🪴 Alien environments follow their own logic. They may be beneficial to the characters, like when a well the characters step into heals them. They may be hostile, like when a plant kills them. Or they may be indifferent, some aspects being beneficial, some hostile, some just... there.

In this way, 🌱 Ecological interactions can convey the meaning of their environment.

🌱 Fiction about survival ties plot to facts about the environment and 🌱 In a survival narrative, the workings of the environment are the drivers of conflict and development. So, you will want to foster interactions between your player's characters and the environment. 🌱 Observation and experimentation require uncertainty. This is why 🌱 Not everything in alien environments should be dangerous or beneficial.

To create environment that challenge the players, 🌱 Challenging environments should answer three questions of the 🌱 Six questions you can use to create challenging environments.