Microscope/Worldbuilding

1) At a con once.

2) Decent, possibly good.

3) Hard to say, but I'll go on a leg and say no. Building settings is something pretty simple anyway, no dedicated systems are generally necessary. At most something like Perilous Locations for Dungeon World.

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Unrelated to Microscope, but I'm bored as a doornail at work and just made this

No detailed fluff planned out, but the reds and greens are going to be adversaries and the blue will be neutral
The scribbly thing in the middle is an asteroid field, the colored shaped indicate strong military presence and the collection of black dots is an assembly of semi-artificial satellites that concentrate factories, trading posts and shipyards
I was thinking of having the greens be a breakaway faction from the reds, the reds being a militaristic empire on the decline trying to reclaim its colonies and the blue being a (possibly alien) faction of vastly technologically superior merchants, trading with both factions and profiting from the war (notably, they control the only stable corridor through the asteroid field)
Rate my sector, give advice or berate me for shitting out yet another a bog standard sci-fi setting

Yes, It's good. Not exactly.

You could run a microscope game, and end up with the beginnings of a setting, but I think it'll be hit or miss (because depending on the players moods and phase of the moon, you might get very different stories -- "I wanted Game of Thrones and I got Discworld")

That said, I like to start a campaign with a couple of prologue sessions (using whatever system, an elevator pitch version of the setting).

Then you bust out microscope. Only allow scenes to be before the other game. Play a couple of games (one is enough though). You're creating the legends and stories in your setting (which have a nugget of truth). This gives you myths to build on, to reincorporate. It gives the players the sort of grounding (and agency) in the setting. They know things about your setting that they'd otherwise have to get from some ham-handed exposition.

>>54047608
I will check this Perilous Locations, seems like there very useful things.

>>54048226
It's worldbuilding to, i think this is related, pretty cool by the way.

>>54048509
Thank you very much, for the tips, i will do this. I was thinking in do something like that, but just some guidelines in the beginning... Anyway you was very helpful.