The Planet

Hi Becka!

Main project has been making a TTRPG to go alongside my novel for the last few months. So lots of worldbuilding even though it's not technically a campaign setting book (it's just if you want the world to be part of the game, you have to include *something*)

I enjoyed creating the deities, thinking about the in-world mechanics of magic, and briefly laying out cultural norms. Also I had to actually think about what each of the countries was like, even if only briefly, in a way I hadn't before. And I made a tiny fishing village that's built next to an ancient dragon skeleton and therefore has an oddly specialist archaeological school in it as well.

Weirdest thing was languages ... I know the norm in high fantasy TTRPGs is either not to think about languages or to have a 'common' language that everyone speaks but it just seems so unlikely ... couldn't bare it, so have a list of languages now by country.

As a normally-not-very-worldbuildy person this was all surprisingly fun and interesting for me, even if it wasn't very in-depth!

InspectorCaracal wrote: ↑

Mon 26 Jul, 2021, 5:01 pm

Wysteria wrote: ↑

Mon 26 Jul, 2021, 11:28 am

I like trying to figure out what a modern fantasy society would look rolled forward into a space society. Are vampires allergic to other suns? Are werewolves human or wolfy if they're beyond the influence of the moon? These are the questions of our time.

Ooh. And stuff like, is it a connection specifically to Earth's moon or just to local orbiting planetary satellites? If it's the second, what happens if there's no moon versus what happens if there's multiple moons? And for vampires, what if it's tied to the spectral classification of the star, like the bluer the sun is, the more allergic they are?

this is weirdly starting to make me think about Superman since there's the whole 'his planet makes him weak, but "yellow sun" makes him strong' thing

like bits of Krypton make him *weaker and sicker* than a regular human ... perhaps related to whatever destroyed his planet? Did the sun exploding irradiate everything with Too Much Sun?

are Kryptonians space vampires that lose their weakness under different sun conditions?