Shared Universe / Isekai Collaboration?

[AdLeto]

"Lewddor is a grimdark continent overflowing with crime with many sexual monsters that prey on humans. It is surrounded by miasma that corrupts any soul who enters the area.

Seens like a good place to live

 

[Nahrenne]

OP draft:

Generic Isekai Shared Universe Collaboration​

Are you writing a generic isekai story? This group is dedicated to a shared universe collaboration!

Setting Features:

• Enormous world (almost endless in size)
• Medieval fantasy ambience
• Stereotypical JRPG monsters (i.e. slimes, goblins)
• Stereotypical fantasy races (i.e. elves, dwarves, orcs)
• Multiple systems of magic co-exist
• Multiple gods, goddesses, and blessings co-exist
• Isekai summoning rituals and Otherworlders

Author Participation Rules:

Rule One: Keep things open-ended

All additions you make to the world should be open-ended. Give other future authors the chance to expand, alter, or elaborate on something that you write about. Avoid superlatives or restrictive content that prevent other authors from adding more material. When something conflicts, try your best to think of a way that both things can exist.​

• Good: Fruys is one of the Great Dragons who breathes fire.
• Bad: There are exactly three Great Dragons in the entire universe and Fruys is the only one who breaths fire.

Rule Two: Accept that you don't "own" things that you add to the universe

As authors, it's natural to feel possessive about our stories. However, in a collaborative world-building project, it's important to accept that we give up ownership when we contribute something to the shared universe.​

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By adding a city to the universe, you have to to accept that someone else might come along and set it on fire.​

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If you're unable to accept other people modifying, contributing, or even destroying your setting, this collaborative project may not be good for you.​

Rule Three: Reserve as little as possible when writing your story

We allow authors to reserve a location and a time period when writing a story.​

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We allow reservations because we understand that it takes a long time to write a story, and we may not want other authors to change a particular setting when we're in the process of a story. However, it's best for the community (and also more fun) if you reserve as little as possible and let things develop organically when multiple authors cross paths and intersect with their stories.​

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Reserving an entire continent for 100 years is dull... because other authors won't want to use your setting if you're too controlling about it.​

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Reserving something small (like a city or a palace inside the capital) for ~10 years is recommended.​

Rule Four: Keep the shared documents concise and generic

To encourage new authors to join, keep the shared worldbuilding documents as concise as possible.​

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Try to limit glossary entries to sentences not paragraphs. You can link your story if it addresses a particular topic in detail.​

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Remember that making things too complex chases away other authors from wanting to participate, so simple is better!​

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Only add things to the glossary if you've written it in your story. Don't add things that you haven't yet written...​

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Example Starting Glossary:

Gaia is the name of a world that is nearly endless in size. Nobody knows how big it is, and it has numerous continents.

Ochre is a temperate continent in Gaia.

....

The Kingdom of Ralas is a country in Ochre (circa year 1000) that is occupied by many humans.

King Midas ruled the Kingdom of Ralas from year 1000-1020. He was very cruel.

*gets heavy AG vibes from this introduction*
I initially had to double-check the thread to see if I'd clicked on a new rpg thread you'd made.
>w<

X

 

[minacia]

*gets heavy AG vibes from this introduction*
I initially had to double-check the thread to see if I'd clicked on a new rpg thread you'd made.
>w<

X

I think out of all the mini-games so far, AG has been the most successful... so probably something along that theme would be safest!

 

[Aaky]

OP draft:

Generic Isekai Shared Universe Collaboration​

Are you writing a generic isekai story? This group is dedicated to a shared universe collaboration!

Setting Features:

• Enormous world (almost endless in size)
• Medieval fantasy ambience
• Stereotypical JRPG monsters (i.e. slimes, goblins)
• Stereotypical fantasy races (i.e. elves, dwarves, orcs)
• Multiple systems of magic co-exist
• Multiple gods, goddesses, and blessings co-exist
• Isekai summoning rituals and Otherworlders

Author Participation Rules:

Rule One: Keep things open-ended

All additions you make to the world should be open-ended. Give other future authors the chance to expand, alter, or elaborate on something that you write about. Avoid superlatives or restrictive content that prevent other authors from adding more material. When something conflicts, try your best to think of a way that both things can exist.​

• Good: Fruys is one of the Great Dragons who breathes fire.
• Bad: There are exactly three Great Dragons in the entire universe and Fruys is the only one who breaths fire.

