Tonight I'm pulling it all together on one of the tiny city's tiniest neighborhoods, Wighthaven, home of The Zorya (Hammondal's largest theater), Saint Kendan's, and Bowerly House. I guess it's kind of a Bohemian neighborhood, and it's home to a mildly famous heresy.
With just seven named streets and a dozen keyed locations of note, it's a gentle entry into assembling a complete neighnborhood chapter.
I'm seat-of-the-pants about #WorldBuilding in some ways, but there's some arbitrary math guiding the scope of #Hammondal. The most important is probably the 1/8th rule, which says I cannot explicitly describe more than 1 location in 8 ... for every building/etc I describe, I need to leave 7 for the GM and/or later development. This is both a maximum and my target, so I'm trying to get very near to that 7:1 ratio but without exceeding it, price-is-right style. [continued] #TTRPG#TTRPGDesign
I have an idea for a get-rich-quick scheme: using the Bessemer process to create massive amounts of high-quality steel. However, I'm sure my #DM has not given a single thought to this (because I know her) so I'm worried that this might give God fun #worldbuilding ideas to fuck with our party. How do I tell my group my plan, without having the industrialized slave company I know is on the other side of the map spontaneously develop a similar process?
Translated and illustrated a part of the Economics module – the houses and establishments the PCs can purchase. Also attempted some book design for them, so here are the 3 pages.
Surprise! Scientific Research Finds Assumptions About Ancient Gender Roles Are BS
"...women regularly hunted in 79% of documented researched hunter-gatherer societies. Also, most of those societies specifically trained their female members to become hunters."
What is your justice system like in your fantasy world? Do sheriffs patrol your lands? Do knights take care of the crime? Does an inquistion or religious group? If there is a famous (or infamous) group or person taking care of justice, tell us about them!
Hi everyone, as I'm closing in on the finish of the 4th booklet in this series, I thought I'd post a quick reminder about them:
The Hard SF Worldbuilding Cookbooks:
Find and inspire unique prompts. Choose the location. Write the story. Have the science for it, as needed.
Inspiration, then #worldbuilding.
TW: SPIDERS! A visually descriptive narration of tomb raiding gone wrong when would-be thieves got more than they ever bargained for. Comforted by what appeared to be an abandoned tomb, they looted all they could find. Alas, their revelry and resounding cries of triumph were little more than a dinner bell. The darkness came forth with fangs and claws. Celebration quickly soured into a frantic panic-induced frenzy as they fought for their lives. One poor soul almost escaped, but alas, he was no match for the venom of the Widowbane spider.