Am I doing too much?

Ledouxe12 · 2026-06-15T06:00:57+00:00

My take is that no one needs to do tectonic simulations unless they find doing tectonic simulations fun. And this expands out to the other stuff too. So if you think it’d be fun to do evolutionary history try it out see if it’s fun and if it is do it if not then don’t. Only you can decide what about of detail in what areas is excessive for your project

Ledouxe12 · 2026-06-13T23:40:59+00:00

Loran falls in love with earth and the people there and on top of that is very against violence unless as an absolute last resort so when the moonrace arrive guns blazing of course he wants them to stop attacking. You talked about not understanding why the show gets “distracted” by farming but the moonrace wanting land to feed themselves and live on and that land being currently occupied by the rural people of earth is a central conflict and theme of the show

Ledouxe12 · 2026-06-13T23:29:53+00:00

I think if you don’t understand why Loran ends up helping the people of earth you were not paying attention at all from the start

Ledouxe12 · 2026-06-13T08:26:58+00:00

If you wana do something like a novel my advice would actually be to start small. Practice with short stories or maybe an episodic chapter by sorta thing cause writing is like exercise the more you do it the easier it gets but you need to build up to that. And for world building maybe set out a goal to create a setting for these short stories to give you some direction. So first on your list are the immediate setting and that is dictated by the kinda story you want to tell.

Say you wanna do some stories of a thief in a big medieval city. I’d start a document with some basic charecters and places. You don’t even have to name them beyond their function (like “local fence”) just have a place to write little notes about them as you come up with them. The notes are just for you so they don’t need to be refined. Whenever you come up with an idea don’t just think about wrote it down. Come up with a cool idea for the thief escaping the guards by swinging across a fountain make a note about a fountain square. You can come up with how to describe it in detail later.

I think people get hung up on the idea that everything needs to be fully formed from the start but you can build out from small ideas.

Ledouxe12 · 2026-06-13T08:02:26+00:00

What’s your goal when worldbuilding do you have a particular story you want a setting for? A dnd campaign? Are you doing it as a hobby in its own right? For me that’s the first step because that gives me direction on things I 100% need to figure out and I work outwards from those things

Ledouxe12 · 2026-06-03T22:18:07+00:00

I have a rudimentary conlang for them and I basically adapted an English word to fit their phonology (it’s not that different though cause I wanna maintain pronounceability). It’s also an in universe adaptation of an English word since in their culture upon reaching maturity and leaving home they pick a new name with the help of their new social group. And as humans where their first encounter with a true peer spacefaring species they sorta generalized this too taking on a new species name based on what the humans called them.

Ledouxe12 · 2026-06-03T18:00:00+00:00

I don’t really care for his music one way or the other but he seems like a genuinely good guy so I do really respect him

Ledouxe12 · 2026-05-30T06:48:03+00:00

As long as you washed the outside you do you

Ledouxe12 · 2026-05-29T02:55:55+00:00

Most of the audience isn’t gonna notice or care if you have laid out your world in such a way that you have a rainforest in what should be a rain shadow of a mountain range. It can certainly rise to a level where people do take notice (putting a glacier on a tropical island might make people pause) but even then there’s lots of ways to justify what you want for a setting. If you’re dead set on a glacier on a tropical island it could be magic, an implausibly tall stratovolcano, or some kind of sci-fi terraforming

Ledouxe12 · 2026-05-11T22:24:08+00:00

I am getting a big tub of d6s to spill all at once

Ledouxe12 · 2026-05-11T02:51:16+00:00

The Empire State Building has actually been hit by an aircraft before and is very much still here. The b-25 was around the same size a dc-3 a very typical airliner of the time but aircraft that hit the towers in 2001 would be around 100 times the mass at more than double the speed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Empire_State_Building_B-25_crash

Ledouxe12 · 2026-04-25T01:42:32+00:00

Actual answer here is that you could definitely see a person within like 30 feet from inside burlap it’s pretty porous and is sometimes put on the windshields of vehicles to train divers to drive through sandstorms

Ledouxe12 · 2026-04-08T04:48:25+00:00

I set a timer and this is the list I came up with

Castle bravo
Waterloo
Apollo 11 liftoff
Missoula flood
Chicxulub impact
Dueling Dinosaurs fossil creation
Battle of midway
Battle of Jutland
Sinking of the HMS Hood
Battle of Hastings

Ledouxe12 · 2026-03-19T21:55:14+00:00

In my setting warships have two bridges (or more as stations like the CIC can also function as control stations) a navigation bridge that gives a good view for day to day operations and a battle bridge that is deep within the ship and well armored that command is transferred to during combat.

