Hey so in my game i have a location that is a flying castle in the sky, manly so the players know where it is and won't get lost trying to find it. but also for dramatic effect of knowing that who ever runs it has the power to keep a castle sustained in the sky.
when it came time for them to finally enter i was gonna have some generic gargoyles pick up the players and fly them up, scaring the shit out of them, and showing them they have no easy way back down without these gargoyles.
so I've been thinking (because this isn't going to be my only floating area) about other ways to have the players reach giant floating structures in the sky?
Tell me about your floating structures? who inhabits them? how do they float? do they sit on the back of a dragon or something?
and most importantly how did your players get to them?
>Giant canon >Place rock canon >Hollow out rock and make it like a crash zone >Fire rock at sky castle >Burst out Genestealer style
Dylan Brown
>Floating castles and how to reach them
You don't. The entire purpose of flying castles is that they're up so high that people /without wings/ can't get up there. Maybe try a flight, heat and constitution spell. You'll probably need some high level mages and alchemists for this.
Go to giant dragon ask him carry you up and back down there. In exchange for his service, offer to him to keep the castle and everything in it apart from that little trinket you are looking for. A floating lair would certainly be a lot safer for him and also allows him to exploit new regions all the time (if the castle moves)
Ryder Howard
Build ladders.
Lincoln Kelly
Did somebody say ladders?
Noah Martinez
>how did your players get to them?
Giant birds or hippogriffs used as mounts in the setting.
Flying ships.
The floating land mass follows a predictable route as it follows the ... geomantic leylines or something. There are certain points in its route where it passes close to the ground, or near a cliff face.
In populated ones, people will lower ladders and baskets when they want to trade/allow visitors for whatever reason.
Bentley Price
with huge chains that keeep the castle in line with the earths movement, thats how i do it in my setting, there is something similar in chronno trigger, just let me look for it and see if i can find it
Aiden Collins
Has anyone ever had a floating castle above a town or city? I've been thinking about it, but wasn't sure how to incorporate it into the whole city.
like i said with huge chains that keep the castle in line with the earths rotation, i cant find it right now, but there is a scene in chronno trigger where you have to climb up a HUGE sized chain to reach a floating island in the sky, the pic im posting is not that part, but is still one of those moments, tho that chain is way smaller than the one im talking about
also this Giant birds, hippogriffs, gryphons, wyverns, dragoones and so on
also, magic, teleportation circles on the ground, again ala chronno trigger style, whatch this vid on the minute 9:50 youtube.com/watch?v=SA8C4FFwTpU
David Foster
shit forgot pic
Zachary Carter
>2008 >8 Years. Fuck.
Andrew Thomas
Get some smaller floating rocks and propel them so they carry you to the castle?
Make a floating-rock ship perhaps?
Have big flying beasts of burden carry you up there?
Have the floating structure land to receive trade and stuff?
Grayson Roberts
The one in our game is the magic academy of area of nations, magically held aloft magical crystals in the interior of the floating island itself, but kept from flying off into the upper atmosphere by being tethered to the ground by massive metal chains.
To get between the ground, the magic users had a teleport room, though a more mundane method was possible via a rudimentary cable car to the nearby mountain face. Scaling up by the chains was technically possible but would be extremely difficult since the island was kind of bobbing about while suspended so the chains would be constantly moving.
Nathan Scott
>train/enslave flying monsters
>Horridly dangerous improv hot air balloon/zepplin
>big ass balista with a really long rope attached to the bolt
>well placed mountain and good timing
>Firing themselves out of a trebuchet >some dudes legit shot themselves into a lake for fun, then somebody missed the lake and broke their neck and it was banned
There are several ways of doing it based off of the media I have seen
Gaining the help of a scientist or inventor that is making a Flying Machine
Hijacking an Airship
Using a Shapeshifting or Morphing spell on a creature to either make it fly or give it wings.
If the island is like anything in Gulliver's Travels and uses Magnetism to stay afloat, you could distort it's form of motility to ensnare it in place or drag it to the earth
After exploring the first floating island you could then take the knowledge of how it floats to a specialist who can create something to aid you in reaching other floating locations.
