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#writerscoffeeclub Jan25 2026 - What comes first, setting, character, plot? what comes next?

To me, I usually end up starting with the setting. Worldbuilding is one of my favorite parts of the whole thing, and designing a world is fun, from figuring out races to locations and weird little societal things. A world that builds itself tends to generate its own stories and people, I find. Speaking of people, it's them that I do second. I have a world, the people sort of come from it. Often they have their own ideas on what they'll be doing, but that can be both helpful and a problem. Of course this means that sometimes the story ideas write themselves, sometimes(Often) the fragments won't quite cleanly match up, but with a world, I always have a nice starting point.

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What's something that parents do in your world that the kids just wouldn't understand?

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If the full moon causes werewolves to transform, but not waning or waxing moons, then something about ordinary sunlight reflected from the surface of our specific space rock--at or beyond a certain threshold--causes a significant biological transformation in at least one terrestrial species.

Direct sunlight doesn't do it. Therefore, some substance across the surface of the moon (or at least the visible face) absorbs what must be "protective wavelengths" of sunlight, allowing only the evil-transformative frequencies to reach the earth's surface.

Scientists have told us the moon's surface is littered with pretty normal asteroid/space rock dust and rubble. So is there a special substance--as yet undetected, or at least unrecognized--on the moon's surface, absorbing the protective sun rays? Or is almost all light from our sun (or stars like it) reflected from dry, dusty space bodies evil-transformative? If the latter, we would expect lots of werewolf-type transformations as we explore our solar system and the rest of the universe in larger numbers.

I have just conclusively demonstrated that there are probably tons of werewolves in space, or at least there would be if we'd get up there more often.

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Session 3 with the Tome of Worldbuilding and the Nomicon, both by Matt Finch of OSRIC fame. I'm trying to stick close to the book while fleshing out a setting with a - hopefully - Heavy Metal gonzo sci-fantasy aesthetic. I say "hopefully" because I'm trying to let the dice lead the way and I'm not sure they'll go down that road.

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https://blog.psionic-cyclops.org/article/tome-of-worldbuilding-session-3-broken-worlds/

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You know the kind of terrain I never see used in overland adventures? Forestry plantations (unless you are literally running an adventure about loggers or such).
For example: eerie quiet pine plantations, with neat, unnatural rows of trees, each tree a copy of its neighbours.

Do you ever use this terrain while mapping or prepping for an adventure? If you don't, is it because it doesn't come to mind? Or does this terrain use not exist in your world? I'm interested to hear! #ttrpg #worldbuilding

What common evils lurk in your world? So common everyone basically ignores it? Like, I come from a country with free healthcare, and every time I see the American system in action, I can't help feel that is evil in its purest form.

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