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Planar adventures should not be as challenging as diving into a star. That is some Dark Phoenix level stuff. We're talking deity level CR 25+ material. The planes should not be limited to such out-of-PC-bounds level material.
Well if a 16th level caster can live on the sun (which probably isn't the minimum level to do so) how much more challenging is going into a sun necessarily have to be? Being able to physically traverse the sun in the first place would need some magical help for a PC or just a proper collection of immunities for anything else, such as immunity to fire, electricity (maybe), blindness, pressure (if made similar to underwater, which Freedom of Movement takes care of), not needing to breath, etc.. Plenty of monsters have these similar immunities, maybe not all together, but it's not like if they did they can suddenly start pile driving Tarrasques and toss skyscrapers around. I don't know why it needs to be a measure of a creature's power or be CR 25+ in this case.
The Golarion sun has safe areas where the gravity and heat are the same as the elemental plane of fire, because reasons. Surviving on the sun isn't that hard as long as you pick one of those spots to set up shop.
I would be so down for this it's not even funny.
The Golarion sun has safe areas where the gravity and heat are the same as the elemental plane of fire, because reasons. Surviving on the sun isn't that hard as long as you pick one of those spots to set up shop.Can you cite a source for that? I don't have my copy of Distant Worlds handy, but the wiki entry for the sun doesn't mention anything about "safe areas" that are the same as the Elemental Plane of Fire.
It's in Distant Worlds, I'll look it up tonight.
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Not all residents of the sun are native to it. Because of the massive amounts of energy being created within the sun, the fabric of existence regularly gives way, creating temporary portals to the Plane of Fire. Creatures from salamanders to efreet often pass through these portals, and thanks to the sun’s tremendous size, whole empires can rise and fall without encountering each other.
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The Burning Archipelago: Though creatures like salamanders and efreet can survive within the sun, that doesn’t mean it’s comfortable to be constantly tossed about by convection and solar flares. To this end, past residents created the collection of magical bubble cities known as the Burning Archipelago. Here, inside translucent globes that shield against much of the sun’s heat and pressure, stand great metropolises where creatures not immune to the sun’s fury can often survive with only minimal magic. Each city is connected to the others via magical tethers, keeping the globes within a few hundred miles of each other.
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Personally I'd read those passages as suggesting that those protected regions are safe for the survival of natives of the elemental plane of fire but not necessarily beyond that.
Could normal mortals inhabit those regions without magical protection of their own on top of what makes it pleasant for elemental fire natives? I'd say mostly no, unless an efreet for example wanted to bring along some mortal slaves or utilize the area for trade with races from other planes (which is why sections of the City of Brass are warm but survivable by mortals).
When all of these things are produced (hopefully), I'd like to see some more consistent use of terminology. The protean entry in Bestiary 2 discusses their presence in Limbo. It also discusses the proteans serving entropy. When I go over the Nightshade entry, it also discusses them serving entropy as well, but I'm wondering if those are really the same things in these cases.
Yeah, most of the hardcovers are written in generic capacity and without specific reference to Golarion IP in most cases. Thus the proteans are written as being from Limbo rather than the Maelstrom. For more depth and more in-world details on the proteans I'd suggest the Keepers of Chaos protean ecology article in Pathfinder 22 and the material on the Maelstrom in 'The Great Beyond'. B6 has pretty good details on the new proteans therein as well.
I would definitely purchase on of these, even if it was one of those absolutely huge, $75 Hardcover Adventure Path length books.
I would hope that this book would be one with a lengthy, balanced bestiary section, simply because the planes are ruefully devoid of non-outsider beings. I'd Personally love to see some more Maelstrom Dwellers, you know like Weirdmaggedon meets Azathoth's Court Meets Stephen king's the mist.