Thread 96369328

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>Do you refer to "generic" materials like pic related, trope lists, etc, to derive inspiration, either by borrowing or intentionally eschewing them?

I'm working on a Judges Guild inspired setting. Any advice or tips?

>>96371347
What do you like about Judge's Guild material, specifically?

>>96369328 (OP)
Kys d*scord cancer.

>>96374017
I warned you last time. There will now be two Discord links in the next OP. Fuck off, retard spammer.

Should I just accept that my magic system will always have plotholes? Every fix I make just begs more questions

>>96374086
Shit bro, it's magic, not science. If more than 60-70% of it can be perfectly explained then it's science.

>>96369328 (OP)
I consider tropes and why they are useful. I'm not against "ancient civilization that justifies dungeons", have more than one, but they must make sense within the setting.

For example, did orcs as Frazettamen by starting from the gameplay template of "low level enemy that might be common everywhere", adding details and spices to it. The end result wasn't what one would call "orc" otherwise.

Meanwhile, hobgoblins were used as the "barbarian green/gray/red skinned race with tusks", adding flavors such as they inventing composite bows, taming dinosaurs and rejecting civilization because their physical existence was their fey ancestors being enslaved by an Alexander-like conqueror.

>>96369328 (OP)
TQ: for my original piece of shit I don't, but my Forgotten Realms edit is built on top of a joke, I take whatever shit I find hilarious and shake it until the original joke becomes hidden and drop it in

>>96369328 (OP)
All the time. Plagiarism if the father of inspiration.
Even if you say you re making something original you are still subconsciously plagiarizing all the things you liked and inspired you. You simply aren't doing it actively and systematically.

I was reading the Wilderness setting recently and i kinda like it. At least certain parts of it.
My most recent foray has been mystara and its a mixed bag all around

>>96369328 (OP)
>>Do you refer to "generic" materials like pic related, trope lists, etc, to derive inspiration, either by borrowing or intentionally eschewing them?

I certainly actively despise mindless drivel like pic related.

Honestly I think the whole "not!Earth inspired stereotypical nations" is to be viewed VERY cautiously. It worked for REH, but it's a century after him.

>>96369328 (OP)
Tropes are not -in themselves- bad. They become bad when used ineffectively or without inspiration. Tropes are at best third string tools for storytelling, theming and characterization will always be more important. If you're using tropes seamlessly, integrating them into your overall ideas about something you want your writing to say, that's using them well, if they're just filling gaps in your story, they're extraneous details. A lot of older material was really economic about this and left lots of things up to the reader, and they're loved for it.

>>96376430
> It worked for REH, but it's a century after him.
REH was a talented writer who had a passion for history, and used that inspiration as a jumping off point for his theming. It works in his case because the hyborian age is meant to be a parallel of modern (his contemporary american) times, who maintained a sense of superiority to the past and other races and nations. This coupled with the way he wrote towns and cities was in service of his point to urban decay and corruption being a ubiquitous human problem. It's entirely fine to use historical stereotypes as a baseline, but there's a lot more to using them effectively, they are basic molds you have to sculpt something unique around. They don't feel like stereotypes most of the time when applied to his characters, it's more used as a backdrop, which works and is fine if you're not autistic as FUCK and obsessed with pretending everything in life is an exception to every opinion ever. People who think like that don't write good fantasy.

>Sci fi thing
>See the inhabitants terraform planets instead of building space colonies
>Get irrationally angry
I like sci fi too and I've ruined my enjoyment of a lot of it because of this habitat autism

>>96377235
Terraforming can probably support more people per labor-hour spent building it out, assuming a reasonably-close planet (roughly 1g, roughly 1 atm pressure, etc), since you just seed an optimized-for-terraforming biosphere and wait for it to finish coating the planet with human-breathable oxygen, then you have a planet capable of supporting billions.

I hope I've cured your autism.

>>96377235
Space colonies
>Short term
>Stinky, undeniably stinky, like if you sealed India and Bangladesh into a bubble
>Dangerous
>Built on rapid exploitation of resources, asteroid mines, massive farms energy off stars etc
>Culture is heavily nomadic, gypsy behavior
>Culturally like smashing southeast asia and south america together
>Probably riddled with vice and crime
>Either the colony dies out and becomes a truck stop or they find alien artifacts

Terraforming
>Long game
>Invites more ecologically minded types, scientists, hippies, etc
>
>Likely to become a preserve/farm for animals to export to other planets to repopulate
>Weird about breeding, probably aristocratic
>Conspiratorial
>Far more established sense of identity, gets jingoistic easily
>Planet either gets too big for its boots or doesn't properly maintain defense for itself, pr has a civil war, Alien artefacts likely missed or terrarofmed over

Might be a good premise for a story there if conflict were drummed up between those. Maybe turn off the autism in your head and use your dumb gay emotions for something productive.

>>96377235

Do both.

>>96377335
Those are big assumptions that cut centuries off of the process. A space habitat can be thrown together with automated ships and some welders to put the shit together and perpetuated with in-space manufacturing, it would take orders of magnitude less time than what amounts to the scifi equivalent of building a pyramid.

>>96377489
Even just using sugarcane productivity it'd only take ~500 years. Add in gengineering to get black plants that take in all the solar energy, more efficiently, etc, plus any more sophisticated tricks, and you could have it habitable much faster.

Obviously, you still build space stations too, but you'd have to build a LOT of space stations to equal the habitable space of a single terraformed planet.

(And, of course, it's possible the level of "terraforming" needed is much lower - e.g. all you'd need to do on Pandora is lower the amount of carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide, rather than produce insane amounts of oxygen.)

>>96377235
Gravitycels will read this and seethe (indeed, they already arrived) but you are right. Spending several hundreds of years and your budget of magical space technology believability on terraforming tech is retarded compared to converting the entire mass of Mars into feedstock for space industry.

>>96369328 (OP)
discord dead link

>>96369328 (OP)
I’m planning on having a form of alchemically created gold in my setting, one that’s harder than normal gold, visually distinct if you look closely, and great at holding magic and enchantments. I want “Aurum” to be the term for “mundane” gold, while “Orichalcum” is used for a separate substance entirely, does anyone have any idea on what I can call the artificial hold that isn’t just “Alchemist’s Gold” or something similar? If it helps, a key ingredient in the process is material from a gigantic entity called a Titan.

>>96382865
Why not use brass or any copper alloy? It's the real orichalcum.

Beside Wares Blade and Escaflowne, what other source material for fantasy robots are there?

>>96382865
There's Hihiirogane, Sun-Colored Metal, which is thematically good but probably doesn't fit the setting linguistics.
Maybe Titanium, not to be confused with the real one, named so because they're used on Titans?

>>96384342
Warjacks from Iron Kingdoms are basically mecha drones, Warforged from Eberron are killer robots, Guardians from Breath of the Wild are killer robots (nonsentient), and Skeletons from Kenshi (Kenshi is post-apoc alien world with swords, there's not any proper "magic," so it's only peripherally close). Google suggests Rune Gods from Magic Knight Rayearth, but I've never watched/read it.

How do I make a good rip-off of christianity in a non-historical world?

Is hard to do Knights and pseudo middle ages without it pervading the mentalities, but I dont want to just put the real jesus in the setting, as i would not put a real historical person either.

>>96384413
No it doesn't. And the other suggestion doesn't fit what I was considering either, but thanks for the suggestion regardless.

>>96385385
What makes something good or bad is the execution. Not the idea. Rip it off. Steal from anything you want, wholesale. You have absolutely no need to hide or obfuscate it. Make it your own by making it interesting, not "original."

Focus on how it will actually interact with your game, and make those events interesting and relevant to the players. Ascetes sit in Penitent Square on market days, begging alms. Gleaners follow turnip carts, poverty laws guaranteeing they may keep any vegetables that tumble to the street. A street preacher is in the garden under a shady tree, teaching a group of children the hand-washing ritual.

Religions are easiest of all to steal from. Because they aren't really about the doctrines and myths and mythologies. None of your players will ever give two shits what's in the paragraphs you write about religion. But what the people actually do in your game and how they interact with your players, or provide life and color to the setting? That shit they'll care about.

>>96385385
Just create a figure that like Jesus.
It's really not that difficult.

How would you incorporate martial arts/hand-to-hand combat?
I sort of like the way the LISA games do it, but Im having trouble visualizing alternatives.

>>96385385
"Aslan" or "(Not) Jesus" - A figure that is quite literally Jesus, but with a different name, and a religion based around him. Keep the same core principles and your "not Christianity" will feel similar to the real thing.

>>96377235
It's not autism, you just prefer hard scifi.
>terraform = scifi
>space colonies = hard scifi
People tend to forget that terraforming is delicate and precise project.
>>96377614
>but you'd have to build a LOT of space stations to equal the habitable space of a single terraformed planet.
It's much more easier, faster and cheaper to create 1000 space habitats than to terraform any celestial bodies.

>>96386814
Whoops wrong thread

>>96386827
>Keep the same core principles and your "not Christianity" will feel similar to the real thing.
This.
I literally took greek religion and mixed it with catholicism. Now my settings have a crusaders.

>>96382865
Is the hold made of Orichalcum?
>>96382989
There's no real orichalcum, that's just ancients making up random bullshit as usual

>>96386890
>It's much more easier, faster and cheaper to create 1000 space habitats than to terraform any celestial bodies.
First off, it's not easier: there are easy bio-ways of doing it, which are self-replicating, and self-replicating bio is easier than self-replicating machine.

