Thread 96349304

Alright /tg/

Based on this metric, what does your world look like, in a summary?

(Optional Hardmode: take it seriously and try to use it as a basis for a decent world design).

Fuck off, wojak/gayman spammer.

>>96349304 (OP)
Full of hardbodied tomboy warrior women but has Greek democracy and also there is necromancy and necromancers to be hunted down and slain.

I use the Tome of World Building and the Nomicon :)

>>96349304 (OP)
Elvish Space-Nationalism run on Gnostic Mysticism.

>>96349304 (OP)
>hardmode
Challenge accepted.

The world is currently caught up in a war between Dragons and Giants. Humanity exists primarily in fortified settlements, trying to avoid the great battlegrounds.
Despite most Giants and Dragons finding humans beneath them, but rare dragons and Giants see the merit in allying with the innovative humans, in battle, and in life. Heroic leaders lead from the front, and magic is based on one's personal will and concentration.

>>96349304 (OP)
PCs are attempting to show they are worthy of joining the varioud Dragon Families who are tasked with defending the world against otherworldly horrors.

Through their deeds they are given the privilage of laying with a True Dragon which unlocks their powers and allows them to grow with the ulitmate prize of being the progenitor to a new generation of Dragons.

>>96349304 (OP)
Was one thread (>>96301147) not enough for this?

Anyways in the interest of at least trying to take this seriously, though it little deserves it:
>bronze age-esque world, relatively undeveloped politically with most people living in clans or city-states divided principally on tribal/ethnic lines
>there are a few larger powers that have managed to consolidate multiple cities and subjugate different tribes under a central dynasty, but these are the exception to the norm
>in a similar vein, magic is shamanistic and spiritualistic in nature
>that is, dealing with otherworldly spirits as the source of power
>the mightiest of these are worshiped as gods, but there exist thousands of lesser spirits associated with different elements, places, and concepts
>including the spirits of the dead, who are usually the easiest to 'contact'
>all magic comes about as a pact between the mage and one or more spirits, and involves becoming a conduit for that spirit into the physical world
>to better attune themselves to their patron spirits, shamans will wear masks so that they can literally take on the persona of the spirit
>as a result, even among non-mages, masks are a symbol of status and power
>but if you REALLY want that magic spirit energy, you need to let the spirit inhabit you
>the results vary depending on the willpower of the channeler and the strength of the spirit
>where the channeler is stronger, minor cosmetic changes and personality quirks will manifest temporarily
>where the spirit is stronger, these physical changes are more pronounced as the spirit forces the channeler to become a more suitable vessel
>in cases of frequent or particularly blatant invocations, the changes can become permanent, including changes to personality going as far as resulting in a permanent fusion between the channeler and the spirit
>oh and there are elves. Gotta have elves.

>>96349304 (OP)
Traditional games?

>>96349756
OP here

Didn't actually see that thread lmao.

>>96349389
That sounds fun as fuck anon.

Already did it.
>Welcome to Three Groves Academy, an obscenely wealthy girl's only university nestled in the Huron Mountains, during the mid-2000s. Just when Bush fatigue is starting to set in.
>Abhumans exist. These range from basically-elves to green-skinned dryads who can graft flowers onto their skin to a bunch of anthro races. They're still somewhat new so only two or three generations exist.
>The nearby city of Treabor looks out into Lake Superior. It used to be a simple mining town but after the daughter of the Japanese emperor attended Three Groves during the sixties, there has been a close relationship between the small urban center and Japan. It's even become the American headquarters for Yamikawa Industries, a megacorp specializing in consumer goods and gynoids fueled by the souls of mothers who died during childbirth.
>Magic is slowly leaking back out into the world. Magic is something internal, caused by the divine spark within all mortal soul. It's made up of sixteen spirits (Light, Crystal, Cosmic, Mind, Wood, Wind, Fire, Lightning, Water, Ice, Earth, Metal, Poison, Sound, Spirit, and Shadow) and everyone gets two of them. Each are tied to an aspect of your personality and it's often the one you have an excessive amount of and one you lack the most, but it can depend based on emotional maturity.
>Traditional firearms cannot harm anyone who is steeped in magic. As you hone the power within your soul, you become less of a mortal and more divine.
>If you grow too strong without a strong social network, you become a monster who sucks the divine spirit out of people to grow stronger and impose your own reality.
>Most monsters live within the ley lines, which used to be sealed after a Christian coalition went around trying to prevent magic from dictating people's lives. Treabor's was left with a shoddy seal due to a powerful monster seeking to undermine reality itself (the demiurge).
Can exposit more in another post if people want.

