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Orcish Ag Bash!
In the same vein as the
Dwarven Agricultural setting thread, forum user (E) has hacked out the sums on what an orcish village might look like, upon which work this thread will expand by filling out the culture, history and personalities of the settlement.
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The Question Game
The idea of the game, for any newcomers, is to achieve some collaborative worldbuilding by asking and answering questions about the setting. Answer a posted question with your creative ideas, then post one or more questions that link in to your ideas, that explore other ideas in depth, or that start off in new directions. We'll build bit-by-bit on each others' contributions, and try not to contradict anything that's been established.
We won't use the Rapid Fire Rule (limiting answers to d6 sentences) this time round, so your answers can be as long as you like…. just stay on topic!
Use bold to highlight the question and answer numbers, and please try to quote the question you're answering.
Also, if you're in the middle of a long write-up for an answer, let us know that you want to claim it so that another contributor doesn't beat you to it.
Tags
To help us organise the questions and answers a little, use these tags to label them, or feel free to make up new tags if there's a new branch of discussion.
[TECH] - About the agricultural model and anything that might need crunchy research or calculations.
[BIO]- For questions about the physiology, behaviour or psychology of our orcs.
[HIST]- For the history of the village.
[SET]- For questions about the wider world outside the village, such as what empire lies over (or under) the next hill.
[Name 5]- (Or 3 or 7 or 10, whatever's appropriate.) A handy tag for fleshing out bits of the setting, where posters may give one or more answers each but we leave the question open for other posters to respond as well.
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I'll requote (E)'s working in the next post then kick off with the first question below that.
And for those with some time on their hands, you're invited to peruse previous iterations of the worldbuilding game:
Spoiler:
Question Game Threads
[GAME] Surveil a Superspy Setting! Directorate S, a private superspy agency backed by the world's third richest person, protects the world from a range of threats.
[GAME] Magic Academy/University, World Building An elite magic school founded in Quebec but located on the opposite coastline.
[GAME] After the End, Worldbuilding An environmental-nuclear apocalypse leaves uplifts and hybrid humans on the rise.
[GAME] Assemble a Space Station! A space station built inside an abandoned precursor base, and some details about the politics of the setting.
Campaign Jam: Magic Vrs. Technology A world with opposing camps using exclusively either magic or technology
[GAME] Conceive a Cross Dimensional Fantasy Milieu - Mercantile adventure in a multiverse containing worlds in crocodile skulls, tetrahedrons and a distorted in-between
[GAME] Incorporate a Cyberpunk Megacorp - Focuses on a South American 2nd tier megacorp
[GAME] Collaborative World Building Dwarven city as a start - Based on some agricultural modelling for a dwarven stronghold
[Game] Animate a Monster Hunters Setting - 1900's World-spanning Occult Adventure
[Game] Generate a military sci-fi setting - A space ark brings dozens of alien races to an overcrowded solar system just as Earth becomes uninhabitable
[Game] Collaborative world building for DFRPG - A Dungeon Fantasy town to stock up on rumours, magic items and guild intrigue between adventures
Create a setting -- diesel punk awesomeness! - 1930s in a world dominated by Greco-Buddhist geopolitics
Shared space setting - Building the wormhole superhighway to the stars
[Game] Work Up a Steampunk Setting - Skyship villains and bathysuit soldiers fighting undersea wars
Question Game: Post Agricultural Fantasy Setting
[Game] Let's Make a Post-Apocalyptic Setting
[Game] Generate a Space Trader Setting - Aliens, birthright humans and divergers with plasma-tube jump drives spread across the galaxy
Setting Generating Game (Feb 2015) (Fantasy setting) - Dogfleet Pirates from the Naga Isles conquer the coastal City States with the aid of numina spirits
Setting Generating Game (Supers setting- Odin-1)
Setting Generator game 2: Odin2 (Supers)
New Year/New Setting: GURPS world design 'game' (Fantasy setting- Twilight World): This was more of a "reference chain" game- refer to something previously mentioned then add to it.
Also, some vote-based threads:
Vote Up a Setting Threads
Vote up a Fantastic (as in Fantasy) Setting
Vote up a Fantasy Setting
Vote up a SUPERS! setting
Vote up an Urban Fantasy Setting
Vote up a Space Opera
And for straight-up collaborative world-building:
Other Collaborative World Threads
Collaborative DFRPG Mega-Dungeon - A dungeon thrown together by the God of the Underworld, which includes a range of random but creative ways to challenge a party of delvers.