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Post by Bozza on Mar 2, 2015 10:36:51 GMT
Just throwing this out there. I sometimes have good ideas, but don't actually know how to carry them out. or how to expand on them.
How about a community world building thingy? Dunno if it would work for Oz as the world is already built to a degree, but for Sloth's game.
I saw a thing on a speculative fiction forum where they started by drawing the outline of the world. They had a grid on paper which they then passed around in turn and each person added a bit of coast line (make sense?), I don't know what happened after 'cause I got bored of the forum and quit going there. But they intended to outline the land then fill it in with terrain, cities etc and then add cultural stuff, religions blah blah blah.
I'm really not the creative type but it might be fun.
What do you think?
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Post by Mascarenhas on Mar 2, 2015 12:24:28 GMT
Sounds good. I'm using a map for Oz (from the books) with the books for reference.
Maybe we could build a new world for the next RPG?
Shall we start with the occupants of this world?
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Post by Bozza on Mar 2, 2015 13:41:28 GMT
I read the first book last year maybe, I was surprised how good it was and had a darkness about it that I wasn't expecting. I wonder how it would have come out if Baum had aimed it for adults and it was written after the 70s. Why the difficult questions?  I think getting a setting first might be good (standard fantasy, cyberpunk, modern). Geography should possibly also be one of the first stages as it would dictate the type of people who live there. If there's a lot of coast, then eventually we'd need ports, harbours, fishing villages, maybe naval bases, pirates...Jungles then there would be few cities etc. But I am up for anything. |
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Post by Bozza on Mar 2, 2015 13:48:09 GMT
Another idea is to build a city. we could have the outline and then add in streets and quarts and then all the buildings etc. Might be fun to add shops and stuff with humorous names.
It would be smaller but maybe more detailed. Could be good for an adventure limited to one location.
I used to do that all the time as a kid aftr I played Fighting Fantasy: City of Thieves.
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Post by Hannibal on Mar 2, 2015 14:39:36 GMT
Zanbar Bone!
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Post by Bozza on Mar 2, 2015 14:45:46 GMT
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Post by LemonSloth on Mar 2, 2015 20:16:27 GMT
I think it's a great idea actually. Also: Where did you find this awesomeness?! |
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Post by Bozza on Mar 2, 2015 20:41:05 GMT
The interweb!
It's a map of Port Blacksand the city in the Fighting Fantasy book, The City of Thieves. The picture is taken from it, or perhaps the encyclopaedia for the series, Titan (IIRR).
It's not from the forum I mentioned. I put it there as I thought Hannibal might recognise the map and picture...being as old as he is. *cough, cough*.
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Post by Hannibal on Mar 2, 2015 22:19:21 GMT
Dude I still own the book!
Next you will be telling me you can't remember what a "pocket myriad" is
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Post by Bozza on Mar 2, 2015 22:33:06 GMT
I had to check that. Citadel of Chaos? I didn't like that one so much. Forest of Doom and City of Thieves were my faves. Oh, Deathtrap Dungeon even though it had the ultimate dumb fantastical character ever in it...a ninja! Still got the books back in the UK though. I have bought the apps though!  |
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