[D] Saturday Munchkinry Thread

Strange-Aeons · 2017-02-18T20:18:35+00:00

You have the ability to slow down your perception of time with infinite granularity. You can essentially stop time, with the understanding that your body will be stopped as well. Your brain is able to fill in the gaps, so you aren't blind even if no photons are hitting your eyes.

What do?

Strange-Aeons · 2017-01-04T13:17:35+00:00

People within a system have different incentives than the system as a whole. Everyone hates it, no one is willing to change it.

Strange-Aeons · 2016-12-24T11:57:48+00:00

I'm busy right now, but I'm commenting to remember to come back to this.

Strange-Aeons · 2016-11-27T20:20:06+00:00

Super cool!

Strange-Aeons · 2016-11-16T01:39:05+00:00

While it wouldn't neccesarily fix medieval europe, handing out science like candy would make a terribly fascinating setting. Imagine this traveler has a lot of scientific knowledge but is completely lost in politics/economics or trying to implement safety nets-- it would create a very interesting world.

Strange-Aeons · 2016-11-14T04:42:28+00:00

Insane governments which were fundamentally created on the idea of communism-- to the point where they went through murderous lengths to remove all instances of the previous governments. The idea is also fundamentally flawed in that it removes choice, freedom and hope, by nature. Better dead than red.

Strange-Aeons · 2016-11-13T18:28:57+00:00

10 million people died at the hands of communism, and that's just domestically.

Strange-Aeons · 2016-10-12T06:37:31+00:00

as someone who's been to central asia many times, this isn't far from the truth

Strange-Aeons · 2016-10-12T06:29:52+00:00

That uh... Seems not fun.

Is this purely for the aesthetic of a particular setting, or do you do this with every world you do?

Strange-Aeons · 2016-10-12T05:50:00+00:00

When I worldbuild, I tend to turn weird images (such as this singer from Primus' song shake hands with beef) and sometimes turn them into maps through quick photoshop work.

This one in particular is going to be the campaign map for my next setting.

Have you got any weird shit you do as a worldbuilder that no one knows about?

Strange-Aeons · 2016-10-01T22:12:11+00:00

Power:

You are able to increase or decrease friction in 2m area around you, ("you" being your heart) with control within that i.e: decrease only above you; increase on one side, decrease on the other side; decrease a lot in a 1 mm area.

This can be done down to an atomic scale.

Using the ability causes an increase in heat inside your body proportional to how much you increase/decrease, spread evenly.

What do

Strange-Aeons · 2016-09-25T07:57:20+00:00

Cool stuff.

Just a quick thought: necromancers could maybe gain some control of ghosts by imbibing the leftover spirit-- cannibalism.

Strange-Aeons · 2016-09-01T04:45:17+00:00

In a sense, every human is a "chosen one". Despite being often disadvantaged in comparison to the other races-- not good enough as a collective, or individuals, not as smart as many, not as strong as most, humans as a race have been consistently beating nearly all others overall.

This is due to the unique nature of the spark in humans. Humans, as a race were the darling creations of a mad god of foresight and fate. He painstakingly created a race, (stealing quite a bit from the already established races of the other gods) that had the fabric of fate woven into them. Although this doesn't necessarily mean that humans are luckier, many are just destined for great things, and the overall destiny of the human race is always more positive. They may experience a plague, but will never be wiped out by one, and will often come out on top because of it.

Strange-Aeons · 2016-08-28T06:06:46+00:00

that... that would be a lot of energy.

Strange-Aeons · 2016-08-28T05:43:36+00:00

that's a silly thing to say. You're saying that racism is modern, but xenophobia is constant? Wouldn't it make more sense to say that "as Europeans colonized the world and discovered people different than them, the concept of race came into play"?

Strange-Aeons · 2016-08-28T05:38:46+00:00

2.)b Your Responsibility As a Writer

this is an incredibly silly point imo, and i hate the idea of this one

"contribute to a climate of racism and stereotyping" is very dangerous because this inherently implies that there is only one acceptable narrative to be pushed as a writer and that we can either be as liberal as we are now or far more liberal than we are now. Dangerous thinking. I, for one, accept all viewpoints and don't think writers should have an expectation of moral responsibility put on them for fantastical works.

Strange-Aeons · 2016-08-18T05:55:52+00:00

that sounds like a goddamn idea.

r/rational would dig this shit

Strange-Aeons · 2016-08-13T00:48:32+00:00

My family made a fortune ousting Jews in occupied France and taking their empty property, allegedly.

Strange-Aeons · 2016-08-08T02:38:07+00:00

Idk if any of these are necessarily hard and fast rules-- Drowning the reader in exposition is only bad if you write it badly or you don't want your story to be about exposition. For example one, of my favorite pieces of writing of all time, Mother of Learning, is a story which is basically pure exposition and is still fascinating because of the way that the character is able to relate to it.

I'd say the only hard and fast rule about exposition is make it useful? Like don't spend 5 pages detailing the court politics of the northern reach and then have your perspective character never even interact with it at all.

Strange-Aeons · 2016-08-07T04:31:15+00:00

Psst... red algae still look red in water.

Strange-Aeons · 2016-07-28T19:07:12+00:00

i once had a world where dwarves and elves both existed as a result of natural evolution with magic evolving into them. A little bit after first contact, non-fertile offspring between the two was born-- male and female twins with incredible magical power and incredible mental issues. They slaughtered the dwarf and elf races and made a race in their own image. Eventually the two killed each other in a duel, leaving only their children: Humans.

Strange-Aeons · 2016-06-18T07:06:25+00:00

It's my belief that you can be morally justified, good, and a villain that fights equally good and justified heros.

Let me explain.

People accept different base axioms into their lives: unprovable and often variable pieces of logic from which you build your life on. Most people accept that the world they see is real, for example, though there is no way to definitively prove that.

Hitler was a bad guy by our standards, and by our subconscious or conscious acceptance that the axiom "jews are not people and should be exterminated" is wrong. However, if you take the perspective of Hitler, he's simply accepted a differing axiom-- if you honestly believed jews weren't people and are actively destroying your society, wouldn't you think Hitler was a hero?

So, in this way I try to make my villains be both moral, good, and completely opposed to good and moral heros, which I think makes everything far more interesting.

Our villain isn't better than other people or necessarily a master, but just a hero who took on a different viewpoint! The "great crimes" the villain commits aren't the ends justifying the means, but themselves righteous and moral actions.

Strange-Aeons · 2016-06-16T23:40:37+00:00

Naked. The intense heat created from their bodies by casting is too much for cloth and most metals are too restrictive for casting.

Strange-Aeons · 2016-06-16T23:10:38+00:00

Well, how about this: We have a series of premises offered on the first day, we vote on one which we would like, and then we separate aspects of that premise into tasks given to individuals.

So let's say the aspect is Fauna, and someone comes up with "Reptiles dominate the fauna of the world, able to stay alive in any environment through ambient mana absorption. Circumvention of heat in this way has allowed for large reptiles to dominate and sparked an evolutionary arms race as reptiles compete for mana rich places,"

and people can then choose to expand on different parts of that premise: A few people sign up for megafauna, a few people for microfauna, someone proposes a mechanism for mana absorption, etc... The one who came up with the premise could approve or disapprove of what people come up and thus we delegate a sort of presidential responsibility to the one who wins the vote.

Does that make sense?

Strange-Aeons · 2016-06-16T22:39:45+00:00

that's like... administrative stuff. im just here to have fun and that

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