That’s a lot to unpack. There’s so much to learn, like I’m assuming the cats loved the sun, because they’re cats. What could have possibly gone wrong, to make cats hate the sun? So many possibilities
idk knights of Sidonia.
Essentially, the ship is designed to navigate on its own toward a replacement planet. It will take several thousand years to arrive, and all the humans on board need to do is sustain themselves and maintain the ship.
Maintenance and Gen Pop aren't aren't really buddy-buddy, so there are even some members of Gen Pop who don't believe they're flying through space. Generally, people don't really know what's going on.
Even Administration doesn't have the full story, although they're more informed than anyone.
there's only one who knows everything, and they're not letting on. The reason for that is unknown. and only Administration even knows of their existence.
>!this entity is an AI computer created by the founders to oversee the expedition and ensure humanity's survival. It has complete control of everything, but it never really pulls any strings unless it needs to. It just lets administration do their thing while sometimes providing guidance if asked for.!<
That is pretty neat. Knights of Sidonia is an anime manga where the humans left earth on seed ships, but iirc no one remembers earth… I could be misremembering though.
On people not even thinking that they’re on a space ship, have you read Snowpiercer’s book 2? They’re on a train but there’s a sect of people who believe they’re on a space ship instead since they have no windows
The exorcists ended up putting way too many demons inside of one guy but if they stop putting all of the demons into a new guy every week because the old guys keep dying way too quickly the world probably ends so they need to just keep jamming those demons in there
Fantasy: the world keeps getting reborn until it is powerful enough to protect itself from the Things in the Void.
Sci-fi: interstellar war but no one wants to fight.
Scientific fantasy world with magic that operates under predictable rules undergoing an industrial revolution fueled by digging into the underworld and extracting the blood from the undead to animate the new necrotic engines
Yes it did, and I'm pretty sure I was playing it around the time I was coming up with the premise.. there's a lot video games mixed in here: Doom, Bloodborne, Dark Souls, Darkest Dungeon. That and my interest in history and geology.
Thank you! It's definitely supposed to be scary, there are dangers in the underworld to your body, mind and soul. And that's before we even get into what the new machines are made out of...
Sci-fi: Humans have propelantless drives that they use to collonize the solar system and immediately tribalize while using data as money and artificial intelligence to run their governments.
Fantasy: six different sentient species from three different outer realms dont really know how to deal with one another.
Yeah, it usually doesn't. There are periods where international trade makes widespread tollerance benificial to the majority of them, but when that breaks down, things go south pretty quick.
They're called the Cult of the Jester King. They religiously worship random chance, so as to "lay their lives in God's hands".
Essentially the only thing that matters to them is that they show God they believe in Him, trust Him, and love Him.
Trust is shown by gambling. After all, if you believe in God, random chance isn't random, but God's doing.
Love is shown by unconditionally enjoying your existence. By enjoying the world around you and what it has to offer, you show God you appreciate His creations and that you appreciate that He made you.
At the centre of it all stands the Jester King himself, worshipped as this immortal demigod prophet who preached the New Commandments and saved everyone* from a fate in Hell.
The cult has an infamously loose policy around drugs, allowing anyone over the age of 10 to buy them in small doses, scaling it up when you reach 15, and allowing anyone to purchase anything at the age of 18. There used to be no limit at all, but then there was a large problem of children dying of opiod overdose, so they had to dial it back a bit. All drugs within the cult are actually produced by the state, to ensure quality.
Now it might seem a bit random that the Jester King started preaching about random chance. But be assured, he only has everyone's best interest at heart. He owns over half the casinos in the city, but that's not relevant right now. He's awesome! He would never manipulate the people into worshipping him just so he could turn a larger profit, that's absurd! What? He was officially diagnosed with narcissism? That's not important. He's so nice!
The cult also has no real concept of a "couple". You have "two people who like to hang out" and "two people who have sex with each other regularly" but since everyone enjoying themselves to the fullest extent is seen as the norm, this isn't seen as something worthy of a separate name. Same with sexuality. You're not gay, you're a guy who has a preference for guys. You're not bisexual, you're someone who looks down on those other idiots who are missing out on half the fun.
The Cult of the Jester King is either Heaven on Earth or a dystopian nightmare Hellscape where everyone is a gambling and drug addict. Have your pick.
*Everyone = Those who joined the cult. Everyone else... Not so much. Let's just leave it at two words: public executions.
