What things do you love and always reuse from game to game?It can be a thing from a setting or a character archetype or character look. Anything. Nonexistent bonus points if reused if because you love it and it is fun.
>>98416528the "generic circular city" is more or less just a simplified version of a real life walled citymotte and bailley castles would have an outer ringed wall with the town built within itthe only thing that isekai did was to make it more perfectly circular instead of an amorphous circle-like structure because its easier to consistently drawalso, most textbooks will actually just draw a perfectly circular wall around the keep anywaysthey also draw them much bigger and more organized than they would be in real lifebut again, thats just convenience for the artist and the plot
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>>98416548you can pretty much see what the set designers were going forthey just made it larger to accommodate everything the main characters might need and made the wall more regularly shaped to make it easier to drawits not really "re-using", except in the literal sense, anymore than using cruciform shaped swords isthats just the way a lot of swords actually look like
>>98416557god we used to live in such small placesit's weird to go through some old fort or a village or whatever and see how we absolutely dwarf everything we ever made now
>>98416544>>98416557>it's always OK when Japan does it
>>98416568more like these repeated designs exist for perfectly valid out of universe reasons, so theres no shame in using them unless theres a pressing need to alter itits not any different from a generic western castle as a large square keep with a square wall with 4 guard towers on each corner most real world castles follow the same overall blueprint, the fantasy version is just a simplified version of it to increase visual clarity
for something thats actually a but strange to be included but included anyways: ninjasa ninja showing up is inevitable, should the campaign go long enoughand if its a one-shot, then a kooky ninja minion will appear to be fought>the one time i didnt include a ninja fight>people thought i had finally gotten tired of it>the gardener suddenly throws a shuriken>everyone actually caught off guard by a ninja not dressed as a stage hand
>>98416557Monteriggioni my beloved
>>98416544it IS a real city. i forget which one, but its either based on an ancient mesopotamian city or nordlingen in barvaria depending on who you believe. im not sure it's actually either, but jewgle is beyond useless and totally polluted by AI slop these days so im not getting any hits
>>98416700Mari, Syria
>>98416528As if I needed MORE proof that isekai is derivative fucking trash
>>98416806i see the similarities but noteably the canal is straight and it's double-walled, which doesnt match any of the sloptowns. its also a canal, and only the maou town has an external river. im convinced it's actually another city altogether, but alas it's unsearchable
>>98416544but what do they eat
>>98416975food
>>98416544mah american of african descent the top two pics are literally the same pic with some filters
>>98416528Elves all know kung fu. Its a combination of their physical abilities as dex-masters and their age that has given them plenty of time to master the physical and mental arts needed. The old man on the mountain that is the greatest human martial arts master in the world? The average elf has *at least* his level of training, though not necessarily his talent. It also just makes sense for Elves to invest in self defense, as the greatest risk to their lives are accident and surprise. Being martial arts masters makes things like random accidents much less likely to do them in, and makes them better equipped to handle surprise attacks or ambushes. So you think you're going to get the drop on an elf with a crossbow and they just catch the bolt out of the air and then do a wall-run into a flying kick in response. And this is an expected level of kung fu skill that every elf that isn't a child should be able to do.
>>98416566People were physically smaller back then, anon. Food was scarce enough everyone was also a lanklet for the most part. There was not vehicular traffic either really, so everywhere was built with a 5 foot tall, lanky, walking distance layout.
>>98416528I have a very specific four-way intersection map I use in any game I need a city battlemap for. It's been in several games I've run.
>>98416557>>98416806>>98416837>surrounded by farmland>>98416528>surrounded by completely featureless anime grasslands
>>98418397The difference is that >>98416528 are fantasy kingdoms. Konosuba, for example, literally cannot have farmland outside of the city. There are *regularly* hordes of monsters living within sight of the city walls that they have to send people out to exterminate, anyone farming there would either be dead or a having needed to become a beefy badass just to survive and not get killed by giant toads or the like. Maybe they eat the monster meat that just sort of comes to them, maybe they subsist off of the yearly swarm of flying cabbages that people kill and eat, but the fact remains farming the surrounding area outside of the walls is very much not an option.
>>98418397Goodberry is one hell of a logistical hack.
>>98416544It looks more like Paris
>>98416557>the set designers lmao give your head a wobble, it's a cartoon. you can't even be confident it's a real painting nowadays. still, this is like watching Pokémon and pretending there's some ecology to the blobby trees Ash and friends walk past every episode.
>>98416528I don't. That would be boring.Also this picture triggers me more for the open grassland around the city than anything - at least there is sizable woodland, something that Peter Jackson or HBO didn't care about.
>>98419458set design applies to cartoonsdistinct from background artists who just draw it, since someone would have had to design the layout first>still, this is like watching Pokémon and pretending there's some ecology to the blobby trees Ash and friends walk past every episode.just pointing out that the giant circular isekai city is visually similiar to real world walled towns thats just been visually simplified for the purposes of making it easier to drawthats like calling a cruciform sword the "generic fantasy sword" despite being a sword morphology that exists in real life
>>98416544>>98416575>it's a natural outcome of multiple creative processes based on the same general blueprint>it's definitely not brainless copy-paste by artists who don't give a shitsure budnow explain why the rivers are shaped and oriented the same
>>98419886>it's a natural outcome of multiple creative processes based on the same general blueprintthats right>it's definitely not brainless copy-paste by artists who don't give a shitit can be, but that doesnt negate the first statementits no different than using the disney castle, which is how many real world castles actually look like
>>98419888>that doesnt negate the first statement the difference is the crux of your argumentthe whole thread is about reusing assets, but you're making it sound like they're reusing creative processes insteadthe presence of duplicated superfluous elements not connected to "the generic blueprint" disproves your point
>>98419916>the difference is the crux of your argumentthe "giant circular walled town" is just a normal thing that exists in real lifeits no more a re-used asset than having any other townif it was something actually notable like a domed underwater city, then i might agree with you
>>98419916>the whole thread is about reusing assets, but you're making it sound like they're reusing creative processes insteadNo one is saying that, there was clearly no "creative" process involved in any of the depicted cartoons.
>>98419920>the "giant circular walled town" is just a normal thing that exists in real life >its no more a re-used asset than having any other town are you daft?I didn't say anything about circle wallsyou're evading my actual point about the river>>98419924>No one is saying that, there was clearly no "creative" process involved in any of the depicted cartoons.either it's a reused/traced asset, or it needed to be created you're saying it's not reused, do yes, you are saying they employed some sort of creative process, like using a template which they clearly didn't, they just copied somebody's homework I don't know wtf is your actual point, if you even have any
