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[Zrk2]

As far as the archipelago idea goes, the Saga of Recluce uses it for the map.

[Bohandas]

The DC Comics Multiverse has a lot of weird science-fantasy crap going on:

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20141104181338/marvel_dc/images/6/6e/Map_of_the_Multiverse_002.png

[Bohandas]

Concept: Recyclable Time
Desxription: The nature of time is such that a single moment or day or other duration can be lived over and over again WITHOUT resulting in a Groundhog Day style loop. Instead it merely results in one day being largely the same as the next, and a slowing down of aging, social change, and things like that.
Source: Discworld

[That Wolf]

Kindof already been mentioned.

Concept: liquid planet.
Description: a massive planet with varying densitys of various liquids, the core is semi solid and hot.
The surface has floating moulds and plants inspired by earthen water lillies and other aquatic plants. The lillies have incredible roots reaching deep into the liquid planet.
The surface dwellers live inside the lilly stems and the softest and outer layer of liquid.
Like a liquid gobstoper.
As you get deeper the species are even more alien looking than the last because of some of the layers are acidic and alkali. A few layers of acid and alkali liquids touch and the intersecting points can become solid. Inside the solid structures are little intellegent pack creatures capable of greatly changing their internal pressure to traverse between the layers and collect dubris and food the deepest layers have amorphic creatures that glow different colours to comunicate in the darkness they used to live on the surface but where over taken by the many sentient forms of life on the surface. Etc it goes on and on and on.
Source: scifi, me looking at the sky at night, looking at ponds and aquatic life.
The science is most probably wrong but its fantasy.
Patent granted!

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

As far as the archipelago idea goes, the Saga of Recluce uses it for the map.

The fantasy part was active gods and titans.
And other things the gods put into the world to screw with the people that worship or are champions of their opponent gods

[scrdest]

And they have the ability to strip off any layers of your personality to take you down to your core. Which backfires in Lords and Ladies when they try it on Magrat, who turns out to be an iron hard badass under all her layers.

I think that was a metaphor, not a direct ability; a side-effect of their glamour.

[scriver]

Description: the planet is a giant ocean filled with many islands. Some islands are inhabited with humans who worship gods.

Isn't this just the real world? :V

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Description: the planet is a giant ocean filled with many islands. Some islands are inhabited with humans who worship gods.

Isn't this just the real world? :V

Think more greece sized islands and no gigantic continenets

[Itnetlolor]

Description: the planet is a giant ocean filled with many islands. Some islands are inhabited with humans who worship gods.

Isn't this just the real world? :V

Why not invert it? Giant rock filled with many pools, and those pools are inhabited with fish who worship gods. Plus, underground pipelines and springs can link pools to other pools. A transit system made by manufacturing river systems and the like.

And for the Plainswalkers (creatures of the land), we're uncertain; but they like to feast off the inhabitants regularly. Others are taken out into the open and returned for one reason or another, sometimes with tags on them.

In other words, it's us, except as fish, and Ry'Leh is actually New Jersey or Portland or something.

[~Neri]

I can certify it's Portland. Used to live there. It has a tunnel network under the old town.

[Zrk2]

As far as the archipelago idea goes, the Saga of Recluce uses it for the map.

The fantasy part was active gods and titans.
And other things the gods put into the world to screw with the people that worship or are champions of their opponent gods

Bah, I thought you were talking about the non-standard map bit there.

Concept: Recyclable Time
Desxription: The nature of time is such that a single moment or day or other duration can be lived over and over again WITHOUT resulting in a Groundhog Day style loop. Instead it merely results in one day being largely the same as the next, and a slowing down of aging, social change, and things like that.
Source: Discworld

I don't follow. Mind explaining some more?

Concept:Magic as order vs chaos

Description: There are two (well, three) types of magic. One uses "order" to strengthen materials, help shape crafts and generally make things more orderly. This can even go so far as being used to manufacture steam engines. Then there is chaos magic, which is the more traditional fireball throwing, shit exploding, scrying-type magic. Most people who can do magic are only capable of one or the other. However, there exist those who can use both in balance, making them the most powerful wizards of all, allowing them to even extend their lives almost indefinitely.

This order-chaos interaction underlies everything in the series, and takes are rather taoisst philosophical turns in many of the novels. At one point so much chaos is created that the most powerful ordermages in the world have to work together to encapsulate it and essentially destroy all latent order and chaos in the world, resulting in magic basically dying.

Bonus points for awesomeness: At one point an armada of ships is destroyed via lava being released from under the ocean and burning all of them.

Source: The Saga of Recluce

[Bohandas]

Concept: Recyclable Time
Desxription: The nature of time is such that a single moment or day or other duration can be lived over and over again WITHOUT resulting in a Groundhog Day style loop. Instead it merely results in one day being largely the same as the next, and a slowing down of aging, social change, and things like that.
Source: Discworld

I don't follow. Mind explaining some more?

To be honest I don't completely understand it either.

In the novel Pyramids an excess of time-bending pyramids prevents the nation of Djelibeybi from properly moving forward in time, people still move around and are born and die but except for detials nothing ever changes there and the country at the time of the action of the novel is for all practical intents and purposes indistinguishable from the same country thousands of years previously, whereas things change in the Discworld's other nations.

In The Thief of Time the temple of the monks of history is locked into "a single perfect moment", and largely retains the same weather and climatory conditions of the day of the temple's founding.

[BFEL]

Just realized something that hasn't really been covered in any D&D style stuff.

Specifically: Lord of the Flies style "no adult supervision"

Its obviously been covered in sci-fi and such, but now I want to see a campaign where everyone in the world is under the age of puberty and the PCs have to find out what happened to all the adults.

[Bohandas]

Just realized something that hasn't really been covered in any D&D style stuff.

Specifically: Lord of the Flies style "no adult supervision"

Its obviously been covered in sci-fi and such, but now I want to see a campaign where everyone in the world is under the age of puberty and the PCs have to find out what happened to all the adults.

Actually I beloeve there was a Ravenloft adventure like that. IIRC.

[scriver]

I remember a Canadian or Australian kids show from the 90s on that theme that I loved as a child. Something about a boy ending up in a coma and going on adventures in search if his missing father in an adultless world together with his nerdy girl friend and his bully.