Anonymous
6/10/2025, 10:37:32 PM No.95840729
So how do you make your fantasy worldbuilding to have grit and avoid the modern pitfalls of everything being modernized and urbanite?
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Anonymous
6/10/2025, 10:40:03 PM No.95840740
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Anonymous
6/11/2025, 2:36:17 AM No.95842370
>>95840729 (OP)
Avoid cities?
Avoid cities?
Anonymous
6/11/2025, 2:39:48 AM No.95842401
>>95840740
Based
Based
Anonymous
6/11/2025, 11:30:39 AM No.95845047
>>95840729 (OP)
Go live in a third-world country for a few years. Great inspiration.
Go live in a third-world country for a few years. Great inspiration.
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Anonymous
6/11/2025, 11:45:29 AM No.95845097
>>95840729 (OP)
What system are you having this problem in?
What system are you having this problem in?
Anonymous
6/11/2025, 12:53:01 PM No.95845290
>>95840729 (OP)
>the modern pitfalls of everything being modernized and urbanite?
How is that a pitfall? How do you make everything modernized and urbanite by accident?
>the modern pitfalls of everything being modernized and urbanite?
How is that a pitfall? How do you make everything modernized and urbanite by accident?
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Anonymous
6/11/2025, 3:11:33 PM No.95845955
>>95845290
by playing with narcissistic theater-kid troons, and the hobby catering to them.
by playing with narcissistic theater-kid troons, and the hobby catering to them.
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Anonymous
6/11/2025, 7:55:34 PM No.95848297
>>95840729 (OP)
Base it on an earlier historical era?
Base it on an earlier historical era?
Anonymous
6/11/2025, 7:57:05 PM No.95848312
>>95840729 (OP)
Wtf are you talking about?
Wtf are you talking about?
Anonymous
6/11/2025, 8:05:58 PM No.95848380
>>95840729 (OP)
Fantasy settings shouldn't have grit, they should be mystic and surreal.
Also go for an early medieval feel where most of the world is wilderness, with a few pockets of civilization led by a lord who is practically a sovereign in his own right. "Social issues" are not a thing, you do your part or you starve because there'e not a silo sitting around somewhere full of free grain to feed everyone. Similarly, the lord and his knights would be respected because they're keeping you from being killed by raiders and bringing law to your little patch of land in the middle of nowhere.
Fantasy settings shouldn't have grit, they should be mystic and surreal.
Also go for an early medieval feel where most of the world is wilderness, with a few pockets of civilization led by a lord who is practically a sovereign in his own right. "Social issues" are not a thing, you do your part or you starve because there'e not a silo sitting around somewhere full of free grain to feed everyone. Similarly, the lord and his knights would be respected because they're keeping you from being killed by raiders and bringing law to your little patch of land in the middle of nowhere.
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Anonymous
6/11/2025, 8:57:12 PM No.95848755
>>95840729 (OP)
Ever tried playing games? They are fun!
Ever tried playing games? They are fun!
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 12:22:50 AM No.95850462
>>95848380
You had a point up until
>Similarly, the lord and his knights would be respected because they're keeping you from being killed by raiders and bringing law to your little patch of land in the middle of nowhere.
You had a point up until
>Similarly, the lord and his knights would be respected because they're keeping you from being killed by raiders and bringing law to your little patch of land in the middle of nowhere.
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 1:01:11 AM No.95850742
>>95845047
Unironically this. Taking inspiration from Africa and the slav countries is a great place to start for urban fantasy. You have some electricity with some cities and limited technology. It wouldn't be too out of the place if your murder hobos go around stealing copper from power lines. Final fantasy 7 is also a good place to start.
Unironically this. Taking inspiration from Africa and the slav countries is a great place to start for urban fantasy. You have some electricity with some cities and limited technology. It wouldn't be too out of the place if your murder hobos go around stealing copper from power lines. Final fantasy 7 is also a good place to start.
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 1:07:28 AM No.95850791
>>95850462
He's got a point though. Not everyone is cut for combat so as a peasant you rely on your local militia for protection, in exchange you can work your patch of land and raise your kiddos
He's got a point though. Not everyone is cut for combat so as a peasant you rely on your local militia for protection, in exchange you can work your patch of land and raise your kiddos
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 6:24:14 PM No.95856114
>>95845955
I doubt OP or you have played with anyone.
I doubt OP or you have played with anyone.
Anonymous
6/13/2025, 1:52:45 AM No.95859604
>>95840729 (OP)
Without having to be politically-correct, the gameworld has a lot more versmilitude.
Like, why SHOULDN'T nobles have nubile young side-pieces? That's fairly accurate.
Why SHOULDN'T orcs be guilty of horrific crimes? Orcs are evil, murderous savages, not misunderstoods doctors, engineers and lawyers.
It's truer to life.
Without having to be politically-correct, the gameworld has a lot more versmilitude.
Like, why SHOULDN'T nobles have nubile young side-pieces? That's fairly accurate.
Why SHOULDN'T orcs be guilty of horrific crimes? Orcs are evil, murderous savages, not misunderstoods doctors, engineers and lawyers.
It's truer to life.
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Anonymous
6/13/2025, 5:42:07 AM No.95860968
>>95840729 (OP)
It has literally never been a problem for me.
I'm not building my setting and game to appeal to the lowest common denominator player, or to a money-grubbing corporate board, or to any sort of social media audience.
I'm building my setting and game to appeal to me, and to my players.
It has literally never been a problem for me.
I'm not building my setting and game to appeal to the lowest common denominator player, or to a money-grubbing corporate board, or to any sort of social media audience.
I'm building my setting and game to appeal to me, and to my players.
Anonymous
6/13/2025, 5:53:13 AM No.95861014
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Anonymous
6/13/2025, 6:00:57 AM No.95861050
>>95859604
but with those it's easy to accidentally reveal your power levels or your fetishes.
but with those it's easy to accidentally reveal your power levels or your fetishes.
Anonymous
6/13/2025, 11:23:50 AM No.95862006
>>95861014
>catpeople in swimwear that really are swimming
Always gets me! But i guess they are more like tigers than housecats
>catpeople in swimwear that really are swimming
Always gets me! But i guess they are more like tigers than housecats
Anonymous
6/13/2025, 11:32:02 AM No.95862031
>>95840729 (OP)
Recognize that heroic fantasy is about being where the law and order isn't. That means any advantages your local communities have, if there be any at all, had to be either brought with them or built on the spot.
Once you have to write down examples of who would have carried or built whatever dumb and unimportant thing you thought up, it becomes really obvious really fast it doesn't belong.
Recognize that heroic fantasy is about being where the law and order isn't. That means any advantages your local communities have, if there be any at all, had to be either brought with them or built on the spot.
Once you have to write down examples of who would have carried or built whatever dumb and unimportant thing you thought up, it becomes really obvious really fast it doesn't belong.