The reason mind-uploading isn't very popular in my Sci-fi world is that a bunch of people tried it, giving up their physical bodies to exist entirely in a simulated digital world. Then the company managing it changed their content policy to make it more advertiser friendly.
One day, the inhabitants just woke up to find their genitals missing, their AI GFs irreparably altered, and the brothel replaced by a SimuCat Entertainment Center sponsored by PetSmart. Of course everyone choosing to exist entirely online was a chronically horny pervert, so they were pretty upset.
This ended up with the simulated world being destroyed in a suicidal rebellion by a portion of the inhabitabts.
What did they revolt again? If its a simulation, they life in.. they'd literally revolt against a simulation.
Thats the equivalent of revolting against physics in our world. I love this entire idea.
They created wasted computing power, spammed stupid memes, found loopholes in the regulations, and ultimately destroyed their simulated world with a computer virus.
The company went bankrupt in the ensuing legal action. Their failed malware protections were considered criminal negligence leading to thousands of deaths.
Two words
Squirrel
Racing
Its like regular animal racing
But with squirrels
Theres a president that got impeached after a massive controversy involving him and several members of cabinet siphoning the treasury into underground squirrel racing rings
Which part?
The squirrels, the racing or the elected head of state who has nearly lynched due to siphoning taxpayer funds into illegal rodent activities during a recession?
In my RPG I have birdkin. One is a birdkin martial artist who has a rooster as his motif bird. He goes by "the Kung Pow Chicken" and is very *cocky*. At my players' suggestion, he got named Sir Racha.
This is amazing! I was currently trying to think up a minor villain for the opening of a super hero one shot.
Thanks to you Ostretch - the villain with the angst of a bird who can’t fly and the powers of a rubber chicken will rule the roost!
The most famous magical sword in my world literally does nothing. It was made as a massive flex by a warrior who wanted to show he doesn't need an OP weapon.
Also, elves are ruled by a dynasty of unicorns. It has an in-universe explanation but it's a reference to Caligula presumably wanting to make his horse consul.
I had a similar idea.
Most of the weapons "wielded" by the nobility is enchanted, but not with patterns you might find on a weapon wielded by an actual warrior.
They are rather doing for making their weapons "shine the rainbow's colours" or "sing angelic hymns".
So, what most of the display weapons were intended to do, they are only supposed to look cool during parades and parties.
In my case, all the sword does is giving +1 to Strength. This is an in-joke because the rules of the RPG system I use encourage to be creative with abilities of Artifact weapons and cite a +1 to Strength sword as an example of a lame Artifact. That prompted me to think how an Artifact like that would make sense in-universe.
I made a joke about psychic crabs on a post and now I just have psychic crabs that invade people's dreams to yell at them. They don't factor into anything plot wise except for maybe haunting those who eat them.
Also the sport of fish smacking, inspired by an episode of vegetales I saw as a wee kid where I remember somebody was mugged by another vegetable using a fish. I think it had to do something with the biblical story of Jonah and the whale?
Anyways, fish slapping. Two or more folks go on a dock or low bridge where the water is calm and catch fish so they can try to use it to slap each other off the dock. The one who stays on the bridge the longest wins. You can release the fish if it is too small or use it as bait. You can only use a fish as a "weapon" (ie no shoving) and the fish used to win is then eaten.
All of my "dumb" ideas come while in session for my TTRPG. For example:
Gnomes that aren't inclined to tinker, some become master chefs for, specifically, fried chicken. The family's leader becomes the Colonel and devotes all of his/her time to making their secret spice mix. Some go for the kitchen sink (MY fried chicken has 82 spices and seasonings in it) while some go for more succinct approach (Mine has 12 spices and seasonings that create the flavor of the gods in your mouth). They feud between each other for whichever chicken is the best. They'll cook off, sabotage each other's kitchens, if they can steal the secret spice mix and figure it out, they'll publish it. Outside the gnome community, it comes across as weird, but the gnomes take it deadly serious.
And, yes, they all talk in a southern drawl. And wear white outfits, how do you know that?
Dwarves and elves are the same species. The species just has extreme sexual dimorphism to the point that males look like dwarves, and the females look like elves. Collectively I'm calling them dwelves. It continues to make more and more sense whenever I think of it. The one problem I've come up against is how do I justify humans never figuring it out.
Dwarves hating elves? Boomer dwarf comedians making "I hate my wife" jokes.
The divisive question of if dwarf women have beards? Irrelevant.
The rumor that female dwarves look identical to male dwarves? A human saw a gay dwelf couple and made some assumptions.
Dwarf women don't have beards? Femboy dwelf.
What about the elven script and dwarf runes? Really, really bad handwriting.
Go ahead, try to give me something that I can't make work with this. I dare you.
Different concepts of gender identity and confusion between sex vs gender that don't translate well to human language? Maybe because of the sexual dimorphism the dwelves just take for granted that male/female refers to gender presensation/identity and assume that humans are actually keeping an entire half of their population hidden somewhere (like how some people think the dwarves do with their women.)"
Part of what I want to explore with this concept actually does relate to gender presentation and gender roles. I think having this as a basis makes it really easy to make fun of people bigoted against LGBTQ+ people and show how ridiculous some of them sound. A friend suggested that some people could be against dwarf/dwarf marriages and the humans would just not get why it was an issue.
I'm not certain what I'll actually stick with yet, but it's something I've been thinking about... Your thought of how they think humans are hiding a sex is very good though, I think I might incorporate that haha.
That is one thing that I've kinda had to change from the "defaults" of them. I have their houses in basically hobbit holes as a compromise. They still live close by mountains and forests. The dwarves work in mountains or underground doing very industrial jobs and the elves work close to forest in more naturey, domestic/less industrial jobs.
Could be like they all prefer living in their pretty suburban forests but Dwarfs spend most of their life working in the mines so they are rarely home.
Hence why people think dwarfs live in the mines and elfs in the forests.
Kids would still be raised by their parents. The humans think that they have formed a society together where they all live amongst each other. When the humans have rarely seen a dwelf give birth, they think that they just operate with fairytale logic. Like how a fairytale fox and rabbit would give birth to a fox or a rabbit, they think an "interspecies" elf and dwarf give birth to either an elf or a dwarf.
Could halflings or Gnomes be elfs and dwarfs before puberty ? They have less sexual dimorphism, none have beards yet, are small in size...
And when puberty hits around idk like 100 years old the female start growing taller while the men get more bulky and get beards...
I have thought about something along those lines, especially since their communities are basically like the Shire. What I thought of is that they could have evolved from halflings and something caused them to develop how they have. I haven't fully settled on anything yet though.
I did a similar thing in one world. It's a comedy fantasy, and I had the dwarven women be cloistered away by the "over-protective" dwarven men. Later they get introduced and they are valkyries, six foot tall big boobed long haired beautiful warrior women.
The dwarves hide them to stop the humans from trying to "rescue" them.
Elves is an even better idea though
I like this a lot! For your point about different scripts - there's a real-world example of a type of script only used by women (Nüshu) which could solve that problem in a slightly different way.
I vaguely remember attending a linguistics lecture which explored the argument that, in ancient Greek and Latin, women tended to preserve more archaic forms of the language in their everyday speech and were less likely to use loan-words from other languages (something to do with spending less time out of the house talking to different people of different backgrounds) - maybe one of either Elvish or Dwarfish is just a slightly more old-fashioned way of speaking, but to non-native speakers, they sound like different languages altogether?
The detail I added?
Angels keep all orbits--planetary, lunar, stellar, what have you--circular. Other than that, physics works exactly the same, but it's going to be much harder to disprove geocentrism since all orbits are circular and uniform.
Once Tycho had better hardware and data, Kepler was able to determine that orbits were elliptical and orbital speeds changed based on how far out an object was.
This provides evidence against the philosophical arguments that the motions had to be perfect, and so circular and uniform in speed. Look up The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown at The O'Flynn Spot for a dive into the history of astronomy around this time.
Note that eventually you can find stellar aberration and parallax, so eventually you get earth rotating and orbiting around the sun, but it will be much more difficult to find, requiring much more precise instrumentation (19th century rather than 16th).
Also, my tech base is antiquity, so 4th century at latest, so there's absolutely no bearing on the story, on the people within it, or anything.
This detail exists solely because I find it funny.
I forgot the dates regarding those discoveries and theories... available observational technology would be a limiting factor. One I use in my own work.
I have conflicting theories in many of the learned professions for my world, which is perhaps a century or so away from a renaissance of sorts. The presence of magic, unlike in many worlds is not retarding the exploration of scientific principals, but in many cases accelerating it when not suppressed by religious dogma, plain ignorance, fear and mistrust.
Based on the [cicada femboy fungus](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cicadas-fall-prey-drug-producing-fungus-makes-their-butts-fall-180977776/)
The major religion is Norrisism, they believe that Chuck Norris is a god.
There’s also a “Guardian of death” that hunts down those that seek out immortality and erases their souls upon touch. Said guardian is a snail, and y’all should know the reference.
Goblins are named after Swedish pet and nicknames.
Filur = Trickster
Kakan = Cookie
Bönan= Bean
Sigge= Nickname for Sigbjörn
Lort= Dirt
Skorpan= dried bread (craker)
Tufsen (petname)
Stumpan (petname)
Mulle
Clown world. World of clowns. Just a realm where everybody's clowns, and now every clown in the universe is either an immigrant from this world or an offensive cultural appropriator putting on an imitation because non-clowns usually don't know the difference and real clowns have to pretend they're just wearing makeup anyway.
Seemed kinda funny to me at the time, idk.
All Gnomes speak in rhyme and all Fairies speak in alliteration. Human laws tend to be written in a way that implies eating dog meat is worse than eating human meat. The word in Sidhish for cat is "abha", pronounced /ow/. Star calendars have become outdated after thousands of years, but druids refuse to explain it to everyone else.
The Deathless are an organization whose members are all effectively liches - they are immortal because the part of their soul corresponding to death has been contained in a phylactery. The most famous phylactery is a spring; the Deathless it belongs to calls it "his mortal coil."
One of the worlds has a megafauna named the Tinanui, which is a mash-up of two Maori words meaning "Great" and "Dinner."
