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Research for World-Building?

Started by RPGPundit, May 14, 2009, 02:04:05 PM

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RPGPundit

May 14, 2009, 02:04:05 PM
Just what kind of thing does one do when preparing a new setting?
What if, in particular, you're making a new fantasy world?

Do you look at historical cultures?
Do you look at anything else? What study goes into it for you?

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#1
May 14, 2009, 02:11:40 PM
History and Anthropology books are great resources for world-building.

jeff37923

#2
May 14, 2009, 02:59:42 PM
I'm taking a new approach in my latest fantasy homebrew in that I am starting from an economics angle with different regions interacting mainly through trade. Right now, the manufacture of sea salt is the basis of the economies, and shallow ocean shores are important geographic locations.
"Meh."

jeff37923

#4
May 14, 2009, 03:13:30 PM
Quote from: Benoist;302226See also this RPG Haven thread.

Are you here just to advertise RPG Haven?
"Meh."

Benoist

#5
May 14, 2009, 03:14:58 PM
Quote from: jeff37923;302228Are you here just to advertise RPG Haven?
I'm not. I guess I'm just getting tired of the constant copy/pasting bullshit without giving credit where credit is due.

JongWK

#6
May 14, 2009, 03:26:26 PM
Is the RPG Haven thread also giving credit to all previous world-building threads in this and other forums?

Just curious.
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~~Gary Gygax (1938 - 2008)

Benoist

#7
May 14, 2009, 03:39:21 PM Last Edit: May 14, 2009, 03:44:20 PM by Benoist
The original threads, both about publisher settings and homebrew settings (world-building) are my threads, and my own, that I wrote without looking anywhere before posting them. So no, I'm not giving credit where no credit is due.

This here is different.

Once, twice, alright. Again and again without credit? I'm not okay with it. I think the "plagiarism" argument is completely silly, but I also think that copy/pasting from a community you don't like again and again is completely impolite and infantile.

Live and let live. Stop the bullshit. How hard is that, seriously?

One Horse Town

#8
May 14, 2009, 03:49:48 PM
Help desk or Pundit's forum, fine. Here? No.

Complain elsewhere.

RockViper

#9
May 14, 2009, 03:50:29 PM
It depends on the type of world, but I pretty much pull from any source that I find interesting. I am currently working some local history into my homebrew fantasy world, as well as pulling a few ideas from both greyhawk and the Forgotten Realms.
"Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness."

Terry Pratchett (Men at Arms)

Benoist

#10
May 14, 2009, 04:07:23 PM
Quote from: One Horse Town;302244Help desk or Pundit's forum, fine. Here? No.

Complain elsewhere.

This is one of the threads he hijacked. It's as appropriate here as in the the forums you mentioned.

This here, is what constitutes the start of clique/RPG.net moderation, in my opinion. And with that said, I'm done on this topic.

RPGPundit

#11
May 14, 2009, 04:44:30 PM
Quote from: Benoist;302226See also this RPG Haven thread.

Please don't spam the site, Benoist. If you want to include a link with a reasoned post, then feel free to do so. If all you want is to advertise another site, that's called spamming, and isn't acceptable here.

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#12
May 14, 2009, 04:44:46 PM
Quote from: Benoist;302230I'm not. I guess I'm just getting tired of the constant copy/pasting bullshit without giving credit where credit is due.

If you want credit, start a thread, on this site.

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LORDS OF OLYMPUS
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RPGPundit

#13
May 14, 2009, 04:45:37 PM
Quote from: Benoist;302240The original threads, both about publisher settings and homebrew settings (world-building) are my threads, and my own, that I wrote without looking anywhere before posting them. So no, I'm not giving credit where no credit is due.

This here is different.

Once, twice, alright. Again and again without credit? I'm not okay with it. I think the "plagiarism" argument is completely silly, but I also think that copy/pasting from a community you don't like again and again is completely impolite and infantile.

Live and let live. Stop the bullshit. How hard is that, seriously?

There was no actual copy/pasting going on, ever. If I or someone else were to copy/paste something, it would be correct etiquette to mention that one has done so.

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Benoist

#14
May 14, 2009, 04:46:17 PM
I will not spam again. I was just pissed off.

And I know there was no copy/paste aka plagiarism per se.
Still, don't act like you're not giving the finger to the Haven, because you are.
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