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What are your favourite examples of #worldbuilding in books?
Beyond the wizarding world that is now a no-go zone, I love Anne McAffrey’s Pern and Terry Brooks’ Landover.
With a special mention for Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and her world-within-a-world in Mistress of Spices.
I love finding travel books like this in a #LittleFreeLibrary . There's always a lot of good #ttrpg #worldbuilding material in them - if only I could find the time to read them...
How much of your world's history do people in your work understand? Are they right?
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New article in our articles section!
In Realms of Myth: Asturias, historian and fantasy writer @JubalBarca gives a brief introduction to the myths and lore of this remote area of northern Spain, considering what makes its mythical creatures tick - and how you can use them in your own worlds and works :)
Read on:
https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?msg=158723
Boosts always welcome!
Whelp. I just deactivated my 3000+ follower account on Xitter. I'd been trying to give people time to switch, but I'm done.
Anybody wanna follow a poor ttrpg creator who's trying to do this for a living?
Another Ancient Warrior Turns Out to Be a Woman
Yet another reminder not to let 19thcentury European values define the history of your world.
https://www.themarysue.com/another-ancient-warrior-turns-out-to-be-a-woman/
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Women fought topless as clothing was thought to be a major disease vector. Getting threads of clothing into a wound might cause an infection, so these women definitely wanted to cut each other.
What strange rules exist in your world that might seem odd today?
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Do you understand how evil most social structures are?
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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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Fascinating piece on silk as a layer of armor! Never knew it could turn arrowheads, or serve as a basic disinfectant for wounds.
https://lithub.com/how-silk-helped-the-armies-of-genghis-khan-conquer-asia/
What unique problems exist for the ordinary people of your world? What extraordinary coping mechanisms do they feel are perfectly normal?
Some deities sanctify their clerics and similarly devoted followers. This gives the follower the holy or unholy trait. The holy trait (page 456) indicates a powerful devotion to altruism, helping others, and battling against unholy forces like fiends and undead. The unholy trait (page 462), in turn, shows devotion to victimizing others, inflicting harm, and battling celestial powers. Deities that list “must choose” mandate gaining the trait and those that list “can choose” give the devotee the option to choose the trait or not. You can have the holy trait, unholy trait, or neither, but can never have both the holy and unholy traits.
— Pathfinder Player Core by Logan Bonner, Mark Seifter, Jason Bulmahn, and 1 other
As the #Pathfinder 2E #ttrpg no longer uses alignments, the "holy" and "unholy" traits are the closest substitute (since blasting demons with "holy power" is just too much fun).
But I wonder about the social and religious context for religions where the clerics can choose to have these traits. Is a cleric of Sarenrae who doesn't become sanctified as "holy" seen as insufficient committed to the cause? And what about priests of Abadar? They can choose to be "holy", "unholy", or neither. Does this correspond to different factions in the temple hierarchy, and if so how do they view each other?
I'm not criticizing here - I am genuinely curious how this works out from an in-setting perspective. #worldbuilding
Now that I am slowly getting back into #ttrpg #worldbuilding , I should probably read the latest edition of the game the world will be designed around.
Drintera 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.
Give it a look! :D
Cliff-side Observatory -
The tower itself had to have been built by the so-called "Ancients", but there was a wood and stucco house attached to it, and the antennae in the roof would have been at home on Mars in the 2700s.
https://youtube.com/eldritch48/streams
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