Why do you imagine that the,post is about *reading*?

*Potion of Hospitality +3*

Also the important rule here is everything not explained to be different is assumed to be the same as our understanding of the real world.

Sure but it falls apart when an asshole gives them a dollar change instead of a 20 and they fold it as a 20. Any system relies on having trust that the system was done correctly as you can't verify.

That is part of world building, too. If your fantasy world needs more explaining than storytelling, something is seriously wrong.

> To write good Fantasy (of SciFi), you have to go through a process called “World Building” I think this is more implying that you don't have to work from the same framework for every fantasy world. Not everything has to be set in Medieval Times with Crusader-Era social sensibilities. The menagerie of mythical creatures isn't a prerequisite or delimiter (dragons / unicorns / etc are not a requirement nor are robots / cthulhoid horrors / woolly mammoths disallowed). You need internal consistency (to a degree) but you aren't forced to adhere / omit any genre trope. I would say, at an absolute bare minimum, you need some kind of fantastical or supernatural element to make it "Fantasy" as opposed to "Historical Fiction" or "Science Fiction" some other category of fictional prose. Although, the genre of "Magical Realism" does make even that distinction a bit fuzzy. > many literature teachers / professors don’t even know about the idea of World Building You don't necessary need to go through the whole work of World Building if you're just banging out a short story or novella. Even serial writers don't necessarily bother going deep on the background material until they feel the need to expand the scope of the setting. A story that takes place entirely in a single house over the course of a long weekend doesn't need the kind of scaffolding that a Long Walk to Mordor requires.

> Why should your fantasy game be limited by something like “health”. One way of escalating drama and tension is by injuring a main character. The scene in Terminator 2, where Sarah Connor has to knock the T-1000 into the blast furnace with consecutive shotgun blasts, isn't nearly as cool without her doing it with a wound in her arm. Frodo collapsing from exhaustion gives us the incredible moment of Samwise shouldering him and carrying the guy, ring and all, up the slope of Mt. Doom. And particularly for folks invested in the coolness of their characters, some conflicts are much more fun when the outcome isn't anything either storyteller or player could have anticipated. A totally unexpected David v Goliath moment, where a scrawny guy fells a giant with a lucky shot, will be the kind of story people talk about for years.

Most countries have varying sizes and tactile features to distinguish denominations.

Exactly. You demonstrate to me that a goblin is a house sized red avian, I won't love that thats the word you used unless you give me a reason, but once thats done you better not use that word to describe a little green hominid.

That's a roguelike convention. Potion colors are randomized. Runes/scrolls usually arent.

George Lucas is the perfect example what happens when you don't do world building. The Star Wars universe is basically just retcons stacked onto other retcons. And I am a firm believer that even short stories in a fantasy or SciFi setting don't work without at least a certain amount of world building. The number of fantasy and SciFi stories where the author thought they could get away without thinking their world through and which ended up badly is amazingly high.

It's about story which is most often delivered through prose or dialogue. Both of which you either need to read or have read to you. When writing happens, reading usually follows.

Crap fantasy is still fantasy. Had a great time coming up with bad fantasy stories in my childhood when I knew nothing about good writing. Art is what you make it.

Life is too short to read crappy books. Like those we had to endure in school.

> George Lucas is the perfect example what happens when you don’t do world building. If you get into those coffee table books about the making of the first three movies, you find lots of works building. All the bounty hunters on the deck of Vader's Super Star Destroyer in Empire Strikes Back have canonical backstories, for instance. The cosmology of the galaxy - with Corusant at the center of the Empire and Tantoine way out in "Hutt Space" - was laid out by Lucas far in advance. "The Clone Wars" wasn't just an off-handed reference, it was a thing Lucas had defined as the WW2 precursor to New Hope's Vietnam. Hell, the fact that the first movie released was "Episode IV" should say it all. One reason you got so many derivative works following Return of the Jedi is that Lucas dumped his director's notes to the public as merch when production initially stalled on the Prequels.