Doing some #worldbuilding for my #kaendor videogame and defining the laws and mechanisms by which magic works.
I created something that looks logical, consistent, and functional. But there's just no interesting consequences or questions that result from that, which would set off compelling stories or mysteries.
That's very much useless worldbuilding.
It adds information to process, but does not add anything.
@golgaloth Why can't the workers also teach the management the same lesson - that they are lucky to have a job. Especially given they lack or refuse to practice any productive skill.
With the recent Northern Lights occurrence, I'm #worldbuilding thinking about all the the weird beautiful stuff aberrant Aurora Borealis could represent in #TTRPG settings and games. What kind of amazing discoveries does it hold? What terrifying truths hide behind its beauty?
Medieval peasants had so many holidays and days off. Mostly because they had to feed themselves, make their own clothing and fix all their own stuff. How the people in your world survive from day to day?
Thinking about underground fantasy societies. How would such cultures go about without ready access to wood? What do carpenters in Menzoberranzan use to make tables of? #worldbuilding#ttrpg#rpg#fantasy
This one is called "Syste" and is something I whipped together after I had a render I really like break itself, therefore needing to start from scratch all over again
@sogo7 Well, in this case I wouldn't have had the choice either way: I am a guest of this department, and honestly it's nice for them to go to the effort of doing a poster at all. Doesn't usually happen for such minor folk as myself!
But thanks for the apology, and for the kind offer. I don't think the talk in that poster is being videoed, but I'm doing another one that is being recorded -- so if you're interested in the topic, keep 'em peeled. :)
Oh, hey: if you're in or near the Greater Copenhagen area on Thursday 25th April, and you fancy catching me giving a public lecture on #worldbuilding, well, you're in luck!
Click through for the full blurb, time'n'date and other details, plus sign-up.
I guess it is time for me to do an #introduction here. This is an account by @SinclairSpeccy mainly for my personal worldbuilding projects due to the larger word count here and my main instance being a tech themed one. This account name is taken from my site to make things easier.
On this account you will find me posting about my main 4 worldbuilding projects which are the following:
Guardians of the School: Perhaps a bit of a generic name for this worldbuilding project, it focuses on the real world with a hint of fiction about a protagonist named Yuriko who is a teenage girl whose life changes when she gets thrown into turmoil by some mystical entities called "Guardians of the School".
Time Goes By: More of a space themed thing inspired by a flash game I used to play a lot in my youth called Plazma Burst 2. Same as Guardians of the School, it focuses on the real world with a hint of fiction about a protagonist named Quiv who is stuck on Earth after most people left to Mars the rest of the galaxy until he gets into a fight with someone in an abandoned spaceship that launches him and this other person into space. Yes, it sort of takes cues from Star Wars and such.
Termination of Dusk: Originally known as "Warrior Dragons", it is one of the first of my projects I started when I was younger from around 2017. Has mostly been sitting in the dust as I grew out of it. Years later I sorta picked up on it again but not much. It focuses on a fantasy setting with elemental powers.
The Mainframe - An OS-tan Fanon: My OS-tan fanon/universe that used to be hosted elsewhere that was then moved over to be hosted on my site for more flexibility. It is a fanon that aims to be free of glurge while including more male characters and redundant OSes/computers. Shares the same name as the main site (how creative of me :P).
I'll most likely be posting about my OS-tan universe since that is the one I am hyper-fixating on 99% of the time. I'm not much of an artist either but rather a writer of sorts, and these are projects done for fun. I am also to do an introduction for my OS-tan universe later to move it over to this account from my main which ended up being a 10 post thread...
The profile picture and banner will be changed eventually to suit this account more as these were ones I already had at the time on hand
@golgaloth "Do what you want but it has to stand up to Claude's Hammer: no god worthy of worship will ask you for any act that would be evil in the absence of the god." So they've got shrines, some art, weddings and funerals and other Important Event Ceremonies, some bands and choirs specializing in the same, but are refreshingly short on power-bloated ticks reigning from atop mountains of agony.
I am thinking about running an exploration game in FATE, where we explore not just geography, but also cultures. I want to draw on my players' ideas, the Hainish stories by Ursula Le Guin, some of Ian Banks' Culture novels – or on the game side, @JoshuaACNewman 's Shock: Human Contact. Most other games I know focus on one culture or on the inside perspective. Can anyone recommend #worldbuilding strategies for cultures compatible with the Brainstorm mechanics from Atomic Robo?
Imagine a stereotypical "elven forest kingdom" - Lothlorien, Cormanthor, whatever. They are living in harmony with nature and are fairly stable, but due to elven biology their birth rates are very low, and thus the number of elves living there has been slowly but steadily decreasing.
So, what happens to that stagnant, isolated society if some human alchemist in a nearby city develops a highly effective fertility potion - which also works on elves?
@juergen_hubert@nyrath based on societies with decreasing population in our world, it's never fertility that is the problem. The elves would only use the potion if the conditions for having children are desirable.
In Japan and Korea the social pressures on women make them avoid children even not having a fertility problem.
@golgaloth Boxing, MMA, and other such violent sports. Adversarial court systems. Fixed-price legal penalties. Prisons for profit. Hostile architecture. Xenophobia in all of its forms (racism, sexism, transphobia, …). Union-busting. Border walls that kill refugees. Militarized police. Factory farming.
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Oh wait, you were asking about a fictitious world, not my real one. My bad.
#worldbuilding prompt 3/1/24
This day in 509 BC, Publius Valerius Publicola celebrated the Roman Republic's first Triumph over the former King of Rome. When was your world's greatest fallen empire or extant nation's founding, and is it celebrated to this day? #ttrpg
@Jackgiantkiller In Tribes in the Dark/Tribe 8, the Seven Tribes or the Nation was founded after the demi-goddesses known as Fatimas led their human followers to overthrow the demonic Z'bri that had enslaved them. That day is celebrated as the Festival of Liberation every fall, where the Tribes come together to put on plays and performances reenacting key moments of The Liberation and other festivities.
More demographic mapping today. This is an early draft of the four dominant cultural/faith/language clusters as represented by Human inhabitants. There are no "race cultures" in the Candle Islands, though there are plenty of people who believe there are. For example, the spots of red are Saman Humans (Humans who are culturally Fjurin, Rolig or Grazny), which many Imperials dismiss as "Humans who think they're Dwarves I guess?"
@ChukG Dwarves get a lot of attention in Hammondal because they share a plurality with Humans ... and there's some discussion of what makes a Dwarf "Dwarf Enough" for some formulations of that idea, and of the struggles some face with those presumptions. Meanwhile, half of the Mantoche in the city are Boranese but ALL of them often get treated as IF they're Boranese, and so on. Uresia had this, too, but in a city-focused gameworld it gets ... sharper. 😬
@ChukG (There are comparable but distinct concerns for all the peoples in the city, but the dance between Human, Dwarf, and Mantoche gets the most ink ... but there's plenty of anxiety left over for the Elves and Barling and Bears and such).
Dritera magazine's first issue is online and free to download!
This is a ttrpg fantasy setting that's getting worldbuilt month-by-month by a whole bunch of authors, including myself. We're striving for an exciting, colourful, inclusive world, and I can tell you from behind the curtain, there's lots of cool stuff to come.
