world building

The goal of this thread is to create a Medieval Fantasy nation with capabilities such that it can fight an even war with the modern United States (say they invade with magic portals or something), while still remaining a very recognizably medieval fantasy nation. So, the aesthetics and culture...

Hello! This is my second quest. I’m starting it because quests make me happy, and because we need more Precure quests. I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to manage both just fine as long as I keep the story parts short and let you guys vote often. Like in my other quest, a lot of votes will be...

It's been 3 weeks after I graduation from college. My dream is to become the best scientist just like my professor Craft and his assist Dence. I live in a motel which I don't have enough money to rent a house which I need to stay in a motel for weeks. My parents came to my graduation and they...

A force of creation acts, spitting out a ball of light, and then a ball of mud. But the force of creation is not yet done there. "This planet is a small planet made mostly of packed dirt crust, with a molten iron core. There is a north pole and a south pole. There is one volcano that...

Here at the Bureau of Lithography and Cartography, we understand the difficulties in being far from the country you call home. Whether you're an ambassador or someone who wants to see the rest of the world, there's always that spark of what you're missing out on. It's more apparent during this...

So, I'm presently in the midst of writing a mecha story in a fantasy setting, and is about a revolution overthrowing a tyrannical empire and the resulting wars to install democratic republics in its place. The main character of the story is a former slave who was liberated in the initial...

A Harry Potter who becomes a magical Rick Sanchez who knows magic as much as he knows science (the reason he does not use magic is because he gave up on the magical world Rick:"the magical world is a sunk cost falicy with negative returns burrp.") one of the three ricks to invent "portal...

Fallout has fleshed out a few areas of the post-apocalyptic United States, but there remain vast tracts of land unvisited. This quest is going to design an area which will then be used by a followup quest. With so much blank space on the map, it would take forever to vote on it all, so I’ve...

The Map Game Format: Map games are, essentially, a collaborative writing project. Each player uses their turn to add to the story of the world, describing the events and developments that happen during their turn, advancing the plot, and adding new elements. There are many kinds of map games...

[An SI Harry Potter Fanfiction] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Summary: Harry Potter was an odd boy, everyone knew it. His eyes were too aware, he was too calm, too intelligent for it to be natural. This remained a mystery, even to the boy himself, until one...

[ACCORDION width=75% block_align=bcenter] [SLIDE title="Our Evolving Creature... (click to open)" align=center] The bacterium in question is as long as an adult man's finger, with all the bits and pieces inside that an amoeba needs to survive the new world's shenanigans.[/SLIDE] [SLIDE...

The "nation" of magicians that make up the domain of The Witch Queen is composed of three-hundred and thirty-three "Lodges", sub-factions of magic-users who have sworn loyalty to the Ascended Mistress. The nation as a whole is nicknamed "the snakes" by their enemies and the subjects they rule...

I was doing some thinking on how the Nonhuman sentients will fit within the legal code after First Contact or the fall of a supernatural Masquerade. I couldn't find any discussion or study on this subject online (closest is some discussion on animal personhood that doesn't really fit) so thought...

“Let There be Light,” it was said and then there was light. -Opening of the Book of Light. None may know how the Light came to be. In future ages some claimed it to be the child of chaos, whose birth cries tore apart its mother’s womb and radiated and ravaged until it was free. Some claimed it...

VOTE 1: Billions of years ago the universe was created, a vast material realm expanding everywhere containing everything under forces of the newly codified laws of physics. And just as long ago the forces of magic came into being spreading everywhere and everywhen. Stranger and more wondrous...

Prologue Letter found on Harry’s pillow on his 11th Birthday Son or Daughter, As I write this letter, your father and I are still arguing about your name, and occasionally even if you’ll be a boy or a girl. You should be born in around two months time, and I hope to any gods that are...

Inspired by Cyberphilosipher’s thread, WI: A Changed World, A Strange World in The Sol System (Remnant and Strangereal added to Sol) Worldbuilding | Sufficient Velocity By the act of a God (or a ROB) and the power of absolute madness and chaos, eleven planets have been added to our Solar...

In the beginning, there was us. And we are her. We have had many names - Lloth, Lalune, the Spider Queen. We always weave our webs, when others aren't watching. Some call us evil. We call them... Uncreative. With a gentle twitch of our fingers, we reach out, and we find a new place to...

Chapter 1: A Good Day The sun hangs low in the sky as the convoy of adults return from a successful hunt, their spoils of battle hanging lazily from strong jaws. Of the twelve that had set out, all had returned, with most bearing rewards to show for it. Only a few wounds dot the group, nothing...

I want to make a story about a scifi princess inspired by a primarch. I just love the concept of a genetic altered being hence why I love biopunk. How advanced would I imply the civilization she is from is? Note that she has others like her and counterparts.

Author's Notes: I got high and angry about the Wizard Blood Libel game. This expanded into anger at the Harry Potter series in general for all the plot holes (student tracking, unexplained magic system, paper-thin stereotypes, etcetera). So I decided to rewrite the whole series while patching up...

Hello all. This will be a quest where the focus is on creating a fictional grand strategy game. It's less of a quest where stuff happens within the game and more of an exercise of worldbuilding but I may change things up later. For now Choose the setting of the Grand Strategy Game []...

I'm currently working on a story and would like some help with the designing of the cultivation system for the Byzantines. I've got the basic idea down, the how of it, but I'm struggling with coming up with the 'ranks' of the system. The Byzantine Empire was a theocracy. Do I draw the ranks...

For many years, I have been trying to write an outline of a story, or novel if I enjoy writing it, set in a draconic world. But I am not trying to copy fantasy or western literature. I am trying to evolve a beleivable world and situations that would push dragons to develope a more organized and...

So the Leagues of Votann are the newest race in the Warhammer 40K, or rather, are a reboot of the very old Squat faction. Although the race is still new, I'm pretty interested in them, and their potential lore. Instead of waiting to see what GW puts out though, I want to put out some of my own...