Secondly, "1000 space habitats" is a joke number compared to a planet. That's like saying it'll take less time to build 1000 houses than to terraform the planet. Yeah, no shit.

Earth, with our level of tech, could support probably something like 100 billion people if we really squeezed. How long would it take to build the space habitats to fulfill that need?

>>96386904
Wtf is this unholy union

>>96387470
Anything on the scale of Island 3 can support 10million+ people. That would be 10,000,000,000 people with a thousand of them. Earth, the best planet, is feeling pretty overpopulated at 8 billion. You are uninformed. Any society that has the technological means to terraform a planet has the means to build habitats on the scale of an Island 3 (and likely has that capacity sooner), and such habitats can be prepared faster using the same tools (robots doing it while humans chill).

Lastly, the idea of 100 billion people on Earth sounds like hell. But to answer your question of "how long would it take to build space habitats to fulfill that need, NASA studies on the specific habitat suggest 25 years or so of setting up infrastructure then 2-3 years per cylinder, with capacity to undertake simultaneous projects increasing with each cylinder (increasing infrastructure). Would need 10,000 habitats, I put the capacity and rate of construction on an exponential curve, call it 200-300 years.

The same as optimistic terraforming but has immediate living capacity in 28 years, with capacity ramping up rapidly every 2-3 years, and with lower population density, and lower launch costs and transfers, and closer to Earth for the early ones (L5) making them easier to support.

>>96387670
>Earth, the best planet, is feeling pretty overpopulated at 8 billion.
Not really; see pic.

>You are uninformed.
No. Fuck you, faggot.

>NASA studies on the specific habitat suggest 25 years or so of setting up infrastructure then 2-3 years per cylinder, with capacity to undertake simultaneous projects increasing with each cylinder (increasing infrastructure). Would need 10,000 habitats, I put the capacity and rate of construction on an exponential curve, call it 200-300 years.
Space habitat autists have to say we'll build an O'Neill cylinder in 30 years in order for their math to work.

More seriously: you're talking about a variety of technologies which can advance faster or slower relative to one another, becoming more or less efficient than projected, at least a century in advance, coming up with numbers that say they're the same OOM, and then declaring it's unrealistic for people to terraform planets.

Obviously there will BE space habitats - there is a space habitat NOW. The question is if there will be terraformed planets, and the answer is yes (assuming FTL).

>Yo blud if you grind up all humans into a fine slurry you can pack em all into a cube that fits on Manhattan island
>we gots tons of space dunno what cuh is barkin about
>get all my opps up in this place, we gon party!

>>96382865
Solarium?

Living aurum, with the implication that mundane gold is the dead tissue of titans?

Aurorum? It seems like a more important version of "aurum", and...

>Proto-Indo-European ancestor of aurum was *h2é-h2us-o-, meaning 'glow'. This word is derived from the same root (Proto-Indo-European *h2u̯es- 'to dawn') as *h2éu̯sōs, the ancestor of the Latin word aurora 'dawn'.[20]

>>96387728
The reason tens of millions of people live in the Tokyo metropolitan area is because they prefer to live there to living elsewhere in Japan. Being a weirdo anarcho-primitivist crybaby about cities existing directly contradicts humanity's revealed preference, as the majority of humans now live in cities.

>been doing a worldbuilding project for a story I've been writing
>religion plays a major role in the protagonist's life and worldview
>want to represent this as authentically as I can
I'm not entirely sure if this is within the scope of /wbg/, but do any of you know any good resources to learn about religion and the anthropology surrounding it?
So far I've found the youtube channels Let's Talk Religion and ReligionForBreakfast have been good to learn from (both make academically focused presentations covering a wide variety of topics and faiths; the guy in the latter channel actually has a PhD in religious studies, which obviously doesn't hurt his credibility either) but I try to not make a habit of using youtubers as my main source of information on anything.

>>96382865
My man, the term you are looking for is Adamantium. \if you check out the actual origin of the word adamant, which is where you get diamond from in modern english, it is a magical metal that was incredibly hard and strong used frequently by the gods and titans in their weapons.

>>96387814
what kind of religion anon? You have to understand that religion is in practice something both personal and communal and it is tied around small actions of religious significance and rituals that tend to be more communal.
The best way to portray any religious character is to assign them a few of those and make it an important part of their daily life.
For example going to church and holding communion is a typical weakly communal ritual, the washing of hands and feet before entering a mosque, the small night prayers the christians make before bed, the muslim habit of praying 5 times per day, the consumption or lack of consumption like in christian fasting or ramadan, the act of giving alms to the poor, the very act of making the sign of the cross etc are all either personal or communal religious rituals.
Bake enough of those into a persons daily life and they are instantly a very religious person outwardly. Do the same for a society and you have a very religious society.

The very dissolution of christianity in the western god is part of a deconstruction of the countless small religious rituals of the catholics by the protestants that were half way to atheism already and the reason most catholic people appear more religious in their daily life (at least they do in europe, the use is a weird place)

>>96374075
shockingly based

>>96377235
My compromise for this is not to terraform the planet but build habitats. While I think a giant glass bubble looks silly, I like the idea of digging out a giant valley and putting a glass and steel cover over it and use it as the surface part of a massive underground city/habitat (because I'm really into those for some reason).

So that and combined with space colonies to account for different ideological/political/social groups and their particular desires and circumstances. Although, I admit my autism is working overtime because you can't just have a space station and not do anything to earn any money to maintain it or have some kind of means of producing stuff you need and want.

anyone have that rpg cliche world map?

like the one in the OP but lower budget, you know the one

>>96382865
Auricium

>>96389354
This one?

The setting for my "e12" 3.5 homebrew

>>96389521
>>96389534

>>96387800
t.

>>96389682
>nyooo you can't live in a city, true life is living on a farm in bumfuck nowhere
Go join Ted K. and stop posting.

>nyooo you can't live in a city, true life is living on a farm in bumfuck nowhere
This but unironically. Solarpunk farm life with an internet connection is as good as it gets. Open spaces, only 150 people in your social sphere, nature and animals, enough technology to maximize leisure time. Yep, this is peak human existence.

>>96389733
ding ding ding we have a winner

>>96389733
Yep, no restaurants, fast food joints, clubs, bars, and one single church that you MUST attend or face serious stigma. Since you have a total selection of 150 people, you probably can't even find people to play D&D with no matter how much you lower your standards, much less an actually good TTRPG. Truly the high life.

This is just retarded fetishization of a lifestyle you don't live, and choose not to live. Land in the country is cheap as fuck, you can get the internet out there, but you choose to live in the city because it is better. The jobs pay more, too.

>>96389754
>you probably can't even find people to play D&D with
"with an internet connection"
or just get your family to play with you
stay mad, leftycuck, and keep shitting up the thread with your subhuman opinions

>>96389762
>I'll simply play on a VTT!
Pathetic. You can do that in a city too, retard.

Go move to the countryside - you can do it any day you feel like, nobody's keeping you in the city at gunpoint. It sucks shit, that's why you don't.

>>96389754
>Land in the country is cheap as fuck
Bullshit it's at least a few thousand per arce.

>>96389733
>>96389762
>social circle of 150 people
>well, except my D&D group, of course
>and my friends on Discord
>and my WOW guild
>but it's a social circle of 150

>>96389733
you really riled them up with that one

>>96389873
There's a reason that people continuously move from the countryside to the city, which is that life in the city is better than life in the countryside. Making basedjack faces about how EPIC it is to have to do all your grocery shopping at the Dollar General won't change this.

>>96389873
dont respond to it or the whole thread will be this shit

>>96389873
Know what's really great? The freedom to live in whatever the hell place you please, and to be able to enjoy a world where different people like different things. Stop trying to impress others by holding opinions you think will make you cool.

>>96369328 (OP)
I’m working on a setting where if one overuses a kind of magic it can start to physically affect them. And mentally, but that’s more of a chicken and egg thing. Depending on the specific spells used and the personality the exact traits that the user will gain/be altered will vary. For example, one illusion-focused mage might get eyes that slowly shift colors, while another might get ones that look like mirrors, etc. It gets better over time if one limits their magic use though, and some healing spells can help the process along. This process is particularly pronounced for elemental magics. Speaking of, I’m looking for some more ideas on how users of the different elements might have their appearances change due to their magics besides hair made out of their element, eyes colored/glowing the color of said element, skin colored to match their element, or glowing marks in the shape of their element. There’s giving them traits of animals associated with their element, but what else works? Someone else gave me some with some useful suggestions, like them having an affect on the area around them, like fire mages raising the temperature in their vicinity, etc., emitting smells associated with their element, physical and mental cravings related to the element, and things like apparent burns, among others, but I still could use some more.

>>96387546
>Wtf is this unholy union
I just love mixing different things and trying to make it work.
Like, a communist mega corporation.
Yeah, sound stupid, but think about it.
What is communism exactly?
A community of people who have no property and ownership? That's workers.
If a corporation can provide workers with luxury life and their job is just push buttons and pull levers. Isn't that a communist utopia?

>>96391317
not really. communism is the collective ownership of the means of production. the commune has ownership, just not individuals.
What you described is an unfeasible capitalist utopia where a corporation stills controls the means of production but gives the lion's share to the workers for some reason.

>>96391317
>>96391627
A real life communist megacorp is a large worker cooperative like Mondragon.

Friendly reminder short prose akin to Sterling's Twenty Evocations is better than pages upon pages of worldbuilding shit going nowhere.

