So I'm making my setting for my Beyond the Wall game, and I'm just curious what do you guys use for inspiration. Myself, lots of Conan, Tolkien (not dunedain, rohirim, the orcs) Dominion 6 (my principal inspiration at the moment), lots of real world folklore, tales and stuff (like the Narts, Spanish folklore, Tibetan bon) and this or that stuff of different books (I love tribal stuff and making tribes inspired in different stuff, like I have a tribe of skinners than wear the pels of the Tribe of the wolf,wich are locked in cosntant war in the not-siberia).
But what about you guys, what are you using? Anyone has a good recomendation for tribal stuff, or resources to make a city-state/tribe/village adventures?

>>96058677 (OP)
if ur gonna make ur posts using chatgpt
run it trough a filter to remove the chatgptisms

>>96058745
Bad grammar and parentheses contra-indicate, and there's no em-dashes.

>>96058677 (OP)
Frank Frazetta

>>96058745
The hell, I been acused of being an ESL, but its the first time I been called for using chatgpt, at least that means my english is good enough, I guess.
I luis Royo es un gran artista, prefiero a segrelles, que tambien tiene una gran tecnica en oleos, y sus comics son de mis preferidos.

>>96058745
This kind of thing is a fun accusation but why would anyone ever bother doing it?

>>96058807
Kind of liked it, I will take it as a compliment to my english.
>>96058781
Frazeta is a top tier artist. I also love Marotto. Or alcatena. Or Jimenez...

>>96058847

Elder Scrolls Oblivion

>>96061962
I prefer the tone of morrowind but i love oblivion too.

>>96058677 (OP)
For me, my inspiration goes like this:
Favorite media
Favorite government type
Favorite fantasy elements/tropes
Favorite fetishes

Everything in my games is revealed to me by dream-voyages on distant planets.

>>96058807
Dunno, why don't you tell us why you did it, since you're obviously OP?

>>96058781

>>96058807
Why do people make potemkin threads?

>>96058677 (OP)
The Yugoslavian war, dune , EverQuest, Slaine, the Bronze Age collapse, dorohedoro, Miyazaki movies

>>96058677 (OP)
This seems what you're looking for.

https://youtu.be/m8bDCaPhOek?feature=shared

https://swashbucklingplanets.wordpress.com/tag/hari-ragat/

https://swashbucklingplanets.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/ss-comic-masters-enrique-alcatena/

https://swashbucklingplanets.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/maroto-sword-sorcery-artist-supreme/

https://gundobadgames.blogspot.com/2019/04/of-bronze-burning-palaces-and-certain.html

https://gundobadgames.blogspot.com/2019/08/decline-collapse-and-campaign-settings.html

https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-shadow-archipelago.html

https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2015/01/strange-grains-d-art-of-not-being.html

https://atmarpgsetting.blogspot.com/2018/08/african-fantasy-ideas-for-rpg.html

This blog makes a lot of interesting speculations about prehistoric Europe. Some even seem plausible.
https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2014/08/bogovo-gumno-gods-threshing-floor.html

https://www.chaosium.com/runequest/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Dragon_Pass

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5g326k/comment/dap70ii/?st=jczyecn5&sh=e92320a9

>>96058677 (OP)
What are some good inspirations for science fantasy settings besides Star Wars?

>>96064754
>I prefer the tone of morrowind
NTA, but what makes you prefer it, I've never got around to playing either.

What settings weaponize schizophernia

>>96084417
Any Lovecraftian settings.

>>96058677 (OP)
What game are you running?

>>96080523

>>96058677 (OP)
>so I'm making my setting for a game that makes the setting in the first session with the players
lol you're fucking up
Might be able to take one of the larger campaign set-ups from Further Afield like the expanding empire one and sub in a gathering tribal warlord if you want to just do ungabunga but not!romans expanding into the player's hometown area over time could be fun.
>inspiration
They're not in great depth but the various osprey books about xyz historical period have been useful with rough overviews, pictures to show players or inspire and references to investigate if more seems useful.
>resources
An Echo Resounding/Worlds Without Number if you want lightly granular fantasy faction building and world map turn mini games to mess around with.

>>96080523
Various comic artists from the Heavy Metal sort of pulp range.

>>96095706
Look out behind you!

>>96058677 (OP)
Aside from the standards like Howard and Tolkien:

Jung. Bulfinch. Joseph Campbell. Tezuka. Claude Levi Strauss. Edward Gibbon. Homer.