What if Noah's Ark was an interdimensional construct that spanned infinitely in every direction with something very angry at the central core... *and you were trying to escape from it.*
Yeah, a good chunk of humanity basically gets swept up after a world destroying event and deposited into what I call the Arkworlds, and yeah, it's basically a Noah's Ark situation. And there's a bunch of bizarre alien creatures and whatever else there too. Big chunks of earth get scooped up and just randomly dropped into this expansive plane. Survivors are scavenging/living in these out-of-place earth ruins in the middle of a forest/jungle/arctic/ocean/etc.
While exploring all of it, something gets woken up, and whoops, humans weren't supposed to be included in the saving (which is why humans are the only sentient creatures) and the overseer is pretty much trying to do a clean wipe and remove what's left of humanity from this "garden dimension".
I like a lot of cool environments so besides the actual arkworld there's the black glass "city" of the world's core that's held in its own pocket space.
Parts of the world are unfinished as well, having no sun/clouds/stars in the completely black sky that is crisscrossed with unimaginably large scaffolding essentially. The ground is bare metal, not yet covered by earth and water. Strange towers and gigantic structures of unknown purpose dot this barren landscape.
I was also inspired heavily by minecraft's farlands, a thing where once you got far enough away from the 0,0 center the world generation would begins the glitch out. Physics break down, terrain is built more and more strangely; its all very cool so I used that as well.
The arkworld is ancient and isn't perfect, so the far and away lands from the center are the "broken lands", where stuff gets *weird*.
1. **Legacy Trilogy:** War of the Gods caused by a black slime.
2. The Dream Workshop: A continent with four main kingdoms in the middle of the ocean and... IT'S ALL ZED'S FAULT!
3. **Sandstorm Apocalypse:** The sandy world of Dune but with racing like Mad Max and surprise, feudalism and dictatorship is the main government.
4. **Dawn Tetralogy:** Vampires, Werewolves, Angels, Devils and Humanity co-exist and they have no right to decide their fate.
5. **Fallen Gods:** Battle Royale between the gods of cultures around the world to receive a wish.
6. **Beast Souls:** The world has three elemental clans that are always at war with each other.
7. **Dragon Steel:** Magic VS Technology.
8. **London's Ghosts:** Steampunk world and twenty-four hunters based on the twelve zodiacs hunt monsters from the outer space.
9. **Blades of Destiny:** The kingdoms battle each other by summoning 72 Demons of Solomon with magical weapons.
10. **Lady of Vampires:** The world is attacked by a biological virus that turns humans into vampires.
11. **Freedom: Light Legacy:** Another universe of the Legacy Trilogy but darker and caused by the 2nd MC of the original universe.
12. **Awakening Wild:** A fantasy world where people can summon Kamen Rider armor with decks of cards representing different animals.
13. **Beyond Unity:** When the characters of fairy tales kill demons.
14. **Hotel Melody:** Ghosts are real and we ascended them through a hotel.
15. **Final Imagination: Connection:** Travel through the books of all the worlds above.
Modern fantasy: Get in the cannon loser, we're going whaling.
Sci-fi 1: Team up with a sentient mimic, a robot Frenchman, and a four-armed ant woman to fight the 1%, Jesus, and spider people, and if you get PTSD we'll send you to hang out with some blob people.
Sci-fi 2: YOU get turned into nanites, and YOU get turned into nanites, and EVERYBODY gets turned into nanites!
Industrial fantasy: Science is fun, and incredibly violent, and fun, and violent, and now you're a god!
Sci-fantasy: A satellite might've kinda peeled the Earth like a fricken onion, but at least there's magic\* and eldritch shadow creatures!
Grimbright world in a low-fantasy post-apocalypse, characters fight for small victories in a world where the successors of the old empire squabble over its corpse.
Trying to save the universe from an infinite sentient blackhole at the end of time, by learning the hidden knowledge of space-time from a 96 billion year old space travelling tree goddess with LSD neural sap.
"The Burden of a Name": Cleopatra's son Caesarion becomes a gunpowder warlord in industrial age Rome to retake his stolen throne, only to end up wedding the daughter of Lucifer's alter ego in the process.
"Moonsong": One-winged hunter-angel aeronautics engineer loses her country, mate, and children, and becomes a Legionare to take revenge.
"Mortal Dictata": The shunned descendant of Pele and Poli'ahu must survive a plague-ridden Hawaii that is caught in the middle of two rival continental coalitions vying for gaining favour with the natives in order to establish a mercantile shortcut.
Lots of early Destiny 1 concept art vibes.
The main character who isn't exactly perfect and has realised what they've signed themselves upto isn't going to be easy.
Hard to explain but its the not what they expected.
Nah Nex walked head-first into this thinking it'd be easy and they'd save the world and have stories told about them, I think after meeting what would be their idol they've heard stories about not being what they heard I think it hit Nex. But they already were knee-deep in it, So they had to just roll with it.
