vivissiah, to worldbuilding
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📢 New Blog Post! 🌌 Dive into the world of Aermundi with our latest blog, "Practicum on Fictoscience in Fantasy: Creating a Lived-In World." Explore the blend of magic and technology and learn how to create immersive fantasy settings.

Read it here: https://www.viviansayan.com/blog/practicum-fictoscience-fantasy

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golgaloth, to worldbuilding
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A monster on your world displays surprisingly intelligent activity. Has the monster gained some sense, or is someone steering them?

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yora, to worldbuilding
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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.

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golgaloth, to worldbuilding
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The workers in your world go on strike, or are unable to perform their duties for some other reason. How well does your society hold together?

tchauhan,
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@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.

thoughtpunks, to worldbuilding
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With the recent Northern Lights occurrence, I'm thinking about all the the weird beautiful stuff aberrant Aurora Borealis could represent in settings and games. What kind of amazing discoveries does it hold? What terrifying truths hide behind its beauty?

TheScienceFictionGuy, to worldbuilding
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The Hard SF Worldbuilding Cookbooks:

Rogue planets, to supernova, to star systems. Find prompts, pick locations, & write a story. Have the science for them, as needed.

Inspiration, then .

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golgaloth, to worldbuilding
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Is the universe indifferent to the characters of your world, or have you created gods to pretend that the universe cares?

oarditi, to fantasy
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Gords,
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@oarditi @bookstodon Earthsea is a great one

golgaloth, to worldbuilding
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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?

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ilanthar, to Dragonlance French
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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.


Vue d'Eldoran (sur la droite) et des ses satellites, comprenant la lune Séléné et ses "filles", deux autres lunes tournant autour d'elle, la rouge Cybèle et la turquoise Ipocrène (dont la révolution est polaire).

bedirthan, to DnD
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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.

mrgtwentythree,
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@bedirthan look at the pretty sky fire flies. they seem so far away. OH MY GOD THEY ARE SO FAR AWAY AND COMING IN FAST

bedirthan,
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@mrgtwentythree why is that hillside on fire?

projektmyra, to worldbuilding German
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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

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