Never beaten.
>WoRlDbUiLdInGJust write a fucking novel.
>>98926595So, a femdom tease and denial dictatorship with weird occult magic? …….that actually works
What the hell is a political powerfantasy? Facism larping?
>>98926619A significant part of the point being made by the brevity and describing characters as optional is that you shouldn't set out to come up with enough detail to make a novel out of it, but instead keep focused on what interests you only fleshing out as needed to fulfill that interest.>>98926766That's certainly one option, but it covers any REALLY blatant knob-slobbering of a political concept. We sadly live in an age dominated by the opposite in "dystopias" that are just lampooning your political opponents.
>>98926766Just play Victoria 2 and you'll get why the Communist Zulu state of Alaska is the best AU.
>>98926595Frontier anarchism with monstergirls with either memetics/chaos magic or 50 different magical subsystemsI can roll with that
>>98926766I prefer to see political power fantasy as>wouldn't it be rad if a government was staffed through the results of a wizarding tournamentIt's basically an excuse to throw logistics out the window and use whatever bullshit power structure sounds coolestMaybe the king's soul is absorbed by a tree and the soul of the previous king possesses him while all the previous kings tutor the newly captured soul in rulership. That's insane, but isn't it fucking cool as hell?
>>98926766>political idea but it somehow works
>>98927730Any political system that functions as intended is fantasy. It's a fantasy setting.
>>98927739yes but this one works so good that you can start convincing others more ummm...powerfully
>>98926766>What the hell is a political powerfantasy?Lord of the Rings.The Hobbits represent Tolkien's political power fantasy.
>>98926595(Straight) Anal focusUltratribalismRhymesThe rap queen (big booty black kween known as Shaniqueen)Male-only PCsFemale-only NPCsDefeat results in anal sex till impregnation
>>98926595>Nakadashi>Cyber-Gothic Revival Ecumenopolis>Personal metamorphic cybersuits powered by grace>Solomon Kane
>>98926766whatever you think will happen if all the annoying people just shut up and listen to you
>>98928124but doctor.. i am the annoying people
>>98926595It's true. Writing is ultimately you expressing your inner self in words. That includes your views, opinions, desires, stuff you find cool, etc.In a way, every character is also a self-insert of a part of you or of someone you know, or the embodiment of something on your mind.
>>98928136bonus points for self-insight, negative points for lack of imaginationif you can't make a political power fantasy try backfilling with some fetish instead
>>98928192is that how Huxley came up with Brave New World?
>>98926595>spanking>an organization of elites with a long history of influencing politics behind the scenes loses influence after trying and failing to supress an exceptional figure>incredibly intricate magic system that even people who can access it can't access all of itWell shit, I should run a Wheel of Time game
>>98926619Many people are saying it.
>>98926595>fluffy cat ladies>distributism>new age ayylien psychic arts
>getting my wife pregnant and having lots of kids>only people with a job, kids, and who pass an exam demonstrating how government and economics works, can vote>kids have magic powers, lose them when they hit puberty
>>98928331>kids have magic powers, lose them when they hit pubertyabsolutely horrifying
>>98928331>kids have magic powers, lose them when they hit pubertyas if puberty wasn't bad enough already
>>98928033>Puritan Swordsman >Puritans used to beat people for not doing their marital duties So basically just Equilibrium x Judge Dredd.You're the avenging angel of wives whose husbands would rather goon then cum inside of them like god intended.Dogs in the Vineyard. Next.
>>98928331>Late bloomers are prestige in society>Rampart puberty blocker black market>Infantilization combined with stunted degenerate pug-children are sought for in wider societyApsolute hellscape, I love it!
>>98928431>>98928343>>98928339So a little bit of Codename KND Fairly Odd Parents but with universal aptitude for Ballet (ultra high prestige physically age gated skillset).>>98928331You essentially have peagent/soccer/balletmom drama x Pokémon with a Paternalist background lore.
