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   nugger@poa.st's status on Friday, 05-Sep-2025 23:04:58 JST nugger
   I'D LIKE TO DO A WRITE UP OF A GENERIC HIGH FANTASY SETTING
   
   NOT SUBVERSIVE OR NOVEL, BUT AN EXPANDED AND WORKED OUT WRITEUP OF SOMETHING THAT'S VERY CLASSICALLY FANTASY AT A SURFACE GLANCE FOR PLAYERS STARTING A FRESH CAMPAIGN
   NO FAGGOT MULTICOLORED FANTASY RACES OR FURRIES, NO NOVEL GARBAGE SMUGGLED IN AS A CORE RULEBOOK WHICH POSES AS SETTING-AGNOSTIC (DRAGONBORN FOR EXAMPLE)
   
   OF COURSE SOME COOL ADDITIONS AND CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISES WILL INEVITABLY SNEAK IN BUT I'LL TRY TO KEEP IT TO THE MARGINS.
   
   YOU HAVE YOUR KNIGHTS IN ARMOR, WIZARDS IN TALL TOWERS, YOUR ELVES AND DWARVES, AND VARIOUS FANTASY PARAPHERNALIA POACHED FROM FOLKLORE, YOUR UNICORNS AND PEGASI AND MERMAIDS AND GRIFFINS.
   
   BUT THEN THIS AT A GLANCE PICTURE IS WORKED OUT AND FLESHED OUT, BOTH WITH UNDERLYING CONCEPTS (HOW MAGIC "WORKS", WHERE DID THIS WORLD COME FROM AMD HOW IT RELATES TO OUR REALITY) AND WITH THE DYNAMICS OF THINGS (WHAT DO THEY EAT AND WHERE DOES IT COME FROM, WHAT DO LOGISTICS LOOK LIKE IN A SETTING LIKE THIS, WHAT DOES SOCIETY AMD CULTURE LOOK LIKE, HOW DO IMMORTAL ELVES THINK, ETC)
   
   BUNDLE IT UP INTO A GAME MASTER FACING BOOK, MAKE THE WRITING A FACADE WHEN IT'S PLAYER FACING
   
   THE WIZARD PLAYER CHARACTER KNOWS HOW MAGIC WORKS BUT THE PLAYER WILL ONLY BE TOLD ASPECTS OF IT MINIMALLY AND ON AN ONGOING NEED TO KNOW BASIS
   
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   IN EFFECT, I WANT THREE GUIDELINES FOR THIS PROJECT
   
   • THE FIRST
   IS THAT THE INITIAL SET SCENE,
   FIRST GAME SESSION OF A CAMPAIGN,
   OUGHT TO PRESENT A VERY GENERIC, CLICHE, NOBLEBRIGHT, HOPEFUL, ADVENTURE FRIENDLY, FANTASY WORLD.
   
   AND THE SETTING IS FLESHED OUT AND MAKES SENSE, GUIDED BY AND CONSTRAINED BY THE IMPRESSION OF THAT FIRST SESSION.
   
   IT COULD BE A MIGHT AND MAGIC TYPE SITUATION WHERE IT'S SECRETLY A SCI-FI SETTING AND EVERYTHING IS A SET DRESSING -- LATER. THE INNER WORKINGS MUST BE CONSISTENT WITH THAT FIRST IMPRESSION.
   
   •THE SECOND
   IS GOING TO CONTRADICT THE EXAMPLE I JUST GAVE FOR THE FIRST, A BIT.
   
   I WANT THE SETTING TO BE REASONABLE, BUT INNOCENT AND SINCERE.
   I HAVE MY PRIORS AND I'LL DANCE OFF OF THEM, BUT I HOPE TO AVOID THE OFFHANDED NIHILISTIC CRUELTY, SUBVERSIVENESS, CONSTANT CRITIQUE, AND CRASSNESS OF THE CULTURE THAT I AM, FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE, A PRODUCT OF, AND IMBIBED UNCRITICALLY THROUGHOUT MY FORMATIVE YEARS.
   
   •THE THIRD
   ALSO SPECIFIES THE SECOND, IN THAT I HAVE MY PRIORS AND WON'T ACQUIESCE TO THE TV CULTURE.
   
   WHILE NIGGERS WON'T BE STIR-FRIED IN A WOK IN EVERY TOWN SQUARE, THE REALITIES OF RACE AND SEX WON'T BE OMITTED FROM THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE SETTING.
   I'M GOING THE -4 STR ROUTE, BECAUSE FEMALE FIGHTERS ARE TROONSLOP IN DISGUISE.
   
   I REFUSE TO MAKE THE VILLAIN ANOTHER DOLLAR STORE EVIL HITLER WHEN THE EVILS OF JEWS AND NIGGERS ARE JUST IN MY FACE EVERY DAY AS AN AMERICAN .