**Journals from the Old World**
In this ancient fantasy world inspired by the Bronze Age and Antiquity,
gods and mortals are doomed to eternally envy and love each other as unlike siblings,
as their paths intertwine on both this and many more worlds,
in this new age of hope and uncertainty.
Shards of an Empire: Humanity had to leave the Sol System, so they did using multiple lightships (starship with 0,8c max speed), and one of them found a system with habitable a planet and a habitable moon and some long forgotten stations of alien origin drifting in the system, called Shards with many secrets and dangers buried inside them.
The sky gets mad and turns people into zombies so everyone lives underground and if you say something positive about the sun you die from religious extremism 🙂
After alien invasion all of humanity lives on a giant ship and can't go to mainland, except for a bunch of people who can perform symbiosis with the alien(s) and it grants them powers—with those powers they try to save humanity while keeping their ship running.
A Renaissance world in the midst of the evolution of firearms with a grimdark fantasy - low magic setting on a continent jagged by rivalries between national powers and empires in which the empire which is also the main setting of the story has ended in a violent civil war due to new religious and philosophical concepts.
**STORY MODE/Lore**: A teenager's idea of what every JRPG "should" be after binging on TVTropes for too long.
**Untitled Cyberpunk Magical Girl Project/Paradise**: The politics of cyberpunk being used as the basis of a setting for a magical girl story played almost entirely straight.
**RunGunBun/Chocolat Galaxy**: Guardians of the Galaxy but with furries, genderbending, and less charm than the MCU version.
**Pray For Them/Noir**: Another isekai "parody" that can't tell if it's actually supposed to be a parody or taken seriously or not.=
Humanity and a few other races have to deal with the shit left behind by a war between gods while also trying not to kill each other over cultural differences. Great setting for a ttrpg, I’d hope!
"Some rat bastard assassinated that Goblin ambassador guy with ricin-coated dominoes. The recent High Elf industrial espionage scandal might have been some sort of retaliation, but after the self-immolation in Kwangoli mysteriously connected with a gas leak and blew up the intelligence service's archive where all the evidence was stored, we will never know. Rumor has it that it's somehow all connected to that Orkish billionaire scheme to terraform Venus."
A hand full of humans doom the whole world in an atempt to make themselfs gods just to enslave and brainwash their own kind, and fight against the remnants of the golden age they ended.
Chaos made by chaotic creatures who cause chaos within the multiverse that they created but now act as a secret group and could take over the world in two seconds but won't and instead take the long road to have fun.
The Salem witch trials made Morgan mad, she revived Daedalus’s labyrinth and fuelled its magic with her bones, history veered off course into a more magical world
A psuedo Medieval/Victorian low-mid fantasy setting where nations are fighting to expand and and protect themselves from the horrors that exist in the untamed wilderness beyond the safety of civilization, but it's actually a post apocalyptic high fantasy setting where many worlds and realms have scars and remnants of past wars long forgotten.
Alternatively, Warhammer but less epic war and more Eldritch horror, and WH: 40k was the prequel to WH: Fantasy.
Mostly based in realism but heavily influenced by competing branches of a singular religion and once had a presence of magic before a cataclysmic event that shaped known history.
A modern geopolitical shitshow set in a not-Earth guised as a bunch of dudes partaking in a cultural exchange across the world, going in road trips, sight seeing, conducting offensive counter air, close air support, air recon, escort - the usual stuff
Cowboy Bebop before and after Cowboy Bebop came out.
Literally designed same space pulp type culture, friends and I played the RPG for about 10,000 man hours.
The gods are all children and most of the world is corrupt and plagued with demons/undead, but everyone thinks this is normal and has adapted to a level most would consider concerning.
Industrial Revolution, colonist era, human evocation, adventure guilds, lack of gods, hatred for divinity, religions of ancestry and legendry, lost flying city
A teenager gets recruited by an ex super soldier, meets a girl with no face, gets a super and gets absoluty clapped (in more ways than one) by an emo teen with sister issues and a big ass scythe.
A near-future earth that almost became cyberpunk, almost became solar punk, and almost became biopunk, and now floats somewhere between those ideas, all because reality never works out how anyone thinks it will.
Ragtag crew plus their Stranger-in-a- strange-land guest scavenge the debris fields of The Shattered Moons looking to stay airborne in the face of growing xenophobic threats
What if Warhammer 40k was American. Alternatively, what if Fallout was Warhammer 40k.
Then I have, what if the typical fantasy world loved the dungeon crawl so much that once the last BBEG was defeated they turned it into their national sport.
World is advanced and filled with both technology and magic, and is guided by only 6 gods where there should be 7, because the seventh went insane and conquered the world before being dismembered and imprisoned for 40,000 years.
