A TRUE WORLDBUILDER PROCRASTINATES ALL DAY. Who knows what sick, twisted thoughts lurks in the hearts of worldbuilders? Worldjerking knows! A warning to all travellers: here be splitting rivers, elven subraces, original characters (do not steal), and magic systems... so many magic systems. Turn back now, or may God have mercy on your soul. tl;dr: this sub is for satirizing trends in the hobby of worldbuilding, as well as those within the broader speculative fiction community.
140.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 27.1K upvotes, which works out to 193 per 1,000 members.
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Good ol' 1600s-inspired era
Some dumbass sent me this map, thought it was good worldbuilding. Of course I had to give them some critisism.
In my world the sewers have an ear deafinng sound of millions of basketballs bouncing around because people shit basketballs
Hey guys check out my original races
Elfnicities of my world
Thoughts on my magic system?
I dunno, I see a couple big red flags.
Draft outline of my gritty PissPunk dystopian novel where mankind has evolved a societal dependence on piss
My new "punk" subgenre: Oilpunk. An alternate future where human society and technology builds itself to be dependent on petroleum products.
world building tips
Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.
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