Re: Regular Day-Night - proposed SJ spell

--- Dreamer <dreamer@??????.?????.??.uk> wrote:

> Try and grow them on Selene and you have 14-days of
> sunlight, which they might be able to tolerate,
> followed by 14-days of night, where they will likely
> have to become nearly completely dormant, or die.

I really don't think this is much of a problem,
honestly.  Life adapts quickly; in a magical universe,
life adapts faster.  Afterall, we have plants
surviving up in the arctic & subarctic areas; some of
those areas have days & nights that are 6 MONTHS long.
 Plants will adapt, or there might be plants already
there that are accululated to the environment. :)


> Are you claiming that in some way this being a SJ
> universe will mean that this is not a problem?  I'm
> afraid that I don't follow your logic...

Here's the way I see it: SJ is chock full of living,
breathing planets.  This is in part to make the
setting interesting; afterall, if it were like the
real world and you could only really visit 1 world,
and maybe a handful of others with epic magic, it
kinda defeats the purpose of the setting (might as
well use teleport to get from planet to planet).  As
such, those plants and animals have 'been there' for
many, many generations.  As long as on standard
campaign settings, in fact.  Humans don't need to go
out & terriform worlds; there's no need.


> Another application would be somewhere where there
> is very far from enough sunlight, and you open a
> continuous portal to the elemental plane of fire, to
> act as an artificial sun.  You may not want to keep
> opening and closing this portal, to provide day
> and night, so you use this spell as well.
 
It was pointed out to me on the SJ boards that there
IS an artifical sun spell in FR.  Its in Magic of
Faerun (?), and is an epic-level spell that creates a
false sun that hovers 1000' above the ground, sheding
light in all directions.  It might be in the SRD, I'm
not sure.

Adam

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