How can I make a good planet, /tg/?

>>44801471
Ask God.

>>44801471

>think of some planet ideas, start with the big ideas
>check ideas with actual science and astronomy
>zoom a factor in and start fleshing out some more simple concepts
>vet those too
>and so on until you've got a basic framework

>>44801522
His planets fucking suck, 0/10 wouldn't play.

>>44801522
No thanks, that dude has a fucking fetish for beetles. Haven't you noticed how many different kinds of insects he always has in his worlds? They outnumber all of the proper animals so much that I can only assume its some fucked up magical realm

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>>44801471
First decide on a couple gimmicks that make your world different from Earth. Such as more/less water or whatever.
The create a bunch of ecosystems, some are similar to Earth but not all have exact analogues, such as a forest of sessile invertebrates instead of plants.
Although it's possible that alien life won't resemble Earth life at all, I suspect that their will still be some convergent evolution. So you can either create aliens by combining Earth life until you end up with suitably exotic chimeras that pass as aliens.
It depends if you want unique looking lifeforms or more of the Star Wars kind that look like Earth life.
Create a bunch of creatures first, then pick one to advance into an intelligent lifeform (though it doesn't need to necessarily be a tool user).
Cultures tend to directly affected their environment, with the most warlike cultures developing in areas with the least resources.
What else do you want to know?

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>>44801522
>hard as fuck to do anything noteworthy
No fucking thanks, done playing that shithead's railroading nonsense

>>44801471
Make one that DOESN'T have whatever's in the gif.

>>44801900
Really? I've always thought it's too much of a sandbox, you never know what to do in order for anything to happen. It's basically freeform forum RP, with him letting his favourites roll bullshit special snowflake characters that get away with anything, and if you say anything about you get banned or ignored. Fucking cliques ruin everything.

>>44801857
Just because something's prolific in a setting doesn't mean it's magical realm.

fuck, man, I like non-human races to have more than one fucking culture, does that give me an anthropology fetish?

>>44801819
Try visiting some places other than suburbia, you'll find some amazingly breathtaking stuff.

>>44801900
Nah, the problem is that god lets his players run a bit too rampant. I mean, shit,m have you ever seen the first campaigns the dude used to run? But he's such a damn stickler for continuity he can't just allow PC accomplishments to remain small. Always has to end in NEW COUNTRY FOUNDED! or NEW CITY BUILT! that it leaves nothing for later players.

>>44801471
Simple, don't make your entire planet based on one environment or if you have natives, one culture.

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>>44801900
>tfw
The only legitimate reason I can think of reducing the planet's population would be so that whoever is left over could have fun adventures.

>>44802056
>not making a setting after a brutal campaign to conquer the world

>>44802077
Actually, on second though, that'd make a great saturday morning BBEG

>Why are you doing this, why are you going to kill so many people!
>"Because the world is boring! There's a town every two hours march, and if you do something songworthy you;ll be forgotten within the week!"
>"Trust me, if you survive the cull, the world will be a much more fulfilling place"

>>44802106
>not making a setting during a brutal campaign of bloodshed and conquest

>>44801471
I am so repulsed by that gif, but i cant stop watching it...

>>44802126
>tfw this is basically the goal of my Harry Potter Fan Darklord

Is that thing squirting VENOM with its mouth?

>>44802434
>Harry Potter Fan Darklord
What

>>44802489
No, it just has a stupidly powerful bite. She's bleeding IIRC

>>44801864
pretty great advice actually

>>44802688
That bite mark on the right side is obviously green so I suspect that it's not blood.

>>44802077
I actually like Gilgamesh's logic in that respect.

Couldn't strike down a single slave because they all had worth, but in the modern day he's happy to slaughter everyone because there are just so many people that nobody is significant.

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>>44802705
You're welcome. I really enjoy world building.

>>44803369
Except "significant" is just one's opinion and you ought to explore the intellectual content of shit of more intellectual value than an adaption of a bog-standard "sex and sorcery" porn game.

OP here. I seem to have forgotten my high school education or I'm needlessly confusing things. Does mass have a direct correlaton to size, or can something have high mass but be smaller because of it being more, for lack of better words, "packed in"

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>>44803876
>OP is so retarded he forgot density exists

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>>44803876
You mean density.
Creatures like kaiju can't technically exist on Earth because they would collapse upon themselves unless they were made of exotic matter.
Giant creatures exist more easily in liquids because the water removes a lot of the stress that affects large animals.
Super huge beings could exist on other planets, but they would not be Earthlike, they'd be very different.

>>44804122
One could say he's quite dense himself.

>>44802641
Spoilered for cancer:
Basically whenever I got involved in some Harry Potter fan creative thing and it fell to me to make a BBEG, my default villain was a Darklord who wanted to expose magic to the world and create a new age of heroes and villains. I liked him because the fun part of his schtick was that he didn't mind the idea of an inevitable downfall, as long as it was big, showy, and everyone saw and was inspired to rise up to become a dark lord them self ot become a hero.

>>44804208
Fucking what?

>>44804171
>can't technically exist

Fuck that, we've had dinosaurs the size of goddamn buildings.

If that is not a kaiju, I don't know what is. Just mount a flamethrower on it.

>>44803537
It's possible for bad things to have good aspects. Just because something is shit as a whole does not mean everything it contains is also shit.

>>44804265
It's shit though.

>>44804259
Its because we had a lot more O2 65+ mya.

>>44801522
The way he portrays all the Muslim NPCs in his setting is terribly insensitive.

>>44804582
It's faggots like you who don't DEUS VULT that make him have to retcon shit.

You're ruining everyone's immersion, you faggot!

>>44804441
so what you are saying is that in addition to a flamethrower, we should also mount a breather tank on it.

This is becoming more kaiju the more we talk about it.

>>44802730
It's the weta's bugblood. It's jaws got stuck and it hurt itself pulling too hard.

Thanks for the help guys. I'll try to flesh out the world too, but I'm generally not good at world building so this'll be good practice

>>44805173
It's digestive fluid

>>44805173
That's badass as fuck, giant horrifying bugs snap their mandibles biting you.

>>44802730
>>44805173
>>44802688
You wouldn't believe how sharp an an insects bite can be. I've been bitten by several and the mandibles just slides in and out of my fleshy bits. Even mantis blades are fucking sharp.

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>>44801471
Do you want a REALISTIC planet?
Watch these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=norkDnRhUy8&list=PLduA6tsl3gyhkk8AGpWUOX90TOhBe6IJE

Literally the best resource if you don't want to read the books yourself.

>>44804582
He's not an asshole who generalizes like you, at the very least.

>>44809897
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=norkDnRhUy8&list=PLduA6tsl3gyhkk8AGpWUOX90TOhBe6IJE
And i'm procrastinating instead of writing.

>>44809996
Happy to help.
He really does his research.

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>>44802126
>"I want you to hit me as hard as you can"

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>>44802037
>does that give me an anthropology fetish?

Of course. Just admit it, and you'll feel better.

All that environmental pressure guiding your scoiety towards sporadic changes on tradition, on and on and on and on, until the tsunami crashes down and changes your entire mythology.

Oh gods...

Huhhuuhhuuhffffff, hhhuuuuffffff,
aaahhhhhhnnnmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Was it good for you too?

>>44804794
I like your logic.

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>>44801471
http://world-engine.org/

it use tectonic plates stuff to generate the world.

good luck trying to install it

>>44804171
Mechanical strength is actually not that much of a problem for giant creatures. Heat dissipation is the limiting factor.

>>44801471
Well, I hate to break it to you anon, but first you need to be a bit larger. And spherical.