Burger robbing a convenience store while donning a ski mask and explaining worldbuilding to the shopkeeper is a really funny idea to me for some reason.
in my would, aspen trees are magic. their roots are connected spiritually, as well as physically, so that skilled magicians and supernatural beings can use them to travel and communicate across the multiverse, which is why the main world is home to organisms who are in no way related, because they all are literally from different universes and planets.
Why aspen trees? Did you come with the idea and just chose the tree species in the end or aspens were the first choice all along? Was Pando, that giant organism connecting all those aspen clones, a inspiration for the idea?
I feel like theres a very strong counter-example to your point about stories exploring one major theme/aspect of the world feeling like a rollercoaster ride. And that would be the Dune series, basically anything of importance is either directly related to or is a natural extension of the theme of power (and by extension the spice). Yet the world feels much more lived in because of that, of course everyone wants the spice, it's necessary for just about anything in this world. However with mistborn I'd say the bigger issue is how allomantic powers are important for everything because Sanderson created a society that values allomancy by coincidence rather than undeniable necessity. It feels like the world was at least partially created for the magic system, rather than the magic system influencing the world.
I feel like this video would be more effective if you broke down the terminology a little more at the beginning. For a long time I didn't really understand what you meant by kitchen sink, and I only kind of understood what was meant by high concept
_kitchen sink_ including EVERYTHING with no rhyme or reason or thematic cohesiveness- how many different sentient races are there in DnD? Did they like, evolve? Were they created by mad gods and wizards? Is the story even about that? _high concept_ (Haven't watched the video yet, but) an elevator pitch. A one line summary that's so good you immediately start imagining your own story. "What if every metal album cover was fighting every other metal album cover?"
High Concept- Look at "Avatar: The Last Airbender" and "Legend of Korra" and how Bending literally shapes the world building of the show. . Kitchen Sink- Look at Marvel Comics and DC Comics and their universes filled with so many different heroes, villains, concepts, etc.
The way I see it, by formulating a comsology and grand setting first should allow you to see which things you can add without it seeming like a forced kitchen sink situation.
Burger even if I dont give a flying fuck about what the video topic is about I watch anyways because I know you're doing what you want to do and I respect that
I don’t know what my World Building would qualify as, but let me try my best to describe it: You probably have heard of Ghostbusters, but there’s another movie called “Evolution”, which was released in 2001 and had the same basic premise as Ghostbusters, but with aliens instead of ghosts. Basically, misfits and mad scientists gathered together to save the world from an invasion. Plus, you may or may not have heard of Stargate, which is essentially about how the United States Military found an Alien Machine that opens wormholes between Earth and many other planets across the Universe. Combine the “Monster of the Week” Trope with Wormhole Travel, and you probably get the overall gist of my World Building. What are your general thoughts on this?
I usually make sense of my worldbuilding through the marxist lens of 'art is always political'. Problem is is that I'm also really horny for fantasy races (something something cat girls). Now I'm genuinely scared shitless that if I don't write 'correct minorities' then I'll get into a similar situation that D&D's gotten into these past couple years of getting shit for saying that Orcs are generally speaking pretty warlike. The "answer" that's appeared in my head to this has been that all the warlike Orcs have been wiped out through the Old Wars, and the only ones left are either half-insane Shamans distilling booze into magic, or half-insane Alchemists distilling magic into booze. My brain is weird.
i don't think you're solving the problem very much there, just changing it. i'd personally diversify the number of cultures orcs come from, ranging from traditional warbands to secluded villages to bustling towns, then going from there. i tend to go overboard a bit with my worldbuilding in this way, but it helps maintain a sense of freshness, as well as some much-needed cultural complexity.
Give up the marxist lens, and don't worry so much. Sometimes art is just art, unless it's intended to be political. Perhaps it's politics that are always art. I personally don't really put much stock in people throwing around the word "always".
If art is always political, what politics is behind the Parnasian movement in France and Brazil? BTW, I'm horny as hell for fantasy races either and my first reason to always include them is because i'm horny af, and once that post-nut clarity comes, I try to write them in a more serious manner. My way of including fantasy races ignores most Tolkien's or DnD's tropes, and I try to get to write my own way solely on aesthetics of that race. Elves, Fairies, Cow-Girls, Cat Girls, Dryads, Onis, they all came because I was aesthetically bored with humans. I mean, there's nothing wrong in writing warlike orcs, but try going all the way with the logical conclusions of it. A real life race that was pretty war-like and "orc-ish" were the medieval mongols, and they developed a powerful, advanced empire, with lots of trade between the continents, but also were genocidal and in the end, they adopted the culture of the very people they conquered like converting to Islam or becoming a Chinese Dynasty.
