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[Pride]

Posting to follow.

[Awessum Possum]

In fact, as proof that it's highly addictive and I should probably go to rehab, here's long cut detailing another world I made back in the day.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I have a couple sketches from an older adventure back in 40d, though it was never finished. It involved an older spearman, a young freed prisoner girl, an angry goblin-raised axe wielding dude, and a friendly hero that held them all together (goblin raised guy, Bax, in back, and hero Wakos in front). The girl, Ako, grows up and gets kind of weird and obsessive towards the guy who rescued her, but he turns her down because she's sort of crazy. They eventually fall to ruin (eaten by GCS) and only the old spearman, Bese, survives... he remains hovering around the cave where all his friends died. He struck down the spider before he escaped with his life, but lost all his fire after that.

The world was only 32 years old, and I decided it had just been created by the gods and the civilizations had just progressed past a basic hunter-gatherer level.

I was VERY invested, and did a bunch of side things including

· using VisualFortress to get 3D blueprints of the towns and starting to paint over them.

· using Terragen 2 to create fractal alterations on the starting heightmap

· Starting to hand-draw the (Huuuuge) world map. I was planning on making it watercoloury looking. Jeez, I really need to start smaller in the future.

· I started to draw all of the Oloomon pantheon (the main human civ I was focusing on), but I never got past two. Oops.

· Here's a rough thing of all of the civ symbols based on the little overhead map symbols you see on the History map. Dwarves were on the left, Goblins in the center, Humans on the right. The little circles inside of the Dwarven and Human civ circles represented each civ's pantheons. Oloomon is the half maroon, half red one on the right there. The goblins I got more wacky with, and used their hilarious civ names or overmap decals to define their cult symbols. Unfortunately I can't remember the names nowadays. Oh well.

Once DF 2010 came out I realized it was a waste of time and dropped the project, though. One day I'd like to do a full worldbuild, but it sure is a lot of work for not much point beyond the satisfaction of building/creating.

God dangit. That is precisely what I've been trying to do. (I want to use a DF world as the basis of a D&D campaign.)

[Flying Dice]

In fact, as proof that it's highly addictive and I should probably go to rehab, here's long cut detailing another world I made back in the day.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I have a couple sketches from an older adventure back in 40d, though it was never finished. It involved an older spearman, a young freed prisoner girl, an angry goblin-raised axe wielding dude, and a friendly hero that held them all together (goblin raised guy, Bax, in back, and hero Wakos in front). The girl, Ako, grows up and gets kind of weird and obsessive towards the guy who rescued her, but he turns her down because she's sort of crazy. They eventually fall to ruin (eaten by GCS) and only the old spearman, Bese, survives... he remains hovering around the cave where all his friends died. He struck down the spider before he escaped with his life, but lost all his fire after that.

The world was only 32 years old, and I decided it had just been created by the gods and the civilizations had just progressed past a basic hunter-gatherer level.

I was VERY invested, and did a bunch of side things including

· using VisualFortress to get 3D blueprints of the towns and starting to paint over them.

· using Terragen 2 to create fractal alterations on the starting heightmap

· Starting to hand-draw the (Huuuuge) world map. I was planning on making it watercoloury looking. Jeez, I really need to start smaller in the future.

· I started to draw all of the Oloomon pantheon (the main human civ I was focusing on), but I never got past two. Oops.

· Here's a rough thing of all of the civ symbols based on the little overhead map symbols you see on the History map. Dwarves were on the left, Goblins in the center, Humans on the right. The little circles inside of the Dwarven and Human civ circles represented each civ's pantheons. Oloomon is the half maroon, half red one on the right there. The goblins I got more wacky with, and used their hilarious civ names or overmap decals to define their cult symbols. Unfortunately I can't remember the names nowadays. Oh well.

Once DF 2010 came out I realized it was a waste of time and dropped the project, though. One day I'd like to do a full worldbuild, but it sure is a lot of work for not much point beyond the satisfaction of building/creating.

God dangit. That is precisely what I've been trying to do. (I want to use a DF world as the basis of a D&D campaign.)

So you're one of those sadistic GMs who  build up whole settings just so they can TPK their players in the first serious encounter? 

