Welcome to /wbg/, the thread for the discussion of in-progress settings for traditional games.Here is where you go to present and develop the details of your worlds such as lore, factions, magic and ecosystems. You can also post maps for your settings, as well as any relevant art. Please remember that dialogue is what keeps the thread alive, so don't be afraid of giving someone feedback or post whatever relevant input you might have, cunt!Last thread: >>96999149Worldbuilding links: Post someFantasy map generator: https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator
>>97165346What are some other ways of depicting earth magic that isn't just throwing rocks around?
>>97165346Hey, why did you delete the resources links in the OP? Is it the same as the reason you created a new thread while the old thread was still around?Resources for Newfags: https://sites.google.com/view/wbgeneral/Worldbuilding links: https://pastebin.com/JNnj79S5https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/Eo+fK41FKVR7xDpbNO0a0N4k0YYxrmyrhX3VxnM14Ew/
>>97165680They're decrepit 6+ year old links that are not discussed in the threads. I would think actual useful shit belongs in the OP instead of repositories of links.
>>97165865Nobody talks about the watabou link either, but you included it anyway.
>>97165888Read the full text of my post you butthurt HUEHUE.
>>97165912You seem to be the one butthurt by the inclusion of links you don't like, given you created this thread before the old one autosaged and randomly deleted old links.
>>97165495Controlling the Telluric Currents to shape the earth itself.
I have created a world of such superlative quality that all other worlds are redundant, even our own reality is rendered obsolete by the sheer cosmic profundity of my world. The design carries a sublime elegance that mocks rivalling worlds through its mere existence. Even if you are not aware of my world, doubtless you have felt it, the creeping inadequacy of your own creations laid bare, senseless and ugly by the divinity of my effortless and original worldbuilding. May you see it? No. No, you may not.
>>97166461My world is your world times two. Checkmate, atheist.
I want (You) to tell me what parts of your world are shamelessly stolen from somewhere else.
>>97165495Trees, grass.Earthquakes.
>>97167875The writer's shameless waifu character is blatantly just Dorothy.
What clandestine organization exist in your setting? I've been working on one for character I'm planning for, which I hope my GM will like (or maybe I'll use it when I get to GM). I'm trying to make it sound less like "The Dark Brotherhood uhhh", and more like something seemingly innocent like "House of Ten" or "The Third Chamber" as the underhand of the crown. It has slowly coalesced, dissolved, and been purged, and reformed more than once under different names, structures, and different organizations, legal and criminal, as the crown has accumulated more and more centralised power. I'm trying to gather inspiration from real intelligence agencies.
So one of my players is making a minotaur character, whose whole deal is that he was a slave in the Local Evil Kingdom that broke free and will encounter the party during their travels to join them. In my setting, minotaurs are one of many different species of beastmen that frequently raid the kingdom and generally make life difficult for the kingdom's expansion, so there's a lot of local animosity towards them and he figured that means it'd make sense they might enslave some of the beastmen they capture. I'm inclined to approve the concept, it's straightforward enough and the party will definitely be sympathetic to that kind of character. However, when I stopped to think on it, the question came up in my head of what and how exactly they'd keep beastmen around as slaves for?Usually, the three primary reasons slaves were kept were for labor, sex, and entertainment. Sex doesn't work because, aside from not wanting to wander down into magical realm territory, beastmen in my setting all look properly animal-like rather than just looking like humans with some minor animal features. So that leaves labor and entertainment. Both make sense on the surface, but labor might not actually make sense? You wouldn't exactly train a beastman to do house chores, and while most beastmen species are stronger than humans and could do lots of heavy labor, that means they're harder to keep passive too since something like a minotaur could easily kill most humans with their bare hands. That leaves entertainment, and the only thing I could see beastmen slaves being used for there (other than I guess a fucked up circus) is as gladiators. That's definitely fitting for a minotaur, but I don't want to pidgeonhole my player into only one specific kind of backstory if there's other things his character could have beenWhat do you guys think, is there something I'm not considering? Some field or detail that would make keeping minotaurs and other beastmen slaves worth all the danger and effort?
>>97172071>So that leaves labor and entertainment. Both make sense on the surface, but labor might not actually make sense?https://antifandom.com/forgottenrealms/wiki/Slavery>Magical enslavement—such as by mind-controlling enchantment magic—allowed unparalleled control over victims, but still had limitations. A slave was unable to perform creative work under this influence, as free thought was required for creativity.
>>97165680Thanks for pointing out this faggot OP is another mother fucking troll trying to ruin this board. Planning either to fuck off to a new general that has nothing to do with this or just creating specific threads for worldbuilding without being generals. I honestly don't see a point in this shithole general anymore.
>>97167875Gourmet cells from Toriko to explain why there are monstrously big animals, it's like Venom (the symbiote) but without being sentient.
>>97165346Anon include the links when you make a new thread.
>>97165680>every general on 4chan has a concerted effort to remove pastebin and archive linksswear i'm not going crazy
>>97174461You should take your schizo pills.
In my list of spaceships I have two patterns called the lion and tiger, then another pair called the lioness and tigress. Now, I know what the lion and tiger are (standard workhorse cruiser and missile carrier respectively) but I'm not sure exactly what to make of the -ess ones