Jack Williams
Make your physically strongest party member legendary by launching chains at the flying castle and the player pulling the castle out of the sky
I introduced a flying castle early on as the seat of power for the Grand Wizard. From that point on the party sorcerer started taking crafting skills, rolling to make various things and it didn't really all connect until she produced the first canon with explosive shells and grappling rounds.
She broke off from the group, found a high hill that brought the front door within 140ft of her cannon, fired, forced the castle to change direction, then grappled on and climbed aboard, armed with anti-magic and enchanted weapons.
Jaxon Flores
I like the idea of the castle being held aloft by a large group of slaves/servants. I keep coming back to an image of a boat containing slaves where they have to row those giant oars. You could have the flying castle above a city of the dispossessed people as insurance that they all just don't go suicidal and take the owner(s) of the castle with them.
Mason Cooper
you cover yourself in the shit of giant pigeons so they think you are one of their own and don't kill you, then you get on and ride it to the castle in the sky.
Thomas Martin
how...why? is this from something, or did your group manage to pull this off? either way I'm stealing it and making it a thing in the future
Cameron Robinson
It's from Korgoth of Barbaria, a show that didn't get picked up for cartoon network's adult swim block.
I don't really have anything constructive to add, but I do have something you might not have thought about or may find interesting:
Floating Islands or Castled would be covered in migratory birds using it for nests. There'd be nests and bird shit- just MOUNDS and squawking dumb birds on every ledge, nook, cranny, you name it.
There's nothing birds love more than to find really reclusive, out of the way, high-altitude environments where they can raise their big, dumb, puffy, awkward babies.
Lots of these birds specifically lay eggs that roll in circles so they can fall off cliffs in such environments- seriously, your floating castle would be lousy with noisy ass birds.
Kayden Hall
It's OK user, tell me where did the little birds touch you.
Matthew Watson
Thank you- I actually had a different picture in mind, but noticed I had posted a floating island by mistake.
You'd have pic related being fat, sassy and fluffy all over your precious floating keep.
Camden Perez
There are floating castles in my game. I now really, really want to have an NPC leave a note or letter somewhere for my PCs to find with something to the effect of "Can't we get a wizard to enchant this place to repel birds? I've got the troops hunting them and destroying nests, but the damned things keep coming back."
Aaron Sanchez
Like Midgar from Final Fantasy 7. Big floating city of magic and wonder where all the rich people live, blocking out the sun and forcing the people who live under the floating city into poverty and slumliness.
Zachary Sanchez
Hey man, free food for the most skilled climbers and target practice for the archers. Plus, a flock of pissed off shitgulls screeching their heads off will let you know real good when someone is coming towards the floating island.
Chase Jenkins
>finally climb the chain attaching the castle to the ground after half a day >put a feet on the ground >suddenly, thousands of seagulls attack you because you're on their nest >can't even retreat because you're on the edge of a floating castle The horror
Wyatt Hill
Floating castles (and Islands) usually floats, cause of floating rocks.
Julian Flores
>"Sire we have a problem."
>"Ah, yes, has that bothersome band of adventurers finally managed to make it to my impenetrable floating fortress?"
>"No sire, it's uh- It's the Boobies again. Sire, the fleeted floating island boobies have returned from their seasonal migration."
>"Damn it."
Ayden Powell
>All the while muffled seagull braying can be heard getting louder and louder in the background.
Leo Torres
>The extremely elaborate deathtrap with invisible moving platforms encircling the floating castle is just there to get rid of the birds >The platforms are invisible so you can still get a nice view >It just so happens that it's very hard to design them without someone managing to use them to climb up and into the castle
Adrian Jones
>>The extremely elaborate deathtrap with invisible moving platforms encircling the floating castle is just there to get rid of the birds
>The Birds fly into them on a regular basis. >THUMP >SQUACK?!
Logan White
>please adventurers, you must stop the mad wizard's flying castle! >He's killing our bird population, at this rate there won't be enough to survive the migration and come back for the festival!
Cooper Wood
>players can roll to see the invisible floating platforms >they recognize platforms by the bits of bird viscera and feces that get stuck to them over time.