>>96387980
>what kind of religion anon?
So far I've just been trying to learn about everything I can. I should probably have specified that this is for worldbuilding religion in the setting as well as just its relevance to characters: my aim has been to learn more about religion in general, use this to develop more abstract understanding of them, and use that to invent something original but plausible.
Regarding the rest of the post, that does line up with what I've found so far.

>>96387721

First, fuck you for the transparent background.

Secondly: Fun fact, if we were really willing to scrunch in Kowloon Walled city had the highest population density of about 1.9 million people per Square km. We could fit everybody inside Delaware with Hundreds of Square miles to spare.

>>96392648
Yes, the cities attracting hundreds of thousands of immigrants from across the planet are equivalent to the slum that only existed because of weird geopolitics.

>>96392684

I was more commenting on the logical extreme of population density vs geographic spread.

But if we're being mean, that chart is outdated. Each of the colored areas should be about 15% larger to account for current populations.

>>96369328 (OP)
>>Do you refer to "generic" materials like pic related, trope lists, etc, to derive inspiration, either by borrowing or intentionally eschewing them?
No. Looking at trope lists creates an artificial kind of feeling I think. I freely use a lot of tropes or borrowed ideas or designs but that all comes from the soup of my brain that's absorbed all kinds of media.
If I feel like I'm in a slump I'll read or watch all varieties of things including nature biographies on odd things, deep dives into religion, military history, or paranormal things. A lot of it doesn't directly get used but gets me in the right headspace.

Anybody got a good word for binoculars? They're relics of a spacefaring civ in a world otherwise based on the Hellenistic age.

>>96369328 (OP)
I intentionally structure my setting to have a mostly-classic-fantasy core with increasing weirdness the further away you go from the core. It's very much an artificial thing - the reigning pantheon in the core is bitchy, arbitrary, as they're Gods, and they have a specific aesthetic sense they enforce on the world where they can, because aesthetics affect them on a fundamental level.
The first giveaway that there's a bit more to the world than elves, dwarves, occasional dragons, gods and the undead is that the orcs are plant people with hedges for heads if they're from a city.

>>96393780
Depends on the civilisation you are basing the language on.
Telescope is actually an ancient greek word in origin. Transliterated in english it literally translates to that which can look at afar.
Ancient greeks liked to be overtly literal and descriptive in their terms using compound words for example. If you were to base the term on phoenician, latin, egyptian etc it would be under different rules

>>96393780
If it's something esoteric to them, beyond comprehension beyond 'a God gave this to us' I'd go for something like Ophthalmos Artemidos or Artemiskion, or maybe Artemister. Eye of Artemis or Tool of Artemis. Simple, to the point, 'Ophtalmos' is a bit wordy but refined while 'Artemister' is simple enough to be used casually yet with mild air of 'this is something divine in nature'.

>>96389521
>>96389534
>>96389545
Are you me from another universe? I didn't expect another person to have an E12 dnd 3.5 project. How did you end up with E12? Are you keeping the rules as is and only homebrewing races and all that dragon stuff?

>>96369328 (OP)
>:TQ
I like classic fantasy. I feel like i haven't played it enough. But i am a tinkerer so i always like to change things abit but sure, i take a lot of inspiration from existing setting when i m brewing for a fantasy game that is not dnd, which i prefer to play it straight

>>96391627
You see, the workers own the corporation and the workers decide everything.
In my setting, workers mean everyone who work at the corporation, from ceo to cleaning services.
>for some reason.
The reason being that i want to mock both capitalism and communism.

>>96394749
So, a dyson tree?

>>96394029
https://forums.giantitp.com/showsinglepost.php?p=22405664&postcount=1

I call it "enhanced core"; I change all kinds of stuff but it should still feel like you're playing core 3.5. Originally I wanted the game to go to about 10th level (at half speed) because as we all know, high level D&D falls apart. Then I started to think about all the monsters up to about CR 13 that I really like, and all the 6th level spells I'd like to include, so I said fuck it, we'll go a bit higher, but at an even slower pace. Now I know, you can throw CR 13 monsters at a level 10 party no problem, but still, lvl 12 feels optimal to me.

It isn't really "E"12 like E6 where you play at 6th level and continue to progress via feats.

>>96386924
>There's no real orichalcum, that's just ancients making up random bullshit as usual
But it is real, it's plain old mundane brass.

>>96395252
cool. I ll check it out properly tomorrow when i ll have the time and maybe share my own shitbrew of E12 3.5

>making my fantasy world map
>realize that the current climate of the continent i already made will require the equatorial zone to be in such a path that will completely ruin my other plans for the setting
Damn.

>>96400310
Own it. Make a part of the world with climate that doesn't logically line up with how it should be and then create a reason. You don't have to billboard the reason either, just have it storybibled out and drop appropriate hints to make the justification line up in the rest of your worldbuilding,

>>96398578
No, brass is brass
People have called many things "orichalcum", at the end of the day it's just a fantasy metal

>>96401592
It's fantasy to you, to Plato it was a real thing and its nearest analogue is fucking brass.
We don't live in fantasy land where orichalcum is a yet undiscovered element or combination of elements occluded from the skeptical eye of modern science by the earth shaker himself to keep Atlantis as his secret club.

>>96401072
I suppose, but at the same time, maybe I should just re-do it? I feel like my continents look a bit stupid, too.

Here's what I've drawn so far, by the way. I haven't added any isles, but the 'main landmass' is 'closed' at least. It kinda looks retarded.

>>96382865
>name based on appearance and durability
Glittersteel
Glimmersteel
Shimmersteel
>play on AU
Aurite
Aurumantium
>named more based on it coming from a titan, possibly the blood
Titanite
Titansteel
Sanguinum
Sanguinite
>name based on magic
Magegold
Spellsteel
Aurcanum

>>96376430
Depends on the purposes of the story, REH was literally pulp (GOOD pulp, but pulp). The setting only really needed to be fleshed out enough for Conan to wonder into another adventure. For that purpose broad strokes Sword and Sandal stuff fit the bill.

>>96377335
Planets have enormous environmental "inertia" so by the time you've altered them on any realistic timeframe you could've made a hundred times over the living space from scratch up above barring human ineptitude a hab-living (though that begs the question of how the fuck they get anywhere via ship).
>>96386890
Don't have a gravity well hampering your imports/exports then either.

>>96377235
Me, I have a contrived explanation which works (but isn't overly applicable elsewhere). Humanity's lousy with memetic "glitches" much as the genome of someone in anthrax-spored Chernobyl would be, the "Three Generation Problem" sees most habs implode due to failure cascades in the absence of draconian memetic "scaffolding" imposed on the populace. That stuff is more expensive and fragile the smaller a population it's applied to and the setting's just come through unrestricted warfare which wrecked the species collective psyche. Planets are backwaters but resilient generalists by comparison. Those stations that remain are operating under solipsistic quarantine or rigid adherence to protocol, most are orbiting graveyards (good spots for dungeon delving).

>>96391671
Market socialism is that applied to the economy alone while Syndicalism has the corp / unions subsume government. Really sucks how the Bolsheviks cemented the retarded notion that worker ownership has to mean command economy state control. Then again inefficiency was the point for them so they could more easily screw the masses over.

>>96402966
That giga continent looks way too chunky, desu. Wouldn't know how to break it up though.

>>96387546
The adoration of saints can map well onto the belief in a polytheistic pantheon who intercede to "Theos Agnostos", the ultimate One behind the scenes. Besides early Christianity was effectively Jewish faith refracted via Greek philosophy (Gnosticism is what happens when you try to drop the former's goat-herder old testament entirely). The role of Relics (or Icons if you're incorporating Orthodox aspects) and divine idols can cross over a lot though you'd need to alter underlying theology quite a bit (not that that hadn't already been done irl to excuse shit like indulgences and Mariolatry).

>>96385385
You can also look at the "might-have-been" faiths like Mithraism, Manicheanism and Greco-Buddhism.

>>96389733
The original point was what most humans living in an interstellar civilisation would see >>96377235. If planetary solarpunk is what a few enjoy it sure as shit isn't the majority (who in any case could build bigger and better in the time it takes to make a garden world).

>>96403342
Yes, well, that's the issue. I had to make it big because I needed there to be a big tundra region in the northwest, but the detailed continent there is supposed to be within the SOUTHERN Hemisphere.

>>96371392
Seriously. Can't get anything if you don't give anything.

>>96369328 (OP)
I'm planning on having my ultimate villain be a cosmic entity of insanity and corruption, born from a flaw in the formation of reality, that wants to ultimately corrupt and/or destroy all of reality (no one is 100% sure, maybe not even it), that can only twist and copy what already exists instead of making anything new. The problem is, they can't manifest in the physical world reliably, so they need servants to do their dark work, and I'm trying to think of different types that can be led by a commander that answers directly to the entity, like an archmage driven made by its power commanding other mad mages, etc., and I could use some ideas on other types, like maybe a lich for the undead that serve the entity, (but not orcs, they’re just a normal race) do you have any suggestions please?

>>96406663
>that can only twist and copy
Then everyone can be it's commanders.

>>96407017
No, I'm saying that even within the groups of beings its corrupted there are going to be some that are more powerful and/or relatively sane than others and they'd be the commanders. Like the archmage being in charge of the regular mages. Changing gears, what are some other suggestions for the more common types of minions beyond what I've already said?

This is a long shot, but anyone have any experience fleshing out space opera settings? How wide or narrow of scope do you guys usually go?

>>96402966
> I feel like my continents look a bit stupid
They honestly look good to me. They have character and that's more important than anything. If you need you can modify pieces of them, but on the whole they seem fine.

