Worldbuilding without the post-WW/WWII/Cold War glasses (TL, CR etc.)

Polydamas · 07-06-2012, 06:03 PM

I find this is simple but time consuming. You just read things from your target society, and read things written about them by academics, until you have a sense of how things worked. My mental world has at least four filters of “how the human world works”: classical Greece, late medieval Latin Christendom, mid 20th century US, and 21st century Canada. An advantage of gaming is that it forces you to think about some practical details which even reenacting doesn't touch on.

07-06-2012, 06:03 PM	#18
Polydamas Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Central Europe	Re: Worldbuilding without the post-WW/WWII/Cold War glasses (TL, CR etc.) I find this is simple but time consuming. You just read things from your target society, and read things written about them by academics, until you have a sense of how things worked. My mental world has at least four filters of “how the human world works”: classical Greece, late medieval Latin Christendom, mid 20th century US, and 21st century Canada. An advantage of gaming is that it forces you to think about some practical details which even reenacting doesn't touch on. __________________ "It is easier to banish a habit of thought than a piece of knowledge." H. Beam Piper This forum got less aggravating when I started using the ignore feature