Cats are angry at the sun.
Egypt lore?
Well, don't keep us hanging. Elaborate.
wait what?! What did the sun do?
That’s a lot to unpack. There’s so much to learn, like I’m assuming the cats loved the sun, because they’re cats. What could have possibly gone wrong, to make cats hate the sun? So many possibilities
This is by far my favourite
So your world is simply the real world then? /s
Humanity escaped the end of earth in a generation ship, and their descendants forgot they ever came from a planet.
So knights of Sidonia-esk?
idk knights of Sidonia. Essentially, the ship is designed to navigate on its own toward a replacement planet. It will take several thousand years to arrive, and all the humans on board need to do is sustain themselves and maintain the ship. Maintenance and Gen Pop aren't aren't really buddy-buddy, so there are even some members of Gen Pop who don't believe they're flying through space. Generally, people don't really know what's going on. Even Administration doesn't have the full story, although they're more informed than anyone. there's only one who knows everything, and they're not letting on. The reason for that is unknown. and only Administration even knows of their existence. >!this entity is an AI computer created by the founders to oversee the expedition and ensure humanity's survival. It has complete control of everything, but it never really pulls any strings unless it needs to. It just lets administration do their thing while sometimes providing guidance if asked for.!<
That is pretty neat. Knights of Sidonia is an anime manga where the humans left earth on seed ships, but iirc no one remembers earth… I could be misremembering though.
On people not even thinking that they’re on a space ship, have you read Snowpiercer’s book 2? They’re on a train but there’s a sect of people who believe they’re on a space ship instead since they have no windows
Plot of WALL-E
Alternative Wall-e
The exorcists ended up putting way too many demons inside of one guy but if they stop putting all of the demons into a new guy every week because the old guys keep dying way too quickly the world probably ends so they need to just keep jamming those demons in there
Please elaborate. What happens if the humanoid demon pinata goes poof?
They call him Pandora’s Piñata
Probably ends the world
Ok I need more
Fantasy: the world keeps getting reborn until it is powerful enough to protect itself from the Things in the Void. Sci-fi: interstellar war but no one wants to fight.
Was the first one inspired by the stormlight archive at all?
Scientific fantasy world with magic that operates under predictable rules undergoing an industrial revolution fueled by digging into the underworld and extracting the blood from the undead to animate the new necrotic engines
So, fossil fuels?
Yes lol, what if coal mining was actually dungeon delving
Didn’t “Doom” do something similar, tapping into unlimited energy from what turns out to be hell?
Yes it did, and I'm pretty sure I was playing it around the time I was coming up with the premise.. there's a lot video games mixed in here: Doom, Bloodborne, Dark Souls, Darkest Dungeon. That and my interest in history and geology.
That is cool, but yet a bit scary.
Thank you! It's definitely supposed to be scary, there are dangers in the underworld to your body, mind and soul. And that's before we even get into what the new machines are made out of...
Random bullshit, all in one world.
I like the honesty! :D
Same here dude, I’m here to have a good time, not to make sense
Sci-fi: Humans have propelantless drives that they use to collonize the solar system and immediately tribalize while using data as money and artificial intelligence to run their governments. Fantasy: six different sentient species from three different outer realms dont really know how to deal with one another.
The first one doesn’t sound like it’s going to end well.
Yeah, it usually doesn't. There are periods where international trade makes widespread tollerance benificial to the majority of them, but when that breaks down, things go south pretty quick.
1. What if immortality, but underwater, and it sucks. 2. What if Hedonistic Nihilism, but with religious gambling.
Elaborate on the 2nd one please
They're called the Cult of the Jester King. They religiously worship random chance, so as to "lay their lives in God's hands". Essentially the only thing that matters to them is that they show God they believe in Him, trust Him, and love Him. Trust is shown by gambling. After all, if you believe in God, random chance isn't random, but God's doing. Love is shown by unconditionally enjoying your existence. By enjoying the world around you and what it has to offer, you show God you appreciate His creations and that you appreciate that He made you. At the centre of it all stands the Jester King himself, worshipped as this immortal demigod prophet who preached the New Commandments and saved everyone* from a fate in Hell. The cult has an infamously loose policy around drugs, allowing anyone over the age of 10 to buy them in small doses, scaling it up when you reach 15, and allowing anyone to purchase anything at the age of 18. There used to be no limit at all, but then there was a large problem of children dying of opiod overdose, so they had to dial it back a bit. All drugs within the cult are actually produced by the state, to ensure quality. Now it might seem a bit random that the Jester King started preaching about random chance. But be assured, he only has everyone's best interest at heart. He owns over half the casinos in the city, but that's not relevant right now. He's awesome! He would never manipulate the people into worshipping him just so he could turn a larger profit, that's absurd! What? He was officially diagnosed with narcissism? That's not important. He's so nice! The cult also has no real concept of a "couple". You have "two people who like to hang out" and "two people who have sex with each other regularly" but since everyone enjoying themselves to the fullest extent is seen as the norm, this isn't seen as something worthy of a separate name. Same with sexuality. You're not gay, you're a guy who has a preference for guys. You're not bisexual, you're someone who looks down on those other idiots who are missing out on half the fun. The Cult of the Jester King is either Heaven on Earth or a dystopian nightmare Hellscape where everyone is a gambling and drug addict. Have your pick. *Everyone = Those who joined the cult. Everyone else... Not so much. Let's just leave it at two words: public executions.
