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That is a really cool one! Reminds me of the first Xenoblade game actually! It could be something I try to explore but I would need to remeber to make the setting my own. Plagurism would need to be something I need to keep in mind in that case. Like Id have to seriously consider how Id make it my own.

Approaching this idea, how would extracting resources from the god work? How would that affect the development of civilisation? Would the buildings be fleshy? Would the people bud off of the god's corpse like a cancer? Is this the only thing in the universe? How would other races react to discovering this? What killed the gods? (You can tell im good at asking questions, not so good at answering them.)

Ben McKenzie32 days ago (1 edit)

Physical bodies of dead gods have both been done enough times, and are not so common, that I think you’ll find a unique take pretty easily without needing to worry about plagiarism!

No wrong ways to answer these questions. Indeed some of your questions are ideas! I love the gross idea of people (or something else!) budding from a dead god’s corpse. What are those people or things like, do you think? Is any divine essence or power left in the body, and do they get any of it? Does it matter who the god was? What do the gods’ bodies even look like - giant people, or something much weirder?

I think it helps to focus on here and now questions; the history is secondary. This can also be framed as trying out some ideas to see how they feel. So do these people (etc) live on these gods? If they extract resources from the bodies, is that physical (e.g. they dig down to mine the blood and bones like oil and iron, or they cut down hairs like trees) or metaphysical (they consume the blood to gain some sort of power, meditate near the dead god’s heart to receive sustenance of some kind etc). And do you imagine this society has technology, and at what level - do they make trains and pumps, or wells and buckets?

NoneApplicableGames32 days ago

This is so gross its making me seriously consider it. The whole thing would end up looking like some kind of metal album cover.

An alternative thing I was considering was trying to explore the trope of evil darkness in JRPGs. Like trying to understand and deconstruct why this trope exsits and what it means.

Ben McKenzie32 days ago

Oh yeah - I saw that discussion in Discord! My suggestion would be to start with some basics of the world you want to play in, and keep that theme in mind as you go.

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