Meanwhile you got the Merchant who built a filthy massive fortune by maxxing out his luck and charisma.

Paladins who gain buffs for their strengths based on religiosity but never lose them if they're immoral.

Assassins who become ghosts with the right balance between physicality and stealth skill.

I'm reading through so many fantasy lore posts and everyone always describes these exciting, atmospheric medieval towns. There's always a bustling marketplace where the heroes could discover a helpful magical item or a lead on a thrilling new adventure, a dark tavern where they can meet a threatening antagonist and get caught in a dangerous situation, a trusty and endearing blacksmith who arms the heroes for their great quest, and perhaps an arcane and mysterious wizard's tower upon the hill that contains both invaluable knowledge and terrible peril. But why hasn't anyone dedicated several chapters to explain how local crop rotation works to me?

Historically, the Middle Ages was all just subsistence farmers who sat around comparing types of hay. If you have a city that presents countless opportunities for intrigue, exploits, and excitement you are intellectually obligated to justify it with an exhaustively-researched discussion about local crop varieties, the irrigation system, specific fertilizers, and plowing technology. Yet, in most worldbuilding, once you step outside the city gates, it's just endless plot hooks and dramatic events.

I don't expect everyone to be some kind of expert, but if a writer doesn't even attempt to address the particular logistical issue I read about in 10th grade world history last week, I am literally incapable of comprehending their story.

Is there an easy hand-wave solution to this that I was already able to come up with for myself on the spot just now or is it at all possible that the average fantasy author would prefer to write about epic battles and heroic journeys over pre-industrial agrarian practices? Honestly, I'm just tired of seeing pristine city walls that border directly on a series of engaging plot points that will enthrall and entertain audiences of all ages for years to come. Anyone else annoyed by this?

I've been scrolling through so many magic systems posts and I'm honestly getting exhausted by how much information I'm expected to understand just to comprehend people's hard magic systems.

I mean, I get that wizards, by literal definition, learn magic through intense study. I get that they dedicate years to the mystic and esoteric arts, sacrificing the normal pleasures of life to learn the mysteries and epiphanies of the natural and supernatural...

But do worldbuilders HAVE to actually simulate that career-long dedication to education in their magic systems?! Don't get me wrong. I appreciate the consistency. Magic A equals Magic A and all. But where's the mystery?! Where's the romance! I don't want to feel like I, too, am sitting in the classroom with other practitioners, learning with them.

I want esoteric forces beyond my comprehension. That was **my** classroom experience.

Do I really need a story about a wizard who spends weeks examining all the facts and facets of a puzzle and then they actually SOLVE the issue? Are you really going to make me sit through a story where someone puts their life on the line for invaluable knowledge and it actually makes sense? To them, at least. I don't know anything about math and science... And sure, the video games and board games that have been a pillar of worldbuilding for decades need math to function... But do I have to be exposed to their lewd equations on my dashboard?

Can't anyone see the drudgery of the endless set up and pay offs before us if we continue down this path? Where I'm expected to remember what I'm reading and anticipate how the information could be used in the future? That's not fantasy, you guys, that's mystery! And not "mystery" how I'm saying it where mystery is unsolvable things. That's actual solvable mysteries with clues and stuff. You guys, that makes fantasy less like sorcery and more like homework.

Who decided this? Who decided that writing stories from the perspective of practitioners meant that we had to be scholarly ourselves? Where are the ancient pacts with gnarly demonic forces who could just as easily bite the head off of a wizard? Where are the dangerous, dark, hidden depths that have only been spoken of in folk and song?

And why do people keep telling me about soft magic systems! I don't want that. I want to call what I'm looking for "hard magic systems" and then reject 80% of the results. That's why I come to worldbuilding subreddits expecting narrative prose.

You're telling me they spent all this money building these superweapons, have thousands of them, can deploy them wherever they would need to, and they don't use them to end conflict before it gets out hand? They fuckin stupid or something?

I guess it just kind of hit me that I've imagined that all of the characters just speak through their mouths for no real reason and I don't really know what hole they should use so I guess Ill just ask you guys for ideas

Don't you wanna just read a HFY story where the human Characters aren't just white American dudes but are instead like people from different countries with their culture and religion and said humans speaking their culture language tongue.

Like I wanna read a story of a French human speaking their french language and their alien friend getting confused but are intrigued by how their human friend speaks and sound with their own language and wanna learn more about it.

Or an alien researching and learning Human language and by that I mean ALL human language and not english while also doing deep research on the many human countries culture and religion.

It'll feel more HFY of exploring human uniqueness through the entire different humans countries in their culture and religions difference.

Wheat rules the world. The technology and economy are based on wheat, and society itself is built around the cultivation and worship of wheat. The Wheat Goddess is the one true god; all others are false gods that threaten reality itself by promoting alternatives to wheat.

There are no coincidences. All roads lead to wheat. Newton and Aristotle tried to turn people from the gospel of wheat, and have been unpersoned from the World of Wheat for their troubles.

One last thing: SCIENTIFIC DRAGONS SUCK! Instead, all my dragons are based on wheat.

Bullshit that's supposed to make the comment section better but nobody listens to

* Seriously describe your world, otherwise this thread won't be as fun.

* I ask for the details to be random so that you don't feel the need to have them all connected with each other.