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The Mumbai star system (HD 171620 ) is coming along very nicely....
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A map for my worldbuilding project. This is an โeyeball planetโ a special type of tidally locked world. 1 is supposed to look like what people living there would use. 2 is just to visualize what direction the winds are blowing. 3 is with major shipping lanes overlayed (I wanted to include them with the first, but left them out because I didnโt like the vibes)
Also thanks to Quanox, Shura, Dazze, Happy skies, @sequentialsnep Gotyoureyes and Remy for contributing one city name each.
#digitalart #muellermeier #map #worldbuilding #scifi #planet #hardsciencefiction #sciencefiction
Map of an eyeball planet, drawn as if it was used by the locals.
Same map with a storm system overlayed on top.
Same map with shipping lanes overlayed on top.
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One of the 1st steps to #worldbuilding a #space #ttprgg is to consider what player experiences it's meant to facilitate.
As w/ our core manual, we want to
1) Reimagine existing #scifi thru a #solarpunk lens &
2) Create original stories that can't exist outside of this context. [Thread]
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If you feel that your world or character is missing something, it is almost guaranteed to be history. We are beings that are driven by personal, professional, cultural, religious, and scientific histories. Nothing bothers me more than when I am reading a story and the characters seem willfully disdainful of history. On occasion, that may be true to their character, but what Iโm writing about here are those characters that lack depth and engagement because they have been denied history.
If your character encounters a ruined building, that building can tell us so much about the world. Even if you write notebooks of backstory but then decide to condense the characterโs reference down to a single name drop you are still giving them both a history and a place in it. I feel that if your world building or character feels flat that the problem lies in their history. Flush that out, with a focus on how that history would shape that character and you will be amazed at how alive they feel to you.
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It's probably way to late on a Friday to be consulting actual star catalogues and cross checking on Wolfram Alpha but that's the sort of biped I am.
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The Hard SF Worldbuilding Cookbooks:
Are you a sci-fi author? From moons to supernova, this series offers details, visuals. Write a story - have the science as needed.
Inspiration, then #worldbuilding .
$PWYW
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/364916
#author #ttrpg#ShamelessSelfpromoFriday
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A quick question for #worldbuilding, but does anyone know of a good, โeasyโ #starsystem / #solarsystem generator?
By good, I mean one that can and will create a star system with possibly unlivable planets (I don't care if its vivable or not)) depending on the size of the star (very important)?
If it doesn't exist, I'll go back to my dice and chance, but it's worth a try ?
Thank you very much ! :D
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#ttrpg #worldbuilding tip: If you want to come up with plausible settlement patterns for your #fantasy setting, a basic understanding of Central Place Theory will help.
#WFRP 1E actually has a discussion of this right in the Core Rule Book!
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I'm a writer, and one of the things I use social media for is to promote my own work.
I also know how annoying it is when authors never post anything *else*. So I limit myself to one post a week. That's today.
Here's my most recent book, published by Ad Astra Games. This is my current last word on designing scientifically plausible exoplanetary systems for fiction, at least until I produce a second edition.
#sciencefiction #selfpromotion #ttrpg #worldbuilding
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/483143/architect-of-worlds
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Recent discussions about hypothetical D&D economies led me to look into Roman currency. Here is a great wikipedia image of the common currency in the 27 BC - 100 AD Roman era.
So instead of copper, silver, electrum gold (the D&D standard), the early Roman Empire used various iterations of Bronze, Orichalcum, Silver, Billon, and Gold.
And today I learned Billon is the name for an alloy of silver and gold, or silver and copper, or silver and gold and copper, or basically any alloy of silver and some base metal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_currency#Imperial_period:_27_BC_%E2%80%93_AD_476
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Painting worlds in that unfortunately named free image editing software, you know the one.
Anyway, Astrosynthesis slaps an image around a sphere and a world is born, see it spin prettily in Space....
Anyway, Astrosynthesis slaps an image around a sphere and a world is born, see it spin prettily in Space....
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Astrosynthesising tonight the Psi Serpentis system and appreciating the effort the Halo franchise made in getting these stars right.
No battle around Psi Serpentis in my version though, in my Universe the baddies come in from the direction of Taurus, from beyond the Pleiades....
No battle around Psi Serpentis in my version though, in my Universe the baddies come in from the direction of Taurus, from beyond the Pleiades....
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In retrospect I put way too much effort into worldbuilding for AA and Triple A gaming. They don't give a fuck.
I love it when fiction authors include:
* maps
* organizational charts
* profiles of characters with little images
* family trees
* timelines
* diagrams of weapons and ships with all the features labeled
* maps
* organizational charts
* profiles of characters with little images
* family trees
* timelines
* diagrams of weapons and ships with all the features labeled
I sometimes think there is some notion that such things arenโt โreal writingโ or even that they are โcrutchesโ
But really itโs just enjoyable and makes the world seem more real.
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@futurebird I just enjoy Worldbuilding for the hell of it, barely has any story come of my Universe but it is a vast and documented place. I know there are others like me.
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How do the leaders of your world learn to fight?
#privilege#SilverSpoon#WorldBuilding#AmWriting #writing#authodons #ttrpg #dnd #gaming
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There is a subgenre of academic papers that could have originally started as someoneโs homework for a #SciFi story or #worldbuilding exercise. This exploration of constraints on #life beyond Earth definitely fits that category.
Also, seriously, #writers , so many excellent resources now to explore and understand how life outside Earth could evolve and functionโฆ if you want to go for hard SciFi (or just get some out-of-the-box ideas), just reach out and grab them.
arxiv.org/abs/2409.14477
Also, seriously, #writers , so many excellent resources now to explore and understand how life outside Earth could evolve and functionโฆ if you want to go for hard SciFi (or just get some out-of-the-box ideas), just reach out and grab them.
arxiv.org/abs/2409.14477
I am deep, DEEP into birthing worlds in the direction of the Cygnus/Lyrae Constellations.
I blame Mastodon for there being so many Fungus planets....
I blame Mastodon for there being so many Fungus planets....
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The planet 'Brick Garden', so called for the continent sized fungal ecosystem that turns part of the world purple, one of the more ubiquitous species looks like a brick garden of fungal creations.
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I am deep, DEEP into birthing worlds in the direction of the Cygnus/Lyrae Constellations.
I blame Mastodon for there being so many Fungus planets....
I blame Mastodon for there being so many Fungus planets....
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Messed around with making a zodiac constellation chart for my homebrew campaign. It probably will not come up in play but I sometimes think just making things lends a certain versimilitude to the game. Plus, it might lead to other ideas.
I based the zodiac after the real zodiac but sometimes changed the names, sometimes changed the constellation to be one very near, or sometimes made it up.
Now that I am done, I can not rule out that maybe The Elder Scrolls influenced my choices in some subconscious sort of way.
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Slowly working my way through all the bright stars in Cygnus, rebuilding that mental map of the Local Bubble and all the peoples within.