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I know this goes without saying but like half the history building will be ancient prophesies and perfect fortune tellings that always come true. We really need to emphasize that this world was only created to tell the tale of this one special snowflake so literally all of its backstory will relate to this one person somehow.
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the hero thinks he can't do it, but he does
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Feb 24, 2015 03:34
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two of the hero's travelling companions are an elf and a dwarf. the dwarf uses an axe and the elf shoots arrows.
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Feb 24, 2015 03:36
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all orcs speak with an american accent. in the mountain zone all the women are lumberjacks with thick fingers and powerful hands the desert zone has camels and arab men who sell rings not found in other zones
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Feb 24, 2015 03:42
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he is scared of girls, until he finally meets one and gets married almost immediately
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Feb 24, 2015 03:44
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yes it is super important that the hero be reluctant and cowardly instead of courageous and bold so we can say there was character development once the hero stops being a chore to listen to
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Feb 24, 2015 04:01
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I have had the staff of law the entire time! The staff of chaos is what you are holding.
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Feb 24, 2015 04:18
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toggle posted:all orcs speak with an american accent.
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Feb 24, 2015 04:25
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Tujague posted:Let's do Dark Sun again except have it make less sense i liked the impassable 15 ft deep sea of fine sand
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Feb 24, 2015 04:31
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Applewhite posted:In an alternate universe where the United States were founded in Africa instead of America, Native African culture is slowly dying on scattered reservations and Americans were slaves for generations before being emancipated during the Civil War. Now it's the present day. Instead of hip hop we have an R&B/Ceremonial chanting hybrid and American African "gangstas" wear dreamcatchers instead of bling. http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/In-the-United-States-of-Africa,673314.aspx The United States of Africa In a literary reversal as deadly serious as it is wickedly satiric, this novel by the acclaimed French-speaking African writer Abdourahman A. Waberi turns the fortunes of the world upside down. On this reimagined globe a stream of sorry humanity flows from the West, from the slums of America and the squalor of Europe, to escape poverty and desperation in the prosperous United States of Africa. It is in this world that an African doctor on a humanitarian mission to France adopts a child. Now a young artist, this girl, Malaïka, travels to the troubled land of her birth in hope of finding her mother—and perhaps something of her lost self. Her search, at times funny and strange, is also deeply poignant, reminding us at every moment of the turns of fate we call truth.
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Feb 24, 2015 04:35
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there's this race of elves where there's another sex that is inbetween male and female, and they're more rare, but like a lot stronger and cooler, and they rule everyone. also all the men are thrown in cages and only used for reproduction (but they don't have sex with the men, only milk them like cows, and they dont like it).
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Feb 24, 2015 04:38
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Broenheim posted:there's this race of elves where there's another sex that is inbetween male and female, and they're more rare, but like a lot stronger and cooler, and they rule everyone. also all the men are thrown in cages and only used for reproduction (but they don't have sex with the men, only milk them like cows, and they dont like it). fat and ugly people are considered ideal breeding stock and are highly sought after
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Feb 24, 2015 05:48
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all the women have really huge tits
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Feb 24, 2015 05:50
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Parallax Scroll posted:all the women have really huge tits and little feet
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Feb 24, 2015 06:14
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Thousands of years ago...
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Feb 24, 2015 06:49
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Pages and pages of food described in pornographic detail..
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Feb 24, 2015 06:59
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Listen, I think we're drifting away from worldbuilding and into plot framing and key scenes. Let's try to stay on topic. Are the swamp people more like frogs or more like alligators? I vote alligators because I think frogs are a little overdone.
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Feb 24, 2015 07:02
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shes a elf archer. wait no shes a wacky elf archer. hold on, shes a wacky gay elf archer who doesnt like being a elf  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzBjddgm67E *gets award for excellent writing*
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Feb 24, 2015 07:11
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A world where magic is outsourced to third world wizards so everyone can cast spells but only once every 2-11 days
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Feb 24, 2015 07:14
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a land where knees don't exist
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Feb 24, 2015 07:16
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Tonsured posted:A world where magic is outsourced to third world wizards so everyone can cast spells but only once every 2-11 days Hello thank you for calling! What is the nature of your magical emergency?
