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auguryignored

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Games and sundry weirdness. He/him. Queer nerdiness. Blog at: https://auguryignored.wordpress.com/

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auguryignored, to worldbuilding
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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?

auguryignored, to random
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Starting to frame mundane activities in my life as clickbait titles, and I hate it.

"Did I just ACCIDENTALLY have a delightful breakfast?"

"AWFUL! The terrible secrets of what's in my work calendar..."

"This cup of coffee CHANGES EVERYTHING!"

auguryignored, to ADHD
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GMs and worldbuilders of Mastodon: When there are just too many ideas that seem like they'd be awesome, how do you decide? I'm coming to terms with the fact that I'm mostly like neurodivergent of the or variety, and my creative loop gets constantly sabotaged by hyper-interrogated cool ideas until I lose creative confidence in them. Any advice on this is much appreciated, cause at the end of the day... I just want to build cool worlds and play cool games.

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    auguryignored,
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    @LeviKornelsen Personally I like the thought that settings would develop their own idiosyncratic -isms.

    Post-Mokodarianist: Embraces historical materialism but with an esoteric dimension.

    Theluvianist: Supports the restoration of House Theluva to the throne, and thus firmly anti-capitalist, pro-religion and anti-agrarian.

    Anarcho-Brûnidist: Rejects the state, endorses labor organizations organized like monasteries.

    And so on. Specifying and localizing -isms can spice the world up a lot.

    auguryignored, to Depression
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    Worldbuilders, roleplayers and writers with #depression and #anxiety : How do you deal with the sense of deep alienation and disgust with your own creative work on days when the brain is just not cooperating? #ttrpg #rpg

    auguryignored, to mtg
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    Hot #mtg take: Brawl Commander is the superior format to both Commander and Brawl #magicthegathering

    auguryignored, to MagicTheGathering
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    "Straw armor as depicted in early 2000's #magicthegathering art design" absolutely slaps #mtg #fantasyart #armor

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    @genesisoflegend Revel in it! There's no shame in letting some positive pride be a warm blanket around you :)

    auguryignored, to RPG
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    On a long train ride and trying to brainstorm more ideas for the in-progress magic for Reign. Thinking about what magic can’t do. So far:

    • Cannot directly affect a sentient mind.

    • Cannot change the past.

    • Cannot reveal raw information/knowledge.

    • Cannot bring back the dead.

    Thoughts, ideas, other cool magic limits? #rpg #ttrpg #magic #worldbuilding

    auguryignored,
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    @SJohnRoss WUV! True WUV!

    I imagine that falls under the “cannot affect sentient minds” bracket though.

    auguryignored,
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    @SJohnRoss Definitely, and I think it merits some explanation. I don’t mean that magic cannot be used as a tool in revealing information, but magic constitutes the method rather than the outcome. Magic cannot download an answer to a question to your brain, not can it instantly decode a cipher. But it can summon a spirit who’ll check the walls for you, or hyper-speed up the computational ability of the brain, and so on. Anyway, that’s what I’m thinking and musing about.

    auguryignored, to RPG
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    In worldbuilding and RPGs, settings tend to get associated with a genre to go with. But a persistent game world has the advantage that it can be visited through the lens of different genre types. Set a rom com in your dark fantasy world, or a courtroom in your sci-fi, or a game of Fiasco in your post-apoc. Hell, set your smut and erotica in your world!

    If reality can encompass a kaleidoscope of human experience and moods, so can our fictional worlds.

    auguryignored,
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    @rivetgeek That’s awesome! What’s the setting like, if one may ask?

    auguryignored,
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    @rivetgeek That sounds awesome. Any logs or campaign diaries anywhere?

    auguryignored, to random
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    Science: “Big lizards don’t actually fly or have magical powers”

    Cultures all across Earth: “Be a lot cooler if they did.”

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    auguryignored,
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    @robindlaws A bony, yet ultimately incorporeal, question.

    danderson, to random
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    Watching the Foundation series made me wonder about a "reverse 4X" kind of game, a strategy game where you start with a galaxy-spanning empire and have to manage the fall. Feels like it could be an interesting twist. Surely this has been explored already... But I don't know what games might have done this.

    auguryignored,
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    @danderson There’s a board game in GMT’s COIN series named Pendragon that deals with Britain during the decline and fall of the Roman Empire in the region - it might be worth checking out for inspiration.

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    @LeviKornelsen Interesting. I’m hard-pressed to think of any real-world mythologies where non-human sentients are actual offshots of humanity, or humanity of them, beyond some few edge cases. Elves and orcs in Tolkien’s world is one example in a fictional mythology. I think in worldbuilding terms, it very much boils to what’s thematically pertinent to the setting. And that’s not even touching on subjects like Traveller’s Humaniti and the Solomani Hypothesis!

    auguryignored, to Tolkien
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    The true tragedy of Moria is not that it’s a realm lost, but that it is realm lost twice.

    LeviKornelsen, to random
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    Skeleton mage and, once again: The hat is supreme.

    auguryignored,
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    @LeviKornelsen I love this style. Good stuff!

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