>>96400310
It's kind of unclear what the problem is though. Assuming this is a spherical world, it seems like you are only showing the northern hemisphere. Can't you just put it further south?

Maybe zoning out parts of the world will help.

>>96406663
Overlord had a fairly fun lineup of corrupted heroes. You can lift them for inspiration as a start and to fill the roster out.

I was writing earlier and ran into an extremely insignificant problem, but I thought it was an interesting question to ask.
In a fictional world, no reader would question bread being called bread.
But what about fermented mare's milk? Would anyone raise an eyebrow if I called it 'kumis' or 'airag' which are the actual names used for it in the real world cultures (Turks, etc) that consume it?
At what point does using Earth-names for food ruin the immersion in a fictional setting - when should we start making up names used by the fictitious cultures in our worlds used to describe something that is essentially the same as a real thing on Earth?
Should we call curry, curry? Maybe? What about sushi? Almost definitely not, but why? Where's the line?

>>96410348
ive seen guano called "guano" in a handful of faerun novels

I think that if its a jarring non-english name, you should pick something else. "Guano" should have been "bat dung" or something

>>96410348
>when should we start making up names used by the fictitious cultures in our worlds used to describe something that is essentially the same as a real thing on Earth?
When you stop using real life language and made up a fictitious language for the fictitious cultures.

>>96410348

Tolkien himself talked about potatoes (and tomatoes in the first edition of the Hobbit). Maybe a little more common use in English, but still we're talking pretty clearly non anglo-saxon shit, in fact mesoamerican and carribean etymology.

Oddly enough it would sound cheaper if it was in a "foreign" culture in your world.

>>96407625
>setting only in a one star system
>no ftl
>strong religious theme
>dozens of habitable planets and moons
>hundreds of space colonies
>human are the majority
>really small population of aliens
>pseudo sapient droid
>subhuman variants
>giant mecha
>space pirates

Been playing dishonored again recently and it's got me in the mood to make my own occulty "steampunk" victorian-esque setting. And I've got two questions, one what to keep in mind and do/avoid to not fall into the common pitfalls of steampunk. And two aside from bloodborne what similar settings, games, whatevers are out there?

>>96413545
Wouldn't that depend on what fucked up thing powers the industry in your society?

All right, I need feedback:

>Assume the NPCs are fully statted out elsewhere
>Assume the map will be redone by a professional
>Assume there are going to be random encounter tables for this location
>Assume this is just one neighborhood of several

Is this legible and understandable? Would this be enough for you as a GM/storyteller?

>>96413545
>And I've got two questions, one what to keep in mind and do/avoid to not fall into the common pitfalls of steampunk.
Mostly: keep in mind the "punk" aspect (Victorian society was even more unequal than ours; this is the introduction of Capitalism, there are no antibodies to its worst excesses for a reason), and don't just randomly put gears on things that don't need gears.

>And two aside from bloodborne what similar settings, games, whatevers are out there?
Blades in the Dark, Iron Kingdoms, and Lies of P are steampunk, or at least steampunk adjacent, I think, with fairly interesting settings. GURPS Steampunk is a sourcebook about it in particular, and like most GURPS books, is well-researched and with interesting ideas.

I am trying something new. I am not making a world map. I will merely write about and describe places to my players. Maps will be restricted to battlemaps and on occasion, local regional maps

I have a nation that is suddently ruled by a witch (copying ff8). What should be her endgame? In ff8 is time compression, but i want to make it something more tangible.

I'm thinking that she is being manipulated by an eldritch demon with loose forms and many eyes and brings blight and monsters into the land. I'm interested on how the process of land corrupción should be, it seems unlikely that a woman could give birth physically to so many monsters. Give me some kino as long as there is an evil witch ruler on it

>>96413465
>setting only in a one star system
>no ftl
>strong religious theme
>hundreds of space colonies
>human are the majority
>subhuman variants
>giant mecha
>space pirates
wtf are you me?

>>96418597
What if she's not doing the birthing herself but has abducted a bunch of women from the former nobility or clergy (to be extra profane) and corrupted them into horrifying broodmother monstrosities?

>>96369328 (OP)
Is the color scheme okay?

>>96393780
Biscope
Duoscope
Oculopters
Telelensers
Scouting Glasses

>>96422189
ow my eyes

>>96415291
I still like making them but I'm convinced that nomap is the way to go for ttrpgs
>Keeps world mysterious, for both you and your players
>Don't feel confined creatively to a single sheet of paper, can make up stuff as it comes to you
>No worries about trying to reconcile things like travel time and logistics so that it fits to the map
>Focus on interesting ideas over geography (usually boring)

>>96369328 (OP)
I wanted to post this in the Worldbuilding Made Easy thread but it died before I got home so I'm posting it here instead. I don't really have a political power fantasy so I focused mostly on my fetish, that being nasty bitches with fat cocks, with a little bit of the esoteric magic thrown in for fun. Here's what I've got so far.
>The premise
Basically Futanari exist, not only as a rare third gender that is functionally both male and female, but as the chosen people of the primordial Rebis who represent the union of opposites. At the dawn of time all living things were Futanari until the Rebis, the hermaphroditic creator god/dess, was forced to split itself into multiple parts, separating the divine masculine and feminine principles from one another. This act upset the balance of the world, creating strife and limitation, the surviving Futas were tasked with becoming the guardians and guides of the rest of humanity so that they can eventually reform the Rebis, but opinions vary on how this could be achieved.
>How do Futas work?
All Futanari possess functional male and female genitalia with balls because a futa without balls is a crime against humanity and can reproduce with both men and women, Futas actually differ depending on how they were conceived, favouring Lingam or Yoni (these will be explained later) based on their non-Futanari parent. Two Futas may also reproduce but the offspring will be infertile, it is believed that this is to prevent Futas from abandoning their birthright to live apart from normal men and women, the children of two Futanari are variously pitied or looked down on as burdens by their true breeding kin.

>The esoteric magic system
Magic comes from the Lingam and the Yoni, wellsprings of generative power with the body that are associated with the genitalia. While normal men and women have a Lingam and a Yoni respectively, Futas have both and as such have a greater grasp on magic. Typically, the Lingam is associated with direct, destructive powers while the Yoni is passive and nurturing, more powerful magical effects require the combination of the Lingam and the Yoni, meaning only Futanari may cast them on their own, while normal men and women must work together in tantric sex rituals. As the Lingam and Yoni are very directly tied to the genitals, stimulating the genitals or using their fluids as regents makes magic easier to perform, with actual sex being the most effective method. Futanari also have another advantage over other humans in the form of Lust, not just a hormonal urge but a supernatural sense of ambition and raw sexual energy gifted by the primordial Rebis to aid Futas in their goals. Lust can be called upon to enhance a Futa's physical abilities or to grant herself a supernatural allure and it is also used in powerful Futanari magics, but spending Lust is taxing on the Futa's sexual stamina and a period of abstinence is required to rejuvenate Lust.

>Futanari society
Although Futanari see themselves as having a duty to the rest of humanity, their differences and dedication to their goals necessitate living at arms length from normal men and women so Futas form Sisterhoods, philosophical alliances of likeminded Futanari working to shepherd the world towards the Rebis, while the major Sisterhoods have significant differences there are some traits common to almost all of them. Generally speaking, Futanari are raised by their male or female parent and inducted as full members of a Sisterhood at puberty and the Futa is given the rank of Maiden. Traditionally progressing to the rank of Mother required a Futa to actually bear or sire a child but nowadays most Sisterhoods only ask that a Maiden shed her virginity and prove her responsibility to her compatriots to earn the promotion. Crones are the elders of Futanari society and dictate the direction of their Sisterhoods, the rank demands several years experience and mastery over the Lingam and Yoni, but younger and younger Futas earn the promotion with each passing year.
>The Calla Society
Artists, Muses, and Sensualists make up the ever popular Calla Society. This Sisterhood takes a hands off approach to reforming the Rebis, seeking to inspire humanity through the arts and their general bon vivance. The Callaites are not to be taken for idle hedonists, however, they are active throughout high society as diplomats and courtiers to the point they are often seen as the face of the Futanari, and they boast many talented swordswomen and swashbucklers.

>The Grove Matriarchs
While all Futanari guide and protect other humans, the Matriarchs alone extend their motherly love to all living things. Their love of life manifests chiefly in their deep reverence for motherhood, of all the Sisterhoods theirs is the only one to still maintain actual motherhood as a prerequisite for the rank of Mother and they raise all their children themselves, even the males and females who they keep no secrets from. While they do not begrudge those infertile Futas born of two Futanari parents, they do pity them greatly and see their infertility as a crippling disability. The Futanari of the Grove are close to and knowledgeable about the natural world, their Mothers are famed for their magical skill and especially the healing properties of their breast milk.
>The Pillow Whisperers
A Sisterhood of shadowy seductresses, while all Futas indulge in sex for recreation or reproduction, the Pillow Whisperers use it as a tool of political manipulation and secret gathering, in their eyes the clearest path to reforming the Rebis is to gain power over society from the shadows and to this end seduce powerful public figures and puppeteer many a political marriage. As the most secretive of the Sisterhoods, many do not recognise the Pillow Whisperers or their schemes and mistake them for members of the Calla Society, although they typically favour darker, more severe fashions than the Callaites. As seekers of secrets they know many mysteries of magic, they specialise in using the Lingam and Yoni to balance eachother out, allowing them to produce contraceptive effects or even disguise themselves as normal men and women.