>>98928431>Rampart puberty blocker black marketOr you know there is another way to prevent puberty for boy
>>98928515>the scheming eunuchs but they have magical powers now
>>98927870>Defeat results in anal sex till impregnationanon, i...
>>98928253I will now play your game
>>98926595>Your Kinkbondage, rope, rubber, metal>Your political powerfantasyfemales can reach magic level twice superior to males...>Esoteric Magic System...but magic need focus, which come from dominance or submission, restraint level and crap out with fear>Charactersyou've got the tomb-keeper building bondage-dungeon, the religious-empire with obligatory self-bondage leotard maiden, the rope-worshiping ninja monks, the desert enslaver where praised slaves are respected, techno-rubber tundra commune...Sound perfectly reasonable to me.I'm actually trying to make it a TT game 100page in, a shame I have neither the time nor the skills nor even artist talent
>>98928363It's like you only read the Solomon Kane part of that anon's post.
>>98927381They did some flavor of that in Limbus Company Canto 8 iirc.
>>98926766bioshock was Andrew Ryan's objectivist power fantasy (though obviously it ran into that pesky "human nature" thing)
>>98929380That's been disproven by Levine himself. It's about the Jewish intellectual diaspora. The whole Objectivist angle was only used as window dressing for it. I'm not trying to be a /pol/tard, it's literally already been stated by the writer himself.
>>98926595It is always funny how that meme is literally Terry Goodkind's literary career.
>>98926595>feedism, weight gain, obesity, things of that general nature>fully automated multi-culti luxury communism>Alchemical cooking and brewing, the only way to gain superhuman abilities is by consuming supernatural materials like dragon-hearts and dryad flowers>Star Trek-esque explorers on a HunterxHunter type of planet doing Toriko type shit, looking for new meats and strange cuisines to bring back to the metropole for glory, prestige, and expanding the frontiers of culinary knowledge
I don't know how I'd integrate lactation and forced feminization and gender swapping into everything but xenophilia is at play...?
>>98929604The true milk of human kindness is the femboys we made along the way.
>>98929604>Feminisation >Xenophilia Witches + political climate + nationalist paranoia.The government unearths an ancient manuscript detailing a formula for becoming a witch and fly to the moon. It only works for women (the other half of the spell burned in the library of Alexandria and so the monks only preserved the female version). The military doesn't allow women.QED make more women in order to beat the depraved commies/capitalists to the punch and establish ongoing relations with the civilization on the moon.The lactation is a byproduct of the alchemical process taking hold.Silver Surge: Mind-bending adventures in a world that never was
>>98929777>force femming men to be female so they can become magic users
>>98926619I don't know how to get it published or noticed
>>98929604Trans?
>mommydom>benevolent god-AI takes over and makes everyone happy by forceungh there's no room for the esoteric magic system I already came
>>98929777>>Xenophilia>Witches + political climate + nationalist paranoia....Where is the Xenophilia?
>>98929857So what?
>>98926766>Insert preferred ideology, nation, religion, race, or culture>Make them the most powerful, dominant, or good faction/group in the settingSo a classic fascism power fantasy would be some "Nazis win WW2" thing, or if you're a Russaboo than something like "Russian Empire gets all of Poland after the Napoleonic Wars and later conquers China and becomes a Pan-Asian Empire with a population of over 2 billion, if you like Islam than something like "Muslims win at Constantinople and Tours and all of Europe is Muslim and by extension so are the Americas and they later conquered and converted China.
>>98926595Fat asses.Neo-feudalism with a limited service-citizenship (think Heinlein) democratic house that allows citizens who serve the state to bring redress to the crown.My magic system would be the magic of the military industrial complex.
>>98930497Does the house actually have any power? Otherwise sounds like service is pretty pointless.
>>98926595>Gender transformation>Neofeudalism>Hebrew blood magicHumans live almost like lions, polygamy is the norm and defeated men including war captives are generally genderswapped into concubines, maids, or wives of the victor. Often times these genderswapped captives are used for blood magic rituals, curses, and blessings, with animals even being genderswapped when rituals require a specific sex or state of animal such as a ram, a bitch, or a rooster. Also yes genderswap magic requires blood, the blood of someone who was already genderswapped, don't ask how the first ritual was performed.
