[Creative Exercise] Worlds in a word, planes in a paragraph

[Bohandas]

Entomia - Large, tidally locked, low gravity planet inhabited by giant insects and insect people. The planet is tidally locked like Mercury so that a solar day is longer than a year and so in the local culture age is measured in days rather than years

 

[Bohandas]

The Bowl - Flat world whose gravity is towards its center of mass. Thus, the further one gets from the center the steeper the apparent incline of the ground. At the middle of the disc is a large, dome shaped central ocean

 

[Bohandas]

Setting that's a cross between cyberpunk and dieselpunk. It's the future and there's computers and megacorps, but there's also prohibition and gangsters.

EDIT: Prohibition and densely packed cities should both be played up to distinguish this from the Chairmen tribe from Fallout New Vegas, who I just realized that this sounds a lot like

 

[W'rkncacnter]

Setting that's a cross between cyberpunk and dieselpunk. It's the future and there's computers and megacorps, but there's also prohibition and gangsters.

EDIT: Prohibition and densely packed cities should both be played up to distinguish this from the Chairmen tribe from Fallout New Vegas, who I just realized that this sounds a lot like

fallout's really a (post-)post-apocalyptic western more then anything. i wouldn't be worried about the chairmen.

 

[Bohandas]

edit: wrong thread

 

[Bohandas]

Middle America
I've got this half formed idea for a world where major areas of Middle Earth from Lord of The Rings are now US states. Like there's 51 states and one of them is Mordor. Or there's 52 states and Mordor is one and Gondor is another one - and of course they're on opposite sides of the political spectrum.
Might be suitable for Toon. It initially came to me as an ides for an SNL-style comedy sketch, but it might also be suitable as a setting for Toon.

EDIT: Also I'm thinking the Shire is somewhere in Wisconsin

 

[dvar]

Kael Tundra, the Breath of the Frozen Sun: A desolate expanse of ice and snow where the sun glows pale and cold, casting shadows of frost instead of light. The few settlements here are shielded by living glaciers—sentient, slow-moving ice masses that grant shelter in exchange for tales of warmth and summer. Beneath the tundra’s surface lies a labyrinth of glowing ice caverns, home to creatures of frost and flame locked in an eternal struggle.

Thronmir, the Everspire: A single colossal spire rises from a sea of clouds, its base lost to a storm-swept void and its peak hidden among the stars. Within the spire, gravity shifts unpredictably, creating chambers where adventurers must navigate upside-down hallways or floating platforms. The spire is said to be the tomb of an ancient star god, whose restless dreams twist reality for those brave enough to explore its heights.

Saeltira, the Whispering Sands: This desert plane is a vast ocean of golden sand dunes that sing softly when the wind moves across them. Buried beneath the sands are ancient cities, whose walls whisper the secrets of their downfall to those who listen closely. Travelers must contend with sandstorms that strip away not only flesh but memory, leaving them wandering as amnesiac husks.

 

[Bohandas]

The Development - A world laid out by the gods with a bunch of identical islands laid out in a grid, like identical homes in a real estate development

(edit: inspired by watching an Animal Crossing let's play and realizing that everyone's islands will have one of those same four base layouts)

 

[Bohandas]

The 2093 Dystopia This one's not mine but it bears mentioning here. There's a video by the youtuber/twitch streamer wayneradiotv where he and his friends were messing around with AI to generate humorous fake top ten lists and they wound up creating a bizarre dystopian setting where a combination of drugs in the water, reality TV hiveminds, and a remake of the Canadian b-movie "Gooby" winning all the awards at an award show and becoming a viral sensation combine to cause the collapse of civilization. There's also something in there about a mysterious and sinister figure called "The Backwards Man". Here's the video, the relevant part starts at 13111 seconds. warning for coarse language

 

[Perky the Dragon]

The City of Whenwhere - towers rise on the shores of the Sea of Possibility. People arrive, lost in the mists. Every culture, from every place and every tongue might be found here.