Re: Sphere Guides

Wow. Mr. Shepherd described excellently how space feels small to me, and
great ideas about what to do about it.

I am also reminded of my explorations of the abandoned space area on an old
MUCK. Most of the systems were small and undescribed -- while perhaps this
is appropriate for someplace where the only notoriety is some mineral-rich
asteroids and no habitable worlds or colonies, in many cases a world _was_
sort of described, but there wasn't much to see, just a single room
describing the port and what it's like looking at the planet from orbit, or
something. Other times, a system clearly existed for the gratification of
the player who built it 'behold, my mighty SDF-1 ripoff is here, look how
great I am muwahahahaha!'. Often, a spaceport would actually be described in
a bit of detail, but not the rest of the planet. But in a rare handful of
cases, someone had actually described an entire space station and its
interior, or not just a spaceport but the city surrounding it and sometimes
a bit of the area beyond that!

Perhaps it would be a good idea for someone to actually describe what
settlements on a given world are like? If there is a specific spaceport then
certainly that place, but if there is some civilization on a world then
perhaps some idea of what their settlements are typically like so a DM has
some idea if the party decides to land there. Adventure hooks for given
planets would be good too.