Rule Two: Accept that you don't "own" things that you add to the universe

As authors, it's natural to feel possessive about our stories. However, in a collaborative world-building project, it's important to accept that we give up ownership when we contribute something to the shared universe.​

​

By adding a city to the universe, you have to to accept that someone else might come along and set it on fire.​

​

If you're unable to accept other people modifying, contributing, or even destroying your setting, this collaborative project may not be good for you.​

Rule Three: Reserve as little as possible when writing your story

We allow authors to reserve a location and a time period when writing a story.​

​

We allow reservations because we understand that it takes a long time to write a story, and we may not want other authors to change a particular setting when we're in the process of a story. However, it's best for the community (and also more fun) if you reserve as little as possible and let things develop organically when multiple authors cross paths and intersect with their stories.​

​

Reserving an entire continent for 100 years is dull... because other authors won't want to use your setting if you're too controlling about it.​

​

Reserving something small (like a city or a palace inside the capital) for ~10 years is recommended.​

Rule Four: Keep the shared documents concise and generic

To encourage new authors to join, keep the shared worldbuilding documents as concise as possible.​

​

Try to limit glossary entries to sentences not paragraphs. You can link your story if it addresses a particular topic in detail.​

​

Remember that making things too complex chases away other authors from wanting to participate, so simple is better!​

​

Only add things to the glossary if you've written it in your story. Don't add things that you haven't yet written...​

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Example Starting Glossary:

Gaia is the name of a world that is nearly endless in size. Nobody knows how big it is, and it has numerous continents.

Ochre is a temperate continent in Gaia.

....

The Kingdom of Ralas is a country in Ochre (circa year 1000) that is occupied by many humans.

King Midas ruled the Kingdom of Ralas from year 1000-1020. He was very cruel.

When could we start? Haha

 

[minacia]

When could we start? Haha

I'll go make a new thread lol

 

[Milk.Milkan]

I'm interested too! If it's a really light/simple world, it might actually be well suited for a collaboration!

Tecnically it is rather somple. It no goes dat well with ur draft tho buut there is one general moment in a story dat makes it full of shit to fill with whatever ur heart desire.

Spoiler: Quote from da ch22

At first, there was a Goddess who created this world. Or more precisely - who wanted to create a world. Like when you want to play some games but don’t know what exactly you want to play as you sit in front of your PC. And so the Goddess summoned people from another world to help her think about ideas. And so it happens that those people were people from Japan. Basically - the whole world was actually created by a bunch of chuuni school boys and girls who tried to recreate their perfect isekai. They thought about tons of random garbage like the system with levels, Demon Lord to kill and lots and lots of random races to fill the world.

And dere is still tons of shit dat was not yet thought of like magic(at all) random skills(basically at all) and stuff dat me had no time/need to thought about cuz of MCs nature, heh.

Dere r also different time stamps like heroes time(with tons of random reincarneted/summoned people exists), war times(with some reincarnated/summoned people exists), current times or can be called Yuki times(as of when the story in heppens right now with no reincarnated/summoned people at all) and past current times/future times dat will start after the Yuki times ends and itt le fun shit going on around buut cuz of one lil concept me lazy to write rn we need to think of another world to summon random people from other dan earth.

And from all of dat times actually tons of changes could be done/thought cuz overall idea is pretty flexible.

Bit to get an idea without me wrecking ma brain writing in english if ya want to u can waste a bit of ur time going through whatever written in ma lil "one work" or at least check out like 1-4-5-(maybe 7 and ex1)-14-and 22nd chapters to get the most of some kind of world building dat me could write somehow cuz ITS NOT MY FAULT DAT MC REALLY DOESNT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT WHATEVER HEPPENS WHERE SHOULD I WRITE ABOUT THE WORLD, HUH?