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.
Among the joys of designing financial systems for SF universes of varying tech/dev level is the moment when you realize that the ultratech galactic transaction clearing system requires an error handler for “payment delayed due to sick bullock”.
In short, I write and design TTRPGs and adventures as a worker-owner of Archstone Press, and I’m particularly interested in some of these things: #NSR#OSR#RuneQuest#PbtA#Pathfinder#BronzeAge fantasy, #Cairn (and the games that came out of it), and #worldbuilding in general!
I know the clickthrough rate from SM to websites is horridly low, BUT!.... My collection of very brief world building words and equally brief PostIt Notes doodles is growing.
If you're at all interested in what the flavour of Sub Orbital Machine is all about, you can check out the collection here:
So I invented a pretty simple game for my current WiP #AWolfsLullaby , called Ku'rab.
It involves posts at either end of a length of space with point assigned hooks/branches.
A small Hoop made of woven vines, about the size of a hand from finger tip to wrist.
Because my brain doesn't like to half ass #WorldBuilding,
The logic went like this
1: What's a relatively low complexity rules game a rural village might play at Harvest Celebrations & such
2: How do I craft it so it's easily adapted for modern day, with the notion of making it adaptable for play by people that use #wheelchairs
In other words, if I'm going to invent a game, it needs to be playable IRL, and it should be available to as many people as I can make it.
I'll post sketches in a day or two and solict feedback then.
Do you think hundreds/thousands years into the future the ubiquitous diamond plate family of designs will still be standard, or we'll invent something different to replace it? 🤔
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.
Collection thread for my answers to Word Weavers April 2024
As always feel free to like what you like, comment if you want to talk about something and share if you think other should read this (and my own endeavor for April is share more from other writers too, bad AI always acts stupid...😅🤦🏼)
If your MC hosted a talk show, what would it be about?
I have no freaking idea.😅
So I try to channel Kira's POV.
Kira: "A Talk Show? That antiquated Teli Vision thing right? I believe the rim worlds still have this, but for me I fail to see the point in it. Things that are discussed there should be rather be discussed in an open forum, like the Unions Citizen Forum. So people have a direct link & response to & from their politicians."