>>96349304 (OP)
>Find out who is coming to play the new campaign
Okay guys campaign premise is X, system is Y. Send me your character and some reason why they're motivated to do X.
>Receive char sheets of a human, race A and race B
Okay you'll meet in a human town with some A pop mixed in and a B kingdom nearby.
>A player made a noble/cleric/rogue/wizard
A local baron/priest/mob boss/magic researcher is the guest giver. Btw what is the local political system/religion/criminal underworld/magic representation like? Your character should know this.
>Automatically receive few bits of lore to flesh out the starting area.
>Oh one brought a water-travel character? Turns out local traffic is river based.
>Undead/monster/demon basher? Yeah turns out they're the primary menace here.
>Dwarf? Mountains. Elf? Yep, big forest right there and so on.
>Plop down dungeon/evil corrupted land/enemy faction/etc premise setpiece two days travel away.
>Fill in blanks with monster girls (or setting-specific waifuable 'enemies'), not!anarcho-capitalists (or setting-specific neutrals players can decide how to approach) and HPL mythos (or setting's big bad shit that they have to avoid rather than confront).
Works every goddamn time.

>>96349304 (OP)
>your kink
Yeah this throws the whole thing off because you people are coom brained faggots with a monsterfucking fetish since you never developed properly because any normal people “kink” is not halfway relevant to a fantasy setting

Ultra powerful warrior nobility that has to enact prima nocta on other female races to survive.

>>96349304 (OP)
>casual consensual public execution
>absolutist ruler can do anything but will be deposed by someone the moment he causes suffering, ensuring a cycle of kings making exactly one change to the system before being replaced
>every body part has its own magical effects to be harnessed, the exact capabilities are too esoteric to explain in short
It’s this vidya’s setting: https://elog.tokyo/roleplaying/game_1382.html (Slash & Execution by Bloodiba, 4 parts, enough English to play)

>>96351019
Anon...
Do you know how many major fantasy and sci-fi settings were born just because the writer had a weird fetishish and wanted to justify it?

>>96349788
Yes anon.
Traditional games require settings to play in, and setting-building is a major part of Tabletop RPGs, Wargames (scenarios and game-making) and more.

>>96349304 (OP)
I don't really have any kinks, so I can't really do this.

>>96353170
Okay, so it should be easy to point out where the game mechanics are being talked about.
Where are they, again?

>>96349304 (OP)
>Futanari/Dickgirls
>Cyberocracy
>Shamanism
Bro my setting is a mess.

>>96349304 (OP)
>Forced Feminization
>Anarcho Capitalism
>Jewish occultism
Honestly that's just Free Cities with Jewish occultism thrown in.

>>96351019
Name your favourite setting and I'll tell you 10 ways the author incorporated their fetishes into it

>>96349304 (OP)
>Shibari
>Constitutional monarchy
>magic is accomplished by overwhelming the belief of all local observers with your own belief in a phenomena being true
I'm not sure this is enough to make a setting.

>>96351019
This, my fetish requires such an informal framing that it would not fit in my real setting ideas, and I don't apply sophisticated magic systems either

>>96354067
Actually anon, you just described Shadowrun pretty well. So, you're all set.

>>96355373
Oh yeah, I can just replace dragons with ai, and goblinization with futa transformation

>>96355440
Shadowrun also has ruling AIs (like that Renraku Arcology that went rogue) and through Magic, any commbination of anatomy is possible.