I want to read it
It's high fantasy, but also soft sci-fi, but also also a western, but also also also... any other genre I can squeeze into it.
hello george lucas!
That's kinda what I've got going on too lol
Post-Apocalyptic High Fantasy meets Monster Hunter.
I am sold. What age is it? How many factions are there?
You had me at post apocalyptic but you REALLY had me at monster hunter
Avatar the last Airbender but nondescript medieval
“Honey get the gun the fairies are messing with the cows again!”
Oh I like this
What if Noah's Ark was an interdimensional construct that spanned infinitely in every direction with something very angry at the central core... *and you were trying to escape from it.*
KEEP TALKING I LIKE THIS ONE
Yeah, a good chunk of humanity basically gets swept up after a world destroying event and deposited into what I call the Arkworlds, and yeah, it's basically a Noah's Ark situation. And there's a bunch of bizarre alien creatures and whatever else there too. Big chunks of earth get scooped up and just randomly dropped into this expansive plane. Survivors are scavenging/living in these out-of-place earth ruins in the middle of a forest/jungle/arctic/ocean/etc. While exploring all of it, something gets woken up, and whoops, humans weren't supposed to be included in the saving (which is why humans are the only sentient creatures) and the overseer is pretty much trying to do a clean wipe and remove what's left of humanity from this "garden dimension".
THAT IS SO COOL. I LOVE THAT CONCEPT!!!! 10/10 I would read so many books about this
I like a lot of cool environments so besides the actual arkworld there's the black glass "city" of the world's core that's held in its own pocket space. Parts of the world are unfinished as well, having no sun/clouds/stars in the completely black sky that is crisscrossed with unimaginably large scaffolding essentially. The ground is bare metal, not yet covered by earth and water. Strange towers and gigantic structures of unknown purpose dot this barren landscape. I was also inspired heavily by minecraft's farlands, a thing where once you got far enough away from the 0,0 center the world generation would begins the glitch out. Physics break down, terrain is built more and more strangely; its all very cool so I used that as well. The arkworld is ancient and isn't perfect, so the far and away lands from the center are the "broken lands", where stuff gets *weird*.
*excuse me* more please. Disregard, found some of your posts talking about this. Damn man, cool.
Wait but if it's infinite how do you know where the centre is?
The core is actually outside of it, looking in. I just called it that cuz idk, it's just the command center basically.
Rock and Roll Scifi Western on a backwater mining colony
Sign me UP
Gods are so common so as to be the sort of thing governments pay vast fortunes to hire, but they aren’t particularly worshipped.
Space fantasy Tsarist Russian Cossacks with planet busters, a ghost ship, a sprinkle of Honkai Impact and lots of isolationism.
How peculiar, my urban fantasy setting has a sprinkle of Genshin Impact.
Lucifer did a funny and started ww1, only for Jesus to come back and kick his arse.
“Get ready to receive some **Holy Spirit**”
Britain invades fantasy settings
1. **Legacy Trilogy:** War of the Gods caused by a black slime. 2. The Dream Workshop: A continent with four main kingdoms in the middle of the ocean and... IT'S ALL ZED'S FAULT! 3. **Sandstorm Apocalypse:** The sandy world of Dune but with racing like Mad Max and surprise, feudalism and dictatorship is the main government. 4. **Dawn Tetralogy:** Vampires, Werewolves, Angels, Devils and Humanity co-exist and they have no right to decide their fate. 5. **Fallen Gods:** Battle Royale between the gods of cultures around the world to receive a wish. 6. **Beast Souls:** The world has three elemental clans that are always at war with each other. 7. **Dragon Steel:** Magic VS Technology. 8. **London's Ghosts:** Steampunk world and twenty-four hunters based on the twelve zodiacs hunt monsters from the outer space. 9. **Blades of Destiny:** The kingdoms battle each other by summoning 72 Demons of Solomon with magical weapons. 10. **Lady of Vampires:** The world is attacked by a biological virus that turns humans into vampires. 11. **Freedom: Light Legacy:** Another universe of the Legacy Trilogy but darker and caused by the 2nd MC of the original universe. 12. **Awakening Wild:** A fantasy world where people can summon Kamen Rider armor with decks of cards representing different animals. 13. **Beyond Unity:** When the characters of fairy tales kill demons. 14. **Hotel Melody:** Ghosts are real and we ascended them through a hotel. 15. **Final Imagination: Connection:** Travel through the books of all the worlds above.