>The Stonebreakers
Stonebreakers are amazon warrior women and Futanari supremacists, they seek to reform the Rebis by dominating ordinary men and women alike, a position that has not made them very popular among their peers but other Futanari still begrudgingly respect the potence of their Lingams with which they call on the strength of the bull. Unlike other Sisterhoods, the Stonebreakers have an odd sense of masculine pride and while they'll force men into their harems they refuse to bear their children, it seems this stance is starting to backfire as their refusal to be impregnated by men is rumoured to be diluting their Lingam, and few Stonebreaker Maidens proudly display their genitals as their ancestors once did.
>The Daughters of Depravity
Hedonists and Nihilists, the Daughters of Depravity reject the Rebis and most of the traditions of the Futanari, any Daughter can claim the title of Mother or Crone and face no objection. They are the only Sisterhood where the infertile outnumber the fertile, and while other Futas will dismiss it as a product of their hedonistic shortsightedness the Daughters are all too eager to claim it's quite the opposite. The way they tell it is that the Daughters of Depravity were founded by infertile Futanari who were sick of being mistreated by their native Sisterhoods and turned to deviancy. The Daughters of Depravity wear their pariah status as a badge of honour, with no expectation to reproduce or reform Rebis they see themselves as truly free, and by experimenting with the Lingam and Yoni in ways most Futanari would baulk at they've discovered many strange and unique magics.

Of course, Futanari aren't the only sex freaks in the world, here are a few examples of enemies to give Futas something to do other than argue about what positions to try in tonight's orgy.
>Incubi
The opposite of a Futanari, an Incubus has the body of a man, but with a vagina in the place of his penis. Incubi are not natural creatures but the creation of a ritual that attempted to transform men and women into Futas, however the ritual backfired and created something not quite whole. The imperfect process left them with a hunger, while they possess a Yoni of their own it is unable to generate power so they must steal the essence of others, Futas being their favourite. To make matters worse the Incubi possess Lust which they can use to overpower Futanari or fill them with such a desire that they willingly surrender the power stored in their Lingam and Yoni.

>Motherfucking Wizards
Unfortunately the motherfucking part isn't quite so literal, these men practice strict chastity and semen retention to hone the power of their Lingam and perform magics quite unlike those of the Futanari. Wizards care little for the Futanari or their Rebis, they value knowledge and individuality over passion and unity, so Futas and their plight hold little interest for them save as occasional test subjects while the Futas see Wizards as selfish and misguided.
>False Futas
These witches are women who have discovered a magical method of swelling their clitoris into a facsimile of a Lingam, allowing them to use its masculine power. False Futas do not generate their own power for their Lingam and can't absorb essence as easily as the Incubi, instead they rely on bloody rituals to bind a man or Futanari's essence into potions or talismans to fuel their false Lingam. Much to the Futanari's surprise, the False Futa claim their goal is to reform the Rebis and their false Lingam is just the first step, but this doesn't win them any sympathy from the Futanari who revile their bloody ways.

Okay, that's about all I've got for now, thanks for following me into my magical realm.

>>96422189
>>96422297
picrel
>>96422811
disgusting kys

>>96422811
>>96422847
That's amazing anon. I'm just struggling to understand how this all cums up in your game.

The fuck did I just walk into? ...I want more.

>>96369328 (OP)
does anyone else make maps, like visual representations of the geography, very rare?
I have been handing my characters itineraries instead
which are purely text directions
so "go to village X roughly A days away, and then go east to town Y another B days away" would be what my players get usually and they only represent the most reliable route rather than the fastest
an accurate cartographic map is either a sign of extreme wealth or magic

>>96422811
Please quote your own posts so I can hide them all in one click.

>>96413465
All of that in a one star system?

>>96423747
Yes.
Due to popularity of ftl travel on popular scifi stories. People tend to forget the vastness of space.
You can put dozens of space colonies around a planet and it won't feel crowded.
To me, ftl travel ruin space's most interesting attribute.

>>96406663
>>96407397
Dude, think of the world this is taking place in and see who'd either be ideologically aligned with its goal or think they'd benefit from it. Who else lives in this universe? And is this entity operating openly or covertly? Because an overt anti-existence villain is gonna have trouble finding adepts except if there are some apocalyptic cults and random edgelords, but if he does it covertly, maybe it could be able to contact people more easily and thus corrupt them.
>>96423926
NTA, but highly respectable opinion.

>>96423620
Good idea. Have you considered making Roman-like maps?

Maybe maps with accurate distances and features depend on mages and scryers using spirits and birds to look from high up.

>>96423302
>/tg/
>thinking about games
Pick one lmao. But jokes aside, I did include some game-y ideas with the magic system and the Sisterhoods vaguely resembling classes. I'm undecided if I want to just rip White Wolf's Storyteller system since that's what I have the most experience with or do something more complicated/original for this

>>96423926
Don't forget light lag to keep people isolated culturally. And no stupidass torch ships, 0.01g is fine actually, brisk even.

I've shamelessly stolen the Dominions series' concept of a deep-sea-dwelling civilization moving to shallow coastal waters to more clearly observe the stars. The players are going to venture into a sunken city and eventually discover the observatory, but I'm struggling to imagine what the structure would look like. A telescope would be a bit impractical underwater. Some kind of magical lights projecting a star map on the dome?
Any ideas or suggestions to find inspiration?
>>96377235
Maybe the sci fi inhabitants have the resources to terraform and prefer to do so due to taste / autism. The terraforming isn't as efficient, but it's luxurious. It's a giant art project, like a garden or a bonsai tree, meticulously planned rather than constructed for maximum efficiency.
Or maybe they terraformed a planet for >>96389682 inhabitants that wouldn't/couldn't maintain the technology to keep a station habitable. Lots of sci fi settings have "ancients" or "precursors" that terraform planets so that cavemen can live there. Sure you can have automated maintenance on a space habitat, but a well-terraformed planet takes much longer to fail.

>>96428684

Gigantic lenses of pure water, by means of magic. They are, well, the magnification tool to watch the stars.

>>96428684
A control station that has a bunch of displays which can throw up the data from the orbital satellites. Because in-atmosphere ones suck for deep space observation.

>>96428684
>star map on the dome
fish people wouldn’t build an entire hemisphere dome, they would see the entire night sky compressed into a circular window
some kind of magic to calm the water would help, the movement of waves would scatter the light to hell

>>96423926
My problem wasn't the size of a star system, but more the density of habitable planets. Unless they were made habitable artificially.

>>96430337
You meant this
>>dozens of habitable planets and moons
About that, only 3 planets are habitable.
The "dozens" Are mostly filled by habitable moons. Almost every moons in the star system are habitable, habitable lile a space colonies.

>>96428684
Beyond Earth can't hold a candle to Alpha Centauri but this Wonder was pretty neat:

>Many of the most ancient Earth magnifiers used curved lenses that emulated a simple drop of water. Not until the advent of associated technologies, could the concept of turning the ocean itself into a magnifier be imaginable. The Abyssal Mirror is a colossal seabed-earthwork in the shape of a hemispherical lens; the drop of water. It is used to receive and relay communication between orbital signals and due to its unique design the number of signals it can manage is limitless.

>Implanted with ultra-sensitive receptors and utilizing a network of condenser drones, the Mirror is capable of altering the density and movement of the surrounding water. The extreme precision with which it manipulates the surrounding ocean, from the base of the Mirror to the surface, allows the surrounding ocean to function as a gigantic lens. Further manipulation will adjust the lens along with the remote alignment and coordination of orbital objects, producing the Mirror's limitless signal processing.

>The name "Abyssal Mirror", while fitting in its description, actually derives its name from a one-time test, when the lens was focused into empty space. For miles, the ever turbulent undulation of the sea became glass still for several minutes as the lens' magnification was tuned to reach out into the infinite dark above, searching for signals. Filtering out the noise of starships, distant satellites orbiting their own planets, a steady signal persisted. A steady, resonant pitch, similar to a flute. The nature of the signal is still unknown. Technicians claim the "monotonous piping" may be the result of a failing receiving system. Fanciful speculation led others to compose wild theories.

So lots of acoustic weirdness. Infrasound causing nosebleeds, loss of balance and hallucination (at least one faulty-machine "trap" ought to liquify someone). Basically >>96428725 with a sciencey gloss.

>>96431656
By space colonies you mean an artificial habitable environment or naturally habitable moons?
Also when I say I have a problem with this I don't really, I can accept a universe with many planets fit for living even if it's not realistic. And I like smaller scale settings that aren't filled with 90% void / uninspired wastes.

>>96433228
>I like smaller scale settings that aren't filled with 90% void / uninspired wastes.
Bad news, you're living in a setting with the opposite of that.

>>96433264
Yeah that's a big reason I don't care much about space and prefer fantasy over sci-fi. And I also like deserts and steppes less than lush forests and rugged mountains.

>>96377235
Nigger we have cloud-seeding happening on this planet as we speak, you really think think in 1000 years they wont be doing it to other rocks?

>>96387800
>existing directly contradicts humanity's revealed preference, as the majority of humans now live in cities
And how's that been panning out lately?

>>96435271
>he thinks humans will be understandably human in 1000 years
>if humans are even around at that point
hehe

>>96389873
>megan and I have finally decided to tie the know -literally-
Fucking kills me every goddamn time

>>96435300
You live in the wealthiest society in the history of the universe and then say "umm, actually, this sucks." Fuck off, retard. Go die of smallpox after doing backbreaking farm labor and having half your kids die before they hit 5.

