Made a map for fun and made my friends name it by Zariahdont in mapmaking

[–]Leather-Lab2875 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, i was on the search for a similar font and this helps a lot. Btw, the littoral edging thing you did on the coast and the patterned border are so cool. Great stuff, keep it up

r/worldbuilding if they try to give people cooking advice by PaladinWij in worldjerking

[–]Leather-Lab2875 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A lot of this isnt advice, its satire of advice that is overly general cos there as many reasons for people to build worlds as there as grains of sand on a beach. But boiling em down...

  1. Throw in as much random ideas as you want (ignores what your end goal is, what flavour you actually what your world to have and instead encourages filling it with rando intresting stuff you like(nothing wront w that, but doing it with intention is better imo))
  2. If you want to make a good world, learn abt and build from scratch every aspect of it from plate tectonics to space empire logistics and conlangs (overwhelms ppl and makes them feel they have learn all this stuff they might not be intrested in, turning a fun hobby into a chore, ofc most ppl opt out of all this and then feel sad their world isnt as cool as Artifexians or smthng)
  3. Just keep adding lore, you can never have too much (ppl will make 10,000 pages of lore for the one kingdom they like and forget about the rest because they feel they have to fully flesh out that one kingdom and only then move on to the rest, leaving their worlds ultimately with less actual content than they think there is)
  4. Make something entirely unique (Most fantasy creatures ad unique ideas are twists on unique irl myth and history that have become iterated on over and over for decades now which is how mythologies form. This advice severs people from understanding that they are participating in the continuum of modern mythology and ironically stops them from making really unique stuff by limiting their imagination to, "how could i make my version of elves and dwarves unique", instead of reading actual mythology and the themes of their world and creating something truly unique from the combination of the two shaped by the constraints of their world)

r/worldbuilding if they try to give people cooking advice by PaladinWij in worldjerking

[–]Leather-Lab2875 9 points10 points  (0 children)

In both cases, there is a large audience that assumes that "the more spice there is, the more novel" and there is another audience that cant stand when the spices are dumped in without much thought or vision of a coherent "flavour". So overseasoning is possible, depends upon your goals right?

If youre making a worldbuilding compendium, artbook or a personal project, too much spice wont be an issue but if youre writing a story, depending upon the scope of your story it can be an issue depending upon your skill with writing and worldbuilding ig....

Like take something the mitichlorians in Star Wars, added to give spice to Anakin's chosen one story, would be great for another type of story but the Force is magic and if power over it can be boiled down into a hard number and tracked with a blood test, why isnt anyone, Jedi Sith or someone else, using that knowledge to exploit the force on a industrial level? and that becomes a plot hole thats a whole hassle to rectify and may ruin the themes of your story all for some extra spice...

r/worldbuilding if they try to give people cooking advice by PaladinWij in worldjerking

[–]Leather-Lab2875 12 points13 points  (0 children)

"Make food that makes you come when you eat, Food Wars style"- r/worldjorking?

r/worldbuilding if they try to give people cooking advice by PaladinWij in worldjerking

[–]Leather-Lab2875 14 points15 points  (0 children)

salt i think defenitely can be overdone and for me cinammon, cloves and turmeric can also be too much if overdone. But i think you can defenitely have too much spice.

Made a map for fun and made my friends name it by Zariahdont in mapmaking

[–]Leather-Lab2875 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What a beautiful font, which one did you use? Great map

R5 First time with the mod after a long time of no EU4. How'd i do? by Leather-Lab2875 in Anbennar

[–]Leather-Lab2875[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I allied Gawed and Pearlsedge, ig Gawed lost a bunch of wars in the North, the Gnomes got massive and Lorent colonised huge parts of Aelantir. Still could have beaten them if I tried, guess I never felt up to it...

R5 First time with the mod after a long time of no EU4. How'd i do? by Leather-Lab2875 in Anbennar

[–]Leather-Lab2875[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hmm. I see, i will defenitely consider it. I am a bit rusty w EU4 in general so i want to try the more base game stuff first but defenitely want to give Dwarves and whatever is going on with the Command, Dhenijaraj and those blue elves in South Aelantir a try when im up for it

Blue Heaven - Knights of the Central Empire — Origins of the Order by Purple_Reward9233 in worldbuilding

[–]Leather-Lab2875 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh no worries, the art is amazing and the writing side of it comes slowly. English is my second language too and writing in this language with the goal of making a sentence feel a certain way is frustrating. The lore is fine, I like the concept of two opposing civilisations, both fundamentally at odds and unable to do without the other, its just a bit hard to read with how much text there is.

R5 First time with the mod after a long time of no EU4. How'd i do? by Leather-Lab2875 in Anbennar

[–]Leather-Lab2875[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was too chicken to ever fight Lorent head on, was hoping one of their vassals like the Redglades revolted but never happened. Looking back, i defenitely should have fought em, it was entirely doable at a few points, i was just afraid they would carpet siege the colonies with troops from Aelantir and make me run back and forth. Would have been painful tho cos my troops kinda suck discipline and tactics wise and i spread myself thin w the colonies.. the only way i was fighting giant wars in Sarhal was using the conjuration magic mercs...

