Ms Superior

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

Lost is not in my lexicon.

However, your lexicon isn't here. And we're lost.

Re: Super hero one liners

"I cannot believe how many wannabes I have to deal with!"

Re: What effects would you see on a terrestial planet in a binary system?

With two suns there are more "periods" to measure time with.

 

A day is the rotation of the planet.

A year is the orbit of the planet around the sun(s).

But there's also the period of the suns' orbit around each other, which will be shorter than a year if the planet revolves around both of them, or longer than a year if the planet revolves around only one of the suns.

 

With a P-type orbit, the relative positions of the two suns in the sky will change over time, getting closer together and farther apart, and assuming they orbit in the same plane as the planet (which AFAIK is most likely) they will be in alignment when seen from the planet on occasion.

 

With an S-type orbit, the "greater year" or orbit of the farther sun might be a period of time used commonly by longer-lived races, such as elves.

 

And that doesn't even include the periods of the moon or moons.

What are the meanings for "S-type" and "P-type" and what do the S and the P stand for?

Oh, and can you have moons? I thought the orbits wouldn't work.

Re: Super hero one liners

"I have only begun to fight."

Re: Super hero one liners

"I have only begun to fight."

Re: What effects would you see on a terrestial planet in a binary system?

Ms Superior follows the link, and returns.

:hail: That's a magnificent element for a setting! I'm surprised no-one ever used it before!

Re: What effects would you see on a terrestial planet in a binary system?

Ms Superior arrives from the Fantasy Board, reads, and goes followed by

That's a magnificent idea! I don't remember ever seeing that used!

Re: Pulpy Art

Sorry, not meaning to "get down" on anybody, but there is (or are) too, too, too many "The Raven"s running around.

Otherwise, cool stuff!

Re: Super hero one liners

"Well.....*bless* me, but this sort of irritation is not what I became a paladin do deal with!"

(Only paladin character I ever saw played who really *got* "good is not dumb".)

Re: What effects would you see on a terrestial planet in a binary system?

I may spread them out a little more then' date=' but probably not enough.[/quote']

Oh, reddish vs. blueish is fine!

 

Really useful information! Thanks!

Glad to help!

 

You must spread some rep blah blah blah!

Hey, someone want to help this guy out? Rep the poor gal he couldn't, why don't you?

 

 

 

 

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

Zalan, Ruin Explorer and Scholar

Whoa-hey! They don't make scholars like they used to!

 

Man, I could go bi for that!

 

::drool::

Re: Water-based transformation

Probably it should be the other way around but... I don't think electricity does much damage to water at all.

Yeah. I think just a limited Energy Damage Reduction; only vs. electricity. Don't bother with grounded or not.

Re: What effects would you see on a terrestial planet in a binary system?

Oh! Oh! Another thing I just remembered! Tides!

Tides will get stronger and weaker as the suns line up or get at right angle, just like on Earth with the Sun and Moon. It's called spring tides when their strong and neap tides when their weak.

And if you do eccentric orbits, it gets more complicated. I think tidal force depends on the cube of the distance. I could be remembering wrong though.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

Cleo is extremely tall. Like 6'1" or so.

Brontus is even taller. Like 6'6".

 

Cleo: What are you doing, looking at my cleavage?

Brontus: I'm the only one who can see it.

Reminds me a char. I once played; 110cm and skinny. Everyone else was 181cm or taller. She was asked why she always wore such low-cut tops. "I may not want any of the guys on the team, but a gal's got her pride, and this is the only way to make sure my cleavage can be seen from way up there."

Re: Any more Ultimate Series books on the horizon

Ultimate Base is the last of the Ultimate Series under 5th Edition... and as I understand it the last of the series completely.

Well phui! Those were becoming the only books I always buy.

We'll see what 6th edition looks like....

Re: What effects would you see on a terrestial planet in a binary system?

and the shadows would be different colours' date=' if the suns were different spectral types. I believe it's called the Flammarion Effect[/quote']

 

I had only considered this for the moon, but it is very true. I had considered my moon to go through some very interesting stages when both suns shine on it. Such as a yellow crescent with a red crescent on the other side with an orange center, making it look like some kind of reptiles eye.

 

Also the "red nights" when the yellow sun sets but the red sun makes nights "bloody eerie".

 

And other stuff like that.

 

From what I've read, the difference in "color" isn't noticable until you get to M7 or so (or B2 the other way); it would all seem white to someone near the star.

 

Of course, if you want to go with the ol' cliche, go. Most people won't know it's not quite right.

 

 

For now I am considering the yellow sun the primary with the planet orbiting it elliptically to create the seasons.

Remember, incoming light changes as the square of the distance, so 10% closer in 21% more light; which ought to be enough for reasonable seasons.

Re: Narf's Fantasy Stuff

Both work for me.

Re: Catalog of Fantasy RPG Settings

"Silence is taken for consent" as the old saying says.

I'll add the Citybook Series from Flying Buffalo. Great stuff!

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

As Brontus and Rody move forward to deal some damage' date=' the enemy monsters swarm over them![/i']

Brontus (NPC): At what point did the Strikers start pulling the aggro!?

Pssst. I think you want that to be an "(OOC)".

Re: Mottos for use in games

One for the evil masterminds: Mox erō invictus!

 

 

Soon I shall be invincible!

Good one!

Did you ever read that book?

Re: Black holes as high-tech power sources

Cool! Now I know how to power my Star Destroyers.

Re: What effects would you see on a terrestial planet in a binary system?

Oh, I almost forgot --- everything would have two shadows.

Unless one of the suns is very dim, but that's no fun.

Re: What effects would you see on a terrestial planet in a binary system?

There is a program I use called Celestia. I figured out how to write my own solar systems and then "stand" on one of the planets to watch the sky turn for a few virtual years to create a proper calendar for my main homebrew world.

 

After you get it working, you then alter the text files to move stars and planets around in infinite combinations until it looks and feels right. I even wrote a randomizer in TableMaster to output solar systems.

This sounds terrific! How difficult is it to make your own solar system?

Re: Narf's Fantasy Stuff

Presenting: That annoying old man in worn, ragged robes and knotted, old staff who gives out plot hooks, vaguely-useful advice and rarely, actual help.

 

That's funny!

Yet, useful, too, when you think about it.

Re: Extra-planar Fantasy Shout out

Door Into Fire, with the building whose doors go to other worlds. Treated as mere background, not given much detail.

Chessboards: Planes of Possibility is an idea-book. It talks about how to set up planes, how to group them in meta-planes, how to connect them (IOW, how to do planar travel), and so on. More "how to make a setting" than a setting itself.