Isolated Setting: Tepuis (Tabletop Mountains)

[thrash]

Originally Posted by evileeyore

It wasn't tepuis, but just mountain top civilizations that lived above poisonous (or maybe demon infested? Both?) clouds. Involved steampunk and zepplins/hot air balloons and sky pirates... so... I was pretty meh about it.

Sounds very similar to "Victoria," a Traveller setting from JTAS #2 (pp. 14-25). That planet, in turn, "is loosely based on Durent in the novel Prisoners of the Sky, by C. C. MacApp...." (ibid., p. 20).

Something similar happens in southern Arizona, where the mountains have "island" forest biomes separated by stretches of desert.

[dcarson]

Originally Posted by thrash

That planet, in turn, "is loosely based on Durent in the novel Prisoners of the Sky, by C. C. MacApp...." (ibid., p. 20).

Doesn't seem to have been reprinted as a ebook but I have it and it is a good source of ideas for that kind of campaign.