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Re: (TFT) Calendar system for Cidri?



Stan wrote...

    Of course, the nature of Cidri is made very odd by the
fact that it's supposed to be so huge.  If it's just a
spherical planet with a surface area 1000 times that of
earth (as ITL implies) then it must be hollow or have some
sort of major super-science or magic adjusting its gravity
and weather (for starters).  The fact that the horizon
should be much farther away to someone standing on such a
huge planet is never discussed.  We talked about the whole
'super-planet' thing on the list a while back, it's a thorny
topic.

    It's never mattered in my campaigns, but I'm tempted to
say the thing is a ringworld and leave it at that.  The rules
don't support this view, but at least it makes sense for
something with that much surface area.

Stan,
Your other comments are right on. I absolutely agree that a world with both science and magic could exist. This has always been a facinating idea to me. About this last comment though... I have always felt that saying Cidri was "big" was a bit of miss information. If one were to compile maps gained from traveling through gates, without knowing they lead to different worlds, it would be easy to amass a surface area far in excess of one Earth. Maybe Cidri is an interlocking system of gates used by the Mnoren. One that connects many of the alternate-earths. To take this idea one step farther, consider an area of land isolated by gates. A gate pocket if you will. By putting six gates around a hex in the middle of a grassy field, and putting the other ends around a hex in the middle of an underground labryinth one could isolate those hexes. In the grassy field would seem to be a single hex of stone. The air there may even be cooler. In the Labrynth would appear a single hex of grassy ground. It may even appear sunlit and warm. One couldn't actually get from the grassy field to the lab with this set up. The hex of grass in the lab would be isolated from the grassy field. In this way one could start peiceing together single hexes from all over the place. In the underground lab each hex could be a different peice of terain. Creating a new "world" in the lab, but one isolated from the reigon it first came from. It seems to me that with four very large gates (I call them Mnoren gates) could isolate entire reigons this way. Huge sections of entire worlds could be peiced together this way. The results could be a Cidri that has parts of all the worlds of probability that can't be entered from their home world. That is until the day one of the gates fail.

   David Michael Grouchy II

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