Living Land vs. Land Below

[Oliver]

Repost from D4's site:

So, based on the comments I've read so far in the mail thread, it seems pretty clear that the feelings about the Land Below are mixed, with the negative concerns revolving around redundancy and lack of cohesion with its "connected" cosms.

A separate issue is the clunkiness and boring-factor of the Living Land. Its world laws are just annoying without adding much flavor or playability, and it's weird collection of dinosaur-aliens makes the whole thing seem like a weird foreign planet, rather than a lost world.

It seems to me that the best solution to deal with this is to blend the Living Land and Land Below into one cosm from the get-go. The new cosm would use the Land Below's axioms and World Laws and most of its inhabitants/plots. It would also include Baruk Kaah as the cosm's High Lord and involve his tribe of edeinos, worshipers of Lanala. The Fog of Lanala would exist only in certain, specific areas.

Thoughts? What am I missing?

[crabshtick]

our discussion group came up with the idea of the livingland conquering cosms with a side effect. anything the LL conquered became part of the livingland but as a pocket dimension. the livingland mists act in much the same way as they do in ravenloft and transport people to these isolated pockets.
under this premise i made the land below a pocket dimension of the livingland, along with arachnidia, nova-roma and a few others that i havnt yet made up.

cheers, mark.

[crabshtick]

oh also there were a whole bunch of other posts.
one was about raising the social axiom of the realm by a point as this would allow kaah to organise small armys.
another about the two sides of edinos - the death cultists and the lanla followers.
there were posts about a world skill called shaping - this allowed natives to grow structures and tools from plants.
loads of other stuff too, very inspiring for a new LL.
i have loads of files on torg on my pc, this was just what i was able to quickly dig up.

cheers, mark.