Gristly Skeleton Table Setting

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"Minimalism as it applies to RPGs is like Maze Rats, where the setting is a set of words in random tables or a plotline is a rough flowchart of names, objects, and locations. 

Giving yourself room to improvise while giving yourself enough structure to be stable."

Another prompt that I'm responding to RIGHT NOW:

THE BEGRISTLED SKELETON OF YOUR NEW CAMPAIGN SETTING IS MADE FROM THIS:

Foundation Of Economy Is:

1.Shark Teeth (cutting, jewelry/art objects, trade object)

2.Sewage Methane (fuel , balloons)

3.Coca leaves (stimulant (mild and completely not mild), medicine , memorial(?), rituals) 

4.Lobotomized Gnomes (labour, food, books, batterys)

5.Condescend Darkness (sun protection, hiding from gods, sleep aid)

6.Rice (food, ethanol , paper)

7.Tea (mild stimulant , status object, ancestor appeasement) 

8.Opium (medicine, drug, astral ablative armour)

9.Uranium (ghost  spirit magic protection, heat, armour + supernatural defense penetrating weapons)

10.Gelatine (glues, sealant , protection against environmental diseases)

11.Guano (for fertilizer + gunpower)

12.Silks, various (clothing , rope, sails, dreamcatchers)

Threat that shapes everyone's lives

1. Hungry Soils

2. Evil stars 

3.Social Structure Dominated by Scattered Feuding Warlords

4.Player Races not native , difficult to get enough protein and nutrition from flora and fauna

5.Barely Contained "cold-war" between 2 massive empires

6.ongoing Colonisation by distinctly advantaged Others

7.Fundamental Forces Essential To Life are weakened e.g the sun , fertility, water

8.Fauna getting steadily more monstrous and hostile

9.Munitions and weapons from ancient war  keep going off or being found and causing upheavals

10. Climate change (either Warming or Cooling)

11.Kaiju Eggs From Space

12.Dangerous Discoveries In Magic or Technology or Brain Powers

Significant Historical Event Which Shaped Quite A Bit I Can Tell You

1.Super Big War

2. Mountains All Started Floating

3. Seas drained to vast underground caves

4.contact with underworld people

5.Gods all killed each other

6.Alien race started using this world as their transitionary afterlife

7.A better version of fire discovered

8.Mutations

9.Universal language discovered, extends to mineral and vegetable kingdom as well as all animals

10.Previous Ancient and Establish Ruling Wizard Class overthrown

11.Doomsday happened but it was mild

12.Seas Rose but super buoyant gas discovered 

Immediately Noticeable

1. Warrior Caste Very Important  but Tattoos as armour and class war

2. All domestic animals some form of worm

3. 7 colours of rain with different properties 

4. Puppet based technologys

5. Sky Rivers and Lakes

6. All plants quite animated and semi-motile

7. Intensive Vertical Architecture 

8. No violence in cities, even waring armys will eat with each other

9.Extremely large anthropods

10.Big Chucks of Death things lying around

11. Bridges To Moons

12. Everyone smokes and lights incense to keep imps, batmites,midges and ghosts away

Underlying Thing:

1.Despair

2.Crazed Optimism 

3. Mystery , Deception

4.Age of Exploration/Exploitation

5. Corruption of Ideal

6. Total War

7. Heroic War Improving Opportunity 

8. Nude Surival

9.Weird Shit All The Time

10.Sacrifice To Maintain Stuff that isn't that great but no-one has better idea  

11.What Cost Is Power

12.Moral Relativism 

Apex Predator:

1.Giant Severed Hands

2.Cog Squid

3.Poison Lion

4. Corpse Python 

5. Sin Dragon

6. Angels

7. Walking Cruelty Tower

8. Starhound

9. Tyrannosaurus Rex 

10. Skinbear

11. Broiling Wheel

12. Trains

Main Adventure Locale:

1. Rotting Palaces and Pleasure domes

2. Crashed WarShips

3. The Fronteir

4. Gristling Skycaves

5. The Past

6. Ice/bone/wart/timebergs

7.the underworld that's actually underground

8.the underworld that's only accessible from weird places and doesn't really geographically make sense

9.scavenging prisons

10.Trash mounds

11. Islands

12. Dense biomes like jungles or grave forests

Picture unrelated, it's from Joan fontcuberta's Stranger than fiction