"Science fantasy campaign with floating islands, quick notes" Topic

"loating islands are cool. I want a science fantasy campaign, a big hexmap, with, like, five islands floating above it, each with its own quirks and behavior. Of course, there is Skyrealms of Jorune, I'm intrigued by it, but I cannot use settings so dense (and I envy Samwise who can grok it and runs a BRP Jorune campaign!).

Anyway, in this campaign I envision, the Referee would have to track the movements of the floating islands, which could be a hassle, but perhaps could be done in weekly turns.

The islands would be like wildcards, most of them moving around randomly. Due to the randomness, they could crash into each other, into the ground, or tall mountains. And some islands would have environmental effects. Obv. all of them would be adventure locales with ruins and dungeons and treasure and conflict and peril…"

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Armand

I've always liked James Blish's "Cities in Flight".
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Particularly since Scranton was a Bad Guy city, and I went to college in Wilkes Barre. 😄

Did anyone ever play War of the Sky Cities "back in the day" ? It was a rule set from FGU.

There is a RPG game, Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies, that has a host of islands floating in a large, rather complicated sky, with different zones of weather, and different levels where the wind blows in a different direction, and all the islands move in a complicated (but rather organized and chartable manor, except for one that just teleports around is a pirate haven. Oh and no one can touch the ground (Not talking about the islands here).

Loved Cities in Flight! Oddly enough was just reviewing some of the books last week

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Armand