>>96390307
I had an idea like this for a weird west setting. Magic overusers were called "fiends" and would become spellcasting junkies. Fire was obvious, their hands and feet would burn and crack and their teeth would become black as coal. Earth users grew larger as their muscles became more and more petrified until they became lumbering hulks with crags on their backs. Wind users slowly had their limbs stretched out by raging winds and their feet could never touch the ground. Water users would have their stomachs bloat with fluid they could spew as an attack.

>>96435349
>the western liberalism of Sol sphere
>wealthier than than enlightened despotism of 40 Eridani
>let alone the ???? of Mu Arae
Humanist chauvanism desu.

>>96435306
>he thinks humans alive now are understandably human.
Did you not see the wall of text about Futanaris?

>>96435349
>travel back in time 500 years
>"Behold, peasant, an excerpt from the wealthiest society in the history of the universe:"
>>96422817

>>96435560
Mindlessly policing others for every tiny thing is part of why people in the past were much poorer than us.

>>96435581
Gonna go out on a limb and say that's not the reason why.

>>96433228
>By space colonies you mean an artificial habitable environment or naturally habitable moons?
All of them artificial.
I do have another star system where the moons are habitable naturally since the gas giant is on goldilocks zone.
> I can accept a universe with many planets fit for living even if it's not realistic.
Try this:
https://planetplanet.net/2014/05/13/building-the-ultimate-solar-system/
Basically, if you tweak the star(s) you can have millions habitable planets.

>>96386809
this, just have a stand-in character like Tolkien did for LOTR, you can also even have an evil religion as well, Good vs Evil isn't bad writing.

>>96389733
you choose not to live in the countryside right now because it sucks and you have no defence for this LARPer

>>96436230
NTA but i live in between suburbia and the countryside, and while i can say he is retarded for saying you only need 150 people around, i also have to say that this shit out here is peak. People who live in the city are barely living, and because of it, barely come off as people.

>>96436230
I do live in the countryside doe. Population density 35 per square kilometer. I even raise poulty lol, though not much else for farming other than a couple dozen kilos of potatoes and some assorted seasonal veg. Very cringe and bad call by you s e n p a i.

>>96435602
>Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual [...]
It's not a coincidence that the industrial revolution started in one of the most liberal societies of its era (the UK), that the strongest power is liberal (the USA), etc. Telling people they can't jack off is an illiberal impulse, part of a broader suite of impulses to randomly constrain people's lives in a variety of arbitrary ways that actively works against progress.

>>96435526
Pansexuals are very understanably human imo. Wants to fuck women. Wants to get fucked by men. Wants to sometimes fuck men. Wants to sometimes fuck women and men who don't like being called women and men for whatever personal reason. Garden variety human degeneracy not out of place at any point in recorded history.

>>96435560
okay but what does this have to do with magical dickgirls

>>96435581
>Mindlessly policing others
Pretty rich coming from the "MOVE TO THE CITY NOW, HICK" guy.

>>96436490
Saying that people choose to move to the city because it's better isn't telling you what to do, retard.

>>96436492
>>96435349
>Fuck off, retard. Go die of smallpox after doing backbreaking farm labor and having half your kids die before they hit 5.

>>96436512
Yes, you are truly blessed and fortunate to live in a modern civilization, which is only possible because of the concentration of population in cities. Do you think they put up universities in rural villages, population 150?

>>96436545
>which is only possible because of the concentration of population in cities
What do they eat?

>>96436556
Food made by people who are only alive because they eradicated smallpox.

>>96436573
Funny cus last I checked plagues affect cities way fucking harder than they do rural areas.

>>96436479
Would magical gocks shrink if they lived effete urbaniod lifestyles?

>>96436598
No, that's exactly what the Calla Society does and they're still totally hung

Trying to decide if my amazing wonderful interplanetary rockets will have 600kps of dV at 0.01g or at 0.005g. Might as well go big right? Ballparking it around 960 MW thrust power, I feel like once your engine is more powerful than 1 GW you're just going crazy and might as well go all the way with reactionless memedrives or stupid torchship speeds. Obviously this thing never goes in atmosphere, I'm talking TWR of like 0.6 at best.

>>96436605
I see.

Actually, I think there was a whole big stink about plagues in cities a few years ago... cityfags were killing themselves, losing their jobs, putting themselves in plastic bubbles, ingesting hand sanitizer, wild stuff. Didn't stop them from rioting and burning down mom and pop stores over a drug addict though.

>>96436605
Why do you hate smallcock futanaris so much? I hate size queens so much, sorry if you aren't one but it's just not right imo.

>>96436626
t. girl with small peepee

This thread is AIDS.

>>96436646
Probably has to do with the sodomite and his dickgirls

>>96436626
I don't hate small cocks, I specifically included a line about the decreasing dick size among Stonebreakers because it's hotter when they're insecure about it

>>96436655
No such thing as girls with dicks bro, just men with tits. If you really hate it you shouldn't let them dictate the language used to discuss it tee bee haytch.

>>96436685
what if they also have vaginas? Men can't have vaginas

What are the worldbuilding implications of all men having vaginas and wombs and all women having a dick and balls?

>>96422811
I know exactly who you are. Had the displeasure of playing on the same WoW server as you many years ago

>>96437206
You're mistaken, my only experience with WoW was briefly playing on the Warmane private server

>>96437384
Nobody's perfect

>>96436617
but they dont tell you what to do or think; only backwards country hicks do that

>>96435643
That's cool
I wished he detailed the possible biomes more

>>96390307
Air wizards burp and fart a lot

>>96436610
You should mention that your rocket is dick shaped and powered with futanari's cum, who live in the city. That way retards will have discussion with you.

>>96436230
I live with my mom and I don't want to bother finding a credit for a house

I'm focused on developing an underworld race of metalworkers and gemhoarders.

>intenselly not dwarves, I want to flee from that degraded archetype. They are small and strong, but more drow or goblinlike. Not sure how to call them, but as I don't have goblins in the setting I'll probably use that word for them.

>They are better blacksmiths than surfacers because they have access to blast furnaces (in the magma pits) and have the secret to make unbreakable steel; by using the webs of giant spiders into the alloy (an idea that is been attempted in real life). This makes the metal lighter and insanely durable. They do not, however, use it much for weapons or armor as they are not a warrior race. Instead they use it for pick and shovel heads. They also make a sort of Mole Mitts (gloves with blades that allow you to dig like a mole underground, see Zelda games) that maybe can double up as weapon.

>Spider Steel items must be tempered for weeks preferably on a snowy ground, and 5 in 6 times, this items will break during the tempering (sometimes less, depeniding on the skill of the smith). This allows for plot hooks and prevents possible abusing. Once in shape, reworking this steel is impossible.

>The setting is based greatly on japan and korean aesthetic, so I am thinking on having them double up as ninjas due to their ability to dig under buildings.

>Vulnerable to the sun. Not a PC race.

>Currently pondering how they are not completelly overriden by a human warlord and extorted to produce weapons for his army.

>>96438402
I mean, it's a rocket. They are always vaguely phallic. Do I need to explicitly state that? Also YOU could have given a serious response instead of only bitching. I know there are other SF nerds in this thread, most of the bitching is because of one of them so the least you could do it talk about the implications of a limited thrust limited dV regime and the interplanetary transfers within said regime with me.

>>96439075

I am wondering:

could I give them more special metals? Maybe some special gold or coinage? what are interesting propierties for gold or jewels that are not too magical?

and second, do they really apport any value to a setting? sometimes i think that I am overthinking a subterranean race in a game that is not about dungeons at all, but more like an historical samurai game with mage as an alternate PC class. I just don't see how my players are going to interact with this goblins ever. I think they are a good source of the special weapons and armor they find: Having a spider steel katana as a lineage treasure because your grandparent was gifted one by a goblin, for example. Or a good source for special armors that are sought by human lords. But in other aspects they are hard to portray in relationship to the world, much more "realistic" in a sense. Not sure if such a a race apports value to a setting like that.

Just sharing what is in my head to air it a little. Could use you opinion, guys.

>>96438267
>but they dont tell you what to do
Lmao, sure thing jabby

>>96439155
Pretty sure he was being sarcastic.

>>96439075
>>96439138
Kobolds, unironically. In the original german myth they were trickster spirits that lived in mineshafts and play with the torchfire. Them being lizard or ratmen is a modern thing.

>>96439172
pretty sure "Kobold" was *a* goblin, not a race apart

>>96436610
What type of drive do they use, and how far away are the planets in question at the closest approach?
t. Atomic Rockets newfag

>>96440359
The type of drive is intentionally left obscure as it is of no consequence compared to the effects (amount of thrust experienced, dV budget, whether it is capable in atmosphere, intensity of drive plume, etc.) but if pressed I'll call it a 1 GW fusion engine and leave it at that. As for planets I'm using the Sol system so that orbital mechanics are already "solved" and I can just hand them off to players.

>>96439172
Its perfect but i already call My hobbits kobolds :( they are actual household personal in noble houses

I think i could make them slightly furry, give them tails and call them trolls. They would make still more sense than dwarves

I'm making a Cyberpunk city but where should the workers of the mining pits be living?

I started with the idea of Night City's skyscrapers extending underground into a dormitory undercity and with a huge underground railway network taking them through the deadly industrial zone to work.
But I also like the idea of smaller independent settlements built inside the pits. Even if it doesn't make any sense it looks cool in my head.

>>96440735
Troggs

>>96440849
People had chapels inside mines in Ye Olden Days.

>>96440862
These are open-pit mines where they mine with TNT so I wanted a settlement on the sides but I don't see any reason for one to be closed and repurposed as a settlement. Maybe the rock became too unstable to keep blowing it?