>>98929427Makes sense, Ayn Rand was a jew
>>98930314I would imagine it is like the ultra-puritanical Britain and the endless ways to get porn and sex without freely admitting it.
>>98926595>Your KinkPregnancy, transformation, laying and injection of eggs, body invasion, unbirth, quite a range of distinctly-inhuman anatomy...>Your Political PowerfantasyDevolution-maxxing syndicalist-technocracy making government bodies end at the smallest scale a given issue becomes tractable and be driven by those both relevantly educated and more importantly with their shit on the line for fucking up. Side-order of military veto weighted by wargame performance fully explicating voting as a substitute for civil war.>Esoteric Magic SystemInterplay between fractional soul dynamics (e.g. tulpas progressing to Stando Powah, pieces of lives passed reincarnating, literally stealing somebody's rizz), agglutinative rune-work (that is, single complex symbols who's constituent features very precisely describe its function), "elementalism" actually laundering low common denominators of animism (so under the hood it's more highly reliable "to whom it may concern" prayer than low-level forces), body-locations' affinities for mystic energies of all these and more...First thought for tying it together is vaguely Bronze Age based "monster-first-girl-second", where the major powers are the basal "palace economics" of coordinating water rights principally regarding irrigation and transportation, with an intermixing of task-specialized clan, guild, and cult relationships overlapping with divine-and-ancestry hierarchies kept from entrenching by the "monstrous" features distinguishing the groups' capabilities being highly mutable and naturally diluting with having and between offspring. So it settles into allowing prolific offshoot lineages to specialize by the bits they end up keeping for a "main line" of widely-advantaged chimeras having few children to relatively cheaply apply to the otherwise talented (not necessarily with consent) by similar rituals (involving the fetishes, of course) to those needed for their "maintenance".
>>98926661Sure does.
>>98926595Half my worldbuilding is to camouflage my fetishes in plain sight.It work, too. Or the players share my fetishes and never called me out for it.
>>98926619World building is unironically more important to roleplaying than to writing. No one fucking asks about shit in a novel setting if it isn't relevant but players will fucking throw questions at you that have nothing to do with the game
Can't get past step 2 to be honest. Got too much for step 1.
>>98927796sI think they just represent the failure of british culture in general>have to be forced to actually participate in politics instead of hiding in a hole going "it's not my problem gimme food". The fantasy is that they don't just make things worse for themselves every time. Then again there's the scouring of the shire. Which fits modern british politics. They make a big fuss to try to fix things while complaining the whole time, they celebrate the victory, and things are worse than before.
>>98930573In my mind the house has controls over the various central ministries and the public purse.Because I like a good political struggle story - I'd have the 'constitution' specifically say that the House isn't able to legislate on anything that is the purview of the noble families by law or custom.The more politically astute of you may notice that this in theory allows them to legislate on everything not specifically defined by law or custom as being under the purview of the nobles, meaning at least a century and a half of political wrangling.
Choose one for your setting, /tg/
>>98932271what makes fully automated luxury ruralism more dangerous than neo-pastoralism?
>>98932347Machine-fuckery.
>>98932271>buzzword salad
>>98932385You try to explain a very specific setting with just noun phrases.
>>98932369what about if I'm not fucking the machines?
>>98932395What part of "fully-automated" do you not understand?
You can apply this to Star Wars>Slave women>Return of New Deal America>The Force
>>98926595Office wear.Common sense, merit based system. Public retards will be beaten into until intelligence is gained. You can be stupid, but you start throwing your shit around and making other people miserable, you get beaten then educated. If you are unteachable then you get turned into a servitor.You get magical powers after the age of 21. But only if you were possessed at birth by an entity of a different plane of existence. Until 21 you will have no idea you are possessed, until you enter a dream state where you get to meet your partner. If your partner and you get along you get to use their powers, if you hate each other then you just have a voice in your head which torments you. Neat thing, you and your partner can swap places at anytime. An example will be Big Bob suddenly transforming into a small fey girl.
