RPG Pondering: Dyson Spheres

I ponder the many ways a Dyson Sphere could be used in a role-playing game.

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[shakemyass9878]

Can I have rights to make a tech demo of this?

[tetsubo57]

@shakemyass9878 Feel free.

[11milexxiv]

This is pure non-sence.. Impossible words u speak.. U just explained the jetsons cartoon...i respect peoples views and opinions... But u kind sir are questionably sane. I hope this is a joke, but by the amount of dvd's you have in the backround I find that hard to believe

[tetsubo57]

@11milexxiv There are no DVDs in the background of my video. Those are tabletop role-playing games. Which is what I am discussing. I even put it in the title.

[MrChupacabra555]

Have you ever seen the "Hollow World" setting for the 'Basic" DnD rules world Mystara?

I remember reading it and thinking it was like a mini, magical Dyson Sphere (with a small red sun at the center, and floating islands orbiting about it, some with their own civilizations).

[tetsubo57]

@MrChupacabra555 I believe I own a copy of it actually. I kept a lot of the setting stuff from earlier editions.

[usrbid]

Yo tetsubo57, Ringworld had huge sheets hovering high above the surface blocking out sunlight. The Ringworld dude said the sheets move to create night and day and also seasons. Also Ringworld had the "problem" of matter slipping to the sides and needed to be moved back inside.

Read Holloworld, there are two holes on the poles and a small sun inside the planet. And HW has sky cities.

There may not be enough matter in the universe to create a Ringworld.

[anotherelvis]

@anotherelvis The metal used for mirrors would probably be a prized material, so the stronger states would try to establish a monopoly. Mountainous regions could become power bases as they have access to ore and elevated ground that allows them to point their mirrors at rebelious cities.

On the other hand naval cities should find it easier to contact distant lands and create new colonies. Perhaps the naval cities will try to use mirrors for self defence, but that will not help their crops.

[anotherelvis]

@anotherelvis ..but if they had learned to use the mirrors for communications then they could create defence treaties against strangers that abused the mirrors. This would lead to a massive cold war with minimal land travel.

Perhaps the characters could be given the task of visiting foreign states and teaching them how to use the mirrors for communication. In return they would want the foreign states to join their alliance.

[anotherelvis]

@anotherelvis If the people on the inside of the sphere had discovered how to make parabolic mirrors, then they could use the energy from the sun to make long distance warfare with strangers than they had never met. (Google for Archimedes mirror).

[anotherelvis]

Nice video.

People living in a Dyson sphere would have a much better concept of maps, because they would be able to watch the continents from a distance. As far as I know the gulf stream and the big weather systems are Driven by the fact that the north pole is colder than the equator, so the weather in your sphere would be very static.

I think that gravity contributions from the shell would cancel out, so the gravity is zero inside the shell, but that should not be a problem in a sci-fi world.

[psychokazi]

dude this is an awesome concept i am now seriously pondering using... your knowledge of vast topics is intriguing. thanks for the fresh idea :)

[the01one1]

I think we can or we must build dyson sphere when the sun burn it's all fuel and become a white dwarf.The scientists believe that a white dwarf's size is not bigger than New York City. When the time comes and the help of the current technology our great grandchildren will built one of those and they live happly ever after, billions of years. But first we have to find cheap way to cool Venus by putting reflective panels to the orbit and begin to terraform it. Don't put all the eggs in one basket.

[gregsteele1]

i do believe halo has used not only the ring world type dyson sphere but in the books full sized dyson spheres are present except they are known as shield worlds.

[Hushashabega]

Not a sphere or disk world exactly, but I'm planning a sort of sci-fi contrivance to justify putting a bunch of D&D campaign settings, including a few of my own concoctions, on one giant disk-shaped megaplanet, constructed by an absentee civilization that put the minions of Baator in charge of maintaining the planet's internal infrastructure . The up shot being that characters could sail between the many disparate campaign worlds and Hell is literally deep underground.

[thexsoar]

Brilliant idea my friend, I think I'll try running a game on that premise. Thank you for the brain candy. Oh and as for the Dyson Sphere itself, well any civilization that could make one frankly wouldn't need one, and the sheer physics of it causes more problems than any benefit earned. Still, very fun to ponder.