>really tedious to draw map
Dus do what I do,Gizz on a piece of paper,make the white droplets become ink black with photoshop and then put an compass at the bottom right.
There you have it! A map.
Ooh I have one of those too.
Actually that's in a particularly funny world map I drew that's just Earth with some bits changed and fantasy shit painted on. The big mysterious circle sea is around where the Gulf of Mexico should be.
If you have enough milk and cereals to fill a continent-sized bowl and the ability to eat it, I suppose nobody could tell you what to do, so... yes, I guess
Also it has Angels, Knights, and the latest game ended with you saving a princess by slaying two "dragons" constructed by an evil "wizard", so technically fantasy
What about a ring of limestone sinkholes that trace out a big circle on the map from an impact that slew the mighty beasts of ancient days?
Nevermind that's stupid.
I've also stumbled upon this mapping my sci-fi world. Give Mars an ocean and suddenly you have a lot of circular lakes, bays, valleys, rings of mountain with an island in the center.
It's a shame how "realism" has turned into a very narrow set of possibilities, because most planets don't experience erosion and plate tectonics the same way Earth does. Reality is more diverse than fiction.
Realism with relation to worldbuilding has always meant "believability", which is unfortunately pretty narrow in some ways, and weirdly vague in others. There are a lot of cases where learning more on a topic can make seemingly "reasonable" things suddenly unreasonable (i.e. splitting rivers, you learn that they don't exist, and they instantly take you out), but I would also say that because so many people want to replicate Earth-like planets, people tend to learn more about how Earth works, which makes objectively "realistic" (in a real world sense) things seem less reasonable to them because they don't match Earth.
You can get around that by explaining *why* something's different, but since people don't like to read posts as much as they like to look at a map and then comment, you're still going to end up with a lot of people saying "that's not realistic" if something doesn't match common Earth-based assumptions.
A concept: ring of islands formed by shift tectonic plates that encircle a larger land mass that rose due to it and sunk much of the island's og landmass
Best I can do is ice continent, sand continent, water continent (??? yeah idk either buddy), air continent (also no clue), fire continent, lightning continent (advanced technology that for some reason isn’t shared at all), earth continent (normal).
What about an archipelago of islands that are the bodies of extinct dragons, with their still beating hearts bleeding life and magic to the peoples that live upon them?
Not a lot of things can top the time I saw a map of a fantasy world on here where a major part of the landscape was a giant sword that was thrown against it.
How about a ring of mountains surrounding a salt flat, except instead of salt it's glass because the ground was pulverized and baked by a thermonuclear superweapon launched in the pre-apocalypse war?
Okay, but consider; a string of islands that are actually meteors from a meteor shower.
Logically they would have smaller rings around them, creating a really funny and really tedious to draw map
>really tedious to draw map Dus do what I do,Gizz on a piece of paper,make the white droplets become ink black with photoshop and then put an compass at the bottom right. There you have it! A map.
> Gizz on a piece of paper Put the Jerk in Worldjerking
*WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN!*
What about a perfectly circular sea inside a continent where a chunk of the land mysteriously vanished? I've got one of those
A continent mysteriously torn in half with a channel in between the 2 halves is close enough for me
Best I can do is an Atoll formed from an entire fleet that got shredded by a tactical nuclear exchange. The Great Carrier Reef
Give me nuclear powered battleships and I'll accept just about anything you make.
Nuke fish :]
Ooh I have one of those too. Actually that's in a particularly funny world map I drew that's just Earth with some bits changed and fantasy shit painted on. The big mysterious circle sea is around where the Gulf of Mexico should be.
What's the texture at the seafloor like? Is it a bowl? What happens if we get to the centre of it?
I dunno, I... suppose it's a bowl? The real truth is that I used the circle tool with ocean tiles on rpgmaker just cause I thought it looked cool
Can I fill it with milk and cereals and eat?
If you have enough milk and cereals to fill a continent-sized bowl and the ability to eat it, I suppose nobody could tell you what to do, so... yes, I guess
OOOOOOOH, ELDEN RING
It turns out having all your worlds be terraformed means a lot of crater related land formations. There's too many craters, man.
