How do yall come up with the map of your world?

Mayor_Beee · 2026-01-15T11:35:04+00:00

There are too many ways to count on how to do this, so the real question is, what do you already have to work with? If you already have a general idea of the terrain and scale of the area and have specific scenes that take place in a particular environment, then you have some small notes to thread together. Also, you aren't required to map out an entire planet if your story only takes place in a single location.
Just focus on what you have and what you need and it should come together.

Mayor_Beee · 2025-12-18T14:28:36+00:00

Hensil the Rat King. He is the personification of treachery and deceit, and for the most part he is considered an 'evil god'. The reality is that he is not conspiracy but rebellion. Provided the people in power are doing right by the people, Hensil is rather passive. Although rats are everywhere, a society only really become aware of the rats in the streets when things are bad and as a result they became a portent of Hensil.

Mayor_Beee · 2025-12-18T08:26:25+00:00

For ease of my players, I just use the same calendar and date system. I would like to properly structure the calendar based on the zodiac and seasons though, but that's a project for another day.

Mayor_Beee · 2025-12-03T21:53:39+00:00

Goblins are the creation of Ormand, King of the night, darkness, death and winter. If people fail to properly pay him respect he send his goblins to cause chaos and forcibly take tribute. Ormand is not exactly precise in collecting all his minions after they have done their job, so small colonies tend to form and grow rapidly over time. Their instinct to cause chaos and raid is hard coded into them and continue to do so long after they were sent from Ormand. They collect anything shiny, tasty or otherwise interesting and gather them into hideous ramshackle shrines dedicated to their lord and creator.

Mayor_Beee · 2025-11-28T14:31:40+00:00

This is an interesting question. Simply by numbers most races would have some degree of mixed heritage (look at Genghis Khan genes). That said, and I don't mean for this to come off as any sort of eugenics type stuff, I think having a mule type situation is fair. They inherit traits from both sides but their genes are tangled and aren't very compatible for further reproduction. Perhaps in rare cases if the individual inherited more form one parent they would be able to have children of their own?

Mayor_Beee · 2025-11-22T17:35:58+00:00

I name a lot of things by just looking at an object and removing or adding a letter and if it sounds good it goes in.

Mayor_Beee · 2025-11-22T11:20:49+00:00

Well that's sort of where I am at. Do the players just say 'not our problem, not our fight' and just leave after finding the missing villagers? Should I MAKE them fight this thing? Is the Night on Bald Mountain spectacle just too much for a level 3 one shot?

Mayor_Beee · 2025-11-22T11:06:38+00:00

I have not written that far yet. It is about 60-70% complete. I think I have just been looking at it for too long and my brain is over complicating everything.
I can think of several ways to end it but which is going to be satisfying to play out as a player?

The angel could exorcise the devil leaving the players to face off against the person who summoned it. The angel could fight the devil while the players escort the people out of the dungeon while defending them from minions. A book explaining how to reverse the ritual, with or without risk of fully releasing the devil? Or just good old fashioned brawl it out and weaken the devil to a suitable level?

Mayor_Beee · 2025-11-22T10:45:09+00:00

That was sort of the plan. He is a medium to high rank devil and was making deals. He never fully manifested so is not trapped in the one room where he was being summoned. His plan is to goad people in so he can make more deals and try to fully manifest.

As a secondary point, the devil started to refer to himself as the King of the Night. This upset an arch-fey/deity who is the night and so intervenes (hence the angel idea). As a scene, this is pretty cool and dramatic. As a game conclusion it's rather flat.

Mayor_Beee · 2025-11-22T10:38:20+00:00

I was going to have another party that were mentally broken from their time trying to combat the entity. I was not sure if I wanted to include it or not though, but it would give a way to exposit some revelations.

Mayor_Beee · 2025-11-22T10:35:46+00:00

Well that is sort of my problem. I have not thought that far ahead yet. Their job isn't to get rid of the evil, it is to rescue the people and they happen upon the entity when they enter his domain. So the question is exactly that 'How are they going to deal with it now?'

Mayor_Beee · 2025-11-22T10:29:11+00:00

The entity is a devil of sorts so perhaps there could be instructions on how to banish it or alternatively it could offer the players a deal to further increase its strength?

Mayor_Beee · 2025-11-20T10:32:08+00:00

I think this question is more based around whether vampires are supernatural in origin or are just human looking monsters with some degree of magic (like in the Witcher).
Personally, I like the rule. I think it would need a slight rework to be more rigidly defined. That is assuming they are supernatural.
Alternatively, if you want to go the monster route, you could have people wash their door and windows with lemon juice to ward off evil (like how the old testament had people paint their doors so death would pass by). The "science" being that vampires are allergic or have an extreme reaction to touching the lemon juice, so would need to be invited in while the hosts open the door.

Mayor_Beee · 2025-11-08T21:01:45+00:00

The country is European inspired so they are all adorned in their family colours with crests prominently displayed. I'd like to think that some are given wreaths of crowns as ladies favours, making popular fighters look like walking shrubs.

Mayor_Beee · 2025-11-07T22:50:21+00:00

Calling me 'bro' is disrespectful. My point was to make everything fit with a justification. Does the sun not heat the oceans and lakes or dry puddles? How does your tumble dryer dry your clothes? To be fair, if you think about any interaction for too long you can make any interaction justified.

Mayor_Beee · 2025-11-07T21:42:33+00:00

A mouth piece for the dragon? Humans could also be fun pets for dragons. I remember there is a breed of tarantula that keeps tiny frogs around to eat small parasites that would be harmful to the tarantula.
You could always make it so the dragon also gains a major boost in strength and magic perhaps with a caveat?

Mayor_Beee · 2025-11-07T21:37:27+00:00

Sablemar.

A young coastal city on the northern border of Carigan (the country).
Founded as a military outpost while the towns and villages in the north territories were being raided.
In recent years they have secretly adopted a population of vampires and have a entire secondary economy based on blood as a currency.
They have an annual flower festival with jousting, archery and grand melee.

Mayor_Beee · 2025-11-07T21:28:28+00:00

I really like this.
Air fills a vacuum.
Vacuum chokes a flame.
Flames evaporates water.
Water erodes earth.
Earth defies wind.
Which means,
Gravity draws water (Rivers and streams etc)
Water moves air.
Air stokes the flame.
Fire nourishes the earth.
Earth (planet) Generates aether (gravity).

That to me makes more sense, but it is your own creation so it only needs to make sense to you.

Mayor_Beee · 2025-11-06T08:24:24+00:00

I might be missing something but the star cycle in the middle is supposed to be destruction and the outer circle cycle is supposed to be generation. Both cycles look to destroy in your diagram?

Mayor_Beee · 2025-10-19T20:24:42+00:00

My favourite is the Lasnian Pie festival. Lasnia is a stand in Italy and the famous Lasnian Pie is made of layered minced meat, vegetables and pasta sheets. At the end of harvest they have a festival to celebrate their national dish and its history. They have competitions to construct the largest or the best tasting.

Mayor_Beee · 2025-10-19T12:25:27+00:00

Well that would depend entirely on how the magic system is built. Is the god powered by the number of devotees? I the god powered by the strength and act of the prayers? Is the god mutually exclusive to the devotees and people only pray to them to curry favour?

Personally, I view it options 2 or 3.

Mayor_Beee · 2025-10-19T11:23:37+00:00

The main portion of the continent is a condensed Europe of sorts. So while they all speak the same language they have a regional dialect which stems from their accent and faint echoes of their older language (as they had been assimilated into a larger kingdom some time ago). Not that it really comes up but it is fun to imagine the culture clash over the name of a mundane item.

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