#setting idea

[yyprompts]

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Unique setting ideas for stories:

An alleyway/behind a building with graffiti over all the walls or surrounding area

A hospital NICU unit without any newborns inside

The heart of an empty wasteland covered in snow up to the knees

A kindergarten classroom before the kids arrive

A glass-making workshop in the middle of the night

An abandoned millionaire's house now worn with age

One of those tiny islands in the middle of the ocean that you never hear about (ex: Huahine)

A very empty, private apartment complex with dull colors

The grocery store when less people are shopping

A crowded, misty train station with a lot of trains coming in-and-out

Alone outside at night in a quiet city with little people around

A factory where plastic items are produced with lots of employees running around

A pet store which specializes in exotic animals

A currently-empty art gallery that security are guarding for an unknown reason

At a secret party for the elites where an empty single-color room in the host's house is completely devoid of people.

[blissfullyunawares]

✨ reblog if you want some aesthetic setting moodboards for your writing inspiration ✨

[rinkje]

Title: The New Bracelet

Artist: Henryk Siemiradzki

Year: 1883

Medium: oil on canvas

Source:

[theaggressivewriter]

Pf2e Boss Monster Design

The tight math of Pf2e allows for encounters to be built swiftly and without worry, and the same goes for homebrew monster creation. One problem with the system, however, is the boss monster. Creatures with high level stats against a group of players can feel like a slog if the players are unable to reduce the creature's AC or saves enough for damage/cc to go through. It normally takes a lot of items and tactics for a normal group to take a creature down that's 4 levels higher than the party's level (or a +4 monster), and even creature's 3 levels higher (or +3) can still feel like a slog depending on their stat block. If you're designing a boss fight, consider this one trick I've learned over the past 2 years of GMing with the system:

Lie to your players.

For different systems this could mean a lot of things, DND 5e famously is known for its GMs secretly increasing the hp of a given monster behind the screens. But for Pf2e it's less a blatant lie and more of a performance. Rather than throwing a +4 or +5 monster, you could instead throw a +1 to +3 monster and accompany them with either other creatures or traps that you present to your players as that monsters abilities. Let's make an example.

Is your monster a fire breathing mutant bear that is killing other wildlife in the area?

(Art by Deftspex)

Easy. Let's make it an Elite Black Bear (making it L3), then add a Fire Mephit (L1) to the initiative, making the combat a Severe encounter for 4 level 1 players. What does this do, and how can we make this convey what we want?

Mechanically, the Black Bear acts as the base monster that the players can target and kill and the Fire Mephit acts on its own initiative, but what you do is tell your players that it's the bear doing what the Fire Mephit is doing. The bear is the one moving and its base health is the health your party is trying to take down to 0, but the "Fire Mephit" acts on its turn as if attached to the bear. It still takes damage if hit by an aoe, but must otherwise be specifically targeted by an attack rather than the Bear itself (you should give your players some sort of heads up or a description of something that can be targeted in order to remove the ability from initiative, like pointing out that breaking its jaws would remove them on a successful recall knowledge).

What this does is a multitude of things, your solo boss monster technically has more action economy without breaking the math, your players have more tactical choices to make between getting rid of the Bear's fire related abilities, and it should make your players shit their pants from seeing a fire breathing bear.

I have a lot of other tips and tricks for boss monster design for pf2e, due to my notorious one shots being considered "Dark Souls" by many approving players. I'd like to one day turn my knowledge into a published book alongside templates, some homebrew monster designs, and some variant rules, but due to legal concerns will need to wait until I have a lawyer to assist me in understanding what I'm getting into.

[ghostopossumlives]

Inktober 3, Boots

A house made out of an old Rarakran boot

Rarak are very big

[manicsystemic]

neural interfacing with a mech except your senses expand as you intake directly to your mind hundreds of different scientific sensors worth of data about the world around you and you can feel the vibrations of the worms in the dirt beneath you smell every particle distributed in the air around you and see beyond the normal range of colors and the world explodes into life around you as you experience it through the lens of a mech designed for environmental science and conservation, that constantly records data on the web of life and nature around it while floating gently in the air.

[dr-abigail-richelieu]

This is Maelle Forget, one of our more "docile" patient at the G.I.I's "Habilitation Centers". Although docile doesn't mean harmless, She's still a Vampire after all.

Hi! This is a teaser for something I'm currently Working on. A Scifi Horror Setting, with scientifically explanable Vampires, Werewolfs, Zombies, and much much more... This Setting started out as a Blindsight AU but the addition I made to the world, the Vampire biology, neurology, etc and a general desire to have more then just Vampires made me make this a separated setting (Althouth, Alot of aspects of Vampire lore was kept from Peter Watts amazing work, so yes, technically this is very much A Blindsight AU) other inspiration are from Though Potato's channel, like the whole idea of scientists researching cryptids and creatures and explaining the science. I also wanted to make it into Analog Horror but I certainly doubt my skillsets would allow me.

