Ideas & Check-In (Please Read & Reply!)

[Jubal]

Okay, this is just a brief survey of people to ask you some questions.

Please check in and say:
- Are you set on building a fantasy, sci-fi, steampunk setting for the course or are you still open on that front?
- Do you have any specific plans for how you might present your world yet?
- Are there any things you particularly want me to cover which I may not have thought of?
- Give your favourite fantasy setting and why you like it, as a pointer for how I teach etc.

Thankyou!

[Silver Wolf]

I have two lands, both covered and well known in The Elder Scrolls universe lore.

First one is complete and all it needs is a mind-blowing storyline. (That is the main reason why I joined)
The second one has a map, info about the customs and history of the nation and some other general information. It needs a storyline and most of the stuff needs to be designed (architecture, weapons, flora & fauna).

Basically what I need are original, yet lore friendly ideas for main quests.

The third one, which I'm going to cover for this course is Jyggalag's realm of order. (The Elder Scrolls universe again)
However, this one is more or less untouched by lore. All that we know is that this realm is ruled by a daedric Jyggalag who commands an army of mindless chrystal knights and priests.

The outcome determines my new mod project for Skyrim.

[Jubal]

Cool; I may need to read up on the lore, the Oblivion/Bethesda worlds aren't something I know about!

I think for the purposes of the course working on the third of them would certainly be the best idea - essentially I'd like people to start as much "from basics" as possible.

[Othko97]

I'm interested in building a fantasy world, I sort of have a map because it's kind of based on my SP minecraft map (not embarrassing in the least ) but I still need to design weapons, flora & fauna, architecture, storyline, and landscape as the story is supposed to be way in the future of my current time period in Minecraft 

[Ashanorath]

Well. I'm realy open minded so my head is always filled with too many ideas to fit in a single world. Dunno if you're familiar with final fantasy and chrono trigger lore but staff like that works for me. Anything from TES series also works. I just need help in sorting everything out, mostly in making worlds more believable and real. I never realy know how to combine everything in a dynamic thing that would look sorta believable. I got 2 worlds in a building phase back home, I'll mail you everything as soon as I'm back home.

[Captain Carthage]

I have a mountain and a small fudal kingdom so far.

Inhabited by Humans, Goblins and the ocasional Angel.

[Silver Wolf]

I got 2 worlds in a building phase back home, I'll mail you everything as soon as I'm back home.

Go for those. Feed your imagination

I'll cover the stuff for TES worlds. Just drop an idea or two while I'm creating them and warn me if I start using too much cliches.
I'll probably go for the second one. Hammerfell, all the way. In Prince of Persia style.

[comrade_general]

- Are you set on building a fantasy, sci-fi, steampunk setting for the course or are you still open on that front?

Open.

- Do you have any specific plans for how you might present your world yet?

Possibly images and short stories?

- Are there any things you particularly want me to cover which I may not have thought of?

Unknown.

- Give your favourite fantasy setting and why you like it, as a pointer for how I teach etc.

I'd have to say LotR at the moment. Unfortunately Star Trek doesn't work because it is science fiction, not science fantasy, which would be Star Wars.

Starting from scratch with me, Jubal.

[Phoenixguard09]

- Are you set on building a fantasy, sci-fi, steampunk setting for the course or are you still open on that front?

Prefer to do fantasy but steampunk might be alright for a change.

- Do you have any specific plans for how you might present your world yet?

Short stories and probably images.

- Are there any things you particularly want me to cover which I may not have thought of?

Realistic landmasses and ways to present information to readers. I'd like to use a lot of this to help with writing Norbayne, so ways in which to present information in a conscise and interesting way would be good. Not sure if you've thought of covering these but I figured, couldn't hurt to mention it.

- Give your favourite fantasy setting and why you like it, as a pointer for how I teach etc.

Lord of the Rings, although Warhammer Fantasy comes in second. Mainly I like it because of the detail put in. Warhammer for it;s openness, LotR for the depth of it's story.

Thankyou!

You're welcome.

[Silver Wolf]

Now to do this properly.

- Are you set on building a fantasy, sci-fi, steampunk setting for the course or are you still open on that front?

A fantasy world.

- Do you have any specific plans for how you might present your world yet?

In sort of a book written by an Imperial scribe. Featuring short stories and illustrations of people, organizations, environment, cities and events.

- Are there any things you particularly want me to cover which I may not have thought of?

Nope. Everything is fine.

- Give your favourite fantasy setting and why you like it, as a pointer for how I teach etc.

The Elder Scrolls (a vast and diverse world, not even all those who play it are aware how huge it actually is)
Warhammer (dark fantasy)
Prince of Persia (storyline, design and so on)
Lotr (an honorable mention. It's a classic after all.)

[Ashanorath]

I'll do it properly tomorrow, too lazy now.

[Jubal]

Okay, I think I'm going to skip the alternate physics class for now since most people are building classic fantasy settings and already have some ideas.

After the introduction I think we'll do cartography, then biology, as the first two classes.

[Cuddly Khan]

- Are you set on building a fantasy, sci-fi, steampunk setting for the course or are you still open on that front?

I'm open but I would largely prefer fantasy.

- Do you have any specific plans for how you might present your world yet?

Basic and overall information on places, history and lore. Short stories too.

- Are there any things you particularly want me to cover which I may not have thought of?

The building of towns and cities and how to depict the layout around you in words.

- Give your favourite fantasy setting and why you like it, as a pointer for how I teach etc.

I like the world of Sizael. You may not know it (Very unlikely). It's an RPG site based in the world of Sizael. Basically there are the 4 stereotype land types, Desert, Snow, Rolling plains and Forest/Jungle. Why I love it so much is the history and lore of the world.

[Ashanorath]

- Are you set on building a fantasy, sci-fi, steampunk setting for the course or are you still open on that front?

Mix of fantasy and steampunk or pure fantasy, not sure yet

- Do you have any specific plans for how you might present your world yet?

Short stories, map of the world, maybe some drawings later on

- Are there any things you particularly want me to cover which I may not have thought of?

Not realy

- Give your favourite fantasy setting and why you like it, as a pointer for how I teach etc.

TES and FF series settings work for me. Mostly cause of their comlicity and variety of humanoid species.

[Pentagathus]

Is there room for a little one? Assuming I'm not too late I shall tag along if that's alright.

- Are you set on building a fantasy, sci-fi, steampunk setting for the course or are you still open on that front?

Low fantasy.

- Do you have any specific plans for how you might present your world yet?

Through stories, short or long or both, I was just planning to write until I get bored. I wouldn't want the characters to know questions that they aren't likely to know, e.g how the world came into being.

- Are there any things you particularly want me to cover which I may not have thought of?

Can't think of anything right now. Edit: Names. I always have problems with choosing names for people and places and it'd be nice to hear what sort of systems people use for names.

- Give your favourite fantasy setting and why you like it, as a pointer for how I teach etc.

Well, in terms of how the setting is introduced I think Pat the Rothfulator Rothfuss does an amazing job of telling you enough throughout the story so you aren't in a state of confusion but without breaking the flow of the storytelling. In terms of the actual world I don't really know, the Witcher rpg has a very interesting setting but I haven't read the books yet. A Song of Ice and Fire is really good too, but most Westeros isn't really affected by the fantasy elements. The lord of the rings is great in that its a classic and that Tolkien leaves plenty of unanswered questions, but I don't like the fact that most of his stories are a case of black and white in terms of morality. The world as you see it in the start of the the fellowship (the lands around bree and the shire) are my favorite part of the whole trilogy.