Legends of Tolria The Galactic Game

Environments · Planetary environment

Terran (Verdant)

A rocky planet inside its star's habitable zone, with enough mass to hold an atmosphere and an internal dynamo strong enough to maintain a protective field. Roughly one system in twenty has one. All five climate groups occur on the same world, so a Verdant world has more distinct regions than every other class combined.

Planetary environment

Crossing it

Navigate
DC 8
Forage
DC 10
Notice
DC 12

Roads and traffic are available, and locals can be asked. The DCs are for settled country, and the region being crossed sets its own.

In play

  • No exposure

    A Verdant world imposes no exposure of its own. Whatever the party is suffering from is local to the region they are standing in.

  • All five climates

    Tropical, dry, temperate, continental and polar all occur, banded by latitude and lifted by altitude. A single crossing can pass through three of them.

Regions on it

  • Alpine The zone above the snow line: rock, ice and thin air, on ground that has to be climbed.
  • Arctic Permanent ice over land, flat to the horizon, with the ice flowing slowly underneath.
  • Ash Column An eruption column of ash and gas, and the abrasive, electrically charged fallout downwind of it.
  • Aurora The rings where a world's magnetic field funnels the star's wind into the upper air.
  • Coastline The strip between high and low tide, which is different ground every six hours.
  • Desert Dry ground that loses more water than it receives, mostly rock and scrub with some open dune.
  • Farmland Cultivated and grazed land with the roads between it, all of it owned.
  • Frozen Sea Ocean covered by a layer of sea ice that supports weight until it breaks, over water that stays liquid.
  • Grassland Open ground under grass, from prairie to steppe to flooded plain, with little cover and no windbreak.
  • Highland Mountain country below the snow line: long sightlines, slow going and fast-changing weather.
  • Island Land surrounded by water on every side, where the only way off is a landing point, boat or beacon.
  • Jet Stream A narrow band of air moving two hundred knots in one direction at the top of the weather.
  • Jungle Tropical forest under a closed canopy, wet and dense, with most life above the ground.
  • Lake Standing fresh water that separates into layers, with a cold bottom that preserves what sinks into it.
  • Lower Atmosphere The layer of a world's atmosphere where weather occurs: breathable, turbulent and home to flying creatures and vessels.
  • Near Space The last of the atmosphere, thin enough to count as vacuum for every purpose except drag.
  • Oceanic Trench A subduction trench cutting miles below the sea floor, the deepest water on the world, enterable only by a trench-rated hull.
  • Open Ocean Water with no bottom in reach and no cover of any kind, lit at the top and twilight below.
  • River Moving fresh water, and the fastest route across most terrain that has one.
  • Savanna Tropical grassland with scattered trees, dry for most of the year.
  • Seamount An underwater mountain that does not reach the surface, and the one landmark in open water.
  • Settlement Built ground, lived in or abandoned: close quarters, hard cover, and a jurisdiction attached to every encounter.
  • Shallows Water over the shelf with the bottom in sight, lit, crowded, and shallow enough to work in.
  • Storm Front Organized violent weather on the move, with high wind, whiteout and a visible advancing wall.
  • Subterranean Everything under the surface, with no light, no weather, and a route set by what the rock allows.
  • Taiga Conifer forest to the horizon over bog, with a winter that runs most of the year.
  • The Deep The water below the last light: cold, black, and the largest habitat on any water world.
  • Tundra Treeless ground over permafrost, open, cold, and without shelter from the weather.
  • Upper Atmosphere The stratosphere and mesosphere, above the weather and below space, with no breathable air and little lift.
  • Vent Field An isolated community of life on the sea floor, fed by hot vents or cold hydrocarbon seeps.
  • Volcanic Field Recently resurfaced ground of fresh rock and vented gas, with a surface that may not hold weight.
  • Wetland Saturated ground between land and water, slow to cross and poor underfoot, with better cover than either.
  • Woodland Temperate forest and scrub with short sightlines and dense cover.

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