What are your thoughts on using the Sun as an evil entity of some sort?>Can never look at it>It gives people cancerous growths and horrible burns from prolonged exposure>People used to sacrifice others to appease it>Older than history and will likely outlive us>Is basically surrounded by the corpses of it's stillborn brethren/children>Has flaming tentacles that lash out every minute. Causes droughts, fires and famine.
>>96973924>>Can never look at itLol. Weak eyes
>>96973924That sounds like it would work well as a centerpiece for a mythology. I'm drawing a bit of a blank on how you could incorporate that into monsters for players to fight. Possibly making the world a desert and having a fiery bestiary? Could be cool, a sort of alternate take on Dark Sun's Athas. An extension from this is that darkness is good, which I haven't seen done very often outside of the whole Egyptian thing with black soil.
>>96973924Indeed, Pelor the Burning Hate is a most puissant master.
>>96973924https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bila_(sun)
>>96973946>sticks head in particle accelerator
>>96973924By illuminating, it also creates relative darkness.
>>96973924>The sun has enslaved the benevolent moon goddess, forcing her in its orbit forever and making her reflect its noxious rays on her beloved faithful.
>>96973924This twink sun god was the Nurgle of his time. Had complete control over plagues, vermin (mice especially) and liked 'bless' people with oracular madness. He also had a knack for flaying people he felt disrespected by alive.
>>96973965Could easily do snake people or other reptilian monsters. Even in a world where the sun was more intense, it'd still be a very necessary source of vitality for anything cold-blooded. Otherwise, leaning into cosmic horror and having weird radiation entities or having meteorites contain other eldritch starspawn is an option.
Its not the sun that’s evil, its the moon
>>96973924 You literally could not exist and would not exist if not for its daily and reliable work as God. Get a load of this edgy emo basement faggot OP.Praise SOL
>>96973924Have you ever used these thoughts in a game? Have you ever played a game?
>>96973924Pure nonsense, the sun is a force of good. Pelor protects us all... right?.. r-right?
I did actually run 2 sessions of black sun death crawl for my players. If you don't know that, it's a pretty bare bones rpg book that goes all in on this cancerous sun concept.It was a region in an ongoing setting that looked intriguing to the players so I turned this place into absolute hell. Complete party whipe by an OP enemy followed by gruesome resurrection with mutations and such. I used lots of disturbing images from Beksinski and such for enemy and landscape artwork.It was a real shakeup und memorable experience but it only really worked because it was standing in contrast to the rest of the campaign, which wasn't all sparkles and rainbows but a bit more hopeful.Check out Black Sun Death Crawl. It's a neat little booklet and you can convert it in any rule system easily because it barely more than a concept.
>>96973965>fiery monsters>sentient mirages>strange mirror floraThink this got some potential.
>>96973924It gives you life you son of a mother. You wouldn't be alive to make this shitpost without the sun.Hell it gives life to everyone, and cancer or droughts to only a few.Fucking moonfags.
>>96976612It gives life in *our* world.Wouldn't be far fetced that a setting takes place on a world with so intense sunlight that only shade is livable amd photosynthesis would never work.So dark pits of acidic slurries are where all life happens. Surface blinds you even in the shade and scours flesh if entered during daytime.So instead of 'flora' there are tube worms and other chemosynthesizing critters forming chitinous jungles around submerged volcanic vents. Above water life is built around lichen and moss in damp caves.Amfibious cave dwellers as playable races? Almost all action is underground and nicest biomes are underwater.