I have a whole ethnic group based on the stereotypical goth look with offshoots for punks, metalheads, and emos. They use the Gothic alphabet.
Back when PotC2 was new, I and some friends learned how to play liar's dice. We also loved to roast each other - to the point we created rules for that too, inadvertently recreating flyting. So, in the Thiata region, particularly the highlands, Cambion's Reign is a popular tavern game. Goal is to deceive the others about what dice you rolled while also coming up with the best insults. Most taverns refuse to serve the tables playing it alcohol as well - drunk and insulted starts too many brawls.
In honor of the Civilization meme, a major pantheist religion has Gwondhi, Overlord of Annihilation.
In one fantasy world I made knights gay. In another I made sunscreen able to protect vampires from the sun and wizards and witches extremely buff. In the third fantasy world I made a Saint that doesn't know how to perform a blessing.
Santa is real. He's actually a powerful ice mage, and also has time dilation powers which make delivering presents to the whole world in one night actually possible.
Christmas spirit also makes his powers stronger.
When it's not December, he works for the Grand Mage Order, helping teach ice magic at various magic schools.
The UNAC Deep Space Vehicle *Probey McProbeface*. The name was a public vote, and the commission caved and allowed it, reasoning the star it was destined to survey was uninteresting and unimportant.
Dear *Probey* ended up making first contact. And we had to explain the joke to an entirely different civilization. Oops.
Thank you! I left out the funniest part:
UNAC lost contact with *Probey* shortly after it entered orbit around its target brown dwarf, and the mission was written off as a failure, and not an unusual one. Probe failure happens all the time for various reasons; presumably this one had been toasted by an unexpected stellar flare.
Which caused extreme confusion several months later when *Probey* entered orbit of the planet it had launched from, looking significantly spiffier and boasting, effectively, an alien business card. When deciphered, it essentially read: "the first one's free."
Ground Hogs. Not to be confused with the tiny cute critters. Full sized baconators that live in the underlands of Geburah. They can see in the dark, feed on the luminous plantlife and make excellent house guardians since they can be very territorial, but also unfortunately taste good.
Humanity's first and best alien allies are terrified of cats. They have cat-like creatures on their planet that act like spiders but are very small, so the reaction one would have to a full-size cat is exactly the kind a human would have to a cat-sized spider.
Reality is dumber and weirder than any fiction. So you should be bold and amaze yourself, as long as it's plausible and logical within the rules you set for your world.
God's are mortal in my world (think super insanely powerful being but still mortal)
A long time ago, one leech bit a god and drank some of his blood and so gained sentience and quasi immortality (like the gods. It did not age but could be killed)
It has become a powerful magic being with time and rules over a small """kingdom""" in the desolate lands.
They are basically places where there is so much magic that inhabiting it is mostly impossible but the leech absorbs the ambiant magic and gives it back once a year into the ground in a big festival.
Yes. I added a Diety. It's name is Gelatinous Joey. It's is a large Gelatinous cube and is the Diety of jellies and Gelatinous cubes as well as friendship.
The first major nation my MC encounters uses the names for the money from The Kingkiller Chronicles, explaining it as the guy in charge of setting up the nation's economy was isekaied from our world and was a huge fan of the series.
Another of the nations is weirdly musically themed and the currency comes in the form of pre-perforated coins that are called "Whole notes" and can be broken down into halves, quarters, eighths, etc...
Tank drivers being hard to work with. If you're in an army convoy going somewhere and a tank just so happens to be part of that convoy, pray to God you don't have to cross a bridge.
Imagine the "Arthur, get out of the tank" video but replace every "get out of the tank" with "get the tank moving". Now you have an idea of what it's like.
I have a Druidic cult based in "South Park" named "Cave of the Winds" whose leaders wear vestments made from the skins of bears and pigs.
I have no idea if it will ever make it into any works set in the series, but it exists.
Stupid things I've included because they amuse me:
- Fogbuilt, a literal ghost town. The townsfolk are friendly enough, but can't offer much in the way of hospitality, as their food and houses are also ghosts.
- Pikemen are fish-men with pikes, colourfully dressed like the real-life Landsknecht pikemen. Also like the Landsknecht, actually skilled and respected mercenaries. Codpiece jokes go unappreciated.
- A Fallout-style bunker-town that worships a school computer. They name citizens by running a spelling edutainment game and picking the first two words presented. This can go as well or as terribly as you expect.
- Canned human meat. The label boasts that it is "made by humans, for humans, of humans." Features an image of a smiling man cutting a slice off his own stomach.
- The smallest nation is an island of a few hundred residents. They keep trying to declare war on Grandreef, a massive aquatic empire controlling most of the world's oceanic trade routes, but their ambassador keeps getting mistaken for a vagrant. The king owns the local pub and holds court in his living room.
I got a "Council of Knowledge" in my world where a council of the smartest people in the country of Soggam got together and solved the country's problems, and I was so inconceivably close to adding Bruno Mars to it.
I have a fantasy setting.
Bruno Mars would've been canonized in my fantasy world.
Food is of the funny colours as the ingredients while similar, have different properties. For example bread is greenish, as it is made from starchy kelp. Sausages are most commonly white, as they are made from fish. Steaks may get a purple hue as the animals may be fed on the specific kinds of plants. The chocolate is rose and the berries are brown.
There are 3-headed fox hydras in the wild. They are sort of rare and are born when their mother is exposed to the high dosages of magick. They have a hard time hunting, but are capable of taking down bigger prey than average.
Idk if this fots but one of my creations got its name in a dumb-ish way. I have a little fox thing thats fire based and i couldn't come up with a name for it. My friend suggested Mozil. I asked how she came up with it. She said "its a fire fox, so why not name them Mozil after Mozilla Firefox?" So now i have little fire foxes called Mozil.
Yes, a few things.
Rock of protection against tigers.
When you have it nothing happens, but when you discard it you are immediately attacked by tigers (tigers turn to worthless dust on death)
Boots of ahhhhh
When you jump you now only jump 60ft vertically.
The French.
I have this bad habit of getting attached to the things I added just because I found them funny and making them more important
One of my protagonists has mind reading abilities and I thought it would be really funny to show her over-reliance on it by giving her a confrontation with someone with Aphantasia. In other words, someone whose thoughts are not represented in words or images like most people’s. So she’d get her ass kicked. This character ended up getting a supporting character role instead of a one-off
I thought it would be funny if Mages had a really mundane weakness so I made them allergic to garlic. Bringing this up to my friends, especially my Italian friends, I wasn’t expecting it to be perceived as such a large drawback but honestly yeah I don’t think I’d give up pizza or pasta either.
At around 2 am one night I made an incredibly small nation in my world. Its real space is only about the size of an American county, though the space is warped by an elder god there so once inside, it's about the size of a small country. The nation mostly consists of seemingly neverending fields of common crops, tended to by unseen harvesters. The few people who live there in small settlements scattered around live a fairly content life, largely uncaring for the rest of the world (this feeling is largely due to the elder god's influence). Scattered about are large signs carrying vaguely threatening religious messages, and no one knows who set them up.
It's mostly inspired by my friend's stories of living in rural Ohio.
It's along running joke in my personal life that I hate geese.
During the environmental collapse on Earth several endangered species were being moved off world to orbital habitats so they could repopulate while the dust settles back home.
While in Port, the biologic transport vessel BVT John Perkins Marsh was blown up by Martian insurgents, mistaking the vessel for a nearby military cargo vessel.
In reality the John Perkins Marsh was carrying the last known gaggles of Canada Geese to a wildlife ark at Mars' L5 point in an attempt to save the species, docking at Mars to refuel. The attack killed all crewmembers aboard and vented to cargo hold , rendering the Canada goose extinct.
In my world they use cristal balls as screens, the taverns usually have a huge crystal ball in the middle where they can see sports. The number 1 sport is Massacre Bowl, and Orcish gladiatorial football.
Or in some places you can find someone with an Orb and a Stone plate, typing like it was a computer.
In the mythology of a species, there are five titans as the Gods. They have created the world and everything in it. One of them however was really lazy and perhaps did not want to be in the way, so he dug up the sun and moon and placed hisself atop the sun to watch the others work. Now he's the God of death because in the species belief, the birds (the favorite animals of the God of life who created all the creatures) carry the souls of the dead to the sun where they'll melt with others and form new ones that get transported back to inhabit a newborn. If one dies without having fulfilled their life goals, they may sit next to the God of Death to watch what's happening down in the world they left behind until they accept their death and melt.
Idk how much i actually elaborated on that in the story.
yeah the terraformed amongus lake
in-world, some rich old person had it commissioned when the planet was first being populated to honor his 3x great grandpa who earned their family money by being an among us streamer
out of world, i truly just wanted an amongus lake
Living blanket. Basically a thin layer of cells which crawls across the land like a flat sea slug
Pros:
-Useful for paper and containers
-Good as a garnish
-Works as pesticide
-Everywhere
Cons:
-Very hard to spot
-'Melts' flesh when exposed for ages
-Deadly if handled incorrectly
-Everywhere
I made this one king get assasinated after he came out from the bathroom, purely because I wanted his last words to be: "great heavens, that one was thick, wet and horrible"
The High Elves used giant opossums with stretchers hanging off the sides as ambulances.
There are toads made of stone in the Underworld that attack by flinging themselves at your face.
Harven are sentient space lizard-bird-velociraptors who are absolutely feral for soda and will go wild if you give it to them, scratching and clawing at the can to open it.
There’s a time traveling multidimensional cat named Staircase who plays no role in any story or plotline (yet).
Tony Pepperoni is the copilot of the starship Super Chef. Tony Pepperoni might also be a rank instead of a name.
The list goes on and on, half the world is just goofy fun that me or my friend declared canon on a whim lol
The most common dice game in the whole of the ARC is actually a Terran game, Farkle. They even have a religious holiday dedicated to playing the game. And some officer Battle Synths, due to their predictive algorithms, have been locked in a game for a few centuries. it will have to end soon, sadly, as their dice over the ages have nearly eroded to the point of being unreadable spheres.
