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    Mon Jun 28, 2004 3:08 pm  
    Is the Oerth hollow?

    I don't know if there is an *official* answer for this, but I was just wondering how many of you out there have made your Oerth hollow?

    I think that Gary's original view of Oerth was to make it hollow. I'm making this assumption based on his Dangerous Journeys material for Aerth. The world of Aerth is, indeed, hollow. Basically, hollow Aerth is the same as the surface Aerth except that where there are continents there are oceans and vice versa. Also, there is a *sun* floating in the middle of hollow Aerth (I think it's always daytime?). The flora and fauna of hollow Aerth is of a kind of Jurassic period; ie. tropical jungles and dinosaurs roving about.

    Perhaps some people out there are using the Hollow World accessory from Basic D&D. How does that present a hollow world?

    I personally tend to think that my Oerth isn't hollow. That it has a molten core just like our real world. Perhaps this is too scientific a view, however?

    Anyway, I'd like to hear how others are treating the interior of their Oerth. Happy
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    Mon Jun 28, 2004 7:14 pm  

    I believe the 1st edition DMG has a reference to loadstone, although a can't recall a Greyhawk specific mention of either loadstone, compasses, or the magnetic field of the Oerth.

    If you take a real world physics approach, the existence of a magnetic field on Oerth would be evidence of a molten core, as it is the movement of this molten layer that creates the magnetic field.

    However, if you wish to have your Oerth hollow, you need merely assume that the gods have created the magnetic field of the Oerth by fiat. Othe aspects of the Oerth appear to be so.

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    Mon Jun 28, 2004 7:36 pm  

    My Oerth is not hollow. I consider it as being the same as Earth in that respect. Why? Well, darn it, just because.
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    Mon Jun 28, 2004 7:56 pm  

    Tedra wrote:
    My Oerth is not hollow. I consider it as being the same as Earth in that respect. Why? Well, darn it, just because.


    Wow! You've got a new screen avatar.

    I hope you didn't change the last one coz I didn't like the pupil-less eyes. Embarassed

    This one is very appealing; although it does make my little hobniz ears blush pink. Happy
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    Mon Jun 28, 2004 8:13 pm  

    Baggins wrote:
    I hope you didn't change the last one coz I didn't like the pupil-less eyes. Embarassed


    Actually, no. I just have an itch to paint avatars in Paint Shop, thanks to a chat program that uses avatars. And I'm bored easily with one avatar for too long. I'm waiting for a topic to pop up somewhere entitled "Could Tedra please pick an avatar and stick with it. She's making me dizzy." Or a poll, "How long until Tedra changes avatars again." Laughing

    But I did pick one that I thought would not be so freaky as the albino, pupiless lady.
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    Tue Jun 29, 2004 1:50 am  

    Well, as much as i like the HW setting, personally i prefer Oerth as not hollow. Thats because i like the analogy of Beory = Oerth and as such it would be unpolite to call Mother Oerth hollow ;-)
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    Tue Jun 29, 2004 7:29 am  

    Other then ancient cavern and Drow/Dwarven tunnels that lie buried withing the Oerth, I consider it not hollow. Plus, it makes the the "Known World" setting to close to Oerth and vise-versa. I like to keep my game worlds different.

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    Tue Jun 29, 2004 4:03 pm  

    What if the top of Oerth was hollow instead like a hard boiled egg? Wink
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    Wed Jun 30, 2004 7:06 am  

    Gary Gygax said in 1999:
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    Although I never published anything, in my original Gyeyhawk campaign, the Oerth was indeed hollow. For sake of expediency I used a pastiche of material from ERB's *Pellucidar* and D&D game creatures and races. Only a couple of PCs ever got there.

    Downward past the Vault of the Drow, the adventurer found more passages leading to the central hollow. (There were certainly other like routes, but I never detailed them.) Openings at both poles allowed entry also. Of course the main way there was by magical transferrence.
    (My Oerth is certainly hollow too, for what that's worth.)
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    Thu Jul 01, 2004 5:00 pm  

    Thanks for the info, Faraer! Happy
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    Fri Jul 02, 2004 5:22 am  

    Sheesh the next thing he'll be telling us, the universe revolves around Oerth... Shocked
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    Fri Jul 02, 2004 5:29 am  

    Geez, Mortellan, that's about the silliest thing I've ever heard. Wink Everyone knows the universe revolves around Celene and Luna.
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