Re: Magic to aid farming in space

I agree, when you consider the large number of ships
based on terrestrial fish and waterborne mammals it
would seem a logical assumption that Spelljammers have
a liking for fish.
In my campaign, I rolled up a random crystal sphere to
base the couple of areas that I wanted to adventure
in, and ended up with a water belt called the Zharre
Belt as the 8th world. There are large numbers of fish
there and considering the vastness of the area
covered, I could adventure there for decades and never
see it all. As a Belt, the water has certain
characteristics which I suppose are unique to this
water belt. Water pools around the ten large earth
bodies and forms oceans there, but flows as water
ribbons across space between these oceans. Each ribbon
has a central gravity plane and a flow pattern. Ships
longer than 125 foot cannot sail around the edges
because the ship will sink and be absorbed into the
ribbon with the ends sticking out on either side. Each
ribbon side is between 30 and 50 feet deep, making the
entire ribbon of water 60 to 100 feet from top surface
to the other top surface. Dirt and debris accumulates
between the two at the plane of gravity, usually
making an opaque layer at the middle.
The Zharre Belt exports fish and sea grown edibles
including edible seaweed and crustations. It is one of
the largest producers of food in my sphere. As the
Zharre Belt is considered the furthest out of any
major 'civilised port', the ten major land masses
offer a good place to find Spelljammers and their
ships. Smaller land masses form small islands and
Spelljammers have been known to get some great deals
here, and to suffer some great losses as well. Piracy
is well known and when carried out by water breathing
races, can be quite deadly. Many Spelljamming ships
will choose to fly out of the belt area and manuever
in space than return to the Belt so as to avoid the
attack of their ship from below.
I will try to write up the whole sphere and post it
here, (actually I have posted it to my group and I am
just too tired to search for the files right now).

Lea



--- Paul Westermeyer <pwestermeyer@????????.??.com>
wrote:
<SNIP>
> I've always thought that there should be a big
> 'fishing' industry for
> spelljamming, and that we need to invent more food
> species of jamming
> fish.
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> certainly mean fighting. You won't rescue Lotho, or
> the Shire, just
> by being shocked and sad, my dear Frodo."
>
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