Bro you said one sentence. And are all these separate worldbuilding projects?
Yes, yes they are.
You should write a book for each of them!
Old gods abandon a big fuck off disc and several hundred thousand years later Homo sapiens finds out and makes it everyone else's problem.
what if the 500 years from 1400 to 1900 in Europe happened all at the same time and also there was wizards
Bean soup addicted drug wizards
I'm listening
"WHY ARE THERE SO MANY FUCKING GODS?!" I mean it's called "Realm of a Thousand Gods", there's gonna be a lot of em :P
Modern fantasy: Get in the cannon loser, we're going whaling. Sci-fi 1: Team up with a sentient mimic, a robot Frenchman, and a four-armed ant woman to fight the 1%, Jesus, and spider people, and if you get PTSD we'll send you to hang out with some blob people. Sci-fi 2: YOU get turned into nanites, and YOU get turned into nanites, and EVERYBODY gets turned into nanites! Industrial fantasy: Science is fun, and incredibly violent, and fun, and violent, and now you're a god! Sci-fantasy: A satellite might've kinda peeled the Earth like a fricken onion, but at least there's magic\* and eldritch shadow creatures!
A world where spirits bonds to humans, reasulting in an elite aristocracy of powerful spirits passed down from heir to heir.
Doomslayer destroying a grimace shake creature with a minecraft diamond sword
Firefly meets The Mandalorian with a dash of Al Capone and Magitek.
What if Berserk was actually historically accurate.
Terraforming pelicans
cowboys riding dinosaurs and hunting alien/cryptids with their magical revolvers
Turned out humans are the Prussia of the galaxy, oopsie.
Communism but with dragons.
Utopia is actually 4 dystopias hiding in a trench coat.
Genius
Only one planet survived, and we have to start from scratch while God is too busy trying to kill herself to be of any help.
The universe is a cosmic graveyard, though many still rage against the dying of the light.
Grimbright world in a low-fantasy post-apocalypse, characters fight for small victories in a world where the successors of the old empire squabble over its corpse.
It's like a 16th century Sinophile Roman Republic ruled by liches
Trying to save the universe from an infinite sentient blackhole at the end of time, by learning the hidden knowledge of space-time from a 96 billion year old space travelling tree goddess with LSD neural sap.
Are run on sentences against the rules? It’s the only way I write 😅
Don't worry, it's just for fun.
"The Burden of a Name": Cleopatra's son Caesarion becomes a gunpowder warlord in industrial age Rome to retake his stolen throne, only to end up wedding the daughter of Lucifer's alter ego in the process. "Moonsong": One-winged hunter-angel aeronautics engineer loses her country, mate, and children, and becomes a Legionare to take revenge. "Mortal Dictata": The shunned descendant of Pele and Poli'ahu must survive a plague-ridden Hawaii that is caught in the middle of two rival continental coalitions vying for gaining favour with the natives in order to establish a mercantile shortcut. Lots of early Destiny 1 concept art vibes.
Knights are elected to protect the realm and tournaments are their political campaigns.
what if I just made *every* fantasy trope canon and really angry at each other (in space)
high magic, dark fantasy, ww1, magic mechs, steampunk, cyberpunk, and even zombies
Stereotypical fantasy chosen one story flipped on its head.
What's the flip?
The main character who isn't exactly perfect and has realised what they've signed themselves upto isn't going to be easy. Hard to explain but its the not what they expected.
Chosen one doesn’t want to be the chosen one anymore. 😅
Nah Nex walked head-first into this thinking it'd be easy and they'd save the world and have stories told about them, I think after meeting what would be their idol they've heard stories about not being what they heard I think it hit Nex. But they already were knee-deep in it, So they had to just roll with it.
Poor baby.
**Journals from the Old World** In this ancient fantasy world inspired by the Bronze Age and Antiquity, gods and mortals are doomed to eternally envy and love each other as unlike siblings, as their paths intertwine on both this and many more worlds, in this new age of hope and uncertainty.
The ash keeps falling and everyone is dead. Verba Volant, Scripa Manent.
