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>>51245005
>How are those rivers looking?
If by rivers you mean astral currents in the Flow? poorly.

>Are they flowing downhill from the mountains to the sea?
I haven't decided which should be one way or not, or which should be a temporary thing or a difficult thing to find.

>I hope they aren't splitting unless you have a good reason!
None are as of yet.

>What's an important river in your setting, your world's Nile, Ganges or Tigris?

Probably the Flow that the Rock of Bral's sphere floats on, While a dangerous path, it's also the shortest route from one side of the spheres to the other.

Essentially the game is space fantasy one that steals liberally from Spelljammer and Kill Six Billion Demons. I need to determine how I should figure out the directions of the flow between spheres.

Pic related is the starting spheremap. It's the DM version for my own notes, i'm going to take this and pretty it up for the players once I've figured out the paths.

>Building a space opera setting.
>Decide to include a variety of races through pantrophy (genetic alteration of humans to fit inhospitable envirnments ie alien planets) rather than actual aliens, since this lets them all be believable humanlike.

It would be very easy to include things like
>Short, powerfully built race for heavyworlds
And
>frail, but beautiful race for ideal artificial emvirnments
And generally fill the archetypal roles of things like elves and dwarves. But I can't decide if this would be a bad move.

On one hand, they are highly palatable archetypes that plenty of people enjoy playing and can quickly recognize and move on with.
On the other, "standard fantasy races" parallels seem to piss some people off as painfully lazy and derrivative. Further, if I give them unique names it comes of as pointlessly different, and if I give them the same names it makes the aforementioned criticism worse.

Any advice?

What would the political system be called, where counts and lords of smaller countries come together to democratly vote on matters for the whole union?
The representives of the counties are not elected themself, they are royality.
The leader of the whole union are the Highpriest for the Church, the military leader and the King.
The power of the "big 3" is to sign laws which are only legal if all three of them sign.
Any input? Weak links? Problems?

>>51245545
If this is for a campaign, go with the archetypes. It's something familiar for the players to latch onto and then impose their own ideas onto what it means to be that thing.

If it's for a book or story, I suggest having a few familiar ones to ground the readers in something familiar, but the rest should be stranger, especially once you have established the familiar.

>>51245753
Wouldn't that be a confederation which the Holy Roman Empire technically was

>>51245852
Holy shit you are right. That was even the source I got idea initially from. I am so dumb...

>>51245753
If the representatives aren't elected, it's not democracy, it's an oligarchy.

>>51245938
It is very close to "Elective Monarchy".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elective_monarchy

>>51246005
Then it's monarchs elected by oligarchs, still not a democracy, Anon.