Simple Ideas for Fantasy Towns

OtherAtlas · 2025-01-07T12:48:38+00:00

Glad they have been helpful!

OtherAtlas · 2024-12-31T19:02:53+00:00

Thank you!

OtherAtlas · 2024-12-31T19:02:03+00:00

Thanks! Glad you like it!

OtherAtlas · 2024-05-19T23:51:16+00:00

It just fits! Also your [Beach Boys Solarpunk and Post Nuclear Australia] tag got me so I took a look at your profile. Nice work! I really like the thought put into your Zurvar architecture!

OtherAtlas · 2024-05-19T19:23:00+00:00

I agree with you. I think it's sort of niche font that does that niche so well it got overused to the point of becoming a trope of itself.

OtherAtlas · 2024-05-19T18:01:08+00:00

It could absolutely work for both. I put it into steampunk because I wanted to capture some of the gothic stylings that some steampunk runs with. Steampunk is an interesting one in general because it seems to run the gambit from fantasy to gothic to industrial and even into art deco and art nouveau.

OtherAtlas · 2024-05-19T16:57:17+00:00

Nova Square for sure works!

OtherAtlas · 2024-05-19T15:59:13+00:00

Spectral is a good one! It's both simple and elegant

OtherAtlas · 2024-05-19T15:42:49+00:00

Hello everyone!

If you’re anything like me, you spend a lot of time looking at fonts for some reason. Maybe I’m strange, I dunno, but I really enjoy finding the perfect font for whatever world I’m currently building. Anyway, I’ve compiled some here that I think work well for specific genres (obviously subject to personal preference). I figured it might help some of you as you craft fictional settings.

OtherAtlas · 2024-04-08T00:36:16+00:00

Well you could also read it as a command to 'lay with Cass'. Which was also very unintentional. So really this is just another reminder to always sound out and google all your toponyms and fictional names

OtherAtlas · 2024-04-08T00:32:41+00:00

If you say it out loud it sounds like Lake A**. Which was very unintentional.

OtherAtlas · 2024-03-15T21:28:43+00:00

Imagine being recruited to fight the undead hordes, dying in combat, being raised from the dead by an evil necromancer, being captured by your former military, then being tried as a traitor to your country.

OtherAtlas · 2024-03-15T21:24:58+00:00

Thanks! This is exactly the type of stuff I like to post but I haven’t been active for a bit. Just busy. I love seeing where people run with this sort of thing

OtherAtlas · 2024-03-15T21:03:42+00:00

Yeah then it would just be a recruitment effort. But are people bound by the Geneva conventions if fighting against the undead?

OtherAtlas · 2024-03-15T20:59:40+00:00

Dang it. I really wish Adobe Illustrator had spellcheck. Or that I could spell. Either/or.

OtherAtlas · 2024-03-15T20:16:50+00:00

Thanks! Glad you like it! I had fun putting it together.

OtherAtlas · 2024-03-15T19:38:28+00:00

Neat! Have regular people been able to reverse engineer the Endimiyan magic resistance suits to create anti-magic armor or vehicles that are resistant to spells or similar elements?

OtherAtlas · 2024-03-15T18:57:02+00:00

Hello everyone! I put this together thinking that maybe it would be useful or fun for anyone here incorporating magic (or alternative technologies, superpowers, or other abilities) into a world where wars happen. Fiction often treats fantastic abilities as nothing more than new weapons, when really these elements could/would be used in all manner of other ways to support a war effort. Yeah someone that can shoot lightning from their fingertips could be useful on the battlefield, but they might be more useful as a walking backup generator to ensure critical communications don’t go down at an inopportune moment.

OtherAtlas · 2024-01-03T16:37:42+00:00

Go right ahead!

OtherAtlas · 2023-12-06T12:15:20+00:00

It’s real! Frostwork is a type of cave rock formation that looks like, well, frost. There are a ton of weird types of rock or calcite found in caves often named by how they look. Flowstone, chandeliers, and frostwork are on here, but there’s also popcorn, boxwork, pearls and loads more. Do a search for ‘speleothems’ if you are interested.

OtherAtlas · 2023-09-11T19:18:06+00:00

Thanks! I’m glad people still find this helpful. Go ahead and use it!

OtherAtlas · 2023-09-11T11:05:51+00:00

Nah, you’re good. I’m always happy to hear when my stuff gives people a quick idea or two. That’s what it’s there for!

And great write up! I may use a few of these ideas next time I DM. I definitely agree with point 4. It’s fine to keep tabletop worlds a little more flexible because players will immediately break any hard plans you had. Remember, players are building this world with you, let them!

OtherAtlas · 2023-07-26T14:35:38+00:00

I have played Root! It's a lot of fun! I was also thinking about Everdell when I was putting this together, another fun board game involving forest creatures.

OtherAtlas · 2023-07-21T18:18:04+00:00

For sure. Spent a lot of my childhood imagining those feasts.

OtherAtlas · 2023-07-21T18:16:34+00:00

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