David J Prokopetz (Posts tagged worldbuilding)

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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I enjoy when sci-fi backdrops try to split the difference between presenting futuristic cityscapes and acknowledging that they wouldn't just tear down all the existing infrastructure by keeping the old buildings but having random high-tech shit sticking off of them, like the buildings themselves have cyborg implants.

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(In response to the notes, I do also enjoy when a modern building has a small piece of historical facade sticking off it, but I need to empahsise that this is in fact the exact opposite of what I'm describing here.)

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Right, you're talking about when the historical stately home has a phone hookup, a satellite TV dish and an air conditioning unit.

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That’s a gesture in the right direction, but for best effect it should be clear that the artist has put absolutely zero thought into what actual purpose the bolted-on greeble ostensibly serves. Blinking lights and little protruding bits that look like antennae but aren’t are also a plus.

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I enjoy when sci-fi backdrops try to split the difference between presenting futuristic cityscapes and acknowledging that they wouldn't just tear down all the existing infrastructure by keeping the old buildings but having random high-tech shit sticking off of them, like the buildings themselves have cyborg implants.

prokopetz

(In response to the notes, I do also enjoy when a modern building has a small piece of historical facade sticking off it, but I need to empahsise that this is in fact the exact opposite of what I’m describing here.)

media tropes science fiction sci fi worldbuilding swearing
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I need full rules for the other three Excrucian splats in @jennamoran's Glitch solely so that I can write up a stupid cross-splat campaign where the pregens are all based on different glib "subversions" of YA fantasy archetypes. You've got the former girl-in-a-box with the terrible hidden power that's slowly killing her (Strategist for obvious reasons); the half-alien kid whose mom turned out to be a galactic war criminal (Warmain; it's eventually revealed that the "mom" is a Warmain herself, and the "kid" is a Warmain-shard who gained independent existence due to a tempering gone wrong); the ex-Chosen One whose benefactors pulled a Chronicles of Narnia and expected them to go back to being a regular middle schooler once their purpose had been served (Deceiver with a Pseudoestate related to their abortive Heroic Destiny), and so forth.

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@a-blessed-feline replied:

What’s the Mimic gonna be?

My gut impulse is to do the Mimic as a direct pastiche of Jenny Wakeman from My Life as a Teenage Robot, but I’m on the fence whether that’s a sufficiently common YA archetype to really fit the brief.

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I need full rules for the other three Excrucian splats in @jennamoran’s Glitch solely so that I can write up a stupid cross-splat campaign where the pregens are all based on different glib “subversions” of YA fantasy archetypes. You’ve got the former girl-in-a-box with the terrible hidden power that’s slowly killing her (Strategist for obvious reasons); the half-alien kid whose mom turned out to be a galactic war criminal (Warmain; it’s eventually revealed that the “mom” is a Warmain herself, and the “kid” is a Warmain-shard who gained independent existence due to a tempering gone wrong); the ex-Chosen One whose benefactors pulled a Chronicles of Narnia and expected them to go back to being a regular middle schooler once their purpose had been served (Deceiver with a Pseudoestate related to their abortive Heroic Destiny), and so forth.

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The "societies in high-magic fantasy settings where body-altering magic is widely available would obviously have a very different relationship with gender than our own, and I feel the implications of that are worth exploring – purely as an intellectual exercise, of course" to "hey, wait a minute" pipeline.

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#this is the book equivalent to picking the girl in a video game as a speedrun strat (via @thetrashiestoftrash)

I once bumped into a guy who argued in all apparent seriousness that video games with selectable player characters where the girl has better speed tech are part of a plot to turn speedrunners trans.

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Shout out to Castlevania Portrait of Ruin, where there's a boy protagonist and a girl protagonist, but the new fastest speedrun route involves using a glitch to turn the boy protagonist into a girl:

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#meta-optimized forcefemALT
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The "societies in high-magic fantasy settings where body-altering magic is widely available would obviously have a very different relationship with gender than our own, and I feel the implications of that are worth exploring – purely as an intellectual exercise, of course" to "hey, wait a minute" pipeline.

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#this is the book equivalent to picking the girl in a video game as a speedrun strat (via @thetrashiestoftrash)

I once bumped into a guy who argued in all apparent seriousness that video games with selectable player characters where the girl has better speed tech are part of a plot to turn speedrunners trans.

jesin00

Shout out to Castlevania Portrait of Ruin, where there's a boy protagonist and a girl protagonist, but the new fastest speedrun route involves using a glitch to turn the boy protagonist into a girl:

gaming tabletop roleplaying tabletop rpgs game design worldbuilding gender video games speedrunning video youtube transphobia mention flashing lights
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The "societies in high-magic fantasy settings where body-altering magic is widely available would obviously have a very different relationship with gender than our own, and I feel the implications of that are worth exploring – purely as an intellectual exercise, of course" to "hey, wait a minute" pipeline.

prokopetz

#this is the book equivalent to picking the girl in a video game as a speedrun strat (via @thetrashiestoftrash)

I once bumped into a guy who argued in all apparent seriousness that video games with selectable player characters where the girl has better speed tech are part of a plot to turn speedrunners trans.

gaming tabletop roleplaying tabletop rpgs game design worldbuilding gender video games speedrunning transphobia mention