Farlell RPG

Introduction

Farlell RPG is a game-world I'm designing for my family's D&D nights.

Feel free to use it as a basis for your own tabletop games, but please contact me (User:Ezrec) if you want to use the world concept for commercial purposes.

There are two sides to this wiki: Farlell RPG and Farlell Spoiler.

Game Masters should look in the Farlell Spoiler section, and players should ignore it. It'll definitely ruin the game for you from the very first paragraph.

In general, monsters, artifacts, and places will have a Farell FooBar Spoiler link, which is for GMs.

General Information

The setting is a terrestrial style planet.

Astronomical Information

• Three moons - one approx the size of Earth's moon, two others the size of Mars' Phobos and Deimos captured asteroid pair.
• Two stars - one yellow, main sequence primary star, with a second binary companion with an apparent brightness of Earth's planet Venus.
• 'The Pit In The Sky' - an unusual astronomical artifact that appears to be in planetary orbit, and occasionally obscures a single star, or will look like a small back dot crossing the moons.

Terrestrial Information

• 23% oxygen, 74% nitrogen, 3% trace atmosphere
  • Trace atmosphere is very high in neon, and beautiful orange lighting and will often illuminate entire cloud layers during electrical storms.
• Primarily silicon crust, with a very high heavy metals content.
  • Gold, silver, and other "precious" metals are actually very common in Farlell (similar to the abundance of Iron on Earth)
• Slightly smaller in size than Earth (0.90 Earth radii)
• Slightly higher gravity (1.14G) than Earth (due to higher density)
• Mountains are, on average, lower than on Earth

Vegetation

Evolution has responded to it's environment, and has produced vegetation similar to that of Earth.

• Chlorophyll based photosynthesis.
• Most plants store energy as sugar and starches
• Most land plants chelate the heavy metals in the soil, and eliminate them as waste.
  • Some examples are heavy fruits (which appear on the tips of branches) and glitter dust (which collects on the underside of leaf surfaces for some grasses).
  • See Farlell Economy#Vegetation for a discussion on how humans use the plants.
• There are a number of carnivorous plants in Farlell, ranging from the small and dainty Farlell Fly's Folly to the enormous Farlell Paradise Island.

Aquatic Life

• Alga (very similar to Earth alga)

• Jello (similar to in bodyplan to Earth Jellyfish)
  • Exclusively surface floaters
  • Large quantities of chlorophasts
  • Underside is covered in a foul tasting, sticky mucus
  • Filled with hundreds of tiny, extremly sharp 'bones' made of Iron tubule meshes.
    • Think 'tumbleweed covered in ballistics gel'
  • Chromataphores - usually closed, but put two Jello together, and you have quite a show!
  • Small eyes encircling the body, large eye on top.
  • Unusually large amount of neural tissue - over 50% of the body by volume!
  • Slow growing, long lifespan
    • Millions on young spawned every year - most are eaten by predators before their mucus and interior tubules develop.
    • Young are about the size of a dime, adults over 3 feet wide.
  • Many species of Jellos are raised

• Tubla (fish analogues)
  • Body plan is a tube with no backbone
  • Ring-shapes bones (make of stiff iron metal tubule meshes, not calcium cystal lattices)
  • Each 'segment' has it's own gills, heart, nervous system, and sensory organs
  • 'Jet propelled' via internal cillia

• Night Sheets (shark analogues)
  • Major ocean predators
  • About 3mm thick.
  • Black top and white bellies
  • The 'belly' is the digestive portion, covered in millions of polyps.
  • Eats prey by enveloping it.
  • Complex, extremely fine metal bone structure allows the sheet to be resistant to punctures, and yet fold to any configuration
    • Fishermen catch these, let the flesh rot off, then use the interlocked bone meshes as nature's own chainmain.
  • Multilayer Night Sheet Armour is worn by many open sea fishermen.

• Many many more!

Farlell Animal Life

There main animal phyla on Farlell:

Glitter Bugs

These shiny animals fill the same niches as the Insect phyla on Earth.

• Extremely common in arid areas and dry caves, but cannot handle excessive environmental moisture
• Covered in scales made of chelated metal, pure metal, and chitin.
  • Often very beautiful and irridescent.
• Liquidivores - most have sucking mouth parts, and inject digestive juices directly into their prey
• Extremely water conservative
  • Most species can be placed in a box in a cool, dry place, and hibernate for over a hundred years!
  • It has been theorized by some sages that Alhot The Maker created them when Farlell was in the Farlell History#First Dryness
• Size ranges from very tiny to as large as a man's head.

Creepers

Your 'worms' and 'caterpillars'.

Similar in body plan to Tublas, but with either 'flanges' or actual tentacles on each body segment

Common 'worms' are the size of earthworms. Farlell Mountain Eaters are as large as their name implies.

Flits

A distant relative of the Farlell Night Sheet family.

• Body plan is similar to a piece of paper where two opposite edges have been folded toward the center.
• Most species are nocturnal.
• Sizes range from butterfly size to vulture size.
• Omnivores.

Critters

Earth-like mammals. Fur, four legs, calcium bones. Edible by humans. All have a very low tolerance for heavy metals, and although their lifespans are theoretically unlimited, most die after 60 or so years from

• Kihtee
  • Small carnivore
  • Used by humans as both pet and vermin killers
  • Very large eyes and head for extremely good night vision.
  • Highly intelligent
  • Grasping front paws
  • Metal poisoning expected after 20-50 years.
• Puhpee
  • Medium size omnivore
  • Used by humans as both pet and family guardians
  • Very large head
  • Very good sense of smell
  • Less intelligent then Kihtees, but extremely loyal to their owner.
  • Puhpees will rarely leave their owner's family, even if they have died. Can only be passed on to immediate family, but many wealthy families have passed on guardians for over hundred years by feeding them

very restricted diets.

• • Metal poisoning expected after 5-10 years if diet is unrestricted, but most people can ensure a 30-40 year life span by simple precautions.
• Chikchik
  • Small size omnivore
  • Two scaly legs, fur, beak, and vestigital arms (just little nubs).
  • Primary food animal for humans
  • Found in the wild, and raised on farms.
  • Meat is heavily metallic, and poisonous.
  • Eggs are edible
• Gosoink
  • Medium size omnivore
  • Primary food animal for humans
  • No eyes, ears, nose, or legs.
  • Placed on a board with a hole in it over a pit, and fed table scraps.
  • Slow growing, but delicous meat when harvested.
  • Reproduces by budding (about 6 buds every 6 months. Considered a delicacy)
• Gosmoo
  • Large size herbivore
  • Primary food animal for humans
  • Quadraped
  • Capable of chelating metal out of plant material in it's diestive tract.
  • Fecaes are highly metallized, and are often smelted for metal in commercial settings.
  • Has six 'fruit' - three on each size - which are harvested when ripe for meat.
    • Some people find it very disturbing - as the 'fruit' ripen, they writhe to indiate they are ready to be picked.
  • Produces a fine, metal free milk.
  • Sexual reproduction
• Hoomen (humans)
  • Large omnivore
  • Extremely intelligent
  • Metal poisoning expected after 10-15 years on unrestricted diet, but much higher (90-150) if simple well-known precaution are taken.