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Post by Admin on Mar 12, 2016 18:24:37 GMT
#1.11 THE GNOME CACHEHere is a short story by one Garrison Erst (a pseudonym for Gary Gygax?). The prelude to this story, just four paragraphs, should be of especial interest to fans of Oerth (The World of Greyhawk). Oerth and Earth seem to exist on some sort of a planar continuum, if that is the right term, perhaps sharing this with other worlds such as Uerth, Aerth, and Yarth. Further details with regards to this may be found in Polyhedron #21, though I can't confirm this yet. Anyway, the prelude to The Gnome Cache should be an interesting read for fans of the Aerth setting, too. Anyway, a question: Does anyone know what a "probability line" is?
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Post by chris107 on Mar 14, 2016 16:55:31 GMT
Hiya Pres, Probability Travel is a Psionic power I think. I'm pretty sure that Mind Flayers travel using them too. I have never actually read a description of what they are purported to be but knowing that they are a quick way to traverse great distances seems enough. I kind of picture a huge network of ethereal pathways moving and changing between the various planes, those with the ability can know when they will intersect with their destination and whoosh! They are gone.
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Post by Admin on Mar 18, 2016 7:07:31 GMT
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Post by Algolei on Mar 24, 2016 15:33:33 GMT
Ha ha! It's funny that the map places Lemuria in the Titanic (a.k.a. Pacific) Ocean! Lemuria was originally conceived as a continent joining Madagascar to India, in order to explain why lemurs (among other things) lived in those two places but not in Africa or the Middle East. The feller who thought it up suggested an intervening mass of land had sunk into the ocean, but that originally lemurs etc. had been able to cross between Madagascar and India via this continent of Lemuria.
It can hardly serve that purpose if you place it in the Pacific Ocean. You can blame later crazy people for fantasizing its existence and placing it there. Likewise, the mythical continent of Mu was based on a mistranslation of Mayan writings, and then the further compounding of that mistranslation by one person into the multiple fantasies of several other people. Mu was also originally identified with Atlantis and placed in the Atlantic Ocean, only to be moved to the Pacific by other loony-toons.
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Post by Admin on Mar 25, 2016 4:55:22 GMT
Very interesting! I never knew any of that...
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Post by Algolei on Mar 25, 2016 9:12:02 GMT
...I ran out of mind-breath toward the end of my last post, so I just ended it with the term "loony-toons". That was just a random way to end something I didn't know how to...uh...banana.
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