| Tom Kalbfus |
This is an alternate setting for Starfinder, it is one that doesn't involve spaceships, or at least not too much. The PCs are natives to this world. They start off here. Pathfinder and Starfinder classes exist side by side in this setting. It is a "future Earth" in which the Earth and all the planets of the Solar System have been demolished to build this ringworld. Of particular interest is a section of this ringworld where there is a 100:1 scale map of Earth, a Fuller projection if you will. Basically it is the Earth's surface projected onto the faces of a 20-sided die and that die is then unfolded in such a way as to preserve the shape and area of all the continents while approximating their relative positions to each other as the are centered around the North Pole in this projection. The scale of the map is 100 times that of Earth, distances of land features on each continent are about 100 times the corresponding distances between the real features of the real continents of the Earth. The land area of all the continents in this map segment is 10,000 times th continental land area of al the continents on Earth.
The environment is closer to that of Gammaworld than to Star Frontiers, basically were talking about a fallen and regressed civilization with relic technologies from the heyday of the ringworld builders. Unlike Niven's ringworld, this ringworld was build our of our own Solar System. The average thickness of the ringworld from sea level to bottom is 1 mile. Additional thickness above sea level are the continents and islands rising above the oceans, maximum altitude is about 5 miles, for a total of 6 miles thickness in some places. So what do you think? Could Starfinder be adapted for this with Pathfinder filling in for the low tech areas?