How many...

1. How many...

   #1

   world and/or continent *types* can you think of?

2. Re: How many...

   #2

   What do mean by types? Could you give an example of one?

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   #3

   Climate: (Pick one)
   Tropical, primeval forest continent
   Desertlike, windblown continent
   Temperate, lush continent
   Cold, frozen glacier covered continent
   Hot, humid swampland continent
   Archipelago
   
   Current Civilizations: (pick one)
   High Fantasy Civilizations (Mages, Priesthoods, Warriors in glorious plated armour... The works)
   Tribal villages, led by local chieftains
   Tribal villages, led by powerful priesthood
   Steam and magic driven civilizations
   Post-war civilization, with access to ancestral technology
   Post-war civilization, with access to ancestral magic
   Prime period civilization with magic and/or technology
   Isolated enclaves of civilization, enclosed within powerful, protective walls/spells/defensive perimeters
   
   Primary Dangers: (Pick one)
   Gruesome insects that crawl up noses/bore under skin and lay eggs that hatch and devour the host
   Giant Animals that roam the land
   Post-war robots/mutants that go amock when they encounter the "enemy of old", or what they believe to be the enemy.
   Cannibalistic tribes
   Alien lifeforms that arrive as suddenly as they depart
   Black Knights, false pretenders to the crown, and their retinue
   Tolkienesque orc tribes, perhaps led by powerful evil entity. Artifacts possibly involved. :p
   
   

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   #4

   World
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   Size: Roughly Earth-standard
   Climate: Varies depending on location, planet is tidally locked with sun.  Sunward is hot enough to melt iron, Nightward is cold enough to freeze boiling water before it hit the ground.  Habitable band in the middle.
   
   Current Civilizations:
   Humans, controlling the middle.  Agricultural civilizations with central authories
   Goblinoids, nightward.  Raiders and pastorialists, worshipping some sort of ice demon.
   Fire Elementals, Sunward.  Isolationists, no society.
   
   Primary Dangers:
   Read above...

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   #5

   ...No thoughts here to add.

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