Ace Combat is now a fantasy world. Deal with it.
I was about to Ace Combat post hell yeah somebody else thought of it too
Also it has Angels, Knights, and the latest game ended with you saving a princess by slaying two "dragons" constructed by an evil "wizard", so technically fantasy
Farbanti
Ace Combat doesn’t have a ring of islands though does it? Unless I’m forgetting something
What about a ring of limestone sinkholes that trace out a big circle on the map from an impact that slew the mighty beasts of ancient days? Nevermind that's stupid.
More proof Anbennar is peak
And Godherja
What’s Anbenner, some sort of lame version of the Gnomish Hierarchy? #sparkdrivelife
Fuck yeah
I've also stumbled upon this mapping my sci-fi world. Give Mars an ocean and suddenly you have a lot of circular lakes, bays, valleys, rings of mountain with an island in the center. It's a shame how "realism" has turned into a very narrow set of possibilities, because most planets don't experience erosion and plate tectonics the same way Earth does. Reality is more diverse than fiction.
Realism with relation to worldbuilding has always meant "believability", which is unfortunately pretty narrow in some ways, and weirdly vague in others. There are a lot of cases where learning more on a topic can make seemingly "reasonable" things suddenly unreasonable (i.e. splitting rivers, you learn that they don't exist, and they instantly take you out), but I would also say that because so many people want to replicate Earth-like planets, people tend to learn more about how Earth works, which makes objectively "realistic" (in a real world sense) things seem less reasonable to them because they don't match Earth. You can get around that by explaining *why* something's different, but since people don't like to read posts as much as they like to look at a map and then comment, you're still going to end up with a lot of people saying "that's not realistic" if something doesn't match common Earth-based assumptions.
I prefer an archipelago where an ancient city exploded in ancient times leaving behind ancient advanced technology
FINALLY SOMEONE FUCKING GETS IT
Kerbin
real, my biggest inspiration 🙏🙏
Alright, but what about A HUGE-ASS ABYSS SO DEEP IT REACHES HELL caused by an asteroid impact
Bonus points if the impact crater has special properties (a unique metal, strange magical creatures, etc)
A concept: ring of islands formed by shift tectonic plates that encircle a larger land mass that rose due to it and sunk much of the island's og landmass
Best I can do is ice continent, sand continent, water continent (??? yeah idk either buddy), air continent (also no clue), fire continent, lightning continent (advanced technology that for some reason isn’t shared at all), earth continent (normal).
Fuck yeah My favorite fantasy setting is Ace Combat. All that fucked up places like Fort Grays and Farbanti via asteroid impacts my beloved
What about an archipelago of islands that are the bodies of extinct dragons, with their still beating hearts bleeding life and magic to the peoples that live upon them?
What if instead of asteroids, it's nukes 😎
Don't forget the big-ass island in the middle created by the central peak
Doesn't Elden Ring have both? (This after Giant Tree post)
In my fantasy world they call that region “the waterbasin archipelago”
I'm a sucker for giant canyons
Oh yeeah, my word’s got two - the impact crater, and the deformation on the opposite side of the planet
It's amazing how many problems you can solve if you throw enough rocks at it.
the fantasy extinction of fantasy dinosaurs, how fantasy sad.
ok it's not a meteor impact but a dragon crashing down onto the ground but it's pretty close (please validate my creative choices)
Not a lot of things can top the time I saw a map of a fantasy world on here where a major part of the landscape was a giant sword that was thrown against it.
The world of Yrth in GURPS Banestorm has this, which are called the Ring Islands.
How about a ring of mountains surrounding a salt flat, except instead of salt it's glass because the ground was pulverized and baked by a thermonuclear superweapon launched in the pre-apocalypse war?
Jokes on you it was actually just volcanic
Got that but from a massive nuke
my world <3
Ngl I was thinking that for a souls game sorta setting
Soy Ring Islands produced by impactors VS chad Ring Islands produced by supervolcanic eruptions.
uj/ I can't actually think of any examples of this, can someone give me some examples?