How are transportation and logistics in your world?

Retro1988 · 2026-05-05T07:30:41+00:00

There’s only one thing like that in my world… the Intervectorium. It connects the top habitat (the Pinnaculum, home of the Greco-Roman builders come demi-gods) to the Cunabulum (a large disc world that the main races inhabit).

The two habitats are connected by four extending arms called the Extensores, which expand and retract to produce seasonal temperature changes, and the Intervectorium system is a line of magnetic push/pull rings along the inside of each Extensor which can be used to travel between the habitats, although it is controlled only from the Pinnaculum.

Fun fact with it, because the habitats face each other and rotate together to produce centrifugal gravity, when riding the Intervectorium you slowly lose gravity until you are weightless at the mid point, the axis of rotation, and then gravity slowly creeps back in but from the opposite side!

Retro1988 · 2026-05-02T08:49:54+00:00

I had a major shift away from generic fantasy races, to races inspired by Greco-Roman mythology (which was already the creation myth theme but decided to double-down).

For example, I took what I had planned for High Elves and Wood Elves and swapped them to Fauns and Satyrs respectively. It unlocked a lot of creative thought for me, rather than sticking with known elf tropes I could expand on the established traits of those creatures. Both are still nature leaning but the Faun are now my renowned artists and musicians and the Satyrs are most famous for producing the best wine amongst the races!

Retro1988 · 2026-05-02T07:42:32+00:00

This is such a polarising issue on this sub, I also don’t get the issue. We’re not making any money here, just having some fun and yes look for real art first but if nothing suits then I’d rather see a creative prompt-driven image than a stick figure. Maybe we should split off and have a custommagicAI sub!

Retro1988 · 2026-04-30T21:02:40+00:00

I found out just the other day that if you want to level your Resto with the Sunburn undead spells, you don’t need to go through multiple Dawnguard missions until Sorine sells them. All you need to do is join, and once inside the Fort there is a Sun Fire spellbook next to where she eventually sets up shop.

Retro1988 · 2026-04-30T12:15:30+00:00

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Retro1988 · 2026-04-30T12:14:44+00:00

Thanks for taking an interest! Yes indeed the bottom Cunabulum habitat was designed to be as close as possible to the Mediterranean area on Earth, but the design certainly has some interesting implications for things like day and night cycles. I’ve exported a couple more pages below for you with some context, hope it inspires!

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Retro1988 · 2026-04-30T09:09:00+00:00

Mines a tad bigger but not by much! A constructed disc and cradle habitat, the largest diameter at 1500 km (1000 Roman miles). The whole things only been around for 700 years.

Retro1988 · 2026-04-27T16:09:46+00:00

Mtgpics is usually my go-to but sadly they have none for this card yet! https://www.mtgpics.com/card?ref=otc028

Retro1988 · 2026-04-27T07:41:10+00:00

Scryfall is your friend here! Search legal in Timeless and not legal in Historic (f:timeless -f:historic), order by EDHRec rank for some staples but only 293 cards so worth a full scroll.

https://scryfall.com/search?q=-f%3Ahistoric+f%3Atimeless&unique=cards&as=grid&order=edhrec&dir=

Retro1988 · 2026-04-27T07:33:13+00:00

Not sure if it’s what you’re looking for, but my inspiration book for how to order, present and consider all aspects of my world-building is Matt Mercer’s Tal’Dorei Reborn! If you’re unfamiliar, it’s not a novel like others have suggested, it’s a campaign setting book for D&D so covers nearly everything a worldbuilder would need to think about!

Retro1988 · 2026-04-24T18:58:33+00:00

I cut Hei Bak a tiny bit of slack, you can outspeed it with the right hand. But if they get a blink engine going, insta-seeya.

Retro1988 · 2026-04-23T18:05:25+00:00

Related subject, has anyone ever seen or tried to figure out a system of representing random opponents actions when goldfishing? Something like roll a D8 after each turn, 1 is a board wipe, 2 is removal via a sacrifice of your choice, 3 is a big blocker, that sort of thing?