>>98926619Fuck off PtbA faggot
>Germanic space empire ruled by 7 foot tall genetically engineered aristocrats and the hyperdrive runs off of hermetic mysticism and also everyone wears prussian military uniforms from the 19th centuryHey it works.>>98926766Ian Banks literally just did this with Communism, the Culture series is almost word for word this though of course his political kink was cannibalism.
>>98929949Yes and no.After actually thinking about it I was able to resolve two of the three points for injecting my fetishes into the game under the players noses. There would be a class that allows the PCs to let Shadows possess them and use some of their abilities so certain NPCs go the extra distance and allow full cohabitation with Shadows which can transform their physical bodies which can cause males to develop female characteristics due to the shadow possessing them. The lactation comes from a group of doctors who wanted to encourage natural birth and used breastfeeding and channeling healing powers through milk as a less harsh way of using it on babys, particularly premature babies. This gets co-opted by healing cultist who use their power to hook people into healing magic usually with the intent to take everything they have and destroy them as their bodies can no longer function without said healing and initiating people usually starts with sex.
>>98932729Is the fetish the 7 foot tall people or the uniforms?
>>98931774When it comes to political systems I always try to think of how it developed. Why does the house exist, why does it have limits on its power? Why does it require military service to vote?
>>98933074So the idea is that it's a future or near future setting. The various nobles (and the corporations they own) decided to make their own colony with blackjack and hookers after seeing what the globohomo regime of Earth was fucking up.While the colony was looking to expand the founders had a slight issue - they needed to recruit people and not everyone in the various founding corporations had enough corporate loyalty to move to a distant world because the CEO wanted to rule a private fief.They created the House as a way to get people (particularly those with specialist skill sets) to come to the colony - the service doesn't necessarily mean military service - it's a mix of military and civil service - serve as trooper for four years or as a professional instructor in 'x' skill for ten or similar. Most people go for the four year service - which gives the colony a nice ready reserve of citizens to defend the colony against pirates, UN globohomos, communists and the likeThe reason the House has limits on its power is simple - the nobles/corporate leaders larping as nobles who founded the colony don't want the plebs to fuck with their core ideals. As for service citizenship - the founders saw what giving anyone with a room temperature IQ and a pulse (optional in some counties) the vote at an arbitrary age did to the West and wanted none of that shit.
>>98926595This is pretty much what I did for my setting>Harems in skimpy clothing or full niqabs with only eyes visible>Autonomous City State Leagues>Sacrificial and self-mutilation ritual blood magicGist of the setting is a bronze age setting with an amalagmation of the Neo Assyrian Empire, ancient Israel, and the Aztec Empire carving out a bloody empire with mass human sacrifice and near (or outright) genocidal wars against their neighbors. Their patron deity commanded the ancestors of the main empire (his demigod sons) to go forth and conquer. The empire itself is a tribal coalition with the most powerful city/tribe holding a position that's essentially first among equals and the king of said tribe (purported to be the most senior male line descendant of their patron god) being made to swear and oath to subjugate all other races of man.While they dress promiscuously in private in public both men and women dress very conservatively.
>>98932837What happens to VTC now that the Ark is on the surface?
>>98933567I don't know, what is it even from?
>>98933590LolNikke. The image you posted is from the esoteric VTC cult. It's a Gooner game but actually has some good story content to it.
>>98933594It's a shame, I have no desire to play gatcha games and learn bits and pieces about their lore from random art and porn I find.
>>98933567>What happens to VTC now that the Ark is on the surface?I'm fairly certain Anderson killed nearly all of them...
>>98932688>implying PbtA isn't full of storyfaggotry too
>>98932392Why would I want to do that?When I speak English, I use English words and sentence structure. Sure, my grammar isn't great, but I'm not going to chain together a bunch of nouns and expect people to catch my meaning.Why are people so fucking retarded?
>>98933594>Gooner game>T RatedFuck off and die. Actually kill yourself.
