12-31-2020, 07:07 PM | #11 |
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Re: Has anyone considered playing on Loren'dil?
If the trees are large enough, they could generate their own mana fields. Imagine if they produced high mana fields that became twisted around areas of infection. The communities that lived within their branches would need to monitor the health of the tree to make sure that the mana that supported them did not turn bad.
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12-31-2020, 08:35 PM | #12 |
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Re: Has anyone considered playing on Loren'dil?
Sick trees or parts of trees lead to spooky woods. Good idea.
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01-01-2021, 05:24 PM | #13 |
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Re: Has anyone considered playing on Loren'dil?
Said spooky small forest might be sitting on a single branch system of a single MountainTree.
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01-01-2021, 06:35 PM | #14 |
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Re: Has anyone considered playing on Loren'dil?
If these "trees" look anything like terrestrial trees rather than like geologic-scale green mounds, then a thriving trade will spring up in "mining" their "wood" for its absolutely ridiculous material strength.
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01-02-2021, 05:19 AM | #15 |
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Re: Has anyone considered playing on Loren'dil?
Not out in ebook so quite out of print but Class Six Climb by William E. Cochrane is a SF novel about a climb of a 4 km tree. The cover has a nice image to show players I think.
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01-02-2021, 05:47 AM | #16 |
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Re: Has anyone considered playing on Loren'dil?
Oh yes. I'm picturing a world which is TL 0+3, where people use wood for everything we use metal for.
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01-02-2021, 06:32 AM | #17 | |
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Re: Has anyone considered playing on Loren'dil?
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01-02-2021, 08:37 AM | #18 |
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Location: Wellington, NZ
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Re: Has anyone considered playing on Loren'dil?
This reminds me a little of Philip Jose Farmer's The Stone God Awakens, with its near world-spanning sapient tree that was a god to those who inhabited its branches and the forests thereon.
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