[Awessum Possum]

In fact, as proof that it's highly addictive and I should probably go to rehab, here's long cut detailing another world I made back in the day.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I have a couple sketches from an older adventure back in 40d, though it was never finished. It involved an older spearman, a young freed prisoner girl, an angry goblin-raised axe wielding dude, and a friendly hero that held them all together (goblin raised guy, Bax, in back, and hero Wakos in front). The girl, Ako, grows up and gets kind of weird and obsessive towards the guy who rescued her, but he turns her down because she's sort of crazy. They eventually fall to ruin (eaten by GCS) and only the old spearman, Bese, survives... he remains hovering around the cave where all his friends died. He struck down the spider before he escaped with his life, but lost all his fire after that.

The world was only 32 years old, and I decided it had just been created by the gods and the civilizations had just progressed past a basic hunter-gatherer level.

I was VERY invested, and did a bunch of side things including

· using VisualFortress to get 3D blueprints of the towns and starting to paint over them.

· using Terragen 2 to create fractal alterations on the starting heightmap

· Starting to hand-draw the (Huuuuge) world map. I was planning on making it watercoloury looking. Jeez, I really need to start smaller in the future.

· I started to draw all of the Oloomon pantheon (the main human civ I was focusing on), but I never got past two. Oops.

· Here's a rough thing of all of the civ symbols based on the little overhead map symbols you see on the History map. Dwarves were on the left, Goblins in the center, Humans on the right. The little circles inside of the Dwarven and Human civ circles represented each civ's pantheons. Oloomon is the half maroon, half red one on the right there. The goblins I got more wacky with, and used their hilarious civ names or overmap decals to define their cult symbols. Unfortunately I can't remember the names nowadays. Oh well.

Once DF 2010 came out I realized it was a waste of time and dropped the project, though. One day I'd like to do a full worldbuild, but it sure is a lot of work for not much point beyond the satisfaction of building/creating.

God dangit. That is precisely what I've been trying to do. (I want to use a DF world as the basis of a D&D campaign.)

So you're one of those sadistic GMs who  build up whole settings just so they can TPK their players in the first serious encounter? 

Now now, only if they insist on begin stupid... like my current party. (And yet somehow they always manage to survive.) I'm sure it wouldn't be quite as dangerous as DF... probably.

[Anataru]

p-p-posting to watch!  Awe-inspiring distraction indeed!

[Weirdsound]

God dangit. That is precisely what I've been trying to do. (I want to use a DF world as the basis of a D&D campaign.)

I pitched the idea of an external app that can read your fortress and spit out maps, character sheets, and possibly potential plot points based on recent world events upon reading a fortress. My buddies thought I was crazy. Pity I'm not terribly familiar with any of the serious TTRPG systems... or DF memoryhacking... so I guess they are right.

[Thecard]

I was read an article recently, and I found a quote that describes Vanod quite well.  "Their balls are of sufficient duration and size to enter the mainstream ... seen in nature."

I know, I know, another ball joke, but this thread was the first thing I thought of after reading it.

[Awessum Possum]

God dangit. That is precisely what I've been trying to do. (I want to use a DF world as the basis of a D&D campaign.)

I pitched the idea of an external app that can read your fortress and spit out maps, character sheets, and possibly potential plot points based on recent world events upon reading a fortress. My buddies thought I was crazy. Pity I'm not terribly familiar with any of the serious TTRPG systems... or DF memoryhacking... so I guess they are right.

Oh that would be cool.

[chicagohotdog]

Wow Earwig, you are a talented artist and great story teller!  I am too busy with school/work to play much DF but it is awesome to read about other exciting stories like this one.  As far as what other people flaming/complaining in this thread, I actually searched each page to read what you wrote because I don't care what others may have said.  Will definitely be following this!

[Kaelem Gaen]

Awesomely done, very nice read, and  the art is great.


Can't wait to read more about Vanod

[Armeleon]

This kind of stuff makes me truly happy to read! DF is an awesome game/toy, and an irreplaceable launch point for fantasy worldbuilding/story writing if you so desire. It just gives you the hard data without telling you how you should feel about anything in the world, meaning you can really paint your own personalities and encourage personal attachment if you so choose. I adore it.

I do this exact same thing. Detailed maps of every city, I even finished a world trade map once in year 2000 or something like that. It was pretty epic. Right now I'm busy detailing every kill, step, and person I meet. I think I'm starting to come to the conclusion that DF is a little bit too complex for just one person to tackle, unless you just want to have fun.

[RomanGuy]

Awesome, posting to watch!

[thvaz]

Legendary Thread. DF 0.34 has his first legend!

[KelisMetal]

Posting to watch, This shit screams metal. Bloodbath's So You Die is definately Vanods theme song. It blairs in the background everytime he kills something, fact.

[Mikymikmik]

Where's the link for the island!?!?