If I'm doing modern, wu tang clan, Chris Ware

>>96080523
>>96095694
From Heavy Metal.
Jean Giraud AKA. Mobius. Pic related. A storyboard for a Dune movie.
Philippe Druillet
Enki Bilal
Jean-Claude Forest

Also 2000 AD has some suitable ones as well.


Jack Kirby.
Frank Miller. Ronin, Rusty and the Big GUY, Martha Washington.
Leiji Matsumoto

>>96095685
Starting small and accessible, instead of carpet bombing with too many possibilities that don't get explored.


>tribal stuff
Historical tribes and cultures are probably wider than anything you can easily invent. Howard. 1920s pulp.

>>96095694
Nice! Do you have any personal favorites?

>>96058745
>complains about AI
>posts AI sloppa

>>96084417
Unknown Armies

>>96058677 (OP)
I'm looking to create a setting where everything is based around the elements, I'm already familiar with Avatar, but what are some other settings that handle the idea well that I can look at, or other places to look for inspiration on the topic?

>>96109018
>>96109848
>>96109868
>>96110179
>>96110305
kill yourself bumpfag

>>96080523
Try Rifts.

>>96106046
Luis Royo is not AI slop! I think you've got AI on the brain to much.

>>96080523
Shadowrun of course.

>>96109018
QIN: the warring states +shaolin and wudang supplement

>>96117407
>QIN: the warring states +shaolin and wudang supplement
I'd literally never heard of this before, thanks.

>>96080523
She-Ra/He-Man is worth a look.

>>96076077
What the heck are those, the frog ones? I'm new here.

>>96135497
>Tell me about the potemkins in your setting.

>>96058781
Can anyone tell me what's going on here?

I've had this idea of a caveman D&D game where druids destroyed civilization, and do things like send dinosaurs to kill people trying to discover metalworking.

>>96058677 (OP)
What are some non-Warhammer settings to look at for inspiration on Law/Order v. Chaos stuff? Especially if the former isn’t necessarily “good” and the latter isn’t necessarily “evil”.

>>96140405
Okay, so how did they manage this? And how do the dinosaurs find the metalworkers?

>>96143480
Super ritual magic or something. I was thinking 'Dark Sun, but it's Evil Druids'

>>96140507
The fact that you would have to ask this and name WARHAMMER of all things as your primary example is quite sad.

>>96140405
>>96143480
>>96143488
Long-term planning. They dropped multiple species on a resource-poor environment, like Australia, cast rituals of fertility and dropped a bit of wild magic to maximize magic mutations.

Eventually some sort of ankylosaurus started eating iron and improving its armour. A century later, there were four-winged, dog-sized raptors with iron-reinforced teeth and claws that grew so fast they had to constantrly chew on rock and bone, and also reproduced like bunnies. It doesn't fly, but it can scale cliffs, jump, glide and even jump-glide.

Druids figured out what pheromones attract and repel them, formed biome enclaves and introduced both species on every continent, along with a magnetically sensitive bat that senses large amounts of ferromagnetic metals and whose droppings are excellent fertilizer.

I think you can imagine the chaos after a few centuries of this, plus the directions it might go. Even the pantheons might be weakened because most mortals now worship life, death and nature.

The remaining cities/towns probably turned into dystopian citadels with bronze-plated skeleton armies.

>>96075378
Basado.
>>96075771
>>96075971
I love old art so much.
>>96077972
I love Slaine mate! And Nausicaa is a big part of my worldbuilding.
>>96079248
That's some cool stuff, Alcatena is one of my prefered artists, Maroto is grat, and yeah I follow old european culture in xitter. About Runequest, I started loving it but all new interaction and stuf made me hate it. I HATE THE NEW ART.

>>96093029
I tought I posted it, but My own version of Beyond the Wall (a bit more inspired be Pendragon/BRP and very based in the Atributes like strength/wis/Int etc).
>>96095685
Luv Osprey, never got the Hate, good art, cool stuff you find in there.
>>96109018
Look for Dominions, there are entire civs based mostly in one "element" like Abysia.
>>96140405
I'm a sucker for bio-tech, and the bat metallic finder is just a fun idea.

>>96143864
>name WARHAMMER of all things as your primary example is quite sad.
I just gave an example I knew everyone here would get, and so that no one WOULD suggest it to me and instead go to other options first, sorry.

>>96151522
Warhammer doesn’t even do that trope well

>>96140507
Elric. Runequest has some of that if with the Ilumination, but chaos there is more anti-universe so hard to call it not good and bad.

