
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06-08-2020, 10:24 AM | #20 |
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Re: Cidri's Moon
Ha! What if the Mnoren were such medievalists that they build a flat world in the center of a Ptolemaic universe model? A flat planet could certainly resolve the "land area versus gravity" argument. Hopefully there's the equivalent of scrith on the bottom.
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