>>96350897
This man knows how to run shit.
or we both suck, idk my group seems happy

>>96354374
Discworld (get fucked)
But you couple grab a couple dozen out of my second favorite setting: Heinland books

>>96349304 (OP)
>Endosoma
>Symbiosis theology
>Wormholes
ahahaha fuck everything

>>96353109
Name ten.

>>96356108
Congrats on your Biopunk Sci-Fi setting anon.

>>96357186
Ok

>Star Trek (Seriously, read the shit Roddenberry wanted in there that they couldn't or wouldn't do)

>The Elder Scrolls Series

>Forgotten Realms (See: Drow, And a lot of Greenwood's personal work)

>Star Wars (Really look at a lot of the worldbuilding decisions. Or listen to some of the behind the scenes weirdness) (also a LOT of the Expanded Universe)

>A Song of Ice & Fire / Game of Thrones

>Farscape (a LOT of writers)

>Most of the Pathfinder first party settings from Paizo Games

>Marvel (Many comics)

>DC (MANY comics)

>Most British BBC settings (post 2000s), such as Sherlock and (a number of) Dr Who (episodes).


Oh and if that wasn't enough:

>Nearly every "New Adult Fantasy" Book dominating at least two isles of your local Books-A-Million or Barnes & Noble

Oh... are we counting Anime or Manga too?
Nerds are Horny, man.
Use it.

>>96349304 (OP)
I don't think this is good advice, to be honest.

There are a few major schools of worldbuilding for games. This is ignoring the possibility that you just like worldbuilding for its own sake; you want something nice, cheap, and easy.

1. "I don't want to use FR, Exandria, or other fairly-generic fantasyland, I want to use my own." In this case, grab at least one god that interests you for every cleric domain, then plant a town next to a dungeon, explain both, and go. Your interesting worldbuilding will be in the history of the town, the people who live in it, etc.

2. "I want a style that's different from standard fantasyland." In this case, you'd be better advised to use a mood board and slap it on your GM screen. It should be cool. "Check out these monsters you'll fight, the cool outfits you'll wear, the people you'll protect." Then just write down the big picture funny things (minimize the number of bullet points), and hand it off to the players.

3. "I want to just shovel whatever I think is cool into my setting, whenever I think it's cool." You're already done, my friend. Just write down "everything from Kenshi," "Scarlet Rot from Dark Souls," "Sheika tech from Breath of the Wild," "Tyrannosaurus Rex," "warforged and changelings" and "Jedi/Sith" in your notebook, and you're done. Maybe gussy it up a little for your players by changing the names, if you must - though, honestly, explaining it like that may work better.

>>96349304 (OP)
I think any setting that prominently features japanese girls puking on cocks is going to be bad one, regardless of the political or magic system.

>>96357400
I appreciate the effort but I'm gonna need specific examples from each setting and why their whole setting exist just because of the creator's fetish. There's a difference between that, and something fetishy just happening in the setting.
In fact I'm gonna give you one because I know Wonder Woman was made with a lot of BDSM(like her rope) in mind and by a guy with multiple girlfriends(at the same time)

If I wanted to play a setting with a bunch of loli and rape I'd just play an historical one.

>>96353170
So show you setting you use for traditional games then. Play reports, character sheets and campaign notes included obviously.

>>96357749
You didn't have to admit to that.

>>96358188
No, I needed to confess

>>96349304 (OP)
>your kink
Sense sharing
>Your Political Powerfantasy
Anarchic Kritarchy
>Esoteric power system
Astromancy

Gonna need to think about that chief

>>96358188
But is he wrong?

>>96349304 (OP)
>try to use it as a basis for a decent world design
What is your metric for "decent"?

>>96353109
>fantasy
Close to all of them, I'd imagine.
>sci-fi
Zero.

>>96350897
>notnot

>>96349304 (OP)
Damn, this is way harded than I imagined because I don't even know what my political powerfantasy would be.

