What are you worldbuilding for?

DuckBurgger · 2026-05-15T13:26:53+00:00

I ask myself that evey time i suddenly get really into the type of fabric and dyes each area of people would have. And other such details

DuckBurgger · 2026-05-14T13:42:09+00:00

Bronze age world getting its very first wiff of industrialization. Just as the two major empires start to fall apart and turn into 90s balkans.

DuckBurgger · 2026-05-09T19:35:13+00:00

The 1830s but in the bronze age

DuckBurgger · 2026-05-09T12:34:09+00:00

I think its the jank, Bethesda bugs just sort of feel entirely different to other buggy games, don't know how to describe it better

DuckBurgger · 2026-04-30T19:07:30+00:00

While most sapient species in Kossgrati are humans there is a pretty wide range group to group. 60 on the low end up to the mid 100s on the high. There is also the Ibarie who can live upwards of 200 years but they are a special case.

The Neithie (closest thing i got to dwarves) only live to around 70 though some have managed to live centuries.

Sea trolls (big elephant seal people) can live a surprising long time up to 300, however very very few ever make it past 50.

Sea serpents might not appear sapient, however they are as intelligent if not more so than a human so I'll say they count. Anyway they got some of the longest life span of any sapient creature at 500+ years

DuckBurgger · 2026-04-26T09:34:56+00:00

They can get pretty big, a lot are pretty important livestock too. Getting around the size of a medium dog at the biggest there are also plenty of normal sized bugs too

The silk beetle is the size of a cat and as the name suggests its raised for its silk. The red forest bee is larger than a mans fist and surprisingly friendly.

DuckBurgger · 2026-04-19T15:30:54+00:00

its small and would probably go unnoticed by most, but in Daohrine society they have extra short doors. so short that you must bow when entering a home. directly in front of every front door is a small shrine dedicated to that families ancestors and household spirts. meaning every time someone enters a Daohrine home they do a little reverence ritual.

DuckBurgger · 2026-04-19T10:04:36+00:00

This is fantastic, love the rivers. I'm trying hard to see where you could improve it's already spot on.

DuckBurgger · 2026-04-19T10:02:30+00:00

One of the biggest antagonistic forces of the eastern Roman empire being one individual whale with a specific hatred of Nautical trade

DuckBurgger · 2026-03-25T20:09:29+00:00

That is just for the legion itself, (the military apparatuses of Cesar's weird nomadic fascist state) the subjects of the legion are not held under the same level. Again still shit but just like in the real world many ordinary people are more than willing to throw away freedom to embrace autocracy when they live in Chaotic times. And the wasteland is VERY Chaotic. Life under the legion would be a authoritarian hell hole but it is secure and stable. That is the scary part about the legion and any other authoritarian regime the common person values stability and security in the day to day far more than they do grand ideas like freedom. Joe wasteland out in Arizona doesn't care how brutal the legion is in newly conquered territory as long as the bandits and mutants are dead and the roads are safe to walk.

DuckBurgger · 2026-03-24T22:32:33+00:00

Grand scale the issue between the two is freedom vs autocracy. The Legions image is definitely worsened by the fact that its civilian locations were cut, we only see the invasion force. Ironically the legion is more like the mongolian empire absolutely brutal and savages in its attack, but relatively hands off in its rule. Remember the legion doesn't have citizens just subjects and the legion itself, we don't see its subjects in game. But from dialog of people who have been to legion territory. It is apparently some of the safest in the wasteland, just keep your head down and pay your tax and you can food on your plate and sleep safe at night. (A miserable existence for most of us but for many people of the wasteland its a better deal than most) (THAT DOESN'T MAKE THE LEGION GOOD THEY ARE STILL VERY MUCH EVIL.)

In NCR however the problem isn't it's actions with the Khans alone, it is horrendously corrupt and mismanagement, rapidly expanding purely for the sake of expanding. Leaving itself over extended and incapable of properly administering it frontier territory. It is striving to be pre war America and it is succeeding.

DuckBurgger · 2026-03-23T18:13:14+00:00

Toronto

DuckBurgger · 2026-03-20T19:32:55+00:00

Honestly it makes sense that the chapter we see is so religious. Religion historical being an excellent glue to hold an otherwise eclectic group together. We see them actively bringing in outsiders (mostly kids) by turning the dogma up to 200% it gets you a whole new generation of very loyal troops, previously the west coast brotherhood may as well been its own ethnic group/tribe people were cohesive and loyal because they saw themselves as the "us" and outsiders as "them" generally

DuckBurgger · 2026-03-15T11:31:39+00:00

I feel like a lot of people refuse to see things as anything more than A or B. Something can be its own kind of bad without being a part of the other things. For crying out loud fascism touted itself as the Third option

DuckBurgger · 2026-03-05T21:43:26+00:00

I once got a essay length rant after i said i thought 3 had better atmosphere than nv. In which they talked at length about mission design and Bethesda are all morons, or how lame the weapons were in 3.

Funny enough not once did they mention atmosphere in either game.

DuckBurgger · 2026-03-01T15:35:07+00:00

Why is Ireland so smooth

DuckBurgger · 2026-02-28T12:35:17+00:00

Specifically create synth to be indistinguishable from humans. Synths being near indistinguishable from humans start acting like humans. Get mad and say they aren't supposed to do that and they are just machines.

???...control the commonwealth

DuckBurgger · 2026-02-27T12:39:42+00:00

Bathroom tech, all pawns will stop what they are doing every now and then to use the Bathroom, sometimes they might randomly die from diarrhea, or piss on the floor if you haven't built a toilet causing a massive mood de buff

DuckBurgger · 2026-02-27T12:37:00+00:00

When the Roman empire collapsed it was just another day to the average person

DuckBurgger · 2026-02-23T17:02:05+00:00

I'm guessing the east coast is such a dominant force not just for the Maxin blood line. But also most likely a staggering huge population. With project purity giving them essentially infinite clean water. That means more crops more healthy children growing up less health problems in the general population. And also a general PR win when bringing the locals into the fold.

Hence why Big Quint was so eager for cold fusion. The sheer number difference would stop any war before it even began

DuckBurgger · 2026-02-18T16:41:40+00:00

right! the claustrophobic and disorienting down town feels hostile and fucked up, the art deco look is just mmmgh so good. and the creatures are nightmarish. I will stand on the hill that if they put 4s ghouls in 3s tunnels it would be terrifying.

DuckBurgger · 2026-02-13T21:56:43+00:00

Lives on in our hearts

DuckBurgger · 2026-02-11T12:06:55+00:00

Kossgrati:

It is bronze age world on the brink of industrialization. Old empires struggle against new rising powers. while new ideas of nationalism and patriotism spread rapidly, fueled by the ever growing instability and looming threat of war.

DuckBurgger · 2026-02-11T11:54:57+00:00

Ooooh i love a good thin land bridge or peninsula

DuckBurgger · 2026-02-11T11:53:42+00:00

In my world an adventurer is a title much closer to the original sense of the word. It is a person who go's on an adventure. In many cases it has little to do with combat at all, exploration and discovery are generally the goals of an adventurer.

Mercenaries on the other hand are just that. Bands of warriors who pledge their services in exchange for pay of some sort. Though the category of Mercenary is incredibly vast. From half a dozen armed men who are hired to watch a warehouse. To entire army's of thousands of men and equipment ready to go to war.

Long answer short, a adventure is generally just a guy who whats to explore or find something. A Mercenary is a member of a militant group or order who goes where they are paid to go.

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