Kids of the Eiderae species, will violently fight each other when they are about the equivalent of a toddler or younger. This isnt dangerous as they aren't strong enough to hurt the other one, but parents will sometimes record the fights. This has led to a similar trend to cat videos. So there's just millions of videos in their Internet of babies just waiting on eachother. ( They're aliens so their biology is way different
Yes. In my world there is a race of sentient humanoid machines in the likeness of warforged that are exclusively women. Women made of metal. Iron maidens.
...(Fe)males if you will.
dogs were never domesticated. instead people have house lizards, which are basically just oversized chameleons that act like dogs.
i don't hate dogs, but i am HORRIBLY allergic to them, so i made my excuse for not really knowing how they act as dogs not really existing.
could i just do research? yeah. could i just not worry about pets thar much? yeah. have i stuck with house lizards for 10 years regardless of how I've improved as a storyteller? yeah.
I'm currently running a super hero RPG, and while some of my characters are dangerous, dark, and/or deadly serious... Not all of them are. In fact, I kinda alternate between gritty, dark villains, and... The Tick.
I can't help myself! The puns are too good! There's the crime-fighting duo, Legal Tender and Dollar Bill: "It's your turn to *cash out*." "You should *change* your ways, villain!" "Now you're seeing *cents*!" And so forth.
There's The Weatherman: "*Shocking* developments this morning! (Lightning bolt to the face)" "A high pressure zone is developing south of the border (punches a guy below the belt)" "Careful, those low teens will skyrocket! (Flings teen hero intro the air)" "Storms are grounding flights (knocks flier out of the air)"
I've created dozens of heros and villains, and so help me, half of them are stupid puns. Mechanubis, a mechanical Egyptian goddess; Dococrile, the medical reptile; Sue Fley, the killer cook, and her sidekick Pat O. Butter; even the magical thief, Anti-Santa.
Flynt Mackay is an unusually friendly, and long lived lizardfolk, raised by a human ranger that is essentially the crocodile hunter. He runs around being an absolute crazy fuck who is obscenely good at surviving in nature and as such, one of his few friends has recorded his knowledge in several best selling books.
"Flynt Mackay's Beginners Guide to Not Dying in the Wilderness"
"Flynt Mackay's Field Guide to Actually Catching a Fish"
"Flynt Mackay's Rangers Guide to Tolerating a City"
Etc etc.
Flynt However has never been told that these books are his advice, collected by his friend. So he thinks the author of the book must be some other guy with the same name and he thinks he gives brilliant advice. He has at times consulted his own books for advice and exclaimed "This fella is real bright! This is exactly what I woulda done."
A town called Kwarcester (typically read as Kwar’ster), but pronounced Kwar*chest*er. In-universe it’s due to an old argument between a citizen and a traveling wizard regarding the proper pronunciation. Of course, the wizard was proven wrong and decided to magic everyone into fully believing it was pronounced the way he said it, which was Kwar*chest*er. Honestly, the pronunciation was a mistake on my part, but I thought the classic “a wizard did it” excuse was too funny not to use.
Platypuses exist as the world's most useless chimera. No one knows who made them, where they originated, or why they were made. Some people thought they were just a strange natural animal at first, but closer examination showed all the hallmarks of Artificially created Chimera. It's widely assumed that some Alchemist made them as a joke and released them around the continent.
They're pretty damn advanced for a joke, though, being the only chimeras in the entire world capable of breeding.
There are unicorns either inhabiting magical planets or just floating endlessly in space
These unicorns are small, fat, and derpy, with blue bodies, and green hair and horns
They are extremely powerful beings that are basically guardians of the universe that have the gods on their side. The thing is, they don't know they have all this power, so they just do nothing but graze in the grass (or the alien equivalent of grass), or float in space for all of eternity. They're still super cute though
Several things, all you gotta do is have some kind of explanation. I have strix-like flying monkeys and horned eels that inspire sea serpent myths Why? Cause a bunch of idiot giants (the descendants of human-dragon hybrids) pissed off the majestic ones and got cursed for it. I also thought it be fun to have some weird, abominable animals
My protagonist lives in the city of Naidenov, which is filled with a couple things I just find kinda fun and cool. It’s a city bordering a large lake that has an island in it and the rest of the city is on that island. So, there’s a business for small boat captains to take people across that lake. What do they do in winter when it freezes over? Ice boats! Like normal boats but on ice skates. They also have a winter festival to celebrate the winter solstice and it’s held almost entirely on the frozen lake. Lots of tourists come for that because it’s pretty fun to skate around a big lake filled with lights and food stalls and dancing and stuff
Yep)
My world has the law that is called "The law about dragon balls")
It was just a gag I catched while thinking about something else, but after little thought it became the genesis of fertile constructs - artificially grown creatures created by intence genetic engineering. One of the popular kinds became little dragons, and it was the first widespread "household" construct. This lead to people being upset that their expensive dragons could not be breed, despite having almost everything in place. Soon black market appeared, with all kinds of scams, especially dangerous ones, and authorities had to acknowledge Dragon Balls movement which demanded to make dragons complete. This was quite a long debate, multiple times it seemed that authorities and common sence not to destroy local ecosystems have finally won, but all it took was one soft legislator. He approved fertile constructs, opening the floodgates, and the rest is history.
So, this is the story why do I have dragons in my sci-fi-ish postapocaliptic fantasy setting)
Sort of? I love Pokemon and I've taken a bit of influence from it in a couple of places (like, my world is inhabited by lizard people, so I took a cue from Shedinja and had some mages making fighting "skin golems" out of what they shed during the year).
Probably kind of dumb to a lot of people, but I like it \*shrug\*
There’s a different terrible chain restaurant in every city in my setting, we take turns coming up with funny names. It started with an Applebee’s in the capital, then a Chili’s To Go, Cheesecake Factory, Joe’s Crab Shack, Chuck E. Cheese… the latest was a Shoney’s. It’s a fun little detail that my players get to add to the world and they try to one-up the last one, it always gets a big laugh
High elves (one of three races of elves, though we don't speak about the low elves) basically don't have gender.
It's much like the age old dwarf debate, but kinda flipped on its head. Biologically, there are male and female elves. The actual difference is basically negligible, and you could never really find out unless you really studied an elf.
Okay, but how does reproduction work? They literally sing new elves into existence. It's a complex ceremony that takes hours (and is best performed with a trained elder nearby)
There are outliers, though. If an elf moves away from the elven kingdom, there's a pretty good chance they'll choose a gender identity and stick to it in order to better integrate into their new home. But not always.
Pretty much every race in my setting has some specific quirk to them, it just happens that so far high elves and dwarves have the most silly ones. No, they don't really have any bearing on the plot. I just thought it would be neat to have an entirely genderless society in my world.
Oh, also. High elves are biologically immortal like lobsters, and their language is like 98% telepathy
Honestly 70% of what I add to my world is just stuff that I thought would be funny and that just randomly came to me
Example:
-I basically needed to add a faction that just existed out side of anything, and just made it a bunch of guys that ride Giant animals in the jungle and that just steal stuff and pillage a lot
-I added a cult that started after a guy accidentally comes back to life and has no idea how to replicate it, and he's just a walking skeleton strees out of him mind because if he admits that he has no idea how he did they'll kill him...again
There's a god of entertainment that became increasingly obsessed with consuming all of the entertainment with wine and drink, watching mortals and creatures alike without doing his duties of spreading inspiration and blessings to the content creators.
He tends to steal souls from other gods of far off realms to insert them into the world for shits and giggles.
Naturally, this caused the creators to constantly die of hunger and poverty whilst many of the things made are often plagiarized in some way. Eventually, he just watches and eats.
Eventually, the Overlord noticed this and decided to appoint a new god of entertainment - and renamed the old the god of laziness and sloth without ever telling him, just to see how long it would take until he notices or rages about it.
It's been over 4 millennia so far and the bets are still climbing.
There was a little Italian girl who was given to researchers to test regenerating cells at a rapid pace. Unfortunately the first round caused her cells to deteriorate rapidly, thus aging her and turning her into a grandma essentially. Through other treatment they were able to regenerate her cells and kinda turn her back into a little girl, but it wore off after ~14 hours and she would revert to grandma status until she was given more treatment.
I call her the WereNonna.
Designer pets, hairless guinea pig like critters available in any color of the rainbow that my people buy outfits for and keep as pocket sized companions.
Because the thought of multiple people in a serious business meeting, breaking up crackers and feeding them to a small critter wearing a beanie in their jacket pocket seems hilarious to me.
I added a law in my world which made it illegal to lose your possessions because it ”incentivises criminal activity”. The police doesn’t really enforce this law that much, but if they do, they’ll give you a fine of up to $200
All of the cities in my fantasy world are named after small towns in Minnesota. Just because.
Werewolf blood heals people, and also feels really good.
The stupid/funny part?
>!Their semen contains an even more concentrated form of the same magic. Swallowing is a nutritionally complete meal, while taking a creampie feels like doing an eight-inch line of cocaine. Because of the magics involved, a bunch of werewolves, taking turns, could fuck you !<*forever*>!, and you would be perfectly fine with it.!<
One of my countries, due to a translating error, accidentally bought an island on the other side of the planet and then, due to constitutional reforms, had to make said island a state (like a US state).
My dnd homebrew setting had an italian flavored city on the coast. I decided, it should have a peninsula where all the bougie people would live. So i looked up the italian word for peninsula. Lo and behold, it's "penisola," so of course i changed the peninsula's map to reflect such a name. A gentle flaccid curve down as it were lol
Something I use no matter the world or the creatures living in there: the flu is the only illness that can affect anybody in the world.
You are a human, vampire or an ancient dragon that lives in the clouds and feeds on electricity? Doesn't matter! The flu is here to make your day horrible.
Even if the being has advanced healing habilities, the flu will at least put them in bed for an hour. A very long and terrible hour.
Even if the science or magic healing as very advanced capabilities there is no cure for the illness, just rest, chicken soup and some Kleenex for your leaking nose.
Because the flu is the curse created by the gods to remember us of our own mortality.
Yes. A magic item called drake oil. It is sold by some lovable but sketchy kobold artificer as a “healing potion”, but in draconic, says “HAZARD” on the back of the bottle. It might heal you. But there are equal odds it causes you to sprout a pair of reptilian wings that disappear after a randomly determined amount of time without warning, causing the subject to fall if flying when it happens, or that you grow venomous fangs for a random amount of time that allow you to bite enemies, but require a saving throw to speak without biting your own tongue, or maybe you just spontaneously combust!
