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>Setting
Basically late medieval to early Renaissance Europe
>Magic
Not really available to players, expect in the form of extremely rare high level magical weapons and items. BBEG should possess magic abilities
>Player characters
European presenting male fighters only, maximum one low level hedge wizard or shaman
>Races
All NPCs and PC should be human, finding a non-human village like elves should be extremely rare, unlikely, and magical experience
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>>97222512
The perfect fantasy setting? Persona 2 of course!
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>>97222512
Ask the worldbuilding general.
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>>97222521
Holy shit I love Persona 2! I think high fantasy is best expressed in a high school setting.
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>>97222525
Eternal Punishment doesn't even take place in a high school you silly goose
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>>97222523
Reddit is down the hall my nigger
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>>97222539
Jannylarp.
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>>97222544
Trying to regulate people to a general is jannylarp, agreed. Very odd behavior
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>>97222546
Just let people post what they want. What is your problem man?
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>>97222549
Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society, faggot
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>>97222583
Yes. My point exactly. Stay in your fucking nogames general.
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>>97222539
>twitter addict larping about knowing board culture
Is this thread getting screencapped on your twitter feed too?
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>>97222512
What's the point of making it fantasy? Just make it historical at that point.
>Setting is Hundred Years War France
>A third of the country is ruled by the uncles of a foreign child monarch
>Another third is ruled by the young rightful king ruling over
>Another third is ruled by the cousin of the rightful king allied only tenulously with the foreign monarch after his father was murdered in an altercation with the rightful
>Mercenaries and unemployed soldiers pillage the countryside
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>>97222593
The obsession with generals and the autistic jannyesque insistance that all talk must be kept in generals is why /tg/ is such a cesspit. There's no inter-topic relation, if you don't like DnD you just never go to the 5e or pathfinder threads and all you see is niche topics you like and the most inane questions which are so vague that nobody actually gives a shit.

>What is the best system for playing a paraplegic fantasy adventurer?
>Who was in the right? (Alpha Centauri Vidya)
>Shard Bugs
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>>97222614
People wouldn't tell you to stay in your general if you guys didn't make your cringe "fantasy should be low fantasy renaissance Europe with no magic and white male fighters only xD" threads over and over. Maybe if you made threads where you shared what happened in games you ran with your setting people would be more open.
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>>97222512
How perfect or imperfect a setting is isn't going to matter as much if the game it's being used for is utter crap.
Too many times I've seen a really cool setting with a lot of concepts I think are cool, to then either be just completely disengaged during a session because instead of playing a game, the head of the table decides he either wants to get everyone to beta read his novel or he wants to share a script from some other podcast he thought was great.

As a quick example, I think zombie apocalypses are overdone and boring, but if there's a zombie apocalypse game that has character, gear, and combat options to use against various types of zombies, raiders, and mutants, it's highly likely that I'll have a blast with it anyway.
On the other side, I think cyberspace as a concept still has a lot of potential in media, but if there was a cyberspace-themed narrative system presenting as a game, with "daddy decides" dice pool resolutions and where everyone sits for hours listening to storytime and making voices at each other, I'm going to want to blow my fucking brains out with how boring that would be.

Gameplay matters more than setting ever will.
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>>97222628
Unironically, why don't you just go back to réddit if you didn't like what we talk about here?
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>>97222523
the worldbuilding general was vandalized by a moron deleting all the links. probably you and your cabal of discord "what system" shitheads.
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>>97222512
I don't know about perfect, but Euchronia is kinda cool.
I like high fantasy worlds where technology and magic are integrated. Things like planes or trains that are operated using magic.
I like when there is a lot of races so there's plenty of options for PCs that I can get creative with.
Maybe why I also really like Eberron.
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>>97222544
>>97222546
he's right though
/tg/ has gone to shit because everyone just walls themselves off in their circlejerk generals
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>>97222512
this is the fifth "low magic human male fighter" thread you've made this week. we dont need one a day, and people are ignoring it because your lazy social engineering attempts are retarded. give it a rest
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>>97222628
Show me a single good thread outside of generals right now. Maybe if a thread is bad or doesn't interest you than you should let it die instead of engaging with it or trying to make people think that every topic belongs in a general.

You haven't gotten rid of shit threads with your general crusade, you just made it so 90% of the people who start threads are purely shiyposting with no interest in the actual responses.
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>>97222521
Why she got hearts on her titties?
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>>97222512
>the perfect game setting is one where the players have no power or options and are unlikely to ever find anything interesting
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>>97222512
that's all lame
play historical instead
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>>97222523
Nah, faggot.
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>>97222512
The perfect fantasy RPG setting is pic related.
You're a newfag from twitter.
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>>97222741
Oh look, yet another crescent shaped island with nonsensical geography and biome distribution ...
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>>97222941
You must have no imagination and a low IQ if you need mary sue magic powers as your only option
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>>97223072
Oh no, how can a game possibly function if the geography isn't realistic?
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>>97223078
You must be a faglord.
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>>97222512
Close but no cigar.
>basically renaissance to wars of religion and early colonialism mashed together as needed to maximize cool stuff in game
>Magic available at cost with clear mechanical risk & reward combined with social mechanics over time
>Classless, everyone can learn spells if they have the stats, everyone can fight if they have the stats. Backgrounds are important context for skills but remain inspiration rather than dictation.
>Races starting as predominantly human, adding in other races as they are encountered and become allies in a living world that engage with player decisions and blends in the odd in gradual ways to create both a sense of grounded world familiarity and wonder as exploration proceeds
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>>97223088
The world map is one of the most visible and evocative parts of your entire setting. If it is derivative, uninspired, and lazy, there's a good chance that everything else in your setting is as well.
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>>97222934
Because let's positive thinking
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>>97223146
>he shows players the world map
ngmi
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>>97222583
Oh yeah fucking elf game board is gonna cause the fall of society. Thank christ you shit stains dont go outside.
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>>97223507
>Gulf of Gulf of Gulf of
I don’t think this guy knows what a Gulf is
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>>97222583
>noooooo stop having badwrongfun
You don't play games.
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>>97223122
I like this stuff. Been trying to cook something (crunch-wise), but in fantasy postapo setting that is vaguely Age of Decadence-inspired (if less grimdark and stupid).
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>>97222512
>Basically late medieval
I ALREADY DONT FUCKING CARE



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