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Xar Zarath
2015-12-18, 12:38 AM
So you have all the gp you need as well as the Create Greater Demiplane spells prepared. How would you custom design your own demiplane to look like? Do tell in detail:smallbiggrin:

Vizzerdrix
2015-12-18, 02:32 AM
I'm tired, so proper use of sentence structure is going right out the window.

A big, endless maze. Dotted with massive plateaus and mountains sticking up out of it at random. Parts of the maze are covered in all sorts of forests and the walls have a natural feel to them, while other areas look to be made of worked stone or even hedges. Other areas would be dessert like, or even freezing and covered in snow. It would be a shifting maze, of course. Major features would not move (such as the mountains, lakes, and areas that had a good size population or the biomes themselves) but the rest would slightly shift when no one was looking. The walls would not have a standard height or thickness, but would gradually shift as they went.

Rivers would flow in a non nonsensical manner. Two rivers next to each other could indeed flow in opposite directions, but would always either flow to or from a lake (but would also be maze like in their branching). The changing of the walls would always accommodate the rivers, either buy making ditches big enough to handle the flow, directing it into the underground, or making bridges in various conditions and materials over them (what was a clear path last week could very well have either a sturdy rope bridge or a rickety old stone bridge today).

The sky would be like ours, with sun, moon(s), stars and clouds. Days would be equivalent as well. The clouds would be interesting. they'd have a maze like look to them as well and slightly mirror the maze itself. People trained in cloud reading would be able to make educated guesses as to what the maze around them was shaped like, and how it would change within a day or two with some degree of accuracy.

Going over the walls would be okay. Walking on top of the walls would be okay (but a bit unsafe). Trying to pass through the walls would teleport you to a random place on the plane. Teleporting or any similar ability would have a chance of dumping you in a random place as well. Breaking the walls to pass through would be acceptable, but the rubble can rarely animate (as animate object, or into Ruin elementals) and try to seal the breach (even if someone is standing in it), or you may encounter something living in the walls. Could be anything from a family of gnomes making a home, to an angry demon imprisoned in that spot. Most building stone would come from the floor, or transported from more stable areas.

Underground would have its own maze as well. Walls would consist of unworked and worked stone, metal pipes, and chasms. water would be scarce, so entering near a river would be advisable.

There. That's what I got for ya. Then just people it how ever. Cities on the mountains and plateaus. Nomadic tribes roving the maze. Dwarves living in treetop villages out in the jungle areas and elves populating the underlabrynth. Minotaur guides leading traders from one settlement to the next. Get silly with it and explore nonstandard race thingies. Maybe the orcs here are pacifists, or highly organized. Maybe giant spiders are highly prized mounts.

khadgar567
2015-12-18, 04:07 AM
medium moisture with just decent tropical heat which my island kingdom stands
around the island few optimized krakens keeps coasts secure
in the island ( basically red light district) bunch of obedient woman doing their jobs ( pulling tourist carts)
farms run by farmforged ( basically warforged with farm focused creation)

EvilDragon66
2015-12-19, 04:19 AM
A mage's magnificent mansion bound to the plane with time going twice as fast with mountains of resources to exploit.perfect for crafting items

noob
2015-12-19, 11:36 AM
A potato field!
Bigger than infinity.

SwordChucks
2015-12-19, 12:26 PM
Nested spheres with people living on both sides of each sphere. Teleport traps to allow people to travel to the next layer. Each sphere would have it's own biome with creatures collected from across the planes, not for a zoo but for a safe environment to preserve rare species.

The plane would be open to refugees and visitors as long as the submitted to a mark of justice/geas that prevented them from harming the plane or it's inhabitants. Food anf clothing would be provided via spell traps.

In the center of the plane and the smallest sphere would be my personal laboratory and residence, with scrying pools set to look at important locations on the spheres and material plane.

TL:DR A nice version of Phyrexia.

Vizzerdrix
2015-12-19, 08:44 PM
A potato field!
Bigger than infinity.

Oooooh! I'd live here instead, and set up a small tomato field (to make ketchup), and make fries and vodka.