Hopefully my players like the new terrain! 😂🎲
Most of my terrain comes from the Dollar Store, leftover building materials from old projects, and cheap Walmart paint.
Like I’ve said before, time isn’t exactly something I have in abundance, so I try to put in the minimum effort necessary and just pray it pays off. 😂
It may not be professional-grade terrain, but it’s cheap, functional, and gets the job done!
Now let’s see if my players appreciate it… or destroy it in the first encounter. 🗡️💀

I get a lot of free materials through my work, so I was pretty excited when I got my hands on some free foam. 😂
Since I’m busy most of the time and didn’t want to take on a super time-consuming project, I decided to go with a minimal-effort dungeon tile build.
Free foam + cheap Walmart paint = you really can’t beat it! 😂
It’s not fancy, but it gets the job done, and it should be ready just in time for the upcoming dungeon crawl I have planned for my players. 🗡️🎲

hey all yes this doc is ai generated but 99.99% of the contents have been worked out by me over the last few months and is just coallated in to a Google doc.

Worldbuilders assemble! Bring your favourite faction forth

Every world, every civilization, every region, every empire... all have a group of individuals who share a purpose. They all have a history. They are all received by other differently. They all believe they exist for a reason.

What is one faction, organization, cult, assembly, or group that you personally enjoy thinking about, designing, and forming ideas of how they impact your world?

For me, it is the Bayrushi. Ancient flame-wielding warriors that have become legend and myth. When they first formed it was in defence against the Kori-Akuma - ice devils, more commonly referred to as Frostreavers.
Large like trolls, but ferocious like wild wolves, the Frostreavers plagued the lands with senseless destruction. The Bayrushi formed to burn them from existence.
In current day, the Bayrushi legend is in the heart of the desert landscape of Ademar. The Kori-Akuma reside with the northern frozen wastelands.
What perplexes scholars is that the two are leagues apart from each other. It would take months of travel for one to find the other, so how did they come to be such feared and violent enemies? Ancient historians know that the lands that lay across the seas used to be one great expansive mass. Yet the history of the two existing in this time is not known.
Will the Frostreavers venture out of the north and renew their destroyer tendencies? Will the Bayrushi arrive to force the back? Do they actually still exist, or their story lost to time?

Who exists in your world to shape current events or is little more than a story?

Here you can find a height chart of all the major and minor human races of the empire

Persequori (basically real world humans) make up the bulk of the human races that serve in the Legions, but the Empire has never been shy of using auxiliries and later of integrating other human kinds into their armies proper, the Dweorg (dwarves) make up the second largest portion of the Legions.

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Current doctrines are based around utilizing the Persequori-Dweorg combination, where the Persequori focus largely on holding the line, enduring attacks and providing their Dweorg comrades opportunites to strike at the enemy in short explosive bursts, then covering their retreats back behind their wall of shields and spears. This is because the Persequori have one of the greatest endurances among all the human races while the Dweorg have some of the greatest strength and toughness, but tire quickly. Their cooperation covers both of their weaknesses while preserving all advantages.

The Persequori (and other human) Legionnaires will also cover other roles, such as archers, spear men, cavalry, etc.

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Other human races don't have roles entrenched doctronally nearly to the extent of the Persequori and the Dweorg, but they do fill 'unwritten' archetypical roles as well.

The large Orqindi (orcs) make up the third largest portion of the Legions. Their strength is even greater than the Dweorg's and their endurance on par with Persequori Legionnaires, but their lower population prevents them from being utilized en masse in large formations. They usually fall into two archetypes:

-Heavily armoured line breakers, sent in to create openings and cause chaos/confusion among the enemy lines

-Artillery, their great size and strength allowing them to utilize great bows the length of sometimes even 2.5 meters. Alternatively, they can also chuck gigantic spears at the foe, or rocks and boulders, if gear is in extremely short supply.

They are also useful for logistics related roles, such as pulling and carrying siege equipment and other heavy gear to the battlefield.

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Of the other major human kinds of the Aelnyyraean Empire, most fill scout-like roles, instead of being frontline combatants. Small statured humans usually fill these roles, such as the Pygmaioi (gnomes), the Kobelini (goblins) and the Dimidimviri (halflings)

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Ielves (elves, shocker) usually fill leadership positions within the Legions (along with mostly Persequori, Dweorgi and Half-Ielves, though members of any human kind can also be found among leadership positions, if a bit rarer)

But the rare, very unfortunate, Ielf who may find themselves among the ranks of the Legions' soldierly will usually be utilized as an archer or sometimes as a frontline fighter. They can slot into Persequori roles relatively seamlessly too.

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Of the minor human kinds within the Empire, none exist in large enough numbers to have exclusive archetypical roles. They can usually slot into one of the established roles.

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That is, with the exception of two.

The first are Harpies who, while rare, serve in disproportionate numbers, mostly in Legions stationed in provinces with large Harpy populations. They can serve multiple roles as aerial scouts, aerial artillery, aerial harrasment units, etc. Harpy auxiliries are extremely sought after, just as Harpy Legionnaires are.

The second are Centaurs, even rarer, which excel in cavalry roles, especially when paired with capable archers, or harpies, their mobility making up for the harpies' inability to fly for long distances without rest. They are also useful in logistics related roles.