Oh dude, like Military doctrines? America, Russia, and China all have different doctrines in how the operate militarily and what the focus on to achieve victory. you almost NEVER see that in sci-fi and fantasy. They'll pick a singular thing and say that's doctrine, even though it gets waaaaaay more complex than that. It's asking yourself "How does this faction use dragons/fighters specifically?" Do they use it as a strategic surgical strike asset like USA or a tactical level counter offense asset like Russia? or perhaps they relegate dragons/jets to JUST anti-air defense because they know their strengths everywhere else are so ridiculous that negating enemy air power is their ONLY major combat concern, and the dragon riders/pilots' status in society and the military reflects that.
I am addicted to kitchen sink worldbuilding just because of sheer fun that can be had. My current world has aspects of speculative dinosaur evolution, magic systems, post-apocalypse, biblically accurate angel horror and biologically plausable fantasy races. In my world an australian aboriginal inspired magitech equipped vampire government agent with a pet dinosaur is completely normal.
In one of your earlier video's you advocated for a World Government, ¿Are you still a World Federalist? It would be nice seeing a video about your views on it and how your perspective has changed (in any direction).
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Burger robbing a convenience store while donning a ski mask and explaining worldbuilding to the shopkeeper is a really funny idea to me for some reason.
As a gm, I do quantum worldbuilding. If needed, it exists if not, who knows.
It’s all fun and games until the players ask for a random npc’s name
@@d3vitron779 I hate when they do that... I could have a list of names at the ready, but, alas, I'm incompetent. And I hate names.
@@SkyTowerKurogane “uuuhhhh, their name is uuhhh bob nameson”
Don't listen the two comment up mine, their spam and probably the Sand account
@@d3vitron779 This guy knows.
When I write, sometimes I get caught up with world building. Love creating worlds. Good video
7:34 that's my biggest complaint with titanic
My own worldbuilding favors a Sinkish approach, mainly because my mind favors grouping things together and connecting disparate elements
in my would, aspen trees are magic. their roots are connected spiritually, as well as physically, so that skilled magicians and supernatural beings can use them to travel and communicate across the multiverse, which is why the main world is home to organisms who are in no way related, because they all are literally from different universes and planets.
Why aspen trees? Did you come with the idea and just chose the tree species in the end or aspens were the first choice all along? Was Pando, that giant organism connecting all those aspen clones, a inspiration for the idea?
@@Bronze_Age_Sea_Person yes
I feel like theres a very strong counter-example to your point about stories exploring one major theme/aspect of the world feeling like a rollercoaster ride. And that would be the Dune series, basically anything of importance is either directly related to or is a natural extension of the theme of power (and by extension the spice). Yet the world feels much more lived in because of that, of course everyone wants the spice, it's necessary for just about anything in this world. However with mistborn I'd say the bigger issue is how allomantic powers are important for everything because Sanderson created a society that values allomancy by coincidence rather than undeniable necessity. It feels like the world was at least partially created for the magic system, rather than the magic system influencing the world.
I feel like this video would be more effective if you broke down the terminology a little more at the beginning. For a long time I didn't really understand what you meant by kitchen sink, and I only kind of understood what was meant by high concept
_kitchen sink_
including EVERYTHING with no rhyme or reason or thematic cohesiveness- how many different sentient races are there in DnD? Did they like, evolve? Were they created by mad gods and wizards? Is the story even about that?
_high concept_
(Haven't watched the video yet, but) an elevator pitch. A one line summary that's so good you immediately start imagining your own story. "What if every metal album cover was fighting every other metal album cover?"
High Concept- Look at "Avatar: The Last Airbender" and "Legend of Korra" and how Bending literally shapes the world building of the show.
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Kitchen Sink- Look at Marvel Comics and DC Comics and their universes filled with so many different heroes, villains, concepts, etc.
I love R.P.G.'s wiþ high levels of details, it adds to þe immersion.
Why are you using thorn instead of th?
@@janfungusamon4926 Reject th, return to thorn
@@basedtvrk9125 Reject th, return to þorn, you pervert!
4:14 invading the first freed me of the second
Well, the Rock is getting up there in years, which will increase his chance of erectile dysfunction, if you smell what I'm cookin'
World War Z is so underrated, I really hope it will be adapted as a Netflix series.
Swordscomic is high-concept worldbuilding. :D
Hell yeah Mistborn reference.
Though The Lord Ruler and his reign is also one of the key ideas behind it that influences everything.
The way I see it, by formulating a comsology and grand setting first should allow you to see which things you can add without it seeming like a forced kitchen sink situation.
It will release next week :) now its a funny timeline thing in the Video as a special effekt :D
love you and your channel
Damnit, now I want to read a book about that desert story
Am I the only one who now wants to watch a movie about a gang war on a doomed boat???
