Re: The Nature of Space - Part 5

--- Michael Billard <billardm@???????.net> wrote:

> I like the descriptions you've made for describing
> space. Pretty
> inventive. I take it that Mystara, Arcane Space, and
> Dragon Space are
> all separate galaxies oriented towards the campaign
> settings?

Yup.

> Your descriptions of normal space and Aether space
> remind me of some
> things I did a few years ago to bring Spelljammer
> into the 3rd edition.
> I basically decided that crystal spheres were
> nothing more than finite
> material planes that were coplanar with the
> phlogiston plane. All that
> portal magic really did was open a doorway from a
> material plane into
> the flow. I also took a page from the new Forgotten
> Realms 3rd edition
> setting. It has portal networks to make travel
> easier. In my case I
> created song portals. These are huge magical devices
> let you dial up
> "gate addresses" of other song portals in other
> crystal spheres. You'd
> get a temporary flow current that led to the other
> portal, and the trip
> would take about an hour. They were essentially
> stargates whose
> addresses were dialed up by bards.

This is the best idea I've heard in a while.  I hope
you don't mind if I steal it?  I am a fanatic about
wild magic, and I had wild magic nebulas or zones out
in space all over the place.  The elves of the biggest
elven navy were able to use these wild magic zones to
create and control gateways to other crystal spheres,
but this as detailed as it got.  Your idea sounds much
better.  Maybe the elves control the gates by singing
or playing songs, and the harmonics of the songs act
upon magical satellites that orbit near the wild magic
zones.  The satellites then create the portals.  They
make big gates ships can fly through, but a smaller
version could be made for planetary surfaces.  It
would need some sort of "canned" form of wild magic to
provide the energy for it, though.

I really like this idea.

> I ultimately didn't get very far with my Spelljammer
> 3E conversions
> though. I decided instead to create my own universe
> from scratch. But if
> you're interested in my Spelljammer 3E stuff, here's
> the link:
> http://spellflight.com/Spelljammer/. Please note
> that the 3D model of
> the Man-O-War isn't done yet- I'm still working on
> the wings.

I'll  check it out.



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