worldbuilding

Newbie-friendly worldbuilding opportunity! (Open to experienced worldbuilders too, and everything in-between). What’s This? I’d like to ask if you’d be willing to volunteer your time to help make a section of the Wiki more accessible and effective for everyone. Please read on: Background...

Hello SARPfans! I came across the Open Sandboxes thread the other day. Based on that concept, an idea with regard to time shenanigans came to mind. Not time travel into the past (because you can't change the past) but rather a plot regarding the effects of time dilation or other space-time...

Star Army is a vibrant roleplaying community that thrives on the creativity and collaboration of its members. This is especially true for faction creators, who have the unique opportunity to shape entire worlds and civilizations. However, creating an appealing and unique visual language for a...

There are a lot of ways to create a setting and build fictional worlds. The wiki's 13,000+ articles and this forum's 365,000+ posts are a magnificent testament to that. Our "role-players, writers, and sci-fi fans" make the great SARPiverse and its content possible and, whether prolific...

So the context of this is me working on the Scionate, robots who are a bit too aggressive about wanting to "upgrade" people. One of the aspects is how much of their millitary/tech I want to develop as I'm much more on the social world building side of things than on the techy side. I want them...

hi hi For various reasons, I'd like to ask what a scalar pulse weapon, like the NSP sounds like. Is there a commonly used sound or onomatopoeia? A silent whisper or a loud bang? "Thump, crack, ka-boom?" Also, some other high tech things as well. • Continuum Distortion Drives: Do they make...

Another thread made at the request of @Wes on Discord, and this time it’s going to be a general-purpose one so that I don’t clutter this forum with a morbillion threads. Anyhoo, to start things off… Did the NH-22C Yamataian have wisdom teeth? What’s the minimum driving age in Yamatai?

Monte Cook, Timothy Zahn, Ian Frasier, Jay Little - Video version at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nPcyt_DNss

Faith Hunter, J.A. Sutherland, Chris A. Jackson, Gail Z. Martin, Ed McKeown - How do we enrich our worlds with realistic details, what sources do we use, and how much should you know about something before faking expertise (or not)

Venessa Giunta, J.A. Sutherland, Peter Prellwitz, Quincy J. Allen, Tamsin Silver

Jack Campbell, Dr. Charles E. Gannon, Andrew E. C. Gaska, Gray Rinehart, Christopher Ruocchio, Brad R. Torgerson, David Weber