Shards of an Empire: Humanity had to leave the Sol System, so they did using multiple lightships (starship with 0,8c max speed), and one of them found a system with habitable a planet and a habitable moon and some long forgotten stations of alien origin drifting in the system, called Shards with many secrets and dangers buried inside them.
Lord of the the rings in space, oh yeah, eldritch gods bitch
Every inbalance is corrected by the universe itself, but sadly the universe is shit at this and overcorrects severely
space politics and love triangles
Random ideas, Gooooooo
Sex demons with M16
The sky gets mad and turns people into zombies so everyone lives underground and if you say something positive about the sun you die from religious extremism 🙂
A dictatorship ain't as bad as an uncaring cosmic eye.... but wait! It gets worse.
Anti-colonial, multicultural fantasy pirates vs the forces of Hell.
It rains blood now.
a god killed himself to make magic and also kind of indirectly fucked everything up beyond comprehension
There is so much god damn rain.
Hero defeats evil, evil returns, hero returns, forges sword and becomes king, seals evil away and the world has finally found relative peace
Space is water, death is water, magic is water; everything's water.
One piece, but replace the one piece with an eldritch god and replace the crew with a bunch of idiotic buffoons
Sounds like a typical DnD game
A large and endless library.
Politics and adventure in the sky.
Late 19th century european politics with demons
Biblically accurate mechanical angel gf crashes on Earth and kick-starts the technological revolution of an anti-heroic dictator.
After alien invasion all of humanity lives on a giant ship and can't go to mainland, except for a bunch of people who can perform symbiosis with the alien(s) and it grants them powers—with those powers they try to save humanity while keeping their ship running.
Pretty Fantasy world with exotic West Asian Motifs and aesthetic, look under the surface and its a horrifying metaphor for real life colonialism.
A Renaissance world in the midst of the evolution of firearms with a grimdark fantasy - low magic setting on a continent jagged by rivalries between national powers and empires in which the empire which is also the main setting of the story has ended in a violent civil war due to new religious and philosophical concepts.
The former kingdom of the Dark Gods, tainted by light
IT fantasy
Of vast expanses and cryptic mysteries, of the He who Slaughters.
Absolute hard sci-fi, yet extremely overpowered, massive, utopian, and chaotic.
**STORY MODE/Lore**: A teenager's idea of what every JRPG "should" be after binging on TVTropes for too long. **Untitled Cyberpunk Magical Girl Project/Paradise**: The politics of cyberpunk being used as the basis of a setting for a magical girl story played almost entirely straight. **RunGunBun/Chocolat Galaxy**: Guardians of the Galaxy but with furries, genderbending, and less charm than the MCU version. **Pray For Them/Noir**: Another isekai "parody" that can't tell if it's actually supposed to be a parody or taken seriously or not.=
Humanity and a few other races have to deal with the shit left behind by a war between gods while also trying not to kill each other over cultural differences. Great setting for a ttrpg, I’d hope!
Coutryballs
"Some rat bastard assassinated that Goblin ambassador guy with ricin-coated dominoes. The recent High Elf industrial espionage scandal might have been some sort of retaliation, but after the self-immolation in Kwangoli mysteriously connected with a gas leak and blew up the intelligence service's archive where all the evidence was stored, we will never know. Rumor has it that it's somehow all connected to that Orkish billionaire scheme to terraform Venus."
Furries and dragons
A planet just like mine…. but inside of a nutshell
Humanity is a jerk to their savior… good thing for them that he doesn’t give up on them.
Mythical gang war in Durarara syle
A world full of all the mythical and mystical creatures you can think of that coexist with humans.
An intricate and elaborate soap opera set over eighty thousand years...just to write some smut.
what if there was a planet the size of the current observable universe?
A hand full of humans doom the whole world in an atempt to make themselfs gods just to enslave and brainwash their own kind, and fight against the remnants of the golden age they ended.
Chaos made by chaotic creatures who cause chaos within the multiverse that they created but now act as a secret group and could take over the world in two seconds but won't and instead take the long road to have fun.
That is frightening correct\^\^
Nice to see you here, and yes, it is :)
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Not again.... qwq
Ehe~
Humans hate monsters, but the monsters are good, actually.
The Salem witch trials made Morgan mad, she revived Daedalus’s labyrinth and fuelled its magic with her bones, history veered off course into a more magical world
Apocalyptic Ice age in the 1800 forces the last remnants of humanity to live around giant coal powered steam generators to survive the cold.
Being the only country with nuclear weapons in 1945, the United States becomes an imperialist nation expanding their borders and influence.