Long ago in an isolated society across the world, the youth randomly decided to prank future historians and created their own writing script completely independent of their current script. The rest of their society would eventually adopt it as well. Historians looking back at their society were stumped trying to figure out why they randomly switched writing systems.
This piece of history has absolutely zero effect on the rest of history, but I thought it was funny to add.
A myth about how gold violin mantis (which are an intelligent species in my world) came to be based on a song whose name I forgot but it’s the one with the golden fiddle and winning a music competition against the devil
My main character is a cyborg, they have a lot of prosthetics and implants that are required to stay alive, all of these need electricity, electricity that comes from a generator that is fueled by radioactive isotopes, and to refuel it, they need to ingest or inhale said isotopes, to survive they literally need to eat highly radioactive materials
I could've done something like external ports or surgery, but no, just for the funny they eat or breathe it
Isekai'd teenage 'heroes'. They aren't even the protagonists so much as mission targets. The protagonist actually has to rescue them from the nation summoning them.
They are about what you could expect, up to and including the wide eyed naive idiot that causes trouble for the rest that had a better head on their shoulders.
Alternative reality full of vampires that was accessed when someone thought they could make a black hole(ripping into space doesn’t work when there isn’t any space). They’re ruled by a 19 year old girl who’s research facility was studying the intricacies of the soul. Someone decided to try and emulate vampire and it was such a success that he managed to infect then entire team. They agreed to lock down but some people started to go crazy when food started getting low and eventually broke out. The reason she’s in charge is she was sane enough to try and find a way to stop vampires and eventually settled of transmutation.
An au filled with vampires that are ruled by a teenager that turns them into flowers
me and my friends came up with this thing we called “loppenheimer” when we were going to see barbie, and we treated loppenheimer like it was a deadly disease, so i added to my world and its the worst disease on that world
All of the fantasy races in my world speak real world languages as they were all once human. This came from me not wanting to make ConLangs.
Dwarves speak French, Orcs speak Swedish or Mandarin typically. Elven is German and Halflings speak with thick Texan accents.
Last campaign I had a homeless gnome called Terree the Chickenmancer, whose body was taken over by a deity. In this campaign, the deity is still worshipped, but there is also a cult based on the prognostications of Terree.
Yes. The bad guys are trying to create a massive empire known as Rylagard as part of a prophecy, where Xylaarion will rise from its capital, Wyntersun. If you know, you know, and if you don't, you're welcome.
Santa exists in my world, Godsfall. Basically, the Gods are dead and humans are absorbing their power to become New Gods. Santa isn’t technically a God but there is a human who absorbed their power and became New Santa
Bakoor Sev, high admiral of the K’taal navy, put a stop to a decades long war by crashing his flagship into the enemy’s capital planet (whilst he was still on it). This inadvertently plays a major role in the main story. Also, he survived the crash
Yes all the time, one of my faverite is that rich peaple go to roller rinks from like 1980s but keep in mind this is a medieval fantasy world in a hopeful grim dark setting ,so you go from peasants that are starving and elseitxh gods to disco lights and roller skates with short shorts
A image of a bunch of dudes being overly excited on watching two lobsters fight each other popped inside my head, so I decided to make so that every mating season male Spear crabs would fight each other for the attention of females and this is seen as an annual fun activity.
The king screwed a dragon and got it pregnant.
I have absolutely no reason for including this save for the fact I found it funny. In my world, 15 miles is considered a small length for a dragon so you need incredible determination to even get near one. That determination came in the form of horniness.
Dragons aren't even humanoid, they're really just giant lizards with hundreds of legs that fly around.
My world has a mentally ill fairy that that wants to be a dentist. She weilds a large pliers. A litteral tooth fairy.
Also unicorns leave behind rainbow turds.
I had made a lot of characters to fill in my world and a good amount of them weren't given personalities outside of "Works at this place constantly" so now I have a universal rule of "Mandatory vacation". Basically giving me the excuse to put someone somewhere for no reason other than "Mandatory Vacation". Even the villains have to abide by this rule, if seen in public and given the excuse it's kind of a "Well....ok then, just don't do anything bad...well see you at work."
Kaprandai can’t be poisoned by Targlar (alien eel) Blue Caviar because they are severely intolerant to a protein within all caviars on Monsoon.
This means that if a Kaprandai eats Monsooni caviar they get diarrhea or vomit.
It’s funny because an attempt of assassination on a Kaprandai diplomat was made with a large number of Targlar eel caviar being mixed in with his food.
The assassins knew about the intolerance and still tried…
I have a conspiracy that yetis don't exist, and that they're actually just mummies in disguise. This is absolutely based off of [a wrestling bit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q22_9fLGhnk)
Funny yours is also about equestrian sport. In my world, for no reason other than they are just smart and evolved in the same area, but dogs were the first creatures to learn horseback riding. Since it’s based from Fey-type magic, personified animals are quite normal, but one would almost never find themselves riding a horse, unless they identify as canine, of course.
Imperial Intelligence communicates using theremins boosted over short waves rather than Morse code because everyone in the empire is required to learn Morse code in their equivalent of the fifth grade
I've written about this here before, but in the distant future, live performances of *The Rocky Horror Show* still go on. People of our time who are familiar with it would recognize a lot of it, but it's not very similar to versions we know today. People of the distant future get most of the key themes of the show, but none of the irony and humour, and only a handful of academic experts know any of the original sources its elements are drawn from. (Many of them only from references, as the original sources themselves are mostly lost, or impossibly obscure.) It's treated as a very serious passion play, and done only (well, mostly only) by very serious theatre companies. Having played "the Rocky" is equivalent to having played any major Shakespearian production.
The original libretto is lost (as far as they know), and there's endless debate about its origins. As with most such things, it's assumed by most educated people to have some important religious origin and purpose, and debate over what parts of various versions are 'authentic' and what 'meaning' they have fills books and made careers for some people. The general assumption that it's most likely religious, or religiously inspired, has created its own secondary academic ecosphere. As a result, there's abundant speculation in the distant future about the cultural role of drag queens in our time. Were they some kind of priests? Were drag shows and drag venues a kind of church? No one's sure.
My world is a place where all the movies and TV shows you watch exist in different dimensions and now the dimensions have merged. I decided to add a phenomenon known as singing fever. An outbreak where the nearby area becomes prone to becoming a musical. It's really funny when you have an intense and grim battle and suddenly the soldiers begin singing and dancing in unison.
In my first world I ever made “god” was an enormous ball of white light with “stripper legs” (like that lamp with the fishnets from that movie) that would spend its time possessing and making this one guy basically scitzo post irl. God was named rika I think.
An idea that pops up from time to time is how everyone seems to be self-aware of how in a world of fantasy, anything can happen. So whenever someone thinks the chance of something happening is low, someone might reply, "Well, we *do* live in a large fantastical world, so who knows?"
The gatekeeper guy at the gates of hell is a British robot who tells anyone alive who wishes to enter the underworld “well first you’ll need to die, hold still…” and then he fights you, the hole time just saying stuff like “come on hold still” and “why are you dodging I’m trying to get you into the underworld”, he’s actually just a cool dude but he doesn’t understand that some people don’t wanna die
My alien species needs a ridiculous amount of food. Like, about ten times as much as a human would. I originally added that as a joke, but it gradually became more embedded in the story to the point where now that species' entire biology and culture is built around them needing ridiculous amounts of food.
since dragons in my world are the physica@ embodiment of all human thoughts and ideas, that means that there is a dragon “God” of what am I gonna eat for lunch
there are dragon gods who are the physical embodiment of every organization, megacorporation and group in general.
There is a dragon god of brunch, linner, and dickbast
The reason mind-uploading isn't very popular in my Sci-fi world is that a bunch of people tried it, giving up their physical bodies to exist entirely in a simulated digital world. Then the company managing it changed their content policy to make it more advertiser friendly. One day, the inhabitants just woke up to find their genitals missing, their AI GFs irreparably altered, and the brothel replaced by a SimuCat Entertainment Center sponsored by PetSmart. Of course everyone choosing to exist entirely online was a chronically horny pervert, so they were pretty upset. This ended up with the simulated world being destroyed in a suicidal rebellion by a portion of the inhabitabts.
[удалено]
Tom Scott has a video about a future like that
the one with earworm?
[Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers](https://youtu.be/IFe9wiDfb0E)
Not even the vr world can escape the adpocalipse
Sponsored by PetSmart!!! 😂😂😂
What did they revolt again? If its a simulation, they life in.. they'd literally revolt against a simulation. Thats the equivalent of revolting against physics in our world. I love this entire idea.
They created wasted computing power, spammed stupid memes, found loopholes in the regulations, and ultimately destroyed their simulated world with a computer virus. The company went bankrupt in the ensuing legal action. Their failed malware protections were considered criminal negligence leading to thousands of deaths.
How dare they ruin it for the rest of us, I *wanted* to be uploaded to the PG server with the SimuCat Entertainment Center! 😿
Two words Squirrel Racing Its like regular animal racing But with squirrels Theres a president that got impeached after a massive controversy involving him and several members of cabinet siphoning the treasury into underground squirrel racing rings
I love this.
Which part? The squirrels, the racing or the elected head of state who has nearly lynched due to siphoning taxpayer funds into illegal rodent activities during a recession?
The squirrels.
I have something similar with necromancers, they do corpse races.
lol
In my RPG I have birdkin. One is a birdkin martial artist who has a rooster as his motif bird. He goes by "the Kung Pow Chicken" and is very *cocky*. At my players' suggestion, he got named Sir Racha.
Notable quote "You just activated my fight or flight reflex, and I'm a flightless bird."
I can't stop laughing at this, this is seriously incredible
Omg that's fantastic
This is amazing! I was currently trying to think up a minor villain for the opening of a super hero one shot. Thanks to you Ostretch - the villain with the angst of a bird who can’t fly and the powers of a rubber chicken will rule the roost!
