Re: Gromspace

Paul Westermeyer wrote:
> 
> >        Sure.  Looks pretty good and reasonable.  I have a couple of
> >suggestions:
> 
> Thanks!:)
> 
> >* I'd advance the Hadozee culture somewhat, giving them simple cities.
> >Ewok style, with vast villages among the trees.  Or, if you've read Star
> >Wars, Heir to the Empire (or one of the other books...I can't remember
> >where it appeared), make it like a wookie city, where it looks far more
> >primitive than it actually is...:)
> 
> We often equate advanced societies with cities (and so use the term
> "civilization" when culture or society would be the more proper term (a
> civilization is a society where the primary facets of life revolve around a
> city):)  I made the hadozee nomadic, with a touch of wanderlust as an
> explanation for their relative abundence in wildspace... they are just born
> travelers. I didn't mean to imply they were just a step above animals
> because they chose not to settle in one place.  Technologically, however,
> metalurgy and certain other "civilized" arts would be slow to develop among
> them.
> 
	Just tyring to give them a "home port" for spelljammers.  How else
would the be able to get into space other than the one in a billion
chance of being near a spelljammer when it lands.

> >* howbout a large group of hobgoblins, with many canivorous apes, as a
> >major "evil" race, roaming about the planet in a vain attempt to
> >escape.  Survivors from a fleet that crashed during the UWI.
> 
> If you want:)  I thought making the local fauna and neogi slave raids the
> major dangers would preserve the uniqueness of the world. Additionally, I
> doubt any military force aside from grommans or Hadozee could wage even a
> semi-successful conflict among the trees.  Perhaps a fortified base,   but
> what would it guard?  Possibilities of a witchlight marauder? These are
> adventure ideas folks might like:)
> 
	I was thinking a handful of roaming clans or a couple of bases. 
Nothing earthshaking or anything.  They survive by avoiding gromman
claimed lands and waylaying lone hadozee (if they can find them;)

> >* said fleet of hobgoblins tried to get the hadozee in the war on their
> >side; the hobgoblins needed a fresh supply of troops to attack an
> >outpost in another sphere, and they needed the few ships the hadozee
> >owned to join up.  Hadozee refused, allying instead with the elves.
> 
> Hobgoblins easily wiped out in the thick jungle covering the planet:)  Even
> those _allowing_ orbital bombardment (I _won't get into that arguement
> again:)) would have to admit that societies in such rough terrain without
> population centers could easily hold out.
> 
	Actually, the hobgoblins wouldn't try to force the hadozee to join
them, they tried to pursway them through peace talks.  Didn't work,
though:)

> >* Question on Grommon: they have only 30 houses?  How big is a house?  A
> >village, group of villages, or an entire nation?  That number seems
> >awfully low for such a large planet.
> 
> 3-7 Grommans per family, "several dozen" families per clan, 2d4 clans per
> House.  A mean average might then be about 27,000 Grommans (36 clans per
> house). <shrug>  But perhaps some houses have over a hundred clans.  Or
> they all do. Thirty seemed an easy to use number:)
> 
	36 clans average? Out of 2d4?  Damn!  I want those dice!!;)  I want
Raken's cure spells to heal 2d4 points of damage from now on!;)  Still,
I'd have the number higher, probably in the low millions.  The planet is
huge, but the grommans are big beasties and need lots of food to
survive.

> >* Another question: do any of the worlds have moons?
> 
> Maybe:) I like to leave my spheres sketchy until folk actually visit them.
> In this case, I just wanted enough to let Grigree and Nilaroo from the
> Jammers campaign have something to hang their hats on for background:)
> 
	So we can add some stuff without getting you mad?  (I'm thinking about
writting up an elvish base for some reason).


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