>>96440891
>I don't see any reason for one to be closed and repurposed as a settlement. Maybe the rock became too unstable to keep blowing it?
They ran out of valuable ores? The market for whatever was being mined crashed? Wieliczka closed down because salt prices went too low in 1998, Wangaloa closed in 1989 for (I'm not sure, actually).

>>96440922
That can't be a thing here as they are mining rock and dirt to be sent to the factories where they can break down any matter into atoms and reform them into any other materials.
I guess there could be one settlement built in an old dried up diamond pit that was here before everything else.

>>96440891
Strip mines close all the time. The big issue you have is strip mines tend to not be gigantic. The largest one in the world is only 3 square miles and most of that is steep hillsides nobody is gonna want to build on.

Underground mines have the advantage of being complex and shielded from the elements. Strip mines usually just get converted into pons/lakes if anything. Maybe you could have some aquaculture set up in one, but that would be it.

>>96441534
Yeah but I find the aesthetic of cliffside slums too cool so I'm going with it

>>96440891
I want to use a concept like this for my Martian colony idea.

Open pits where the base is actually a giant plate that leads into the actual city below while the whole thing is covered by glass and steel. Could probably make it multi-level even above the city with the top-most part being a public area while the lower parts act as property for the ultra wealthy or something.

>>96441807
A giant plate? I'm not sure I get it visually.
Also why use a pit if you're going to cover it, mines like >>96440862 sound simpler

>>96439075

>>They are better blacksmiths than surfacers because they have access to blast furnaces (in the magma pits)

Not gonna work, at least by magma alone.

Blast furnaces work not really by virtue of being hot per se, but because they pump a shitton of hot carbon and oxygen that decarburizes iron. Basically you need coal and well, an oxygen-rich flux of air, which is kinda the reverse of doing it underground.
Magma per se is silicon ad aluminium oxydes most of the time, which even less what you want to have to decouple iron from oxygen in minerals. I think you could conceive and undergound civilization with modest access to the surface to use geothermic energy in vast quantities, but... it would be to make electricity.

Mind you, I like the "fibrated steel" idea, but.

Anyway aesthetically you could maybe make them muscular and have shell blades on their hands, to dig.

>>96441901
In my mind, the initial strip mines would be the historical aspect of the undergournd martian cities to be made as well as acting as a means of accessing regular sunlight.

It wouldn't be the only way access to the surface is made but it has importance for the setting as well as being something that was done on purpose rather than just being repurposed.

>>96441976
Oh okay I get it, I think

>>96441573
>Yeah but I find the aesthetic of cliffside slums too cool so I'm going with it
You can have cliffside slums attached to a mine without tossing people in a pit nobody would ever build in while a mine is in operation since it would be in the way or after a mine has been stripped since it would be a godforsaken hole in the ground. Plenty of non-strip mines are in mountainsides and they'll end up with camps and then towns built around them that can then go bust when the mine runs out. Wouldn't be that weird for one to turn into a slum.

Literally just ditch the strip mine part and your idea is completely fine.

>>96442457
Strip mines' visual carry an important message. They're massive holes in the planet.
And also as I said above, they're just harvesting dirt and rocks in bulk, they're aren't looking for minerals or whatever. So a strip mine makes more sense I think.
And the idea is that they settled in an abandoned pit but work continues in other pits nearby.

>>96441921
>aesthetically you could maybe make them muscular and have shell blades on their hands, to dig

Nice

Thanks for the explanation anon. On the light of this i think that it's better to give a specific tribe of hobbits the metalworking and to make the Underground "sandslash" tribe to be it's own thing

Worldbuilding is trash.
Much like trash IRL, it is a byproduct of some useful activity. In that case - telling a story. Take a look at LOTR. Every place heroes do not visit is mapped out only vaguely, or not at all, because it is not imporant to the story.
You are playing a cooperative game, not writing a story by yourself. So, you might need to make several "story-sketches", unless you're the kind of bad GM who disregards input of his players. Getting into autistic details of how fictional settings work is very much missing the forest for the trees.

>>96443249
Nah.

Had a go at drafting a numeral system
>positional, base 8
>the core design of each numeral is an evolution of its predecessor's
>tried drawing them a bunch of times, gradually streamlining their shapes so that they're easier/feel more natural to produce, with less risk of ambiguity if they're rushed (like how the written 0/4 hook to the right at the end, to prevent them from getting mistaken for a 1/5)
Any thoughts or input? I'm pretty new to this, so (as you might be able to tell) I'm kinda flying blind here.

>>96440849
Well, what else do we need to know about the city, tell us more please.

>>96443249
LotR is a bad example because Tolkien did worldbuilding first and the story almost as an afterthought. The stuff that's directly featured in the books got fleshed out more since writing the story required adding more detail than writing a more generalized history of the world, but Tolkien had planned out a lot of details not directly relevant to plot of the books as well.
A better example would be Star Wars. Lucas added a lot of references to stuff that had happened "offscreen" (mentions of place names, the existence of the Old Republic that the Empire replaced, the Clone Wars Luke's father fought in), but all of that was just to create an illusion of a world that was larger than what you saw in the films. He hadn't really thought of any details about the planets mentioned but not visited in the films, and while he had some ideas for the eventual prequels those would end up partially changing over time. It's telling that in the 90s when writers started making an effort to build a more interconnected universe in the novels and asked him for some kind of setting bible so they could keep the details consistent between novels, Lucas just handed them copies of the d6 RPG that he had no involvement in writing. Because while he didn't bother to cone up with a culture and homeworld for random background alien #4 or any details about the planet that gets an offhand mention, the RPG writers had to think of all that in case the players want to play as that kind of alien or go to that planet.

>>96369328 (OP)
What common mistakes do you see new world-builders make, and how do you make sure you avoid them?

>>96446007
I know nothing about making fictional letters or numbers, but.
The written numbers of 4 and 5 is kinda similar.
Try write them back to back with other random number in between on a paper and you'll make lot of mistakes.

>>96453965
>LotR is a bad example because Tolkien did worldbuilding first and the story almost as an afterthought.

Brainlet and lorelet. The languages (Quenya and Sindarin) came first, but there was never a world outside of the epics.

>>96414158
I'm having a little trouble with it, but I'm also just seeing this for the first time.

>>96414158
I do like the layout though.

>>96422189
>Cruelty Squad

Fantasy mecha, yea or nay?
They're very cool, I fucking love them, but the more I think about it, less I'm sure of what it adds to a tabletop game.

>>96460365
Why do you need some special reason?

>>96460365
nay
an enlarged or righteous-might'd martial in full-plate mostly does the trick
or let players play cloud giants

>>96460365
Cool in stories, annoying in tabletop games.

>>96460408
I believe the more you stray away from the beer and pretzels "DnD" game with a simple set of adventurers (a martial, a wizard and a rogue) against simples enemies (evil lich, demon king), the less interest it will attract.
While I'm not trying to make a commercial product or have some grandiose fantasy of becoming the next Gygax, if I just wanted to daydream about giant fantasy knights I could do so instead of putting an effort into worldbuilding and a system for playing it. I'd rather make something that would at least catch the attention of my friends.
>>96460471
>>96460485
That's what I was, unfortunately, thinking as well.
Not the righteous might turning knights/paladins giant though, that's actually a nice idea.

>>96460365
>less I'm sure of what it adds to a tabletop game.
An excuse for even bigger monsters and less travel time.

>>96460365
>Fantasy mecha, yea or nay?
>They're very cool, I fucking love them, but the more I think about it, less I'm sure of what it adds to a tabletop game.
A PC Fighter in a mecha can operate at the level of an enemy combat formation, but to enter the dungeon he has to get out of the mecha (it doesn't fit in the dungeon). This allows the same character to operate on the level of mass combat and small group tactics.

>>96385385
Praise the Sun
Bless the Daylight
The Holy Noon is upon thee, brother

>>96460868
Just make the dungeon bigger.

>>96443249
>You are playing a cooperative game
Game?

>>96460365
>what it adds to a tabletop game
Cool mechs
>>96460485
>random baseless opinion
>>96460530
So you don't actually want mechs, got it.

Just fucking kill yourself already.

Anyone have a decent tidally locked planet map? Having a hard time finding good reference material.

>>96465122
>Having a hard time finding good reference material.
I'd love some as well please.

>>96460365
One thing I wanted to do was have a necromancer who used a giant's skeleton as a mech. Unfortunately I never could find a way to fit it in to a setting nor got a chance to play a character like that

Found an old idea I had for a fantasy setting a while back lol. The idea was that the world, Ter, had just undergone an industrial revolution, which saw the defeat of the old elf/dwarf nations in a series of revolts. Made some shitty blub for it, so feel free to laugh.


It is the dawn of the New Age. For centuries, the Elderkin held dominion over Ter.

Yet now, the age of the Elderkin and the arcana wanes. The hum of machines rises from the sprawling cities of men.

Smog clouds darken the skies. Factories churn, guns roar, and the earth trembles beneath the march of iron-clad armies.

Across Ter, the old magics flicker and fade. The old gods grow silent and cold, replaced by industry. Where once the songs of the Elderkin rang out, cries of revolution resound.

Nations fracture, new ideologies rise and faiths are tested. Gunpowder and the arcane alike tear the land asunder. Ancient creatures stirred by this upheaval slink back from forgotten shadows, eager to feast upon the dying world.