[seraphicsmilodon]

What if kobolds were the draconic equivalent of house fae? (Lair fae?)

Kobolds just show up in a Dragon's lair one day and start doing chores. Polishing the hoard while the dragon sleeps, slowly excavating at the lair walls so that each chamber and tunnel maintains the same size relative to the dragon as they grow, that kind of thing.

They're harmless, as long as nobody compliments them or tries to pay them wages. Woe betide the dragon who does.

[cartoonfantasychic]

Y’know what, I’ll go for it. Here’s an art piece I did a year ago, I redrew a reference photo of a theatre set. Enjoy!

[magicturtle]

If I was writing a brand new setting, but with magical girl and/or super sentai-style themes, how important would it be to have colors/powers align with current tropes? Like if “blue” characters were big dummy bruisers would that give you whiplash?

[probablybadrpgideas]

You've heard of the Positive Energy Plane

You've heard of the Negative Energy Plane

Now get ready for...the Weird Energy Plane

[yyprompts]

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more unique settings for stories! (pt.2)

A butterfly farm covered in lilac mist.

In an empty concert bathroom with music booming outside from the concert.

In a store that specializes in mirrors and hangs them everywhere, so all you can see is yourself.

On the school rooftop where no one is supposed to go during class time, but isn't patrolled.

At the convenience store down the street in the middle of the night.

In a sober living home in the middle of a run-down neighborhood.

In a mysterious white palace in the heart of a nation that people refuse to explore because it's rumored to be haunted.

In the middle of the little dipper (lol).

On the seafloor, in a literal forest of seaweed.

On an empty cargo ship that's finished unloading for the night but isn't about to sail back for a while

A world in which everything is perceived in a specific color palette (ex. grayscale).

The hollow secret inside of a huge mermaid sculpture an artist made thousands of years ago.

On a beach overcome with baby hermit crabs.

The strangely pretty yet decaying palace in the kingdom of the undead.

In a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility during active hours.

[kirapackblog]

Kira travels through the Underdale multiverse, but don't forget that her homeworld is Minecraft, which also deserves your attention.

In my Minecraft-based setting, elytra, connecting with a person, fuses with him, becomes part of him and completely adopts his facial expressions.

A person can fully gesticulate with wings, like two new limbs, but, unlike him, they do not know how to lie.

If a person hides his true emotions, his mood can be understood by the elytra he wears, which will shrink, straighten, tremble, etc.

(Kira sees all the questions you have asked and reflects on the answer!)

[sleppycrluci]

a character for a joint student setting

[theaggressivewriter]

Order of the North Star

I offer my body and my mind,

I offer my guidance and my wisdom,

I offer my blade and my magic,

I offer my word and my spirit,

to those in need, and to those who deserve.

-Knight Oath, Order of the North Star

The Beyond is a terrifying concept, one that many in this universe must understand if they are to use it properly. While all creatures benefit from the recreational and practical use of magic, it has only been after many, many years of advancement do people now get to enjoy its use without consequences. Indeed, in the times before, magic was seldom used save by the mad and depraved, and when time was needed to deal with rogues tapping into this dangerous element, the Order was called. Knights who dealt in the occult and terrifying, they were the most knowledgeable when it came to magic, its uses, and the unbelievable creatures that are drawn to it. The Order has been slow to evolve, but many of the younger knights have helped the Order understand the new times, and many become peacekeepers of different lands rather than knights with one sole purpose.

They can be anyone or anything, standing in the way of The Beyond from seeping too far into The Physical and disturbing the peace, but their greatest signifier is their connection to the stars. Elite knights of the Order can summon the stars themselves to form all types of weapons, most typically blades, and use them to drive off Beyonders effectively. Star magic in general is effective against The Beyond, standing as one of the only known sources of magic that The Physical naturally produces. Those who practice star magic, or Astrologers, will most certainly either work with, or be a part of the Order in some way. Unlike most magic, star magic is heavily guarded and rare to see.

[tornioduva]

An idea for a setting

....So, i was thinking about wizards.

mean wizards

basically, in this alternative version of earth, the older you get, the more attuned with magic you are. only old people are able to do magic. not all of them, only some.

In older times, mages were few and far in between due to the lower lifespan. but nowadays are becoming a problem.

modern civilization has had to face the rising problem over the last two centuries of groups of old people roaming around doing whatever they want.

some are reasonable and like help around, some want to reenact old conflict they think are still going on, some just want a glass of water but summoned a dragon and don't know when they came here.

The pointy hats are required to know if someone go powers, because, as everyone knows, magic flows up, and so if you got magic, it will fill the hat and it will rise up.

Their powers are not infinite of course, and it strains them, plus no mage has been able to cure themselves of any illness or to become young again. also, there is very little knowledge of how to use magic due the users either dying out before learning or just being mentally unstable.

and that's it. i don't know, i'd like to see a story or play a game with completely deranged wizards ahah.