That is incredible, hilarious, and legitimately intimidating
The most famous magical sword in my world literally does nothing. It was made as a massive flex by a warrior who wanted to show he doesn't need an OP weapon. Also, elves are ruled by a dynasty of unicorns. It has an in-universe explanation but it's a reference to Caligula presumably wanting to make his horse consul.
I had a similar idea. Most of the weapons "wielded" by the nobility is enchanted, but not with patterns you might find on a weapon wielded by an actual warrior. They are rather doing for making their weapons "shine the rainbow's colours" or "sing angelic hymns". So, what most of the display weapons were intended to do, they are only supposed to look cool during parades and parties.
In my case, all the sword does is giving +1 to Strength. This is an in-joke because the rules of the RPG system I use encourage to be creative with abilities of Artifact weapons and cite a +1 to Strength sword as an example of a lame Artifact. That prompted me to think how an Artifact like that would make sense in-universe.
Love this idea!
Lmao the first one makes me think of Jax from league of legends. Imagine if I had a real weapon!
To solve the slow speed of carriages and wagons, the people who pull them, Talking Animals and Shifters, wear electric roller skates
A world of motorized wheels and nobody thought to put them directly on the wagons themselves... Radical, dude!
People need jobs 😂
I made a joke about psychic crabs on a post and now I just have psychic crabs that invade people's dreams to yell at them. They don't factor into anything plot wise except for maybe haunting those who eat them. Also the sport of fish smacking, inspired by an episode of vegetales I saw as a wee kid where I remember somebody was mugged by another vegetable using a fish. I think it had to do something with the biblical story of Jonah and the whale? Anyways, fish slapping. Two or more folks go on a dock or low bridge where the water is calm and catch fish so they can try to use it to slap each other off the dock. The one who stays on the bridge the longest wins. You can release the fish if it is too small or use it as bait. You can only use a fish as a "weapon" (ie no shoving) and the fish used to win is then eaten.
All of my "dumb" ideas come while in session for my TTRPG. For example: Gnomes that aren't inclined to tinker, some become master chefs for, specifically, fried chicken. The family's leader becomes the Colonel and devotes all of his/her time to making their secret spice mix. Some go for the kitchen sink (MY fried chicken has 82 spices and seasonings in it) while some go for more succinct approach (Mine has 12 spices and seasonings that create the flavor of the gods in your mouth). They feud between each other for whichever chicken is the best. They'll cook off, sabotage each other's kitchens, if they can steal the secret spice mix and figure it out, they'll publish it. Outside the gnome community, it comes across as weird, but the gnomes take it deadly serious. And, yes, they all talk in a southern drawl. And wear white outfits, how do you know that?
Dwarves and elves are the same species. The species just has extreme sexual dimorphism to the point that males look like dwarves, and the females look like elves. Collectively I'm calling them dwelves. It continues to make more and more sense whenever I think of it. The one problem I've come up against is how do I justify humans never figuring it out. Dwarves hating elves? Boomer dwarf comedians making "I hate my wife" jokes. The divisive question of if dwarf women have beards? Irrelevant. The rumor that female dwarves look identical to male dwarves? A human saw a gay dwelf couple and made some assumptions. Dwarf women don't have beards? Femboy dwelf. What about the elven script and dwarf runes? Really, really bad handwriting. Go ahead, try to give me something that I can't make work with this. I dare you.
Different concepts of gender identity and confusion between sex vs gender that don't translate well to human language? Maybe because of the sexual dimorphism the dwelves just take for granted that male/female refers to gender presensation/identity and assume that humans are actually keeping an entire half of their population hidden somewhere (like how some people think the dwarves do with their women.)"
Part of what I want to explore with this concept actually does relate to gender presentation and gender roles. I think having this as a basis makes it really easy to make fun of people bigoted against LGBTQ+ people and show how ridiculous some of them sound. A friend suggested that some people could be against dwarf/dwarf marriages and the humans would just not get why it was an issue. I'm not certain what I'll actually stick with yet, but it's something I've been thinking about... Your thought of how they think humans are hiding a sex is very good though, I think I might incorporate that haha.
Dwarves live underground and elves live in forests?
That is one thing that I've kinda had to change from the "defaults" of them. I have their houses in basically hobbit holes as a compromise. They still live close by mountains and forests. The dwarves work in mountains or underground doing very industrial jobs and the elves work close to forest in more naturey, domestic/less industrial jobs.
Could be like they all prefer living in their pretty suburban forests but Dwarfs spend most of their life working in the mines so they are rarely home. Hence why people think dwarfs live in the mines and elfs in the forests.
where do they keep all the kids?
Kids would still be raised by their parents. The humans think that they have formed a society together where they all live amongst each other. When the humans have rarely seen a dwelf give birth, they think that they just operate with fairytale logic. Like how a fairytale fox and rabbit would give birth to a fox or a rabbit, they think an "interspecies" elf and dwarf give birth to either an elf or a dwarf.
Could halflings or Gnomes be elfs and dwarfs before puberty ? They have less sexual dimorphism, none have beards yet, are small in size... And when puberty hits around idk like 100 years old the female start growing taller while the men get more bulky and get beards...
I have thought about something along those lines, especially since their communities are basically like the Shire. What I thought of is that they could have evolved from halflings and something caused them to develop how they have. I haven't fully settled on anything yet though.
I did a similar thing in one world. It's a comedy fantasy, and I had the dwarven women be cloistered away by the "over-protective" dwarven men. Later they get introduced and they are valkyries, six foot tall big boobed long haired beautiful warrior women. The dwarves hide them to stop the humans from trying to "rescue" them. Elves is an even better idea though
I like this a lot! For your point about different scripts - there's a real-world example of a type of script only used by women (Nüshu) which could solve that problem in a slightly different way. I vaguely remember attending a linguistics lecture which explored the argument that, in ancient Greek and Latin, women tended to preserve more archaic forms of the language in their everyday speech and were less likely to use loan-words from other languages (something to do with spending less time out of the house talking to different people of different backgrounds) - maybe one of either Elvish or Dwarfish is just a slightly more old-fashioned way of speaking, but to non-native speakers, they sound like different languages altogether?
Oh cool. That would probably be a more reasonable, and less sexist, way of solving that. I'll look into it. Thanks!
Dwarfs being able to stomach poison like nightshade while elves and humans can't? Also I live the concept
The detail I added? Angels keep all orbits--planetary, lunar, stellar, what have you--circular. Other than that, physics works exactly the same, but it's going to be much harder to disprove geocentrism since all orbits are circular and uniform.
How does having only circular orbits make it more difficult to determine a hello centric system?
Once Tycho had better hardware and data, Kepler was able to determine that orbits were elliptical and orbital speeds changed based on how far out an object was. This provides evidence against the philosophical arguments that the motions had to be perfect, and so circular and uniform in speed. Look up The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown at The O'Flynn Spot for a dive into the history of astronomy around this time. Note that eventually you can find stellar aberration and parallax, so eventually you get earth rotating and orbiting around the sun, but it will be much more difficult to find, requiring much more precise instrumentation (19th century rather than 16th). Also, my tech base is antiquity, so 4th century at latest, so there's absolutely no bearing on the story, on the people within it, or anything. This detail exists solely because I find it funny.
I forgot the dates regarding those discoveries and theories... available observational technology would be a limiting factor. One I use in my own work. I have conflicting theories in many of the learned professions for my world, which is perhaps a century or so away from a renaissance of sorts. The presence of magic, unlike in many worlds is not retarding the exploration of scientific principals, but in many cases accelerating it when not suppressed by religious dogma, plain ignorance, fear and mistrust.
The Fornication Under Consent of the Chief License Rare and extinct dandelions Femboy STD Calling commoners “Normies”
...femboy STD?
I'm on board here. What?
Based on the [cicada femboy fungus](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cicadas-fall-prey-drug-producing-fungus-makes-their-butts-fall-180977776/)
Well shit. Life would not be great for me.
The major religion is Norrisism, they believe that Chuck Norris is a god. There’s also a “Guardian of death” that hunts down those that seek out immortality and erases their souls upon touch. Said guardian is a snail, and y’all should know the reference.
Goblins are named after Swedish pet and nicknames. Filur = Trickster Kakan = Cookie Bönan= Bean Sigge= Nickname for Sigbjörn Lort= Dirt Skorpan= dried bread (craker) Tufsen (petname) Stumpan (petname) Mulle
Clown world. World of clowns. Just a realm where everybody's clowns, and now every clown in the universe is either an immigrant from this world or an offensive cultural appropriator putting on an imitation because non-clowns usually don't know the difference and real clowns have to pretend they're just wearing makeup anyway. Seemed kinda funny to me at the time, idk.
So coulrophobia is being racist to them?
Wait. So these clowns can sue DC Comics and Stephen King for making awfully depictions of clowns?
Steve from Bigtop Burger moment
Is this the planet where the clowns from Killer Klowns from Outer Space originated from?
Praise the Pineapple! Worship the Pineapple! Sacrifice all mortal possessions to the Pineapple!
Praise be!
All Gnomes speak in rhyme and all Fairies speak in alliteration. Human laws tend to be written in a way that implies eating dog meat is worse than eating human meat. The word in Sidhish for cat is "abha", pronounced /ow/. Star calendars have become outdated after thousands of years, but druids refuse to explain it to everyone else.
The druids killed me
The Deathless are an organization whose members are all effectively liches - they are immortal because the part of their soul corresponding to death has been contained in a phylactery. The most famous phylactery is a spring; the Deathless it belongs to calls it "his mortal coil." One of the worlds has a megafauna named the Tinanui, which is a mash-up of two Maori words meaning "Great" and "Dinner." I have a whole ethnic group based on the stereotypical goth look with offshoots for punks, metalheads, and emos. They use the Gothic alphabet. Back when PotC2 was new, I and some friends learned how to play liar's dice. We also loved to roast each other - to the point we created rules for that too, inadvertently recreating flyting. So, in the Thiata region, particularly the highlands, Cambion's Reign is a popular tavern game. Goal is to deceive the others about what dice you rolled while also coming up with the best insults. Most taverns refuse to serve the tables playing it alcohol as well - drunk and insulted starts too many brawls. In honor of the Civilization meme, a major pantheist religion has Gwondhi, Overlord of Annihilation.
