What affect would a mountain have on a world if it was tall enough to breach the stratosphere?
>>46638573
It's poke a hole in the sky and all the air would get out, duh.
as the world spins around it would scrape across the sky, tearing it open and causing all the oxygen to leak out
>>46638573
massive rain shadow
>>46638573
Someone would know some god out there is 'avin a giggle.
>>46638573
The world would probably have lesser gravity to begin with.
>>46638573
Is the mountain shaped like a needle or like a usual mountain?
if needle: That thing is either going to collapse, seeing as the rock is not strong enough or sink into the mantle due to high force/low area=high pressure
if usual shape: that mountain is going to be huge. Even if we generously assume that the diameter of the base is half the height that will still be between 4 and 9 km. Assuming the median height of the stratosphere of 13 km that means that it will have a diameter of AT LEAST 7.5 km. More likely it will be severely flattened due to gravity and be hundreds of kilometers wide. Just look at Olympus mons: height 22 km, width almost 600 km
>>46638573
One could run a campaign set entirely on a mountain side.
On the low slopes there could be farms, vineyards, citrus orchards, etc.
On the higher slopes there could be wood cabins and large wild animals.
On the higher slopes could be people living in caves, stilted houses, underground, in igloos...
On the highest slopes there could be a huge barren waste of snow, ravines and ice caves
One could also add some fluffy / fantasy stuff: bridges, standing stones, nature spirits, yuki onna etc.
>>46638901
>tfw the tip of the mountain is just rock and a cosmonaut
The tropopause is about 50k feet up at the equator, and 30k at the poles. Mt Everest is about 30k feet tall by comparison. In relation to the rest of the planet, or even the surrounding landmass, it wouldn't be that drastic to have a 50k or 60k ft mountain, given the right geological conditions.
>>46638573
Would it be possible for a world to have so little atmosphere that people could only live at/below sea level?
Civilization would be limited to the deepest canyons.
>>46638573
It'd tear open the sky and all the space would get it.
>>46638573
>a loud grating screech interrupts the music of the spheres
>>46638573
Olumpus Mons is exactly this. It doesn't do much.
>>46638921
>he offers you his pipe as you claim the mountain for the British Empire
>the mountain is so big that the world is actually tear-shaped
>>46639134
This sounds like a "take his place" sort of bargain.
A guy who can watch the world but do nothing to it.
>>46639351
Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing he can do.
>>46639134
the minute you take the pipe you're cosmonaut and he disappears, laughing heard drifting away in the wind
>>46639465
>>46639351
Someone needs to hold up the sky.
If it were that large and somewhere other than on a pole wouldn't it do some strange things to the planets rotation?
>>46639514
The sky is fine by itself, it's actually the pipe that needs to be held.
>>46638573
Mountains on a plane with an Earth like atmosphere/water levels can't really go beyond 30K feet because glaciation hobbles the structure of the mountain
>>46639542
and its always packed; no need to ever tend it just puff and smoke. and watch the world spin
>>46639540
No. The height of the atmosphere is negligible compared to the size of a planet.
>>46639611
So that's where clouds come from?
>>46639652
Rainbows too.
>>46639705
Next you're going to tell me that he rainbows he puffs are on fire.
And they are actually the bridge to Valhalla.
Let's be realistic here.
>>46639032
>Characters fight unholy unbreathing constructs left from a superior race that ruined the atmosphere through advanced technology that was able to teleport them all off the planet
>>46639826
If they're all off the planet, how are the characters fighting them?
>>46639924
In space
>>46639924
They aren't fighting the superior race, more like crazy advanced elementals and Ai's that were left behind. Conflict could be they are starting to wander into the civilizations in the depths, and ancient cities and structures could act as dungeons dense with hostile artificial life. End game could be a giant floating temple high in the sky(with no air...)with a member of the ancient race and a GECK device should his people ever return. Maybe the guy's excited to see the lesser races make it so far, or maybe Prometheus style he is disgusted by their presence and tries to exterminate them. Also forgot to mention the characters get bad ass scuba suits to leave the depths and journey above to stop the attacks on their homes.
>>46640130
I'm probably just baked and enjoying the concept too much, but what would be a good system to run something like this?
>>46640226
Engine Heart :^)
>>46640422
thanks love
