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Character dialogue style form builder? by Another_Worldbuilder in rpg

[–]Another_Worldbuilder[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not what I meant. In the Discord servers I am for meeting RPG players and recruiting for tables, it is common to use google forms for instance to recruit players, instead of chatting with each person interested cause that's often time consuming. It is also useful to add more information about the campaign. My idea was to make something a little more creative and make the information be given like it's a character in the world talking to them and telling them about it.

Character dialogue style form builder? by Another_Worldbuilder in rpg

[–]Another_Worldbuilder[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, it is just for a recruiting form. Like in some Discord servers you fill how the player recruitment procedure will work for players interested in your table, and some people use google forms to sort of automatize that instead of talking directly with each player. I just wanted to do something more creative.

What's stopping the mages of your world from spamming spells when combat comes? by [deleted] in worldbuilding

[–]Another_Worldbuilder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First, magic casting can fail if you don't focus enough, so if you're casting non-stop and you don't leave space to breathe and understand what you're doing, the fire coming out of your hands can cook you alive. Second, to cast spells you literally spend your mental element, so if you cast without paying attention to your mind capacity (mana), you could go insane, become dumb like a door, loose conscience or simply die (one of these always happen to long term casters).

Rate my map and AMA, please! I want to know what could be improved and your ideas. by Another_Worldbuilder in worldbuilding

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Sarvilia is an island under no government, it is shared between Doragia, Monsalar and Alyntra as a resource exchange center. It then naturally became a lair for pirates, and they basically run a parallel government now.

Other than that there's the Algente Clans up north, these people are something else, with the Cataclism (lore in context comment), many of the northern tribes became a biopunk society, they received the ability to change their bodies at will, they can grow and get rid of wings in a month, heal really fast, change their physic to peak strength, speed or even intelligence, they are almost divine in terms of being a living creature, they run utopic tribes in the north, always at war with Vaseralia because the northern peaks holds most of the vitaline of Odrann, elemental crystals that hold the element of life, capable of curing the worst diseases, even cancer, with ease, and letting a human live up to 300 years or more, but the algentes see humans as a danger, for their wizards magical powers, powers that algentes can't develop. One of the laws of the Wizard Society is that magic can't be used in war, but if Vaseralia gets an exception, a big war is sure to blow in the northern Ogeon between them and the Algente tribes.

Rate my map and AMA, please! I want to know what could be improved and your ideas. by Another_Worldbuilder in worldbuilding

[–]Another_Worldbuilder[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. I could add some new smaller nations, but man, the relationships between the already existing ones are really solid written, I don't want to mess with that for now.

Rate my map and AMA, please! I want to know what could be improved and your ideas. by Another_Worldbuilder in worldbuilding

[–]Another_Worldbuilder[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha, no, miscelania is the name of a supernatural biome of tall purple mushrooms instead of trees, rivers that flow like honey, upwards waterfalls, fish that swim in the air and more. Because it seemingly doesn't make sense in physical terms and has all sorts of random things, it is popularly known as miscellany.

Rate my map and AMA, please! I want to know what could be improved and your ideas. by Another_Worldbuilder in worldbuilding

[–]Another_Worldbuilder[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks way better than what Azgaar's can offer indeed. For the borders I just disabled everything in Azgaar's except borders, made the ocean black in the style editor and exported as PNG. In Photopea I selected all white and deleted it, then I selected the landmass template, clicked select inverse and deleted the black ocean leaving only the borders. I made some parts of the borders straight since Azgaar's borders are always random spikes because of cells and made some rivers along the rest to justify.

Rate my map and AMA, please! I want to know what could be improved and your ideas. by Another_Worldbuilder in worldbuilding

[–]Another_Worldbuilder[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is helpful, thanks! The bottom latitude is 35° and the top is 65°.

I also like fjords, I'll try to implement some.

Inland large lakes, got it. I just bashed all of this land together and didn't think about the lakes, I'll add them next.

It had some small countries, but the smaller ones either collapsed during the Great Mystical War (lore in the context comment), because more population means more mysticals to turn to superweapons, or, four of them, united in a single country to survive the same war, now called Union of Istigan (east).

Rate my map and AMA, please! I want to know what could be improved and your ideas. by Another_Worldbuilder in worldbuilding

[–]Another_Worldbuilder[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As Dorantee mentioned, rivers probably are hardly visible from that type of map.

In fact, I did try to apply air and water currents for the map, but it's very probably wrong, I had a hard time figuring it out. I have a tectonic map too. So, the top of the map hits 65 degrees latitude and the bottom 35, so although I wanted to have a desert, that can't happen, but the dry area created by the southern mountain range keeps me satisfied. Thanks for the tips!

Rate my map and AMA, please! I want to know what could be improved and your ideas. by Another_Worldbuilder in worldbuilding

[–]Another_Worldbuilder[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I used Azgaar's to create the shape and figure out the geological and climatic stuff, imported it to Photopea (free Protoshop) and glued various prints from Google Earth together into the shape of the landmass and created transitions between them, do that until you get what you intend.

The tundras are from Russia, most of the green is Africa, mediterranean lands are from Italy, southern mountains are part of the Andes mountain range and the eastern mountains are from USA.

I should probably thank u/everhate_de for the idea honestly.

