Whether it be meta tools or apps, or literal concepts like a mineral or a race, for example, a must for me is for the world to be built in a believable manner, and at the most simple, following some decent climate rules without much restraint.

my favourite would be drip plume ice worlds with hotspots that allow for rainforests in 80 Celsius steam zones, very exotic, the temperature regulated by these hotspots.

I rambled on too much…

  • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Hah! I can relate to this. I’m writing a story that includes a species of sapient magical sugar gliders that were genetically modified by wizards to be the ultimate pets.

    • They live forever (not immortal, just stop aging at adulthood).
    • They have useful magical abilities that would be useful to a wizard (locating things, cartography, memory enhancement, etc).
    • They cannot resist dancing if there’s a good music playing and they completely lose control and go crazy dancing if there’s fancy lighting (e.g. rave/RGB).
    • They can live in a wizard’s pocket and they’re super cute.
    • They have fantastic hearing/danger sense and and are master hunters of bugs. If a wizard has one on their shoulder, no bug will ever be able to reach the wizard’s head 😁
    • early_riser@lemmy.radioEnglish
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      13 days ago

      Are the sugar gliders more like familiars/companions for the wizards or do they have their own society and stuff? Is dancing something sugar gliders are known for?

      • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
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        13 days ago

        They have their own society… Now. All the wizards are dead. They’re living in a post-apocalyptic world being overrun by magic, carnivorous weeds (because the wizards aren’t around to get rid of them e.g. with fireballs).

        The wizards made the kads (that’s their species name) dance automatically because it was both cute and a control measure: They gave the kads powerful magic and were worried that they could rebel some day. So if any ever misbehaved or rebelled they could just play music and… Deal with them while they were entranced.