Legends of Tolria The Galactic Game

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The Deep

The water and sea floor beneath the twilight layer: open black water and the sediment plain under it. No sunlight reaches it, the temperature holds a few degrees above freezing, and food arrives from above as a slow fall of dead organisms from higher layers. It is the largest single environment on a water world and the least visited, because of the pressure.

Regional environment Aquatic (water)
Subsurface

Crossing it

Navigate
DC 17
Forage
DC 18
Notice
DC 15

Travel is limited by hull rating.

Exposure

  • Extreme Cold

    Temperatures below about zero degrees Fahrenheit, or any water near freezing, made worse by wind.

    CON save, DC 10, rising by 1 for each hour after the first. End of each hour. One level of exhaustion.

    • Cold-weather gear

      Proper layers, a sealed suit or a heated shelter removes the save. Wet layers give disadvantage on it instead.

    • Immersion

      A creature in near-freezing water makes the save each minute instead of each hour, and is Incapacitated at three levels of exhaustion.

    • Gear

      Unheated power cells lose half their charge, and any check made with bare hands after an hour of exposure has disadvantage.

    • Adapted

      A creature native to a cold world, or with resistance to cold damage, ignores the save.

In play

  • Absolute dark

    Heavily obscured everywhere. A creature relying on sight is Blinded, and a lamp is the only thing visible for miles.

  • Pressure

    Below a hull's rated depth, a vessel or creature takes 2d6 bludgeoning damage per minute. Resistance and immunity to bludgeoning do not apply; only pressure rating does.

  • Marine snow

    The constant fall of organic debris is lightly obscuring and defeats sonar returns beyond 120 feet.

  • Cold

    Water here is a few degrees above freezing. An unprotected creature counts as being in Extreme Cold.

Variations

  • Midnight water

    3,300 feet and down, off the bottom. Open black water with nothing in it for hundreds of feet at a time.

  • Abyssal plain

    The sediment floor. Flat for hundreds of miles, soft enough to swallow a landed hull to the axles.

Worlds it occurs on

  • Aquan A world that is liquid down to the core, with no land, no shelf and no solid surface to stand on.
  • Red An Aquan world with an ocean of blood, called the Sanguine Sea, that no two surveys describe the same way.
  • Terran (Oceanic) A world of ocean from pole to pole, with land only where a volcano has kept up.
  • Terran (Verdant) A rocky world with liquid water, breathable air and a magnetic field to protect them, rare and the cause of most wars.

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