I think its more funny to think about what a rock and erectile dysfunction *don't* have in common.
Wait, what? I was _certain_ the Italian mafia has sunk the Titanic!
Burger even if I dont give a flying fuck about what the video topic is about I watch anyways because I know you're doing what you want to do and I respect that
Someone should just write a story about the reader going into a themepark ride, and then the rest of the story is the ride itself.
I don’t know what my World Building would qualify as, but let me try my best to describe it:
You probably have heard of Ghostbusters, but there’s another movie called “Evolution”, which was released in 2001 and had the same basic premise as Ghostbusters, but with aliens instead of ghosts. Basically, misfits and mad scientists gathered together to save the world from an invasion.
Plus, you may or may not have heard of Stargate, which is essentially about how the United States Military found an Alien Machine that opens wormholes between Earth and many other planets across the Universe.
Combine the “Monster of the Week” Trope with Wormhole Travel, and you probably get the overall gist of my World Building.
What are your general thoughts on this?
That seems to be a good plot for a series TBH. Would definitely watch.
@@Bronze_Age_Sea_Person If you’d like, maybe we should discuss it in Email or something?
So Pokémon would be a high concept setting, since everything in society revolves around Pokémon?
I usually make sense of my worldbuilding through the marxist lens of 'art is always political'. Problem is is that I'm also really horny for fantasy races (something something cat girls). Now I'm genuinely scared shitless that if I don't write 'correct minorities' then I'll get into a similar situation that D&D's gotten into these past couple years of getting shit for saying that Orcs are generally speaking pretty warlike.
The "answer" that's appeared in my head to this has been that all the warlike Orcs have been wiped out through the Old Wars, and the only ones left are either half-insane Shamans distilling booze into magic, or half-insane Alchemists distilling magic into booze.
My brain is weird.
i don't think you're solving the problem very much there, just changing it. i'd personally diversify the number of cultures orcs come from, ranging from traditional warbands to secluded villages to bustling towns, then going from there. i tend to go overboard a bit with my worldbuilding in this way, but it helps maintain a sense of freshness, as well as some much-needed cultural complexity.
Give up the marxist lens, and don't worry so much. Sometimes art is just art, unless it's intended to be political. Perhaps it's politics that are always art. I personally don't really put much stock in people throwing around the word "always".
Warlike marxist catgirls? Tabby smash!
If art is always political, what politics is behind the Parnasian movement in France and Brazil?
BTW, I'm horny as hell for fantasy races either and my first reason to always include them is because i'm horny af, and once that post-nut clarity comes, I try to write them in a more serious manner. My way of including fantasy races ignores most Tolkien's or DnD's tropes, and I try to get to write my own way solely on aesthetics of that race. Elves, Fairies, Cow-Girls, Cat Girls, Dryads, Onis, they all came because I was aesthetically bored with humans.
I mean, there's nothing wrong in writing warlike orcs, but try going all the way with the logical conclusions of it. A real life race that was pretty war-like and "orc-ish" were the medieval mongols, and they developed a powerful, advanced empire, with lots of trade between the continents, but also were genocidal and in the end, they adopted the culture of the very people they conquered like converting to Islam or becoming a Chinese Dynasty.
@@Bronze_Age_Sea_Person I like your creative method.
Can we get a wheel of time video please
Is pokemon Highconcept?
Yes
Speaking of worldbuilding, have you been writing any stories lately? 👀
Oh dude, like Military doctrines? America, Russia, and China all have different doctrines in how the operate militarily and what the focus on to achieve victory. you almost NEVER see that in sci-fi and fantasy.
They'll pick a singular thing and say that's doctrine, even though it gets waaaaaay more complex than that. It's asking yourself "How does this faction use dragons/fighters specifically?"
Do they use it as a strategic surgical strike asset like USA or a tactical level counter offense asset like Russia? or perhaps they relegate dragons/jets to JUST anti-air defense because they know their strengths everywhere else are so ridiculous that negating enemy air power is their ONLY major combat concern, and the dragon riders/pilots' status in society and the military reflects that.
I am already subscrided to Spielleiter, weird
P.s your link doesn't work for some reason
I am addicted to kitchen sink worldbuilding just because of sheer fun that can be had. My current world has aspects of speculative dinosaur evolution, magic systems, post-apocalypse, biblically accurate angel horror and biologically plausable fantasy races. In my world an australian aboriginal inspired magitech equipped vampire government agent with a pet dinosaur is completely normal.
In one of your earlier video's you advocated for a World Government, ¿Are you still a World Federalist? It would be nice seeing a video about your views on it and how your perspective has changed (in any direction).
Why the heck do you have sock on your microphone?
Pop shielding, probably
i wasa unsubbed from your channel.... i have been unsubbed from a bunch of channels lately