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** ''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, ''[[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 a symptom of the massive scale that made Spelljammer so... problematic as a setting.
** [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place| Bonecloud]], mentioned in ''Guide to the Astral Plane'', combines this Trope with [[The Worm That Walks]]. Supposedly, there used to be a Prime Material world named Terras whose population was decimated in a genocidal conflict called the War of Lies. An ancient lich named Koras animated ''every'' victim of this atrocity as zombies and skeletons. He was eventually opposed by three unnamed heroes who used powerful magic to banish him this entire army to the Astral, resulting in a mass of ''millions'' of undead about a quarter mile across. (Think Legion from the ''[[Castlevania]]'' games but much bigger.) Naturally, this is a very dangerous place, not just because of the mindless undead but because of many intelligent undead who reside there, like specters, vampires, and - maybe - Koras himself, and because of the strong aura of negative energy created by so many undead being in one place. Though, many adventurers risk exploring it anyway due to the many [[Portal Network|rare color pools]] it has.
* ''[[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''.
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