Re: MotM: Nine Plate, the Sandwich Moon

Here are a few more questions. I've split these off from my daylight question to try to
avoid the email being too long.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Night_Druid" <Night_Druid@??????????.net>
Subject: [SPELLJAMMER] MotM: Nine Plate, the Sandwich Moon

> This moon appears as a stack of flat earth worlds, each 150 miles thick.
> Gaps of 150 miles separate each plate. The diameter of each plate increases
> from the poles to the equator, with the plate on the equator having the
> greatest diameter. Starting from the poles, the diameter of the plates are
> 500 miles, 1,000 miles, 1,500 miles, 2,000 miles, and finally 2,500 miles
> for the equatorial plate. This gives an overall appearance of a sphere.
> Enormous pillars join the plates, with the single largest pillar at the
> center, running from pole to pole.

So what is on the outside rims of the plates?

Is there "inward facing" gravity that allows you to easily walk from one plate to the
next? Or would you fall if you went over the edge?

Are they devoid of any surface features and perfectly smooth? Or are there 150 mile long
roads (or staircases) connecting the two plates?

> Each of its sixteen faces corresponds to an Outer Plane, while its
> central pillar is believed tied to the seventeenth Outer Plane, the
> Outlands.

What about the *other* pillars that you mention above? How many of them are there?

Do they go all the way through the planet (like the central pillar) or do some of them end
before the edges? If some of the outer pillars don't go the full length, where do they
stop?

Are the other pillars associated with the Outlands as well or do they work differently? Do
they for example not have tunnels through the plates, where they join onto them, and
therefore function more like the connections between neighbouring outer planes (The Great
Road)?

Are all the pillars the same thickness or is the central one much thicker than the rest?

Do they have local gravity like the central pillar or is there no gravity on them?

Do the pillars have names? If so what are they?

(If you want to keep traffic to the central pillar you might want to make these pillars
have no gravity. Thin pillars would be good if you wanted to stop people travelling on
them.)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Night_Druid" <Night_Druid@??????????.net>
Subject: [SPELLJAMMER] MotM: Nine Plate part II

> Grainlund has a hemisphere-like shape, and like
> Glachar, is considered wholly independent without sharing with another
> layer.

I assume that Glachar also has a hemisphere-like shape so that your world is symmetrical.
How exactly do these end plates work?

Are there tunnels from the ends of the central pillar that connect to a hole in the centre
of the top and bottom surfaces? Or do people walk to the edge and step over it onto the
outer surface of these plates?

I assume that rather than being 150 miles thick at the edges these plates would taper down
to nothing at the edges. So how thick are they in the middle? Do they have the standard
150 mile thickness in the middle, or are they thicker than the rest of the plates to allow
the moon to look more like a sphere from space?

Are the outward facing sides of these two realms in some way more isolated from the rest
of the world than the inner edges?

One final question that I don't think you have addressed yet. Apart from the tunnels next
to the central pillar are there other tunnels? More specifically does nine plate have an
underdark (or should I say does it have nine underdarks)?

Questions aside, I think that this moon is fantastic as it is a place where major temples
of all the planar churches would be found.

Thanks for all your hard work on this.

David "Big Mac" Shepheard
Virtual Eclipse Role Playing Club
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