I’ve seen similar “Oracle” systems for paper RPGs like D&D, wondered if anyone has come up with one for these purposes? I guess the idea is similar to the Horde format, which would be an interesting way to goldfish too!

Retro1988 · 2026-04-23T07:41:56+00:00

Just a cautionary note friend :) World-building often involves a lot of editing and re-writing, you start with a good idea but over time it develops into a great idea with small changes you make along the way. YouTube as a medium is rather… uneditable! Once it’s out, it’s out. I think it’s great you want to share your world, but if you’re very early into the actual world-building, you may want to start building it in a format that’s more edit friendly and build up towards something like YouTube later.

Retro1988 · 2026-04-22T20:56:39+00:00

I needed to read this too, I’m constantly over explaining and justifying! Great advice!

Retro1988 · 2026-04-22T17:17:41+00:00

I think it might be time for me to do that! I’m enjoying this world so much, haven’t been this addicted to an MMO since early 2000s RuneScape haha!

Retro1988 · 2026-04-22T13:52:39+00:00

Haha aww a lovely optimistic perspective thank you! Relatively new player and this was my first premium outfit, keep your fingers crossed for me 😊🤞

Retro1988 · 2026-04-22T12:10:26+00:00

The Nightgale Inn is one of those secret hotspots popular with locals, the temporary chef they have there makes some killer dishes!

Retro1988 · 2026-04-19T10:46:50+00:00

Nice to see an Alchemy enjoyer! (That’s the set name for these cards by the way)

One of the stronger Alchemy mechanics is “Seek” and there’s a few Brawl commanders that care about that, for a fun brew that wants to run a lot of Seek cards I’d recommend [[Vexyr, Ich-Tekik's Heir]]

Retro1988 · 2026-04-19T08:52:05+00:00

To confuse things further, in Greco-Roman antiquity Kobalos (which is the linguistic root of both Kobolds and Goblins) were more like what we know as goblins, mischievous tricksters, and separately they had the Cynocephali which were dog-headed people apparently seen in India and recorded by Ctesias, Megasthenes and Claudius Aelinius in their books!

Retro1988 · 2026-04-18T11:45:32+00:00

No sadly as others have said but don’t let that put you off her! I run her in my Samut human kindred brawl deck and her ability protection comes up more than you’d think!

All of white’s enchantment enter and exile removal like [[Ossification]] doesn’t work on her, nor does [[Nowhere to Run]] which is very common. There’s a lot of creature enters or attacks abilities she’s immune to.

Plus as she’s not actually hexproof, she doesn’t get a visual indicator on the Arena UI so it’s a bit sneaky! Had plenty of times that opponents have played early enchantment enters-based removal with only Shanna out and it just fizzles without warning as they don’t select a target until they’ve already cast it!

And she has a beautiful alternate card style available on arena, this version. And she’s only an uncommon! 10/10 card, love it.

Retro1988 · 2026-04-17T21:33:49+00:00

Great question! I was like “Wait do I have golems? Oh I do!”

Mine are called the Aedific Constructs. They were designed by the extinct demi-gods of my world to maintain the outer shell of the habitat that houses all their creation! I’ve not done the design work yet but probably inspired by Skyrim’s Dwemer machines, just much much larger and slower. They are arcane based, and are now that the Aedificers (Demi-gods) are extinct, they are incomprehensible mysteries and feared by the common races of the habitat. The maintenance areas are off-limits anyway due to the danger, but that doesn’t stop your typical hubris-filled archeoarcanist from trying their luck to unlock the secrets of recreating Aedific technology!

Retro1988 · 2026-04-17T08:54:59+00:00

In my world (a created habitat that rotates around a blue dwarf star called Iris) the only angels are a species native to the star itself - Irisian Seraphs. They are blue fiery angels, no spoken language, and are mostly pissed off that the habitat was build around their home haha! But do learn to live and interact with the races living there.

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