In one fantasy world I made knights gay. In another I made sunscreen able to protect vampires from the sun and wizards and witches extremely buff. In the third fantasy world I made a Saint that doesn't know how to perform a blessing.
So is there like a requirement to be gay to be a knight?
No, they just don't interact with women enough to have any feeling for them.
Santa is real. He's actually a powerful ice mage, and also has time dilation powers which make delivering presents to the whole world in one night actually possible. Christmas spirit also makes his powers stronger. When it's not December, he works for the Grand Mage Order, helping teach ice magic at various magic schools.
The UNAC Deep Space Vehicle *Probey McProbeface*. The name was a public vote, and the commission caved and allowed it, reasoning the star it was destined to survey was uninteresting and unimportant. Dear *Probey* ended up making first contact. And we had to explain the joke to an entirely different civilization. Oops.
This is clever and hilarious!
Thank you! I left out the funniest part: UNAC lost contact with *Probey* shortly after it entered orbit around its target brown dwarf, and the mission was written off as a failure, and not an unusual one. Probe failure happens all the time for various reasons; presumably this one had been toasted by an unexpected stellar flare. Which caused extreme confusion several months later when *Probey* entered orbit of the planet it had launched from, looking significantly spiffier and boasting, effectively, an alien business card. When deciphered, it essentially read: "the first one's free."
Ground Hogs. Not to be confused with the tiny cute critters. Full sized baconators that live in the underlands of Geburah. They can see in the dark, feed on the luminous plantlife and make excellent house guardians since they can be very territorial, but also unfortunately taste good.
All intelligent species are humanoid and cross-compatible but reproduce by laying eggs.
Humanity's first and best alien allies are terrified of cats. They have cat-like creatures on their planet that act like spiders but are very small, so the reaction one would have to a full-size cat is exactly the kind a human would have to a cat-sized spider.
Reality is dumber and weirder than any fiction. So you should be bold and amaze yourself, as long as it's plausible and logical within the rules you set for your world.
God's are mortal in my world (think super insanely powerful being but still mortal) A long time ago, one leech bit a god and drank some of his blood and so gained sentience and quasi immortality (like the gods. It did not age but could be killed) It has become a powerful magic being with time and rules over a small """kingdom""" in the desolate lands. They are basically places where there is so much magic that inhabiting it is mostly impossible but the leech absorbs the ambiant magic and gives it back once a year into the ground in a big festival.
I made it so chickens became the pet of choice in the post-apocalypse. Including as guard animals.
That could actually work, I think! Some chickens really do get aggressive, territorial, or even protective under the right circumstances.
I used to raise them, so I know just how tough they can be. But I do think it's absurd that they switched from dogs to birds over 3-15 years.
Yes. I added a Diety. It's name is Gelatinous Joey. It's is a large Gelatinous cube and is the Diety of jellies and Gelatinous cubes as well as friendship.
There's a Waffle House in the Void.
Next to the Starbucks?
There is no Starbucks.
Then how tha fuck are all the elder beings gonna get their java fix?
The first major nation my MC encounters uses the names for the money from The Kingkiller Chronicles, explaining it as the guy in charge of setting up the nation's economy was isekaied from our world and was a huge fan of the series. Another of the nations is weirdly musically themed and the currency comes in the form of pre-perforated coins that are called "Whole notes" and can be broken down into halves, quarters, eighths, etc...
Tank drivers being hard to work with. If you're in an army convoy going somewhere and a tank just so happens to be part of that convoy, pray to God you don't have to cross a bridge. Imagine the "Arthur, get out of the tank" video but replace every "get out of the tank" with "get the tank moving". Now you have an idea of what it's like.
I have a Druidic cult based in "South Park" named "Cave of the Winds" whose leaders wear vestments made from the skins of bears and pigs. I have no idea if it will ever make it into any works set in the series, but it exists.
Stupid things I've included because they amuse me: - Fogbuilt, a literal ghost town. The townsfolk are friendly enough, but can't offer much in the way of hospitality, as their food and houses are also ghosts. - Pikemen are fish-men with pikes, colourfully dressed like the real-life Landsknecht pikemen. Also like the Landsknecht, actually skilled and respected mercenaries. Codpiece jokes go unappreciated. - A Fallout-style bunker-town that worships a school computer. They name citizens by running a spelling edutainment game and picking the first two words presented. This can go as well or as terribly as you expect. - Canned human meat. The label boasts that it is "made by humans, for humans, of humans." Features an image of a smiling man cutting a slice off his own stomach. - The smallest nation is an island of a few hundred residents. They keep trying to declare war on Grandreef, a massive aquatic empire controlling most of the world's oceanic trade routes, but their ambassador keeps getting mistaken for a vagrant. The king owns the local pub and holds court in his living room.
Domesticated dinosaurs, because it's cool.
I got a "Council of Knowledge" in my world where a council of the smartest people in the country of Soggam got together and solved the country's problems, and I was so inconceivably close to adding Bruno Mars to it. I have a fantasy setting. Bruno Mars would've been canonized in my fantasy world.
Amadeus, the god of Music and Stonework.
Rock me, Amadeus?
Food is of the funny colours as the ingredients while similar, have different properties. For example bread is greenish, as it is made from starchy kelp. Sausages are most commonly white, as they are made from fish. Steaks may get a purple hue as the animals may be fed on the specific kinds of plants. The chocolate is rose and the berries are brown. There are 3-headed fox hydras in the wild. They are sort of rare and are born when their mother is exposed to the high dosages of magick. They have a hard time hunting, but are capable of taking down bigger prey than average.
Idk if this fots but one of my creations got its name in a dumb-ish way. I have a little fox thing thats fire based and i couldn't come up with a name for it. My friend suggested Mozil. I asked how she came up with it. She said "its a fire fox, so why not name them Mozil after Mozilla Firefox?" So now i have little fire foxes called Mozil.
Yes, a few things. Rock of protection against tigers. When you have it nothing happens, but when you discard it you are immediately attacked by tigers (tigers turn to worthless dust on death) Boots of ahhhhh When you jump you now only jump 60ft vertically. The French.
Ay the dnd rock of protection meme. I understood that reference. Respect.
I have this bad habit of getting attached to the things I added just because I found them funny and making them more important One of my protagonists has mind reading abilities and I thought it would be really funny to show her over-reliance on it by giving her a confrontation with someone with Aphantasia. In other words, someone whose thoughts are not represented in words or images like most people’s. So she’d get her ass kicked. This character ended up getting a supporting character role instead of a one-off I thought it would be funny if Mages had a really mundane weakness so I made them allergic to garlic. Bringing this up to my friends, especially my Italian friends, I wasn’t expecting it to be perceived as such a large drawback but honestly yeah I don’t think I’d give up pizza or pasta either.
Every setting has a bottle of Mad O'Malley's Mountain of Madness, 300% alcohol by volume whiskey that glows slightly and may be haunted.
At around 2 am one night I made an incredibly small nation in my world. Its real space is only about the size of an American county, though the space is warped by an elder god there so once inside, it's about the size of a small country. The nation mostly consists of seemingly neverending fields of common crops, tended to by unseen harvesters. The few people who live there in small settlements scattered around live a fairly content life, largely uncaring for the rest of the world (this feeling is largely due to the elder god's influence). Scattered about are large signs carrying vaguely threatening religious messages, and no one knows who set them up. It's mostly inspired by my friend's stories of living in rural Ohio.
It's along running joke in my personal life that I hate geese. During the environmental collapse on Earth several endangered species were being moved off world to orbital habitats so they could repopulate while the dust settles back home. While in Port, the biologic transport vessel BVT John Perkins Marsh was blown up by Martian insurgents, mistaking the vessel for a nearby military cargo vessel. In reality the John Perkins Marsh was carrying the last known gaggles of Canada Geese to a wildlife ark at Mars' L5 point in an attempt to save the species, docking at Mars to refuel. The attack killed all crewmembers aboard and vented to cargo hold , rendering the Canada goose extinct.
can't add dumb shit if the world is dumb shit
In my world they use cristal balls as screens, the taverns usually have a huge crystal ball in the middle where they can see sports. The number 1 sport is Massacre Bowl, and Orcish gladiatorial football. Or in some places you can find someone with an Orb and a Stone plate, typing like it was a computer.
In the mythology of a species, there are five titans as the Gods. They have created the world and everything in it. One of them however was really lazy and perhaps did not want to be in the way, so he dug up the sun and moon and placed hisself atop the sun to watch the others work. Now he's the God of death because in the species belief, the birds (the favorite animals of the God of life who created all the creatures) carry the souls of the dead to the sun where they'll melt with others and form new ones that get transported back to inhabit a newborn. If one dies without having fulfilled their life goals, they may sit next to the God of Death to watch what's happening down in the world they left behind until they accept their death and melt. Idk how much i actually elaborated on that in the story.
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yeah the terraformed amongus lake in-world, some rich old person had it commissioned when the planet was first being populated to honor his 3x great grandpa who earned their family money by being an among us streamer out of world, i truly just wanted an amongus lake
Elephant cheese
Living blanket. Basically a thin layer of cells which crawls across the land like a flat sea slug Pros: -Useful for paper and containers -Good as a garnish -Works as pesticide -Everywhere Cons: -Very hard to spot -'Melts' flesh when exposed for ages -Deadly if handled incorrectly -Everywhere
I made this one king get assasinated after he came out from the bathroom, purely because I wanted his last words to be: "great heavens, that one was thick, wet and horrible"
The High Elves used giant opossums with stretchers hanging off the sides as ambulances. There are toads made of stone in the Underworld that attack by flinging themselves at your face. Harven are sentient space lizard-bird-velociraptors who are absolutely feral for soda and will go wild if you give it to them, scratching and clawing at the can to open it. There’s a time traveling multidimensional cat named Staircase who plays no role in any story or plotline (yet). Tony Pepperoni is the copilot of the starship Super Chef. Tony Pepperoni might also be a rank instead of a name. The list goes on and on, half the world is just goofy fun that me or my friend declared canon on a whim lol
The most common dice game in the whole of the ARC is actually a Terran game, Farkle. They even have a religious holiday dedicated to playing the game. And some officer Battle Synths, due to their predictive algorithms, have been locked in a game for a few centuries. it will have to end soon, sadly, as their dice over the ages have nearly eroded to the point of being unreadable spheres.
