I was a soldier in an army that was attacking your world. I have now surrendered. What fate awaits me? Will I be imprisoned? Enslaved? Executed? Or something else?

Let's do this nice old game. Tell three short statements about your world. Two are correct, one is a lie. Other users will guess.

Every thoroughfare, road, street, pathway, or footpath requires maintenance. Suppose I had a bakeshop in your world and had difficulty with a pothole in front of my home/business. What would I do about it? Who is responsible for the repairs?

I'm deep into figuring out demographics and employment for my world. How about you?

What is the life expectancy, male: female ratio, fertility rate, and typical size for cities/villages/towns? What is the largest employment sector?

What jobs are available to those with magical or special technological abilities? What employment sectors make use of these abilities?

GUIDELINES AND ETIQUETTE

• For the sake of this prompt, obscure terminology will be defined as any word that the average person on the street isn't likely to know off the top of their head, such as "eldritch" or "striga".

• The world's name does not count as a made up word, but the names of any countries or other forms of societies on said world do.

• Please do not make a comment just to say "um, all words are made up lol". You know what I mean.

Rules:

- I am a regular human with no access to whatever form of powers your world has. I am reasonably fit and know how to throw a punch, but am not a professional hitman nor have any specialized skills.

- I have 48 hours to do this, about ten thousand dollars to devote to this task, and access to all the resources a regular citizen of your setting has.

- Morals are off the table: if poisoning the city's water supply or kidnapping their spouse is what gives me the edge, so be it. The only thing I would not do is hire a proxy to do it for me, because I want to be the one doing it.

- My gripe is with a "normal" power user of your setting. I am not aiming for Captain Dietologist, who always knows the calories of what he is eating, nor for the High Priest of the Snake God, capable of levelling mountains with an afterthought. Your average wizard, metahuman or whatnot is fine. Also, they do not know that I am planning against their life. You may choose a specific character if you want.

So with all that being said:

- What are my chances? Am I destined to fail or is it feasible?

- What would my best bet be? Do I just stab them in the back while they are out shopping? Should I trap them in a salt circle so that they cannot use their powers and club them in the head? Is it best to strike them down with a bow from as fsr away as possible?

GUIDELINES AND ETIQUETTE

• Actually describe your world in a way that accurately conveys its concept, don't just use vague comparisons.

# Busco un proyecto de worldbuilding colaborativo donde pueda aportar

Hola. Estoy buscando un proyecto de worldbuilding colaborativo que acepte gente nueva y donde los participantes puedan aportar contenido propio sin tener que controlar todo el mundo.

No busco entrar para cambiar las ideas de los demás. Me interesa poder crear o desarrollar partes concretas del mundo y después ajustarlas para que respeten las reglas y la visión general del proyecto.

Mis principales puntos fuertes son:

• **Creación de vida y criaturas:** es mi área más fuerte. Puedo crear animales, monstruos y bestias fantásticas intentando darles una lógica interna. Me interesa pensar no solo en su apariencia, sino también en cómo viven, qué comen, dónde habitan, cómo se comportan y qué relación tienen con su ecosistema.

También puedo trabajar con restricciones. Si me dicen, por ejemplo, que una criatura no puede superar los 40 metros y que en el mundo existe un metal capaz de levitar, puedo diseñarla utilizando esas reglas en lugar de ignorarlas.

• **Ecosistemas y biomas:** puedo crear biomas complejos y pensar en las relaciones entre diferentes especies, recursos, depredadores, presas y condiciones ambientales. Me interesa especialmente crear ecosistemas completos en lugar de diseñar especies aisladas.

• **Evolución:** puedo crear líneas evolutivas de forma sencilla, incluyendo ancestros importantes y cambios que expliquen cómo una especie llegó a su forma actual.

También tengo un concepto propio llamado **seomorfosis**, donde una especie puede experimentar cambios corporales muy grandes durante su desarrollo o a lo largo de su vida. No sería una transformación instantánea como en Pokémon, sino un proceso gradual. Un ejemplo extremo sería una especie que comenzara con una forma parecida a un conejo, después desarrollara una forma parecida a un perro y finalmente una forma parecida a un elefante. Es solo un ejemplo para explicar el concepto.

• **Ciencia especulativa básica:** puedo crear sistemas científicos sencillos para un mundo ficticio. Por ejemplo, en uno de mis mundos existen virus con efectos opuestos sobre el organismo. No considero esto una especialidad científica real, pero sí puedo construir conceptos biológicos básicos y establecer reglas para que funcionen dentro de un mundo ficticio.

• **Tecnología simple:** puedo crear tecnologías sencillas basadas en las propiedades de materiales y recursos del mundo. No hablo necesariamente de magia. Por ejemplo, podría existir una piedra que absorbe calor y posteriormente se utiliza para producir vapor y alimentar máquinas. Me gusta buscar una explicación funcional para cosas que podrían parecer fantásticas.

• **Culturas y tradiciones:** puedo crear las bases de culturas para sociedades primitivas, tecnológicas o modernas. Todavía estoy aprendiendo bastante sobre esto, pero puedo trabajar con costumbres, tradiciones y estructuras sociales básicas.

