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?
New on my blog is the second half of my top 10 imaginary worlds. I get a bit deeper this time (or go on a bit more!), as these are ones that have shaped me as a writer.
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?
Toujours en train de placer les noms sur la carte du monde d'Eldoran...
En attendant, sachez qu'Eldoran possède trois lunes et tourne autour de 2 étoiles.
Still placing names on Eldoran world map...
Meanwhile, you can see that Eldoran has three moons & evolves around 2 stars.
What if dragons came in broods like cicadas?
Every Y centuries a brood returned.
Brood 19 and Brood 37 overlap next year and your people are very, very worried. #DnD#WorldBuilding#TTRPG
Non sum qualis eram, as the poet says. Not a happy ending but a good one: "Learned by heart" from Emma Donoghue (c)2023 is the last book I finished. #worldbuilding wise it gave me ideas for fantastic academia and might influence my image of the MSM on #Karcanon in the generation before Phyter. Have you read it? Have you compared it to Christa Winsloe's classic book of #sapphic school days? @bookstodon
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
Been thinking about rivers on maps in fantasy games. (hat tip to @kensanata ) Most fantasy maps show just a couple of rivers. But water is everywhere in the real world. This colorful map of England's rivers gives a hint. So making rivers on a fantasy map becomes a question of how much fidelity you want to portray.
For a very long time I wanted to create a fantasy world that is "like #DarkSun (or more recently #Kenshi), but in green".
But somehow, there is some kind of somber dignity in desert settings that forest settings just don't have.
Maybe it's related to being unable to see the forest for all the trees. You don't get the sense of timeless desolation when there's probably hundreds of animals hidden from view just a few dozen paces away.
Sinon, je suis actuellement en train de refaire la carte physique d'Eldoran, monde imaginaire abritant la cité volante d'Argona.
Sur l'image, je débute les reliefs du continent de Norumbega.
And I'm currently working on a new version of a map of Eldoran, fantasy world hosting the flying city of Argona.
I'm starting the shaded reliefs of the continent of Norumbega.