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Feb 24, 2015 07:16
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What if we drop hints throughout the book that this world is just our world a few thousand years after we nuked ourselves back to the stone age 
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Feb 24, 2015 07:33
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yeah it's good worldbuilding to include ancient but advanced civilizations because you always need badass ruins to explore, fantasy or sci-fi
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Feb 24, 2015 08:28
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Speleothing posted:Listen, Let me know when you've figured that out I've got a complete geneology of their royal family dating back to prehistoric times and up to the protagonist
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Feb 24, 2015 08:31
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its like normal society but instead of blacks its like orcs or something
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Feb 24, 2015 12:42
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The desert people are either a vast empire built on trade, or marauding fanatics doing the bidding of an insane god/religious leader. Maybe have both in the same desert!
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Feb 24, 2015 12:46
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The Ancient Ruins planet is protected by something that seems like Magic but is actually just Ancient Science It's unclear why the ancient engineers and civil architects decided to build everything out of stone and bamboo
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Feb 24, 2015 14:36
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The traps that protect the ancient treasure could only work one time as they destroy parts of the structure, and yet somehow they're all in working condition even though the ruins are littered with the corpses of previous raiders.
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Feb 24, 2015 14:39
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The world rests on seven pillars, each representing a cardinal virtue. BUT: get this! The "pillars" aren't literal pillars, but PEOPLE who embody those virtues. They reincarnate every generation with no memory of their pasts lives and must find each other to perform a sacred ritual to keep the world going for another century or so. Only this time around, someone is trying to stop them...
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Feb 24, 2015 14:50
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Hundreds of pages describing gods who disappeared from the world long before the story starts
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Feb 24, 2015 15:12
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Seriouspost: someday I want to write a fantasy story set in the Before Time of the precursor civilization. The gods are alive and well, magic is plentiful and there are no gigantic ancient ruins, just a bunch of gigantic, in-tact buildings and newly created doomsday artifacts whose containment systems aren't due to fail for another twenty thousand years. Also intend to explore the thought processes behind creating a doomsday artifact in the first place.
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Feb 24, 2015 15:17
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Applewhite posted:Seriouspost: someday I want to write a fantasy story set in the Before Time of the precursor civilization. The gods are alive and well, magic is plentiful and there are no gigantic ancient ruins, just a bunch of gigantic, in-tact buildings and newly created doomsday artifacts whose containment systems aren't due to fail for another twenty thousand years. Doomsday laser was originally used to write 'I love you Debbie, will you marry me?' in the precursor language, which to the untrained eye looks like a bunch of craters and scorch marks.
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Feb 24, 2015 15:22
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Mehuyael posted:Doomsday laser was originally used to write 'I love you Debbie, will you marry me?' in the precursor language, which to the untrained eye looks like a bunch of craters and scorch marks. We sealed this powerful evil spirit in an obsidian orb to make a centerpiece for our holiday feasts.
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Speleothing posted:Are the swamp people more like frogs or more like alligators? I vote alligators because I think frogs are a little overdone. The alligator people were once a proud and noble race, but a few hundred years ago the elves started expanding their territory, and now the greenskins all live on swamp reservations, getting drunk off mouthwash and make money by selling fake jerk-off crystals to tourists.
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Feb 24, 2015 15:37
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Eons past, the star dwarves had grown bored of life and thought existence to be a nuisance which is why the entire race decided to one day commit ritual suicide
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Feb 24, 2015 15:43
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Mehuyael posted:Maybe have both in the same desert! Only one desert per planet, of course. It can be big, but only one. Unless... it is a desert planet?!
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Feb 24, 2015 16:06
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Tomato Burger posted:Only one desert per planet, of course. It can be big, but only one. Unless... it is a desert planet?! A desert planet with no water? Where would the whales live? They'd have to be some kind of... freaky sand whale. Ooh, what if the sand whales' ambergris was a super valuable substance that gave you special powers?
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Applewhite posted:Seriouspost: someday I want to write a fantasy story set in the Before Time of the precursor civilization. The gods are alive and well, magic is plentiful and there are no gigantic ancient ruins, just a bunch of gigantic, in-tact buildings and newly created doomsday artifacts whose containment systems aren't due to fail for another twenty thousand years. CH/
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we need to make sure the monsters/creatures in the world have a consistent ecosystem and food chain. we should also figure out what some of the monster species are that used to exist but are extinct now
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Parallax Scroll posted:we need to make sure the monsters/creatures in the world have a consistent ecosystem and food chain. we should also figure out what some of the monster species are that used to exist but are extinct now There used to be a race of peaceful steampunk anime furries who once sailed the skies on their JO crystal powered airships, but 50 years ago all the other races banded together to exterminate them for being lovely.
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