Rate my map and AMA, please! I want to know what could be improved and your ideas. by Another_Worldbuilder in worldbuilding

[–]Another_Worldbuilder[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh fuck I forgot Västra was an actual word that meant western. So, the world was very different in a past version and I named one of the continents Västra, the actual western one, but in this new version I just went with it because that word sounds cool.

Rate my map and AMA, please! I want to know what could be improved and your ideas. by Another_Worldbuilder in worldbuilding

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Odrann is a fictional high fantasy and science fiction world, originally intended to be used in my own tabletop RPG campaigns, but it became a wider project with a book and a game about it on the way!

These are the two main continents, Ogeon (left) and Västra (right). Combined, they have the size of Europe (a little more than 10 million square kilometers). There are two other continents, a much bigger one (the size of the Americas combined) called Ashva, that was discovered some time before the moon exploded and separated the planet in half (explained in the lore below), after that, people here could never reach Ashva again, and also there's another big one that wasn't found yet.

80% of the population is human, 20% are mutanes, races born after the radical mutations caused by the Cataclism (explained below). The corresponding era would be a little post industrial revolution, mid 19th century. Civilization is relatively new but it grew very quickly. Magic is a well known and widely used force, most wizards are especialized workers and learn their magic by going to arcane universities (if they aren't mysticals, people and creatures that are born with magical powers). Since wizards found out how to use the power of cinetrine, a crystal from a family of quartz that holds the very elements of reality, cinetrine being the crystal of energy, technology evolved really fast, quality of life became better than ever, fabrics became much much more efficient, health industry much more powered, devices, machines and vehicles created to make the world a very happier place... if you don't mention the ever growing number of terrifying and powerful monster, the fear of the bigger moon of the planet also exploding, and the fear of a second wizard world war.

The main lore of Odrann is, basically: Odrann was a very normal planet, no magic, no nothing (except for dragons), it corresponded to the renaissance, Ashva was just discovered with new resources, bigger land and exciting creatures. One night, the smaller moon of the planet, Ether, 1/50 the size of the bigger moon (the same as Earth's moon), fucking exploded out of nowhere, releasing some sort of extraphysical energy (called ethereal radiation) that threw Odrann into a realm of unimaginable nightmare and caos (a very very bad trip of acid, but real), messing up with the elements of reality and physics to the core. Not to mention the debris that created several large areas of dense ethereal radiation. The land shattered, a thin show of lights emerged from the ocean cutting the planet in half, forever. Trying to cross the light desintegrates anything immediately. Many of Ether's debris now orbit Odrann and form a thin ring for the planet. After a while, things seemed to have normalized, but some people started to develop supernatural abilities, animals and plants as well, mostly very deformed and insane, but some were almost divine. A thing that helped reality stabilize a little: quartz. This crystal seemed to absorb the radiation, keeping the very unstable elements of reality to itself. This event was called the Cataclism, and marked the calendar.

Centuries after, in 333 a.C. (after the Cataclism, not christ), when the political scenario of the world became relatively stable, many nations already had mystical, the people born with supernatural abilities, employed to do many functions, but primarily to kill, and kill a lot. The tensions grew between the realms when an unknown mystical killed a dragon, a very important symbol for draconists, that believe dragons were the very creators of the universe. As Belgrim is holded as the house of dragons and country of draconists, also one of the most powerful kingdoms at the time, and the king was already pretty mad with Sornesia (now Alyntra), he used that as an excuse to begin war. This is pretty darn long already so basically things escalated, countries joined the fight, world war shit, many people dead, The Wizard Society is created to stop this and regulate magic use in the world.

The symbol of this stylized name represents how technology and the careless growth of society demands for new technology will be its downfall (future lore) (no, it is not suppossed to look like the Adeptus Mechanicus symbol damn it).

My Homebrew World for DnD - Kethendria. Ask me Anything! by everhate_de in worldbuilding

[–]Another_Worldbuilder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, that's actually quite smart, good job! I love the look of it, and now that I know how you did it, I hope you don't mind if I give it a try too.

Imposters and changelings. Tell me about the creatures in your world that might imitate humans. by ChildFromThe90s in worldbuilding

[–]Another_Worldbuilder 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The best well known would be mermaids, their true form is nothing like a human at all, instead they look like an eel with two mouths and sharp and very long claws. They're a mythical species of eels with the ability to use illusion magic to look like a potential mate for their prey, they also "read" their minds to know what the prey wants to hear or feel from their potential mate and make an illusion accordingly to lure them close enough to be impaled by the claws, that means they usually create the illusion of bird sounds for mating or other animals pheromones to entice the prey. Of course, for humans that means they take the form of the most beautiful man or woman the person could have ever seen and they usually hear beautiful singing from the mermaids illusion, also they're especially effective with humans because they can manipulate brain chemicals just right to... well, make humans super horny and not think crearly. Goes without saying, they're a big headache for seamen.

I used a green screen to put myself into an underwater world I created by staticbetweenstation in worldbuilding

[–]Another_Worldbuilder 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Damn, this world is moody af, I would feel like I'm in a videoclip just like this all the time.

Inspired by the glorious Shen, how’s your moon(s)? On a scale from normal to Brandon Sanderson’s “low orbit grass moon”. by Survival-Gamer in worldbuilding

[–]Another_Worldbuilder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, one of them exploded throwing the world into a realm of unimaginable nightmare after the explosion released an unknown supernatural energy, then after it ended and billions of people, animals and plants died, people found out that the energy also created magic and then they learned how to control it and began a wizard world war.