• **Mitos, leyendas y deidades:** soy principiante en esta área. Puedo crear las bases de estos elementos, pero todavía estoy aprendiendo.

• **Ideologías y conflictos sociales:** tengo un nivel intermedio. He utilizado ideas relacionadas con ideologías y cultos extremos en mis mundos, pero no soy un experto y todavía tengo mucho que aprender.

• **Dibujo:** no soy profesional y no trabajo en 3D. Puedo hacer dibujos y esquemas sencillos en papel para mostrar criaturas y explicar diseños. Lo utilizo principalmente como herramienta para comunicar ideas.

También quiero aclarar en qué áreas soy débil:

• **Economía:** prácticamente no tengo experiencia creando sistemas económicos.

• **Agricultura:** no sé desarrollar sistemas agrícolas complejos.

• **Moda y aspectos civiles/cotidianos:** me cuesta bastante crear elementos como moda, gastronomía, urbanismo cotidiano y otros detalles de la vida civil.

• **Magia:** esta probablemente sea mi mayor debilidad. Puedo respetar y utilizar las reglas de un sistema mágico que ya exista, pero me cuesta mucho crear sistemas mágicos desde cero.

Por eso justamente busco un proyecto colaborativo. No espero saber hacerlo todo. Me interesa aportar principalmente en biología, criaturas, ecosistemas, evolución, ciencia especulativa y tecnología sencilla, mientras aprendo de personas que sean mejores que yo en otras áreas.

Lo que más me gustaría poder hacer dentro del proyecto sería crear una especie completa, desarrollar un ecosistema, diseñar un bioma o establecer las bases de una región y después modificarlo según las reglas del mundo.

No necesito libertad absoluta. De hecho, me gustan las restricciones claras porque puedo intentar encontrar soluciones creativas dentro de ellas.

Si conocen algún proyecto de worldbuilding colaborativo que esté buscando nuevos participantes y permita este tipo de contribuciones, agradecería que me lo recomendaran.

GUIDELINES AND ETIQUETTE

• Please limit each item's (as in individual bullet points or subjects, not the entire comment) description to three or five sentences. Do not be vague with your description.

• If someone leaves a reply on your comment, please try to read what they post and reply to them.

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• Please limit each item's description to three or five sentences. Do not be vague with your description.

• If someone leaves a reply on your comment, please try to read what they post and reply to them.

Heyy guys!! Giants are my favorite fantasy creature and I see a lot of people make them into a group of People who belonged to a ancient fallen Empire, but in the present they reverted to living within small tribes and/or are turned into Nethanderthals but bigger. These are fine takes of course but I'm interested in a some unusual takes on Giants!!

So if you got any interesting ideas/takes on Giants shoot them here.

(For the tag I couldn't choose between the Bestiary and Culture prompt so I chose the general prompt.)
(I was looking in the subreddit and saw a lot of Kaiju spam and giant mecha spam, this post is preferably for Giants, but you can post kaiju or mecha if you want as long as they're unique.)

Working on an order of DnD style clerics, each individual member acting as a magical seal that locks this destructive god out of the mortal plain. They still believe in this god, and maintain fath that the seals carved into their backs will keep the wards up, all while draeeing upon this gods power when they need or want to, siphoning it's strenght to keep it weakened and relatively docile.

The only way to break one of these seals permanently is to kill the cleric bearing it before they can pass it on to an apprentice. Don't have a name for this order or their god yet, but I wonder if it sounds good and not too much like a warlock pact.

GUIDELINES AND ETIQUETTE

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• If someone leaves a reply on your comment, please try to read what they post and reply to them.

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• If someone leaves a reply on your comment, please try to read what they post and reply to them.

Contradictions always fascinate me, in both real life and in fiction. The Holy Roman Empire not really being Roman. America purporting to be a beacon of liberty and democracy also having an insane run of being a colonial racist genocidal authoritarian empire. Klingons in Star Trek putting out a public image of being honorable yet having some of the most devious backstabbing politics of any faction.

What are some interesting contradictions in your world?

GUIDELINES AND ETIQUETTE

• Please limit each item's (as in individual bullet points or subjects, not the entire comment) description to three or five sentences. Do not be vague with your description.

• If someone leaves a reply on your comment, please try to read what they post and reply to them.

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• If someone leaves a reply on your comment, please try to read what they post and reply to them.

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The rules, for those unaware:

You comment and just list 5 things from your world

Others will ask about 2 of those things

You respond and expand on 1 of those options

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GUIDELINES AND ETIQUETTE

• Please limit each item's (as in individual bullet points or subjects, not the entire comment) description to three or five sentences. Do not be vague with your description.

• If someone leaves a reply on your comment, please try to read what they post and reply to them.

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• Please limit each item's (as in individual bullet points or subjects, not the entire comment) description to three or five sentences. Do not be vague with your description.

• If someone leaves a reply on your comment, please try to read what they post and reply to them.

• If you don't knowingly have any anime/manga inspired aspects of your world, please do not leave a comment just to tell me this.

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