Does worldbuilding have a discord or something like that? I honestly think we could create all sorts of fun stuff if we had a server. Note: just one of my crazy ideas in the morning
In case you don't know, Discord is somewhat of a chatroom. (I know that Worldbuilding already has them). Discord is much more polished as a communication medium, you can create different 'channels' within the main server and switch between them with a click. Roles may be given to users and permi...
Only real advantages I can think off is hosting different channels on a single server (you can even create networks of servers)
I would say admins and moderation, but we are a civil crowd and self policing should be good enough
Personally I think discord would go really well with some of the people here seeing as I not only want to ask questions I also want to discuss and dabble with role-playing. Things that are easier and fluid on discord.
@CelestialDragonEmperor Roomowners and mods have special privileges in chat already. And we often direct people to chat for interesting open–ended discussions. You can also just create your own room, similar to the story–go–round room. Like I said in my answer to the linked discussion: I don‘t see any advantages, but you are of course free to create your own discord channel and ask if people want to join.
@Secespitus noted. I'll just see if anyone else is interested eventually
@FoxElemental well I usually do world building and role playing alongside each other on discord. The "usual" is a single channel role play usually between two people and a few characters. Larger ones I normally dedicate a category
Ex: your character explores the streets of The Markets
@CelestialDragonEmperor In addition to @Secespitus' awesome answer, I'll add that there have been cases on other sites on the network with cliques of users using off-site chat rooms to circumvent SE policies about conduct and moderation and such, and that's been a problem.
Now, the vast majority of people on Worldbuilding are fantastic, and I don't think those issues would arise in our community, but it still makes people . . . nervous.
Given that we've already had people ranting about "voting cliques" on meta, I don't think a discord server would be a great idea. I'm fairly sure that that sort of thing wouldn't actually happen, but it would be a lot harder to defend the site from such rants if a discord server existed. The SE chat only requires 1 rep to view, and 20 rep to comment on, so it makes it a lot easier to "disprove" the existence of such "cliques".
Yep. I think everyone's a lot more comfortable with the open chat system. Although I believe chat transcripts are public - so you don't even need an account to view them. Private rooms are an exception, but those are for mods in 95-99% of cases, and those are for handling sensitive information, for the most part, and private matters.
Well one way to solve those issues is to not make voting matter on the discord ex: trying to get upvotes, reputation, or any other cliques are banned and you kick people off of the server that attempt to do something like that
@CelestialDragonEmperor However, at that point, you need moderation for the discord server, and we need a way to pick the moderators, which there would be arguments over, and given that the SE chat works well as is, I don't think that it's worth the effort.
@CelestialDragonEmperor Yeah, but that would require that all (or most of) the mods for the site be on the server - largely because we're the only ones who can confirm that that sort of dodgy voting is actually going on. That's another level of monitoring.
Now personally I don't think it would become a issue of you make the discord mainly around talking and role playing (as well as posting links to projects and stories)
@FoxElemental One more thing about your elephant. The skin is an excellent defense against poison. You'd have to have a powerful poison if you just want to spray it on the skin.
You could have it mist the poison so the victim breathes it.
Or you could, as I previously suggested, gore the victim so the poison gets into the skin (odds are, you'll get gored anyway, fighting an elephant).
Either way, misting or trickling it down the tusks reduces the amount it needs to use, which A) preserves poison for more victims, and B) reduces the demand on the elephant's venom gland.
@Hosch250 If you're fighting an elephant, and are close enough to be gored, and are pretty much anything but another elephant, you're probably dead with or without poison.
@Hosch250 If so, better ways to spread their poison could have actually been an impetus for the development of sapience, although the poison would be largely vestigial at this point, given that poison is largely pointless for a sapient species.
Are elephants at all omnivorous, or are they obligate herbivores?
Yep, except, as I said, the skin is a pretty good defense against poison. You need some method of getting it inside the enemy, like either something that will pass through the skin, making them breath it, or injecting directly into the blood.
@Hosch250 I'm pretty sure they're completely encased, albeit that there'll have to be some sort of a "port" on the back for waste disposal and air/food intake.
If they are just immobilized, but are mostly visible, including the head, that would be more exciting. The hero knows who is who, the villain can taunt them, etc.
@Gryphon now I just need to find a reason why Pookhas would need to be that flexible. Maybe to squeeze through right spaces in the swamps they're native to
I've just started out with worldbuilding and got this idea of a state/country that has no need for any armed forces as they don't want to go to war because of religious reasons, and no other state would want to attack them. But during what circumstances could such a state exist?
I'm guessing th...
@CelestialDragonEmperor Yeah had the US stayed out of the Pacific battles in later WWII I am pretty sure the Chinese would have eventually sent the Japanese packing on their own.
And even if he didn't tread on the US toes, I'd only give it 50-100 years before it collapsed anyway, assuming he had a clear line of succession of power.
@JourneymanGeek FWIW, the US is less racist against the Jewish community than you might think. They were equal citizens here long before most European and Asian countries. It might not have been that great a strategy.
Say... find folks in the south who still hadn't gotten over the civil war, and convince them black folks were the enemy. Then once that divide is done, conflate jews and northerners.
The Confederacy was a very complicated thing. The government was all about slavery, while the average soldier was mostly trying to protect their state. Because then, it was far more like an alliance of states than a single nation.
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Calling all worldbuilders: Does anyone have any questions you ask yourself about worldbuilding? What do you think is important for building the culture, setting, and life on your world?
@FoxElemental I focus on "why" alot. So why do the pucks behave this way, why do the dverg do that. I also have a single sentence, for example the dverg, Liniege obsessed dwarves then I build a culture around that
Also finding inspiration always helps or even just reading what other people have written or even real life cultures
Finally add something weird is what I enjoy doing. For example the Dverg are in a state of constant war with a parasitic shroom hoard (pretty much gnomes turned into zombies)