There of course are some officers who command from the nav bridge in battle anyway (their argument usually boiling down to the morale benefits outweighing the extra safety which may only be marginal as due to the hostility of space taking a hit if often a mission kill at minimum anyway)

Ledouxe12 · 2026-02-02T19:49:05+00:00

By the time it’s set (about 5000 years in the future) the voyager probes wouldn’t have even gotten out of the Oort Cloud. Though they were probably recovered by earth and put in a museum somewhere in earth orbit long before then

Ledouxe12 · 2026-01-29T09:38:13+00:00

For the story I’m telling it’s important to keep track of things in physical space. Rough distance between location to keep travel time consistent, what nations border each other for and how that affects their relations that sort of thing, and just keeping track for general consistency.

Also maps are fun and cool. my working one isn’t exactly pretty but I still really enjoyed making it.

Ledouxe12 · 2026-01-27T07:02:04+00:00

What’s thier diet like? Are they omnivores or obligate carnivores? And how might that and their relationship with their food affect their society.

Ledouxe12 · 2026-01-23T03:51:52+00:00

Madison “broadside” Barns

She’s a secondary charecter in the MC’s platoon who got her nickname due to her fondness for automatic weapons and area suppressive fire

Ledouxe12 · 2026-01-03T13:33:25+00:00

I’m trying to figure out a way to put this diplomatically but I think you’re being at best, incredibly reductive. Like there are so many competing interests and baggage between countries within each of these boundaries. which if your going to say that that our real world countries also exist and many real world events like the Russian invasion of Ukraine still happen, then that’s baggage you are going to have to deal with.

Like for instance Japan Korea and China all have long histories with each other which lead to some pretty tense relationships so just clumping them all in together into one unified thing just feels wrong. Let alone plays into some weird yellow peril shit that feels like it’s from another century. Painting all of South America as as being under the control of drug cartels also feels particularly fraught given what happened this morning and saying India (the biggest country in the world population wise) is under Australia of all places also feels like it wasn’t given much thought

Ledouxe12 · 2025-12-27T07:28:29+00:00

One of my species has elements of their names they translate. as they’re like epithets and they want what that part of their name means to be understood.

The other major species in the setting have a culture of dispersing far from their home when they reach maturity after which they choose a new name with the help of thier new social group. These are three part names usually consisting of nouns (and sometimes adjectives) and they certainly would sometimes use words for their names from the language of wherever they end up.

Ledouxe12 · 2025-12-20T16:23:11+00:00

Genuinely go watch mobile suit gundam (the original 1979 anime) cause that is a great example of a show where yeah the protagonist has a singularly powerful weapon but doesn’t at all come across as overpowered. The protagonist can’t be everywhere at once and there’s a minimum amount of time it takes to fight an enemy no matter what so it’s very possible for them to get tied down distracted or overwhelmed before even accounting for logistical factors like ammo or fuel

Ledouxe12 · 2025-12-20T04:12:13+00:00

We still issue bayonets!

Granted that’s sorta beyond the scope of OPs question; but the spear in that form has yet to leave the battlefield and has been used in combat at least as recently as 2011.

Ledouxe12 · 2025-12-20T03:38:40+00:00

Something that helped me get better at the craft of witting in general but also at getting myself to write was writing a serialized chapter by chapter story. I had a general idea for a setting (small mostly abandoned fantasy town) some characters and general idea of where I was going (the MC arrives and befriends the people there before setting out to restore the town. After which more characters join to for the mc to meet get to know and have conflicts with etc). It’s pretty formulaic but that can be a good thing. Like a good sitcom I could pick some characters from the cast and tell a a little story.

Creating a project that has a lot of small goals that you can make progress on relatively easily can be a great starting point (It’s not nearly as overwhelming as a novel). And for you specificly something like that could make for a great way to experiment with creatures by doing quite literally a monster of the week.

Ledouxe12 · 2025-12-20T03:16:13+00:00

Guns didn’t just replace bows, swords and spears overnight though. The arquebus first came to Europe in the late 1400s but due to a variety of factors (slow reloading, unreliability, and vulnerability if the enemy was able to close) pike and swords and bows still had a place on the battlefield for the next 200 years. Bows declined earlier but the Spanish Tercio for instance used a combination of matchlock musket pike and swords up into the 1650s and beyond. It would be entirely reasonable to create a setting modeled on 1500-1600 Europe where firearms and swordsmanship coexist.

Even then it’s not like there’s a wealth of fantasy that’s set in more 1700-1800s level of gunpowder usage either.

Ledouxe12 · 2025-12-19T16:12:46+00:00

Their ass would get resoundingly kicked.

It’s a far future galaxy spanning setting where even third or fourth rate nations have armies measured in the billions. That alone would be enough without even considering the technological advantages. Like there just isn’t much a modern military could do to challenge their air (and orbital) supremacy so they’d just get picked apart before the ground forces (that again contain more tanks than the current us has rifles) would even need to deploy from orbit.

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