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** Shamans can also summon a ''Hearth Spirit'', literally the Genius Loci of wherever they happen to be: in a nightclub you might get a spiritual bouncer or barman (depending on the kind of nightclub you are in), for instance.

** ''Shadowrun'' also has a phenomenon called "background count," in which the mana of a place can be warped by events that take place there. This doesn't exactly make the area alive, but it has an impact on anyone who visits.

** If a living planet or living star seems farfetched, the ''[[Spelljammer]]'' had constellates, which are ''living constellations''. These colossal entities are (or were) [[Eldritch Abomination]]s imprisoned by the gods for unspecified crimes. Capable of crushing planets and uncomfortably common in all known Crystal Spheres, these beings ''are'' given gameplay statistics and it ''is'' possible to try to fight them. This may be the biggest reason Spelljammer was so... problematic as a setting, the writers were thinking ''way'' too big.

* ''[[Rifts]]'' has quite a few. Millennium Trees are huge thousand-foot tall trees that form living cities, nurtured and protected by the Trees' own latent psychic field. And there's at least two living planets, one (Wormwood) is inhabited and in the middle of a demon invasion, and the other (Eylor) kept hidden by transdimensional slavers who have a monopoly on giant magical eyes [[Eye Scream|harvested from its surface]].

* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' has "man-lands", lands that can turn into creatures. The most recent of these are the five dual-color man-lands and the "construct-land" from ''Worldwake''.