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What are some of your must-haves when making your stories, worlds, or maps? (discuss.online)

submitted 2 weeks ago by OmegaLemmy@discuss.online to c/worldbuilding@lemmy.world

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Whether it be meta tools or apps, or literal concepts like a mineral or a race, for example, a must for me is for the world to be built in a believable manner, and at the most simple, following some decent climate rules without much restraint.

my favourite would be drip plume ice worlds with hotspots that allow for rainforests in 80 Celsius steam zones, very exotic, the temperature regulated by these hotspots.

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

They have their own society... Now. All the wizards are dead. They're living in a post-apocalyptic world being overrun by magic, carnivorous weeds (because the wizards aren't around to get rid of them e.g. with fireballs).

The wizards made the kads (that's their species name) dance automatically because it was both cute and a control measure: They gave the kads powerful magic and were worried that they could rebel some day. So if any ever misbehaved or rebelled they could just play music and... Deal with them while they were entranced.