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wild supers
Into a setting, I introduce spontaneously developing supers. Always before -- for centuries -- supers had been deliberately made, for the service of king and country or at least the super-maker himself. . . .
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superpowers, and suits
Nothing is more iconic to the superhero genre than those brightly colored, form-fitting suits. And nothing is harder to justify.
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how to change the world
These articles have had a deep influence on my thoughts on worldbuilding superheroes. I may have linked them before, but why not twice?
http://fantasticworlds-jordan179.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-superpowered-people-would-change.html?m=1
http://fantasticworlds-jordan179.blogspot.com/2011/03/metahumans-as-ultimate-weapons.html?m=1
http://fantasticworlds-jordan179.blogspot.com/2013/09/why-global-mass-rejection-of-metahumans.html?m=1 ;
http://fantasticworlds-jordan179.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-superpowered-people-would-change.html?m=1
http://fantasticworlds-jordan179.blogspot.com/2011/03/metahumans-as-ultimate-weapons.html?m=1
http://fantasticworlds-jordan179.blogspot.com/2013/09/why-global-mass-rejection-of-metahumans.html?m=1 ;
lands: where did he get them?
Ripping off a story idea and hitting on an issue. It's a nominally feudal land. (Nominally because it's inconsistent.) And the knight has a castle and an estate, both distinctly grand. It's explicitly mentioned that he got them in the original story, but nothing more. Which is one of the flaws that inspired me to redo the idea.
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super setting
Was reading "how-to" advice on how to write a superhero story.
A lot of it neglected the world-building. In all senses. It did not discuss how the supers would affect the world -- though it does seem to be a trope that the answer is "not at all" even when you have super-inventors -- but it also did not discuss how the super-world is constructed. Not even at the base level of assuming that you have a standard ripoff of DC/Marvel where there are masses of superheroes and supervillains and much crime and crime fighting involved. . . .
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A lot of it neglected the world-building. In all senses. It did not discuss how the supers would affect the world -- though it does seem to be a trope that the answer is "not at all" even when you have super-inventors -- but it also did not discuss how the super-world is constructed. Not even at the base level of assuming that you have a standard ripoff of DC/Marvel where there are masses of superheroes and supervillains and much crime and crime fighting involved. . . .
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power to fight crime
If you were looking for superheroes to fight crime, would you pick Superman?
Hmm. . . analyzing the power set. . . .
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Hmm. . . analyzing the power set. . . .
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government against the gaining of the superpowers
No government is going to like the existence of superpowers. It's like having a free-willed atom bomb roaming about.
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serial number
So I'm stealing the story of a superhero in hiding from injustice, and trying to file off the serial numbers. . . .
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observations about inspiration
One can discuss what the effect of power levels, and number of superheroes, are on world-building. But when building a superhero story, one doesn't have to start with them.
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superheroes and jails
Was thinking about jails and prisons in worlds with superpowers.
Not those FOR people with superpowers. Those for ordinary unpowered crooks.
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Not those FOR people with superpowers. Those for ordinary unpowered crooks.
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magical nobility
In a world where magic power in innately inborn, wizards rise to the top of society. Perhaps the upper class is all wizards. If it's hereditary, it will forms an aristocracy.
But not like we know it.
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But not like we know it.
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adventures in inheritance
The heroine is about to run off. And why not? The brothers are dead before she was married off and gained the security she can not have, not with the male-line inherintance.
Had to give her some reason to run off.
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Had to give her some reason to run off.
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history and the superpower
The thing about superpowers is that it's hard to project them too far back in time unless you want to change the world. Alternate history is generally close enough to history that you can recognize it.
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forensics and the superhero
An important question about superpowers, even before you discuss whether the superpowered can be forced to obey, is how easily you can detect the use of their powers. (And whether you need some super-science gadgets from your super-Gadgeteer.)
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law and the controlling of power
One thing that will be marginally connected with metaorigin but will affect the law is how easily your average super powered human can control his powers, and how much training it takes.
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