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Worldbuilding/Setting Thread

If you want to world build, read a lot of history. Fiction is great too, but taking too much from fiction can lead to cliches if you are not careful. History is an incredible tool for getting ideas because it is filled with all these little instances and practices that are hard to make up. Having a deep enough understanding of world cultures, past and present, is also good because it allows you to deconstruct them and take the bits you like in order to make your own culture. If you invent a culture and it is the exact copy of a single real world equivilant, it won't be nearly as interesting as one you construct from so many parts that it becomes its own thing.

Blatantly Over-Powered Characters

I distinctly recall a situation off-site where a Gm made an "end boss" that;

-Had a stat for health that looked like 100000000000 (player maximum was 100);
-Killed in 1 hit regardless of whatever players could do;
-Was god, so could do anything;
-and that had pretty much no lore besides "Lord of all evil".

And then a war ensued between the few players crazy enough to even enter the area and the Gm, with the Gm insisting it was OK since it was the "end boss" of the roleplay

@ArenaSnow

"And for the end boss, you have to fight the spawn of my crippling inadequacy!"

Kid

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>Wild West Gunmen
>Bonnie and Clyde
Do you even history.

Also, congrats, Rilla.

@Zed

Well, they only missed the mark by a couple of decades... and they were gunmen of a sort, or at least gunpersons.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

School was out in 2012 for me!

State-specific leading causes of death (brought to you by NPR?)

It is interesting that coal mining country most distinctly suffers from chemically caused lung conditions.

Also interesting that both Idaho and Alaska have the most nature related incidents when you consider that they are both mostly wilderness.

bruh/salty/yolo

They only remind me that I am old.

I hate personal bitch posts as much as the next guy

there's no such thing as adults.

@mdk

I saw one once. He was carrying a copy of The Economist in the pocket of his tweed smoking jacket.

It was majestic.

Kid

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i did not understand a single thing in that sentence

@Unfortunately

You never saw a bean baby?

Today is your lucky day

If this thread overtakes the MLP game, I'll wear a Brony avatar and sig for a year.

Meanwhile, at Aaron's lair.

Military

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Yeah, but they're scary.

@TheEvanCat

That's how you prepare for ISIS.