Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy? >A world rocked by cataclysm>landscapes filled with chaos and wonder>mage storms>An enduring mystery; what happened, and what happened in the intervening centuries?>An atmosphere of hope and renewal, as heroes rise, and mysteries are investigated.>Darkness and evil await in corners and ruins, like pools of dank water waiting for the sun>the brink of a New Age Interesting setting? What elements would you include? I'm just gonna throw zombies at them.
>>97219278We have a worldbuilding general. nogames-desu
all my fantasy is post-apocalyptic. I had a server room in the Weather Wizard's tower, though of course I just described it as being full of humming metal pillars and unrecognizable tools.
>>97219278The apocalypse only works in realistic settings, fantasy can never evoke the feeling of "what was lost" when it has no frame of reference verisimilitude
>>97219469>fantasy can never evoke the feeling of "what was lost" when it has no frame of reference verisimilitudegenuine question: what the fuck does this even mean?
>>97219469You are a fucking illiterate retard. Go suck a rock you drooling mouthbreather. Then read a fucking book.
>>97219291But worldbuilding is part of running a game. You have run a game, right?
>>97219487It's meaningless word salad whose point is built upon his personal sense of immersion.I'm willing to bet that this is one of our resident retards who would gladly cry "semantics" when challenged on what his words actually mean.
>>97219278Humanity has regressed back into the dark ages, with all implications pointing towards an even bleaker existence had monks not made great sacrifices in preserving knowledge. The Holy Church is once more a big player in society, with many Churches and Monasteries holding artifacts from the time before. Printing presses, antiques even back then, are ironically found in cisterns and catacombs alongside electric lamps and electric generators. After centuries of disuse and a series of failed attempts to spread literacy by many lay orders (kind of hard to read when road warriors and barbarian hordes straight out of the 6th century are running around), the printing presses have becoming very fragile and risky to use.The scriptorums are back once more. And with that, doodling. More initiates ironically find algebra easier to learn... Though they do tend to get distracted and snicker. >>97219291Remember when someone made a bug planet thread or some shit? Remember when a bunch of people would add on to it and make a full-on setting? I miss those days. Before generals and blatant product placement. Before making fun of tieflings got you banned by the jannies. >>97219469Mr. Wells would like to have a word with you.
>>97219563Worldbuilding is an extremely small part of running a game, because the important parts of how the world works manifest through the character creation and progression options, the challenges they face, and the mechanics associated with the game structure.Everything else is just autofellatio.That aside, worldbuilding is also part of lots of non-game and outright non-interactive media, and its funny you challenge that anon's experience with games, when these fugitive /wbg/ threads never get into how they're applied to actually playing a game.There's always faggots like you insisting "b-but worldbuilding is a p-part of games" yet you never talk about games, just settings and stories.You just want to have your off-topic collaborative writing with impunity, despite there being multiple other places for you to plop out your shit.
>>97219622Go back to the 40k general where you can talk about the same thing for the hundreth time.
>>97219278Posts apocalyptic fantasy is a staple to ttrpgs. Like were do you think all these dungeons and forgotten tombs filled with ancient knowledge and powerful magic items came from? They sprung from earth like mushrooms?
>>97219645You didn't have an argument, yet you still needed to respond.I'll never understand why pathetic shitstains like you act the way you do.
>>97219655>You didn't have an argumentNeither did you. Go back to the 40k general where people laugh at your shitty paints. >>97219654Yep. It's a leftover from the medieval mind, where you could find ruined aqueducts and forgotten bath houses just sitting in the countryside. Or even burial mounds and fairy forts in places where the romans never reached.
>>97219670You shouldn't be on the internet if you can't read.