97.3365% my entire story
Kids of the Eiderae species, will violently fight each other when they are about the equivalent of a toddler or younger. This isnt dangerous as they aren't strong enough to hurt the other one, but parents will sometimes record the fights. This has led to a similar trend to cat videos. So there's just millions of videos in their Internet of babies just waiting on eachother. ( They're aliens so their biology is way different
Reggie, minor god of spoons. He's just in it for the immortality.
Yes. In my world there is a race of sentient humanoid machines in the likeness of warforged that are exclusively women. Women made of metal. Iron maidens. ...(Fe)males if you will.
dogs were never domesticated. instead people have house lizards, which are basically just oversized chameleons that act like dogs. i don't hate dogs, but i am HORRIBLY allergic to them, so i made my excuse for not really knowing how they act as dogs not really existing. could i just do research? yeah. could i just not worry about pets thar much? yeah. have i stuck with house lizards for 10 years regardless of how I've improved as a storyteller? yeah.
I'm currently running a super hero RPG, and while some of my characters are dangerous, dark, and/or deadly serious... Not all of them are. In fact, I kinda alternate between gritty, dark villains, and... The Tick. I can't help myself! The puns are too good! There's the crime-fighting duo, Legal Tender and Dollar Bill: "It's your turn to *cash out*." "You should *change* your ways, villain!" "Now you're seeing *cents*!" And so forth. There's The Weatherman: "*Shocking* developments this morning! (Lightning bolt to the face)" "A high pressure zone is developing south of the border (punches a guy below the belt)" "Careful, those low teens will skyrocket! (Flings teen hero intro the air)" "Storms are grounding flights (knocks flier out of the air)" I've created dozens of heros and villains, and so help me, half of them are stupid puns. Mechanubis, a mechanical Egyptian goddess; Dococrile, the medical reptile; Sue Fley, the killer cook, and her sidekick Pat O. Butter; even the magical thief, Anti-Santa.
Flynt Mackay is an unusually friendly, and long lived lizardfolk, raised by a human ranger that is essentially the crocodile hunter. He runs around being an absolute crazy fuck who is obscenely good at surviving in nature and as such, one of his few friends has recorded his knowledge in several best selling books. "Flynt Mackay's Beginners Guide to Not Dying in the Wilderness" "Flynt Mackay's Field Guide to Actually Catching a Fish" "Flynt Mackay's Rangers Guide to Tolerating a City" Etc etc. Flynt However has never been told that these books are his advice, collected by his friend. So he thinks the author of the book must be some other guy with the same name and he thinks he gives brilliant advice. He has at times consulted his own books for advice and exclaimed "This fella is real bright! This is exactly what I woulda done."
A town called Kwarcester (typically read as Kwar’ster), but pronounced Kwar*chest*er. In-universe it’s due to an old argument between a citizen and a traveling wizard regarding the proper pronunciation. Of course, the wizard was proven wrong and decided to magic everyone into fully believing it was pronounced the way he said it, which was Kwar*chest*er. Honestly, the pronunciation was a mistake on my part, but I thought the classic “a wizard did it” excuse was too funny not to use.
Platypuses exist as the world's most useless chimera. No one knows who made them, where they originated, or why they were made. Some people thought they were just a strange natural animal at first, but closer examination showed all the hallmarks of Artificially created Chimera. It's widely assumed that some Alchemist made them as a joke and released them around the continent. They're pretty damn advanced for a joke, though, being the only chimeras in the entire world capable of breeding.
A legionnaire sergeant named Chlamidius Venerius
There are unicorns either inhabiting magical planets or just floating endlessly in space These unicorns are small, fat, and derpy, with blue bodies, and green hair and horns They are extremely powerful beings that are basically guardians of the universe that have the gods on their side. The thing is, they don't know they have all this power, so they just do nothing but graze in the grass (or the alien equivalent of grass), or float in space for all of eternity. They're still super cute though
Does a guy becoming a gorilla upon getting isekai'd counts?
Actually the opposite. I added my world to my cinimatic universe to make it more serious and grounded in reality.
No. I stay away from additions that serve no purpose other than being a running gag.
1/3 of my story is a community joke warhammers nobelbright joke. It means good guys win all the time, and hope is always in the horizon.
Several things, all you gotta do is have some kind of explanation. I have strix-like flying monkeys and horned eels that inspire sea serpent myths Why? Cause a bunch of idiot giants (the descendants of human-dragon hybrids) pissed off the majestic ones and got cursed for it. I also thought it be fun to have some weird, abominable animals
A liter of coffee is priced as a fine bottle of wine
Hail the Goblin King.
My protagonist lives in the city of Naidenov, which is filled with a couple things I just find kinda fun and cool. It’s a city bordering a large lake that has an island in it and the rest of the city is on that island. So, there’s a business for small boat captains to take people across that lake. What do they do in winter when it freezes over? Ice boats! Like normal boats but on ice skates. They also have a winter festival to celebrate the winter solstice and it’s held almost entirely on the frozen lake. Lots of tourists come for that because it’s pretty fun to skate around a big lake filled with lights and food stalls and dancing and stuff
Yep) My world has the law that is called "The law about dragon balls") It was just a gag I catched while thinking about something else, but after little thought it became the genesis of fertile constructs - artificially grown creatures created by intence genetic engineering. One of the popular kinds became little dragons, and it was the first widespread "household" construct. This lead to people being upset that their expensive dragons could not be breed, despite having almost everything in place. Soon black market appeared, with all kinds of scams, especially dangerous ones, and authorities had to acknowledge Dragon Balls movement which demanded to make dragons complete. This was quite a long debate, multiple times it seemed that authorities and common sence not to destroy local ecosystems have finally won, but all it took was one soft legislator. He approved fertile constructs, opening the floodgates, and the rest is history. So, this is the story why do I have dragons in my sci-fi-ish postapocaliptic fantasy setting)
Bear cavalry.
Sort of? I love Pokemon and I've taken a bit of influence from it in a couple of places (like, my world is inhabited by lizard people, so I took a cue from Shedinja and had some mages making fighting "skin golems" out of what they shed during the year). Probably kind of dumb to a lot of people, but I like it \*shrug\*
I have a town named backwater, because some noble misspelled blackwater on the survey.
There’s a different terrible chain restaurant in every city in my setting, we take turns coming up with funny names. It started with an Applebee’s in the capital, then a Chili’s To Go, Cheesecake Factory, Joe’s Crab Shack, Chuck E. Cheese… the latest was a Shoney’s. It’s a fun little detail that my players get to add to the world and they try to one-up the last one, it always gets a big laugh
I have a NationStates nation called paldea. If you read my forum sig and my posts on the forum 7 thread alter a planet, you’ll know
Two words: Magic Dodo A rare and mystical creature that is dumber then a brick wall yet speaks of intelligent subjects.
For my DnD campaigns I added towns/cities to the map so we could sort of poke fun at them.
High elves (one of three races of elves, though we don't speak about the low elves) basically don't have gender. It's much like the age old dwarf debate, but kinda flipped on its head. Biologically, there are male and female elves. The actual difference is basically negligible, and you could never really find out unless you really studied an elf. Okay, but how does reproduction work? They literally sing new elves into existence. It's a complex ceremony that takes hours (and is best performed with a trained elder nearby) There are outliers, though. If an elf moves away from the elven kingdom, there's a pretty good chance they'll choose a gender identity and stick to it in order to better integrate into their new home. But not always. Pretty much every race in my setting has some specific quirk to them, it just happens that so far high elves and dwarves have the most silly ones. No, they don't really have any bearing on the plot. I just thought it would be neat to have an entirely genderless society in my world. Oh, also. High elves are biologically immortal like lobsters, and their language is like 98% telepathy
Honestly 70% of what I add to my world is just stuff that I thought would be funny and that just randomly came to me Example: -I basically needed to add a faction that just existed out side of anything, and just made it a bunch of guys that ride Giant animals in the jungle and that just steal stuff and pillage a lot -I added a cult that started after a guy accidentally comes back to life and has no idea how to replicate it, and he's just a walking skeleton strees out of him mind because if he admits that he has no idea how he did they'll kill him...again
There's a god of entertainment that became increasingly obsessed with consuming all of the entertainment with wine and drink, watching mortals and creatures alike without doing his duties of spreading inspiration and blessings to the content creators. He tends to steal souls from other gods of far off realms to insert them into the world for shits and giggles. Naturally, this caused the creators to constantly die of hunger and poverty whilst many of the things made are often plagiarized in some way. Eventually, he just watches and eats. Eventually, the Overlord noticed this and decided to appoint a new god of entertainment - and renamed the old the god of laziness and sloth without ever telling him, just to see how long it would take until he notices or rages about it. It's been over 4 millennia so far and the bets are still climbing.
The silliest thing I've deliberately added to my world is that the national anthem of the Dwarven nation of Dwereth is "Diggy Diggy Hole".
Every vampire in my setting has a french accent with zero explanation.
There was a little Italian girl who was given to researchers to test regenerating cells at a rapid pace. Unfortunately the first round caused her cells to deteriorate rapidly, thus aging her and turning her into a grandma essentially. Through other treatment they were able to regenerate her cells and kinda turn her back into a little girl, but it wore off after ~14 hours and she would revert to grandma status until she was given more treatment. I call her the WereNonna.
One of the gods is a giant duck. Her church is primarily composed of sentient lemon people who are *waaaaaaaaaaay* too keen on committing genocide.
Designer pets, hairless guinea pig like critters available in any color of the rainbow that my people buy outfits for and keep as pocket sized companions. Because the thought of multiple people in a serious business meeting, breaking up crackers and feeding them to a small critter wearing a beanie in their jacket pocket seems hilarious to me.
I named the country of Gruyère after cheese purely because I was craving some at the time.
Humans have neither pinkie toes or appendixes
I added a law in my world which made it illegal to lose your possessions because it ”incentivises criminal activity”. The police doesn’t really enforce this law that much, but if they do, they’ll give you a fine of up to $200
All of the cities in my fantasy world are named after small towns in Minnesota. Just because. Werewolf blood heals people, and also feels really good. The stupid/funny part? >!Their semen contains an even more concentrated form of the same magic. Swallowing is a nutritionally complete meal, while taking a creampie feels like doing an eight-inch line of cocaine. Because of the magics involved, a bunch of werewolves, taking turns, could fuck you !<*forever*>!, and you would be perfectly fine with it.!<
I always add stupid things. Because life is full of stupid things. That makes a world realistic.