>>96151543
yes it does

>>96152593
It really, does not.

>>96152655
nuh uhh

>>96058677 (OP)
I’ve been interested in the Locked Tomb series lately, and I want to create my own necromancy-focused setting. What are some places besides the aforementioned books I can look to for ideas that aren’t Dungeons and Dragons or the Abhorsen books?

>>96058777
It's amazing to me that "good grammar and knowing how to use punctuation" are--to some anons--the indicators of AI; we must fix our public schools.

>>96058677 (OP)
Whatever the most recent books I've read are. I read a lot of history and lit, and more fantasy than I'd admit in real life. At this moment, I'm toying with my The Black Company campaign that some day I'll find players for, who love the idea as much as I do. It's the Pastel Wars. The players will start out as recruits in the company, discover its horrible Kina-cult secrets, defet to Odd, Odd and Odd, with the climax being the destruction of the Paingod of Cho'n Delor and the sacrifice of the Triplet Cities. I'm rereading them again at the moment (on Book 6) because I'm very excited for the next novel to finally be coming out, this year.

>>96140507
Like >>96152348 said: Elric. Elric is what Warhammer takes it from.

>>96143864
Don't be such a pretentious little dink. Dude wants to read books. You've gotten around to reading something before someone else did. Wow how impressive. You're old.

>>96156113
It doesn't take a genius or oldfag to look into what Warhammer notoriously plundered its ideas from. You're right in that it's not impressive to know about it, but it's very easy to discover, to the point that anything more than hinting at the possibility that Warhammer should not be one's go-to example (which implies that there are older or more significant works) could be considered spoon-feeding.

>>96151522
Other than Elric (which you should have been able to find, knowing about Warhammer), there's Chronicles of Amber that fits all of your criteria. Older examples include Three Hearts & Three Lions, Egyptian myth, and Zoroastrianism, though chaos in these is certainly evil in every meaningful way.

>>96156451
>I'm so cool for knowing fantasy lore
Ok, then do be a pretentious little dink, I guess. But you'll never impress anyone with it.

>>96156004
Never heard of those books. And I don't tend to like necromancy for some reason. But in my setting the necromancers are more like mushroom/lichen mancers, preserving cultivated bodies than break down slowly via fungy and use micelia as nerves. Very inferior to any warrior and most monsters, but durable and can be put in estasis and used as guardian of tombs and places like that than don't need constant maintenance.

>>96156004
Warhammer Fantasy is a possibility.

>>96076077
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village

>>96058677 (OP)
Dominions is such a cool setting. I sort of wish they would come up with an official source book for it or even better make a RPG game line for it using Mythras or something. You could make your own pretender and have each player be a champion or prophet from one of the people who back the pretender. Alas, they seem content to just release the game at 50 quid every few years with a few new features.

If you are looking for resources for running a game focused on tribal stuff look at Runequest and Mythras.

>>96163679
Huh, this is genuinely interesting. Not that anon, but thanks.

>>96164701
Runequest aparto of the olranthy and some praxian stuff, barely covers other tribes tough.

>>96169510
Yeah, but what is there while focused has a ton of stuff to nick.

>>96169521
Don't know its more post modern stuff than bronze age stuff, the whole lunars, ilumination and the orlanthies have some interesting ideas but lots of others is just meh. I already use non-praxian nomads because the idea of mamoth, rhino and other big ungulates riders (or stuff like the mounts inf Nausicaa/Shuna Joirneys) is nice, but its more reworking stuff than isn't even very Bronze age in nature or whatever, I started with KoDP and the more I learned about glorantha after that gem of a game made me loath or just not want to interact more with it.

>>96169593
Yeah runequest could do with properly expanding the setting a bit, the laser focus on the one area of the world is both a boon and a hindrance. There is some cool stuff in there if you look for it tho, like the Hsunchen

Mythras did however have some great supplements which could add to your setting. The Mythic Earth supplements sound like they would be right up your street.

>>96156113
>Elric is what Warhammer takes it from.
So Warhammer is just a soulless rip off? Figures.

>>96163572
Really?

>>96171905
Hsunchen are alright, but they are extremly few in glorantha and barely have anything aobut them than is canon, and Dominions 6 already has the animal people than do the same, but cooler because it has less retarded dragon stuff.
Mythic earth... Well, I read a few of them and wasn't impresed, like the polinesian one, as it too current year for my tastes and I want more mythical and stuff without post modern taste to it.