Any ideas for a castlepunk setting ?
I liked the one by anon where a world was invaded by entities from another dimension and basically turned into a single endless giant castle, where the survivors and denizens have banded into hundreds of kingdoms, warring for hallways, rooms and towers, but i wonder if he ripped this off from somewhere
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Gormenghast would be up your alley.
>Gormenghast would be up your alley.
People who start threads entitled 'Castlepunk' aren't going to be able to manage Gormenghast. Anon we're talking gold fish attention spans here come on be realistic.
The whole setting is an endless castle. There is no sky. It’s just an endless fricking castle in all directions. Nations are essentially “wings” of the castle.
Start there.
That would be dungeonpunk
So WoW's Revendreth?
He probably wants something not gay.
>post says no sky
>reply has image with sky
>There is no sky
Oh, no sky?? Like a castle-plane created by a mad eccentric God?
The best looking castles, new and shiny are in the core of the plane, and that's where most powerful nations take place, fighting each other for control of the core.
As you travel away from the core, the structures start to decay, but not normal decay due to passage of time but some magical/dimensional decay, as wall start to twist, rock get softer, non-Euclidean shapes start to appear.
The problem is, "what do they eat"? You have to define this before defining any other social dynamics, food is the core of everything.
>what do they eat
potatoes
Nihei (of Blame! fame) just started a new series with this sort of vibe. Its one, very very very large castle, with a sort of Dark Soulsy aesthetic for the stuff inside it.
Pass. japs dont know how to do it.
theirs also a book like that like that but it's a mansion called Piranesi
Castlevania-inspired mega Dungeon set in and 100 levels castle.
The objective? To find the body of the castles lord before he awakens
(Every adevnture you roll a D20. On a 1, something happens and he will gets one step closer to rewakening)
You can do great faction work for the "countries" that arise inside the megaduggeons. Explorer guild Villages, orc Lairs that span entire levels, mythical races from ages past that resurfaced with the castle, etc.
you did this thread earlier and it got deleted OP.
Why do people keep adding "punk" to stuff?
Because it's cultural term that represents a concept, so it's easy to convey it to others.
Now if you don't like, tell us why.
Because it's fricking gay. Here's a label you can use poser-core. That's what everything "-punk" is.
-Core is just the zoomer version of -punk.
the interpretation I've seen is that
-punk indicates technological level
-core indicates aesthetics and "feel"
It isn't easy to convey and doesn't actually represent a concept, because everyone always says "IT'S AN AESTHETIC" when challenged on its meaning, and these same people don't actually know what aesthetic means.
Trying to find an actual meaning results in tautology, screeching, and deflection, which is a shame, because there's over a hundred thousand words that actually exist in our language that can be used to convey what you mean.
It just makes sense. Stop looking for shit to be angry about.
Lack of education has left them with a poor vocabulary so they struggle to articulate themselves coherently.
It's a /tg/ troll that makes these threads as shallow bait. s a g e, and it goes in all fields.
>yes, I consider myself a /tg/ moderator
>no, I don't have any actual mod powers, stop asking.
Yes, but I would build it as localized phenomena. With some incentive aside from using the castles for shelter against others. Like, the castles generate some wealth inside their walls or underneath the castle
the bones of the slain turn to gold
History has for all the maps you might need, one geomorph after another.
For actual game-stuff, see The Gardens of Ynn or The Stygian Library for usable ideas on structuring play, and
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medieval settings are already "castlepunk", you colossal fricking idiot.
"punk" doesn't mean "literally everything is this". Are steampunk settings made of steam? no they the frick aren't
I'd mix Fromsoft Soulsborne stuff with Gormenghast, & Castlevania.
I would personally include well dressed dapper rats who live in the walls, & if you are polite, & give them gold or maybe more esoteric things, they allow you use of their rat tunnels to travel quickly through some of the harder to traverse areas.
On the note of Castlevania, I was thinking what you'd get trying to make up your own world but reach the same sort of end-point.
Here's what I've got so far-
>classical antiquity had multiple large empires generally trading and worshipping the old gods
>Dark Ages kick off with a giant-ass demon invasion and a bunch of new species dropping down like orcs fricking shit up
>After a millenia of this with the old empires barely hanging on, angels come down to teach mankind (or rather womankind specifically) to use white-magic to defend themselves against all the monsters.
>Several crusades later the worlds kinda split between the 'civilized' regions under the purview of the Church that incorporates the old gods but relies more on the doctrines of white magic, and those outside who openly practice black magic.
>Also said Church is split largely amongst political lines between the major powers, who are all theocratic at least to some degree.
>main continent lies on a plateau with the 'Long Wall' on the border with the plains from which periodic invasions of Orcs occur and life generally sucks