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Welcome to the staging ground for new communities! Each proposal has a description in the "Descriptions" category and a body of questions and answers in "Incubator Q&A". You can ask questions (and get answers, we hope!) right away, and start new proposals.

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Posts tagged worldbuilding

Use for questions that belong to the Worldbuilding community proposal.

Community tag for the Worldbuilding proposal. See the proposal for which topics are covered, the scope of the community, and other details.

Use this tag for posts in the Incubator Q&A and Meta categories that concern this particular proposal.

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Incubator Q&A What would be the pros and cons of a soldier having only mechanical arms and legs and a mostly organic torso and would be even be practical

Backstory I had an idea of a large project to breed specialized soldiers who will be used to fight and kill members of a story-specific group known for being super powered with some of these soldi...

1 answer  ·  posted 7d ago by Melchizadek ‭  ·  last activity 7d ago by Olin Lathrop‭

Descriptions Worldbuilding

Worldbuilding Description This is a community embracing and bringing together worldbuilders, writers, poets and dreamers searching for help and inspiration to bring their creative stories, RPGs, ...

posted 5mo ago by elemtilas‭  ·  edited 15d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A Which method of lifeforms shooting fire would be better in real life, gaseous chemicals or liquid chemicals

So I've been noticing that when it comes to most of my character and monster designs involving shooting fire most of them do this primarily through chemical reactions using gasses such as methane l...

1 answer  ·  posted 23d ago by Melchizadek ‭  ·  edited 15d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A What would be the potential of cellular cybernetics and it be more or less practical than nanoscopic robotics

So as I was thinking about characterizations I started thinking about cybernetics, and I started to wonder about the concept of cellular cybernetics and what the possibilities of such technology wo...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Melchizadek ‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta How can Worldbuilding support more open-ended questions? [duplicate]

The Worldbuilding proposal has some "conventional" questions and some that are more open-ended or even "idea generation". This happened in the SE Worldbuilding community too, and the latter got sh...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  closed as duplicate 1mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta How can Worldbuilding successfully support creative exploration?

The Worldbuilding proposal currently includes this bullet: We would accept a fairly broad range of question types. Within reasonable limitations, questions that require focused brainstorming or ...

4 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Is this one fishing for ideas?

There was a very nice question posted recently about an underground society not knowing overground war has ended. Just out of curiosity: The question could be regarded as "too broad", "genera...

2 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by Antares‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Incubator Q&A If someone had vibration based superpowers how would their powers react underwater

I had an idea for a character who can emit very powerful vibrations. As I thought about the possibility of how this character's vibration powers would work I eventually started to wonder how would ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by Melchizadek ‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by Melchizadek ‭

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Incubator Q&A How many megahertz of vibrations would it take to Shatter solid rock

Backstory: I had an idea of someone who can generate powerful vibrations that can either be used to amplify physical attacks or fire these vibrations in a direct oscillating stream for ranged atta...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by Melchizadek ‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Incubator Q&A Could a winged humanoid with two sets of wing types (one set on the back and one set on the arms) function properly

So, I've been experimenting with this idea of someone with the power of winged flight. The details about said character I haven't fully figured out and might not make. That said, I have a basic ide...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by Melchizadek ‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by honnza‭

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Incubator Q&A Is it possible to indoctrinate child soldiers to the point of being robotic in science fiction setting

Backstory: So I had an idea where there's this secret society type organization with a specialized super-powered group to deal with serious and major threats. After something of a civil war breaks...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by Melchizadek ‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Melchizadek ‭

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Incubator Q&A What are reasonable limitations for probability-manipulating magic?

I'm imagining a sort of magic that only manipulates probabilities. That is, you cannot achieve something that's against the laws of nature (for example, you cannot create energy out of nothing), bu...

2 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Incubator Q&A Would it make sense for an organization that has existed for centuries not remember its own origins

Backstory: In my story there's this organization that is kind like of movie version of Men in Black combined with the Kingsmen where they hide in the shadows and maintain order in the world. Now t...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by Melchizadek ‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by John C‭

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Incubator Q&A What would be a good way to counter someone with supernatural fire powers and close quarter weapons?

Backstory I had an idea of a large project to breed specialized soldiers who will be used to fight and kill members of a story-specific group known for being super powered. Theses soldiers are bre...

1 answer  ·  posted 5mo ago by Melchizadek ‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by Antares‭

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Incubator Q&A What could be a believable reason for technologically advanced underground people to not notice the end of surface war for hundreds of years?

Consider the following scenario: We are in a far future. Technology has advanced quite a bit. A large, devastating global war has broken out. One faction decides to hide from that war underground...

12 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A What's the least traumatic way to integrate resurrected historical humans into modern society?

In a fictional alternate version of present-day Earth, scientists have found a way to resurrect people from the past en masse. The resurrected will have bodies that resemble their original ones bu...

4 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A Would it make sense for an entity who can control tangible and/or intangible materials be able to manipulate electricity but not light?

I have this idea about people with "Psionic" power. Psionics in my story are primarily beings able to emit and/or manipulate a special energy field from within that takes physical form. They can ex...

3 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by Melchizadek ‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by Antares‭

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Meta Is Worldbuilding fit for Q&A?

There is one simple answer to this question: No. No, it does not fit into the current concept of Q&A. The topic of Worldbuilding is fundamentally different to probably all other possible commun...

1 answer  ·  posted 5mo ago by Antares‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta Allowed types of questions for Worldbuilding

I like the proposal text and have actually very little to add. Should be a solid starting ground. One concern I have is the general thing with "malformed questions". I strongly advocate for not h...

2 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by Antares‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

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Meta Supporters for a Worldbuilding community on Codidact

I would like to get a picture of the general supporters (those who are "okay" with this) for a Worldbuilding community. Supporters are not meant to be obliged to participate actively. Just interest...

2 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by Antares‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by Antares‭

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Incubator Q&A What would be the best way to breathe for a creature that shoots fire from its mouth?

I've had an idea where there's this humanoid based life-form that has no real origin other than being found on some remote island. Kind of like skull island and seems be a complete anomaly in the n...

2 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by Melchizadek ‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Meta Can I ask Worldbuilding questions here?

I would like to ask something about a world I am designing. Can I ask that here? Is this like in StackExchange and I get closed and downvoted without help? To the existing members: This is the i...

2 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by Antares‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by Antares‭

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Meta Is there room for a long list of types of buildings and facilities in a city or country?

I'm looking for a very long and sufficiently detailed list of every possible type of facility that exists in the world today, or perhaps is likely to exist in the future. For example, the list woul...

3 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A A little riddle / Creative Challenge: Pressure Plates in a Dungeon

This is an initial post for the proposal of a new community: Creative Challenges. Please feel free to answer here or post more questions in the spirit of this one. Do not restrict yourself on the ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5mo ago by Antares‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by Antares‭