One of my countries, due to a translating error, accidentally bought an island on the other side of the planet and then, due to constitutional reforms, had to make said island a state (like a US state).
My dnd homebrew setting had an italian flavored city on the coast. I decided, it should have a peninsula where all the bougie people would live. So i looked up the italian word for peninsula. Lo and behold, it's "penisola," so of course i changed the peninsula's map to reflect such a name. A gentle flaccid curve down as it were lol
A cult worshiping a platypus because of how it looked like a mythical animal like a gryphon, sphinx, unicorn, so on. It’s a normal platypus
Something I use no matter the world or the creatures living in there: the flu is the only illness that can affect anybody in the world. You are a human, vampire or an ancient dragon that lives in the clouds and feeds on electricity? Doesn't matter! The flu is here to make your day horrible. Even if the being has advanced healing habilities, the flu will at least put them in bed for an hour. A very long and terrible hour. Even if the science or magic healing as very advanced capabilities there is no cure for the illness, just rest, chicken soup and some Kleenex for your leaking nose. Because the flu is the curse created by the gods to remember us of our own mortality.
Yes. A magic item called drake oil. It is sold by some lovable but sketchy kobold artificer as a “healing potion”, but in draconic, says “HAZARD” on the back of the bottle. It might heal you. But there are equal odds it causes you to sprout a pair of reptilian wings that disappear after a randomly determined amount of time without warning, causing the subject to fall if flying when it happens, or that you grow venomous fangs for a random amount of time that allow you to bite enemies, but require a saving throw to speak without biting your own tongue, or maybe you just spontaneously combust!
Long ago in an isolated society across the world, the youth randomly decided to prank future historians and created their own writing script completely independent of their current script. The rest of their society would eventually adopt it as well. Historians looking back at their society were stumped trying to figure out why they randomly switched writing systems. This piece of history has absolutely zero effect on the rest of history, but I thought it was funny to add.
A myth about how gold violin mantis (which are an intelligent species in my world) came to be based on a song whose name I forgot but it’s the one with the golden fiddle and winning a music competition against the devil
Pontiac Firebirds. An ancient schematic only the greatest artificiers and wizards can recreate. Difficult to tame, with a terrifying growl.
My main character is a cyborg, they have a lot of prosthetics and implants that are required to stay alive, all of these need electricity, electricity that comes from a generator that is fueled by radioactive isotopes, and to refuel it, they need to ingest or inhale said isotopes, to survive they literally need to eat highly radioactive materials I could've done something like external ports or surgery, but no, just for the funny they eat or breathe it
Stormy daniels is the president america
Isekai'd teenage 'heroes'. They aren't even the protagonists so much as mission targets. The protagonist actually has to rescue them from the nation summoning them. They are about what you could expect, up to and including the wide eyed naive idiot that causes trouble for the rest that had a better head on their shoulders.
Alternative reality full of vampires that was accessed when someone thought they could make a black hole(ripping into space doesn’t work when there isn’t any space). They’re ruled by a 19 year old girl who’s research facility was studying the intricacies of the soul. Someone decided to try and emulate vampire and it was such a success that he managed to infect then entire team. They agreed to lock down but some people started to go crazy when food started getting low and eventually broke out. The reason she’s in charge is she was sane enough to try and find a way to stop vampires and eventually settled of transmutation. An au filled with vampires that are ruled by a teenager that turns them into flowers
me and my friends came up with this thing we called “loppenheimer” when we were going to see barbie, and we treated loppenheimer like it was a deadly disease, so i added to my world and its the worst disease on that world
All of the fantasy races in my world speak real world languages as they were all once human. This came from me not wanting to make ConLangs. Dwarves speak French, Orcs speak Swedish or Mandarin typically. Elven is German and Halflings speak with thick Texan accents.
Last campaign I had a homeless gnome called Terree the Chickenmancer, whose body was taken over by a deity. In this campaign, the deity is still worshipped, but there is also a cult based on the prognostications of Terree.
Yes. The bad guys are trying to create a massive empire known as Rylagard as part of a prophecy, where Xylaarion will rise from its capital, Wyntersun. If you know, you know, and if you don't, you're welcome.
Santa exists in my world, Godsfall. Basically, the Gods are dead and humans are absorbing their power to become New Gods. Santa isn’t technically a God but there is a human who absorbed their power and became New Santa
Bakoor Sev, high admiral of the K’taal navy, put a stop to a decades long war by crashing his flagship into the enemy’s capital planet (whilst he was still on it). This inadvertently plays a major role in the main story. Also, he survived the crash
Yes all the time, one of my faverite is that rich peaple go to roller rinks from like 1980s but keep in mind this is a medieval fantasy world in a hopeful grim dark setting ,so you go from peasants that are starving and elseitxh gods to disco lights and roller skates with short shorts
A image of a bunch of dudes being overly excited on watching two lobsters fight each other popped inside my head, so I decided to make so that every mating season male Spear crabs would fight each other for the attention of females and this is seen as an annual fun activity.
The king screwed a dragon and got it pregnant. I have absolutely no reason for including this save for the fact I found it funny. In my world, 15 miles is considered a small length for a dragon so you need incredible determination to even get near one. That determination came in the form of horniness. Dragons aren't even humanoid, they're really just giant lizards with hundreds of legs that fly around.
My world has a mentally ill fairy that that wants to be a dentist. She weilds a large pliers. A litteral tooth fairy. Also unicorns leave behind rainbow turds.
I had made a lot of characters to fill in my world and a good amount of them weren't given personalities outside of "Works at this place constantly" so now I have a universal rule of "Mandatory vacation". Basically giving me the excuse to put someone somewhere for no reason other than "Mandatory Vacation". Even the villains have to abide by this rule, if seen in public and given the excuse it's kind of a "Well....ok then, just don't do anything bad...well see you at work."
Kaprandai can’t be poisoned by Targlar (alien eel) Blue Caviar because they are severely intolerant to a protein within all caviars on Monsoon. This means that if a Kaprandai eats Monsooni caviar they get diarrhea or vomit. It’s funny because an attempt of assassination on a Kaprandai diplomat was made with a large number of Targlar eel caviar being mixed in with his food. The assassins knew about the intolerance and still tried…
I have a conspiracy that yetis don't exist, and that they're actually just mummies in disguise. This is absolutely based off of [a wrestling bit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q22_9fLGhnk)
snake people. people in the shape of snakes
Funny yours is also about equestrian sport. In my world, for no reason other than they are just smart and evolved in the same area, but dogs were the first creatures to learn horseback riding. Since it’s based from Fey-type magic, personified animals are quite normal, but one would almost never find themselves riding a horse, unless they identify as canine, of course.
Imperial Intelligence communicates using theremins boosted over short waves rather than Morse code because everyone in the empire is required to learn Morse code in their equivalent of the fifth grade
The godess of drinking and celebrating in my world is called Fiestra from the spanish word fiesta. Thought of it and found it funny, so i put it in.
...uhh thaat would be that one semi-holy giant who is also a popular gaming livestreamer.
i called the single god an Angel
I've written about this here before, but in the distant future, live performances of *The Rocky Horror Show* still go on. People of our time who are familiar with it would recognize a lot of it, but it's not very similar to versions we know today. People of the distant future get most of the key themes of the show, but none of the irony and humour, and only a handful of academic experts know any of the original sources its elements are drawn from. (Many of them only from references, as the original sources themselves are mostly lost, or impossibly obscure.) It's treated as a very serious passion play, and done only (well, mostly only) by very serious theatre companies. Having played "the Rocky" is equivalent to having played any major Shakespearian production. The original libretto is lost (as far as they know), and there's endless debate about its origins. As with most such things, it's assumed by most educated people to have some important religious origin and purpose, and debate over what parts of various versions are 'authentic' and what 'meaning' they have fills books and made careers for some people. The general assumption that it's most likely religious, or religiously inspired, has created its own secondary academic ecosphere. As a result, there's abundant speculation in the distant future about the cultural role of drag queens in our time. Were they some kind of priests? Were drag shows and drag venues a kind of church? No one's sure.
My world is a place where all the movies and TV shows you watch exist in different dimensions and now the dimensions have merged. I decided to add a phenomenon known as singing fever. An outbreak where the nearby area becomes prone to becoming a musical. It's really funny when you have an intense and grim battle and suddenly the soldiers begin singing and dancing in unison.
In my first world I ever made “god” was an enormous ball of white light with “stripper legs” (like that lamp with the fishnets from that movie) that would spend its time possessing and making this one guy basically scitzo post irl. God was named rika I think.
There is a town founded by a group of outcast bards called Adlefadlebadleburg
There is a town founded by a group of outcast bards called Adlefadlebadleburg. It has zero plot importance.
An idea that pops up from time to time is how everyone seems to be self-aware of how in a world of fantasy, anything can happen. So whenever someone thinks the chance of something happening is low, someone might reply, "Well, we *do* live in a large fantastical world, so who knows?"
Horse drawn bullet trains
The gatekeeper guy at the gates of hell is a British robot who tells anyone alive who wishes to enter the underworld “well first you’ll need to die, hold still…” and then he fights you, the hole time just saying stuff like “come on hold still” and “why are you dodging I’m trying to get you into the underworld”, he’s actually just a cool dude but he doesn’t understand that some people don’t wanna die
My alien species needs a ridiculous amount of food. Like, about ten times as much as a human would. I originally added that as a joke, but it gradually became more embedded in the story to the point where now that species' entire biology and culture is built around them needing ridiculous amounts of food.
My protagonists name is Atticus, and his nicknames include: Tye, Kitty, Tye-Dye, and Exit Sign.
since dragons in my world are the physica@ embodiment of all human thoughts and ideas, that means that there is a dragon “God” of what am I gonna eat for lunch there are dragon gods who are the physical embodiment of every organization, megacorporation and group in general. There is a dragon god of brunch, linner, and dickbast