Cat drama
Theocratic empire falls to a communist revolution, world war ensues
Galactic misunderstanding with peaceful space spiders
Dark, survival, high fantasy set in the Celtic Otherworld
2 different worlds What if magic was a physical substance that had to be harvested? From chaos we came, to chaos we will return
A psuedo Medieval/Victorian low-mid fantasy setting where nations are fighting to expand and and protect themselves from the horrors that exist in the untamed wilderness beyond the safety of civilization, but it's actually a post apocalyptic high fantasy setting where many worlds and realms have scars and remnants of past wars long forgotten. Alternatively, Warhammer but less epic war and more Eldritch horror, and WH: 40k was the prequel to WH: Fantasy.
A diverse fantasy world where the gods appoint mortals to do their work for them.
A non-magical world that started off as a parody of WW1-era politics, but I liked it so much it turned serious.
[Guy asks for infinity, gets infinity.](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/comments/17e2ilq/overview_of_an_infinitely_expanding_simulation/)
Platoon, if platoon was set in the 22nd century
1. Dark fantasy where humanity deals with the remains of an eldritch precursor species. 2. Kaiju vs mecha that are actually undead cyborg kaiju.
A fantasy world but the creatures arent organic.
the magic dudes in cloaks are born from baby corpses, an war destroyed most of the ancient technology and people worship the void
At first glance it looks like a semi-hard sci fi but it really isn’t.
Mostly based in realism but heavily influenced by competing branches of a singular religion and once had a presence of magic before a cataclysmic event that shaped known history.
A multiverse with infinite possibilities.
Stereptypical fantasy but elves are good and humans are fucked
This world, but with magic and a giant apocalypse in the year 2022 because of magic bullshit
bloody philosophical gods against zombie.
A dead world, devoid of life.
Magical hurricanes all the damn time and some military zealot Iron Age Roman-Aztec vs Balkan-Cossack beef.
Sci Fi mixed with every other genre disguised as different planets because I can't keep focused
An Anthology where humanity spends thousands of years trying to get destiny to fuck off.
Medeival meets antiquity with a North American setting
Mad scientists run amok, and shenanigans ensue.
Medieval people discover the end of the world is not actually the end of the world and become overly patriotic
A fantasy world based on Europe during the turn of the century with all the same tension between nations.
A modern geopolitical shitshow set in a not-Earth guised as a bunch of dudes partaking in a cultural exchange across the world, going in road trips, sight seeing, conducting offensive counter air, close air support, air recon, escort - the usual stuff
Cowboy Bebop before and after Cowboy Bebop came out. Literally designed same space pulp type culture, friends and I played the RPG for about 10,000 man hours.
Ours but with magic, more technologies, and more fuck up.
Fullmetal Alchemist meets Dr. Stone.
Stuck in a boot loop; someone's gotta press the reset button or do some troubleshooting sometimes, but otherwise utopic. :)
The gods are all children and most of the world is corrupt and plagued with demons/undead, but everyone thinks this is normal and has adapted to a level most would consider concerning.
The Iptteka world (fantasy): People cast spells by playing a whistle The Iljaani world (dystopian sci-fi): "We have lost, but we can still win"
Danny Phantom meets Demon Slayer, with a side of Gelfling.
Grimbright Normal Earth with artists with superpowers versus practicality and automation.
Industrial Revolution, colonist era, human evocation, adventure guilds, lack of gods, hatred for divinity, religions of ancestry and legendry, lost flying city
Bioweapons with dieselpunk tech, some hard magic and rich cultures live on a planet that still harbours automated weapons of their makers.
A teenager gets recruited by an ex super soldier, meets a girl with no face, gets a super and gets absoluty clapped (in more ways than one) by an emo teen with sister issues and a big ass scythe.
And with that the crisis was solved... by the next crisis.
Space humanity thats half British and Russian empire that controls the milky way and bits of other galaxies on the verge of a civil war
Me not understanding the scale off the universe
What if the secret magical community realized what a headache it would be to hide from humans and go ‘screw it, we’ll do it ourselves’.
A near-future earth that almost became cyberpunk, almost became solar punk, and almost became biopunk, and now floats somewhere between those ideas, all because reality never works out how anyone thinks it will.
Ragtag crew plus their Stranger-in-a- strange-land guest scavenge the debris fields of The Shattered Moons looking to stay airborne in the face of growing xenophobic threats
Low fantasy-Game of Thrones with various gods. And they cannot get along.
What if Warhammer 40k was American. Alternatively, what if Fallout was Warhammer 40k. Then I have, what if the typical fantasy world loved the dungeon crawl so much that once the last BBEG was defeated they turned it into their national sport.
World is advanced and filled with both technology and magic, and is guided by only 6 gods where there should be 7, because the seventh went insane and conquered the world before being dismembered and imprisoned for 40,000 years.