To live in Ter now is to witness the end of an era, and the birth of a new: the final twilight of magic, the ruthless dawn of industry, and the coming storm of war that will decide the fate of all.

The grinding wheels of progress march ever onwards, slick with blood.


I kinda want to do something with this setting, maybe make it an rpg setting for a campaign, but idk. Any ideas?

>>96469874
To add on to this, the setting pretty much is the old world, and is currently in the 1780-1800's ish in terms of progress. The industrial revolution in this setting has introduced things like the steam engine, early bolt action rifles, and other inventions of this time. Pretty much this industral revolution gave the human states of the time (mostly elf vassal states or fringe kingdoms) a economic and technological advantage over the elderkin (elves) who where still fighting with swords and magic and where too arrogant to adapt to anything. When some of the vassal states started to step out of line, the elves (currently in a succession crisis) decided that nothing would legitimise the new dynasty like a quick war against the savages. This turned out to be a big mistake (elven society had grown decadent and arrogant) and the elves got absolutely butchered and the conflict quickly devolved into trench warfare. Eventually the elves adapted and with the help of several elven states and dwarf clans, where able to defeat most of the upstart human states. However they quickly found that technology had spread across the world and now even more of their vassals where in revolution, and even other races, like the orcs had started to get their hands on it. Now the elves have lost most of their empire, are no longer the major players and are pretty much hated by everyone.

Have an idea for a fantasy rpg world that I've been working on for a while. Basically just filling out a text doc with ideas. I have it in my head, I've tried using free map making things, but they're very jank and not really to the scale I want to explore. I want to make a fully explorable planet, but also have places of dense interest with sub themes, (weird wild west, far east inspired places, steam punk victorian flavored places, wild jungle tree top dwelling places, etc). I'm basically just ripping ideas directly from all of my favorite fantasy franchises and blatantly mashing them together, but also blending them and remixing them into an original setting. I would like to find someone smarter than me to help me condense this into a more cohesive idea, but I also don't want to get ripped off. I also want it to be an extremely slow reveal of the world as its explored. I would like to make it compatable with DnD and PF and other popular ttrpg systems, and maybe adapt it to novels and stuff. I want to include a pokemon style element type theme to everything, but boiled down to various combinations of earth, wind, fire, water, and everything be based off of a variation of these base elements. I also have a source of the strangeness and magic in the world that makes logical sense in a scifi fantasy sort of way. Like a kernel of origin for all the weirdness to act as the mcguffin and the driving force of the world.

>>96460954
NTA, but why would the builders make it so large?

>>96460954
The point of my suggestion was to offer a reason for mecha (logical in-universe siloing of mass combat and dungeon crawling); letting the mecha enter the dungeon obviates that and collapses back to "what do they add".

>>96472508
The Parthenon is pretty big and they didn't have mechas.

>>96384342
Frame Gride (dreamcast game)
Rayearth

>>96389733
do many rural areas have fiber internet? Because if I live in bumfuck, I imagine all my socializing will be via online like VR, games, other means. Doesn't sound so bad since thats how I live now anyway.

>>96474648
The original premise is sci-fi and Starlink is already providing high speed internet to even rich dudes on yachts in the middle of the ocean. For a solarpunk future it is likely an assumed that high speed internet is available everywhere on Earth that can see the sky.

>>96474648
in "bumfuck"? no, you'd be lucky to get working mobile broadband, if thats even still a thing

but like, out past suburban a bit? yeah
we got dsl in 2016 where I live

>>96474648
>>96474768
Quote:
>Starlink users typically experience download speeds between 45 and 280 Mbps, with a majority of users experiencing speeds over 100 Mbps. Upload speeds are typically between 10 and 30 Mbps. Latency ranges between 25 and 60 ms on land, and 100+ ms in certain remote locations (e.g. Oceans, Islands, Antarctica, Alaska, Northern Canada, etc.).
Coverage map says "all of North America and Europe". Probably fine.

>>96389733
yes

>>96475751
Ah yes, Turn A, a far future that dares to ask "what if everything turned out alright despite the superweapons and Earth was a beautiful and kind place for the most part?".

>>96374017
seething troon

>>96465122
>>96469293
So far, i only found two series that have tidally locked planed, unfortunately no map.
>space odyssey
It's actually europa (a moon), but the gas giant became a miniature sun and turned europa into a cold eyeball planet.
>astra lost in space
A hot eyeball planet, but the characters spent so little of time on this planet.
Pic rel is a hot eyeball planet.

I need ideas for sexual dimorphism in jackalopes, especially since I want both genders to have the antlers, as that's probably the best, if not only trait to distinguish them from rabbits

>>96478937
The males have big pointy antlers, the females have short stubby antlers.

>>96452506
Sorry I was busy.
The original idea behind the setting came from people complaining about the look of Cyberpunk 2077 and the responses being "duh the sun still exists in 2077" completely missing the point of the trend of the moody cyberpunk aesthetic (from stuff like Blade Runner 2049) that was present in the teaser and that hyped everyone.

So I removed the sun (for the masses). Night City is completely walled to protect it from the deadly air of the industrial zone, and on top of the city is another city, Cloud City, for the extremely wealthy only.Separating them is the Citadel, a massive military/police complex.

And because rain is also imported for the mood I wanted, I made up a water recycling system that is used to clean the air and the grime from the streets and buildings.

>>96479813
Cloud City is called like that because it is above the very heavy toxic clouds of the Industrial Zone, and when seen from above, the sun rays are reflected by the clouds, making a magnificent scenery for the inhabitants.
So when inside the industrial zone and under the clouds, you only see a dimmed red-tinted light from the sun.

>>96479813
And the Wall isn't just a wall. It contains the water recycling system, the ventilation system, gates with train stations, prisons, guard towers and watchpoints.

>Night City has a ceiling and yet, it rains. In fact it rains a lot. This rains comes from the water recycling system in the walls.
>How it works:
>- Wastewater is drained into the sewage system and sent to the power plants.
>- There, it cools the working fluid of the plants before evaporating.
>- The vapor is funneled through massive pipes, supplemented with cleaning chemicals, and vented back into the city atmosphere.
>- Back in Night City, the vapor collects into clouds until it rains naturally, or the WMC (Water Management Company) forces rainfall to prevent excessive buildup.
>- This chemically enhanced rainwater captures toxins and particles in the air, cools the city and washes grime from buildings and streets into the sewers, serving as an incredibly efficient sanitation loop.
>- The WMC recommends pregnant women and young children to avoid exposure to the rain and drinking it or letting it into the eyes is strongly discouraged. But it is otherwise perfectly safe. (it's not)

>>96478937
Big ol' rabbit titties.

Alternatively maybe the males have an ossicone between the antlers like a giraffe.

Or just make the females much larger than the males.

>>96481296
>Or just make the females much larger than the males.
Why is that so common in many species but not in humans?

>>96483821
There's a ton of species with larger males or equally sized sexes, it usually has to do somewhat with reproductive strategy. Larger females isn't necessarily the "norm."
Species that have harems/reverse-harems usually favor the harem-owner in terms of size, as the harem-owner (whether male or female) needs to be able to defend their harem from sexual competitors.
'Monogamous' animals tend to be of more similar size.
Although these are both generalizations and there are many unique cases based on the evolutionary biology of particular species (look up anglerfish for a really interesting example).

>>96472508
Other pics show those mecha as integrated into (and presumably revered by) the society. Armored Core does it too with yuge robots being yet another facet of humanity's industrial megaphilia.
>>96472932
tbf fantasy doesn't have to mean dungeon-crawling and if it does further empasis could be placed on environmental hazards which a cockpit is better suited to resist (still room for spelunkers in shorter-term enchanted oilskin nbc suits tho).

>>96456621
The fuck are you talking about, autistic irrelevant shit like the Gamgee family lineage or provenance of the Red Book are right there in the appendices because the historical process of history and myth are what Tolkien found interesting. Interest is what it's all about and "manure" is far more apt than "trash" ie a byproduct of digestion from which valuable things can grow. Mostly best to shovel it out of the way though.

>>96484420
Saw something recently whereby ant queens birth males of a whole other species for the purpose of siring infertile worker daughters (the lay same-species sons for the usual outbreeding).

I'm developing a civilized Hobgoblin kingdom that the players would come across in some of my DnD campaigns, and I need a name for it. It's kind of like Tudor England (with Stuart influence). The kingdom would be made up of two demographics, the majority being the Hobgoblin (English) and the minority is Fairies (Welsh). While the two are separate races, they're subraces of each other, and are known to intermingle, and many citizens are a mix of the two. The current ruling monarch dynasty is a Fairy noble family that achieved victory in a civil war many decades ago. Goblins are related to them, but generally the two races look down upon their often more barbaric cousins.

The main characteristics between Hobgoblins and Fairies:
>hobgoblins are shorter than an average human
>they have big ears and long noses, but are generally more handsome and human-like than your average goblins
>their skin is yellow, and they have luminescent, usually green, eyes

>fairies are generally slightly shorter than hobgoblins
>they have more human-like proportions, as their skin is pink, and their noses and ears are a bit smaller, but still larger than those of humans
>they have big round luminescent eyes, which are usually black

>both share similar sense of facial hair, with many sporting different styles of sideburns

Characteristics of the kingdom
>the Kingdom is an island nation known for its powerful Navy and elite Fairy archers
>its ruled by a monarch and a strong parliament composed of rich merchants and nobles
>while the monarch makes most of the decisions, he needs parliamentary approval, creating friction between the two
>aesthetically, people dress like from mid to late Tudors, with some occasional gentlemen looking like Stuarts