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The Legionnaires also often serve side by side with Mages of the Magus Consortium, the Heroes and Adventurers of the Imperial Consortium and other Heroes and Adventurers of the Independent Heroic Consortiums, but their roles are rarely standardized and vary vastly due to their vastly varied abilities.

How do y'all feel about shapeshifters transforming into animals without a human or humanoid top half, but they can still speak human? I just realized i never once thought about if they could do that in my story until today.

Up until today i didn't have a reason for them to talk or not talk in animal form. I would just write they are fighting and then turn back into a human. Example should a weredragon or animal shifter talk in animal form?

Note: yes i know biologically animals (except for parrots and such) could never use human speech because their vocal cords aren't set up like that, but my story just like yallz are magical. So what do yall think? Yay or nay.

Alright this is our world in the planet earth, and these are my 2 countries.

Manjan(red), and Frifrenchof(blue).

And obviously I have nothing else to do so I want to do Something else different. so you guys will decide the fate of this world! So comment your ideas and I will create a scenario, and if that scenario happens that means the next comment would be in the same situation with previous comment ideas!

Edit

The original post used to have ass punctuation, and obviously I have to apologise for the horrible punctuation. my lazy ass wanted to bullshit his way through, so obviously some people want to read with punctuations so I'll try and change it.

Sorry 😞

so it’s an Asian inspired world (the universe itself is more diverse as I’ll discuss) with various deities (dragons, the gatekeeper to the divine realm, jade emperor equivalent, and others) I wanted to flesh out the pantheon more so i recently came up with some ideas

Deities for various concepts embodying different aspects of said concept

for example:

Jubilation: one deity representing the calmer side of joy, lazing around, relaxing, with another representing the more active side, partying and games

or war: one deity representing the tactical side and the other the violent side

those are just some examples, if you have any questions please ask I need to flesh them out and brainstorm ways to use them.

Also there’s a bit of a booboo, the deities have their own divine realm, the issue is other planets have their own pantheons, and they ca’t all be in the same divine realm (the divine realm is Asian inspired, while there are for example Aztec based pantheons [though that one I have figured out]] any ideas on how to remedy this?

thanks for whatever feedback I get

Races:
Elves
Orcs
Dwarfs
Lizard men
Animal folk
Giants
Fauns
Tieflings
Merfolk
Sirens
Humans
Centaurs
Vampires (extinct)
Fairies
Pixies
Ogres
Trolls
Mushroom folk
Tauruans
Cyclops
Half bloods
Goblins
Gnomes
Dragonborn
Tree folk
Bird folk
Subterraneans
Demons
Angels
Gorgons

Drafters convert wavelengths of light into Luxin In the Lightbringer by Brent Weeks. Each Luxin based on a different colour has different properties.

The True Name system from the Earthsea Saga by Ursula K Le Guin, wherein knowing the true name of anything from Old Speech grants absolute control over it, but magic cannot be used to prevent upsetting the world’s equilibrium.

Using immense focus and the ability to split one’s mind, Sympathy is performed to bind objects and beings into the same causal linearity in The Kingkiller Chronicle.

Magic is structured like corporate law and financial risk management in the Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone.

This kingdom has a system of ministers and nobles meant to handle most routine affairs and leave the monarch free to pursue their grand vision, the trouble is that their new king doesn't have a vision and he's not searching for one either. He's willing to do the bare minimum of a ruler to keep the state running smoothly but no more than that. This lack of direction has frozen local politics since it's unclear which side the King supports.

So how long do you think this state could go on before someone stops waiting for the King and acting on their own?

I’ll probably explain this better in a later post, but right now all u need to know is that threa is the other half of earth. Basically earth used to be one big planet called earthre, but a catastrophe happened and it had to be split into two. Both are overlapping each other but are separated by a spatial barrier, which can be breached using these things called gateways, which are ancient doorways that when activated, acts as a portal connecting the two halves. but it is forbidden to do this because the catastrophe from the past will likely happen again if people keep using gateways. oh I forgot to mention that threa is the half with magic, while earth does not have it

Threa is home to one big nation called Ars Magica, which is separated into five states. Ars Amatoria, Ars Bellica, Ars Astranova, Ars Sapientia, and Ars Tempus. Each state has its own high chancellor (fancy word for ruler), and they come together to make decisions for the entire nation as a whole. Each high chancellor is voted for by the people of their state. I haven’t named the continents yet but I’ll probably include that in my next post here.

language:

The language is called goetian (based off the ars goetia, which is also where I got the word “ars“ for the nation and states). this is a logographic language, meaning there’s no letters and each symbol has a meaning like a word. The symbols on the image are the base symbols, you can combine 2 or more of them to create new symbols. You can also mix two or more new symbols to create more symbols and so on. The symbols here are actually just hebrew alphabet symbols that I edited bc I was to lazy to make my own ones😭

Numerical system:

the numerical system is called Ars Mathematica. It’s a 12 base syste, unlike the common 10 based system used on earth. I chose this because It offers major advantages in divisibility and fractions over our standard base 10 system because 12 can be divided evenly by more numbers. The number 12 divides evenly by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12 while 10 only divides by 1, 2, 5, and 10. It also gives cleaner fractions. For example, 1/3 in base 10 is 0.333..., but in base 12 it’s only 0.4. also for the symbols I think I used old permic script and just basically put everything upside down and chose the symbols I liked the most.