>>96349304 (OP)
>Ability to fuse and defuse into/from larger multi-headed beings
>Space Feudalism
>Programming Language-based Magic

A noble hierarchy based around the number of heads that your House is able to support for its leadership and members, with this near directly translating to magical power from biological multi-threaded processing. Weaker houses can be assimilated by the stronger houses and usurpers can absorb the usurped to maintain bloodline and claims. Being combined with the reigning monarch is treated similarly as being married into the royal house as the chosen member becomes a direct advisor to them, while being removed is a grave insult.

>>96361517
>sci-fi
>zero

>>96349304 (OP)
Amazonian socialists whose magical abilities correspond with their eye color.

>>96349304 (OP)
Constitutional Minarchy where you are an inspector in charge of making sure all magical bloodlines required to keep the basics of the nation working are well documented and kept check by inspecting pregnancies, since to keep the magical powers in the bloodlines, fathers have to do periodic rituals to pass down the full power and bastards would break the system.

>>96349681
Pretty gay.

>>96349389
Cool

>>96357279
yay...

>>96349304 (OP)
Futadom
Theocratic Guild Cummunism
The Lesser Key of Solomon
Me getting bred by hung church mommies.

>>96363343
How the fuck am I suppose to fight effectively when I'm half way down someone's colon and gaping asshole?

>>96363688
Just knife the colon walls and let him bleed to death.

>>96363695
I have no problem being in there, they just have to push me down a little further so I can see effectively. How else can I watch their back if I can't get a good line of sight?

The world is not ready for the Biosuit

>>96363688
>>96363714
just hook up extra synaptic wires, install more eyes, eyes in the suit's eyes, eyes on the body, eyes everywhere, i suggest and expanded visual processing brain suite along. it doesn't have to be invasive you can get the detachable brain expanded or you could just go for a globe dome like a richman, but only if you have a lot of extra brain and redundant cranium to work with. usually mechs segment their brain to avoid lethal damage anyway.
also peri-testons are nice if you're in a macrosuit spelunker, the peritestons can extend, are hooked up to the main body and have built in brains to digust the visual information before passing it to you directly.

>>96349389
Cool but I'd like to play a necromancer

>>96363343
What game?

>>96362927
Yes, that is what I said.
Care to prove me wrong?

>>96349304 (OP)
A decentralized monarchy where women's magical abilities depend on how ticklish the women are.

>>96349304 (OP)
>Femdom
>Imperial rule
>Based on physical prowess
>Jacked dudes everywhere running around fighting

Pretty much JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

>>96363952
>plays a necromancer that conquers and/or breaks the hardbodied tomboy warrior women and builds a harem.
I like it.
The creator of OP's image is right. This worldbuilding is easier than I thought.

>>96349304 (OP)
Pythagoreanist absolute monarchist handholders.

>>96349304 (OP)
1. femdom, futa
2. militaristic democracy where only breeding age adults have a vote
3. usage of magic slowly transforms the genders to a more fetishistic ideal (growing women taller and more muscular, turning them dominant and on occasion growing them huge cocks, turning men smaller, weaker, feminine and submissive and on some occasion making them capable of bearing children)
4. my self-insert (magical prodigy who is bullied and teased by the female students around him until the group of futas decide to own him communally)

>>96373936
>1. femdom, futa
>3. usage of magic slowly transforms the genders to a more fetishistic ideal (growing women taller and more muscular, turning them dominant and on occasion growing them huge cocks, turning men smaller, weaker, feminine and submissive and on some occasion making them capable of bearing children)
>4. my self-insert (magical prodigy who is bullied and teased by the female students around him until the group of futas decide to own him communally)
i'm not surprised you have these fetishes bumpfag

>your kink
80s/90s Japanese EuroFantasy aesthetic
>your political power fantasy
generic and unobtrusive medieval monarchy that serves solely to frame and facilitate player actions
>esoteric magic system
vancian
>characters (optional)
good guys to work for/with and bad guys to work against

>>96361452 ??

>>96353767
Traditional games?

>>96350230
sounds cool, would love to hear more of it. Also, is it a project you're making for yourself or have you ran some adventures there?

>>96350230
>that spoiler
Can't get off without a convoluted narrative, can you

>>96373973
Post Patreon link so I may donate.