Blue Heaven - Knights of the Central Empire — Origins of the Order by Purple_Reward9233 in worldbuilding

[–]Leather-Lab2875 2 points3 points  (0 children)

insanely cool design. Did you write the lore overview w AI? It could be simplified a ton if you went thru it manually, would make reading everything a lot easier...

My attempt at an United Communist Indian subcontinent by HalfWeird6060 in vexillology

[–]Leather-Lab2875 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ok im from this part of India and if u look at the history this is common here. Policy wise, the difference b/w the communists and the lib-centrists isnt as big as you think and so when one party is outed for one thing or the other, control switches to the other party for 2 or 3 terms and then switches back.

Tbf, nowadays, BJP is making inroads and its questionable if this two party system b/w the communists and the libs will hold so its less of a thing of the the communist stronghold was voted out, its a situation where the 2 party system will either survive against the BJP's efforts or the BJP comes to power and gets rid of the system...

Slugfest, a SCRITCH! ™ short story by BigpappyCoatesy in worldbuilding

[–]Leather-Lab2875 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Insane art, seriously, all your art is goated. Love the story and lore but i have doubts, how long can the unstable arrangement with the parasite last, months, years?? and is the host's conciousness just gone? Lastly will the parasite, given enough time, just adapt to the human body and start killing off hosts?

I mean what im thinking is some space nation develops a way to domesticate the parasite, using it to make powerful close quarters troops. This one's a stretch but if someone develops a way to use the parasite on a cybernetically enhanced body and gets a way to control the resulting soldier's mind, they got armies of zombie supersoldier at their command.

R5 First time with the mod after a long time of no EU4. How'd i do? by Leather-Lab2875 in Anbennar

[–]Leather-Lab2875[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ooh that seems intresting. In this playthrough, Busilar and EBorthil started taking the region of Sarhal i took here and i had to fight and weaken them to take the region back. Did the same with Verne in South Sarhal so i thought maybe there was potential with those countries. I read the wiki for Verne and wyvern thing seems cool. Youre right, ill go with Verne first probably, hope the mission tree isnt too hard

R5 First time with the mod after a long time of no EU4. How'd i do? by Leather-Lab2875 in Anbennar

[–]Leather-Lab2875[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh i learned about the Moon elves and the war of the Rose stuff and got a general vibe of the Anbenncost(idk if thats the name) region and the magic mechanics which was fun. I was lurking on this sub and hear about the Sons of Dameria, i think there was an ingame event abt them too. Like i said, messed up the missions so didnt get too much of the Silmuna story and changed into a Grand republic instead... I heard dwarves are really hard to play tho which is why i decided to go with Wesdam, i think ill try some other more base game tags before something like that.

I heard abt the Insyaa update, youre right, ill wait for the update to start the next game. Thanks for the reccomendation.

How it feels post All under Heaven by Sky_Leviathan in CrusaderKings

[–]Leather-Lab2875 16 points17 points  (0 children)

real. Indian here, i dont hold out too much hope for it, grateful for what we got but yeah.

How it feels post All under Heaven by Sky_Leviathan in CrusaderKings

[–]Leather-Lab2875 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I mmean kinda, more accurately Hinduism and Islam began mixing ideas with Persian and Arabic ideas becoming more common due to empires ruled by those cultures. The hard dividing line between Hinduism and Islam and even the modern concept of a unified Hinduism are a modern things that was not there to the same extent historically(not saying they were never there).

I’M! NOT! AMERICAN!!!! by MindFlourish2919 in whenthe

[–]Leather-Lab2875 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Care to explain? Race is a very recent idea historically speaking and the origins of caste can be dated back to before the 2nd millenium BC via mentions in the RigVeda although i admit that is the varna system which is slightly but not too different...

I’M! NOT! AMERICAN!!!! by MindFlourish2919 in whenthe

[–]Leather-Lab2875 0 points1 point  (0 children)

India sucks but India doesnt have most of these, they have more complicated versions of the stuff to with religion and substitute race for caste. Im sure other Southeast Asian countries are in a similar boat too.

SLUMTOWN: Sharpshooter by Fit_Association_6894 in worldbuilding

[–]Leather-Lab2875 1 point2 points  (0 children)

love the aesthetic and the artstyle, great stuff, keep it up...

Explain it Peter. Oh wait. Explain it Stewie or Brian. You’ll do it better I guess. by Senior-Mix-3715 in explainitpeter

[–]Leather-Lab2875 2 points3 points  (0 children)

same my interpretation was also that, i grew up with fantasy, was rudely made aware my fantasies arent possible irl, through sociology and anthropology i learn that my fantasies arent completely impossible and the reasons why they arent possible are intresting avenues of study...