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From Verge
This page is a list of things to use as nodes when constructing your setting network. You're certainly not limited to this list, but use these for inspiration when creating your own game world. Eventually, I want this list to be a thousand or more items!
Please add your own ideas to this page! You'll receive credit (make sure you are registered on the site with the name you want credited, or drop me a note via email or your personal User: page).
Ideas borrowed from:
- Warning Signs for Tomorrow, by Anders Sandberg
Cool Terms We Just Made Up
- Zombie Brainframe, a giant computer composed of interconnected, (usually) human brains in a vat of fluid. (Adam Dray)
- Sony PrayStation, a portable electronic device used by the on-the-go faithful to reach their preacher or deity. (Matt Gandy)
Ideas for Elements
Technologies
- Nanotechnology
- Plasma Physics
- Biofuels
- Virtual Reality
- Holographic Hyperreality
- Cybernetic Organ Replacement
- Disposable Bodies
- Genegeneering
- Subliminal Behaviour Modification Advertising
- Androids
- RIFD
- Antimatter
- Chaotic Systems
- Self-replicating Devices
- Universal Internet Connectivity
- Self-Improving Software
Ideologies
- Commerc ialism
- Religion
- Christianity
- Buddhism
- Muslim
- 22nd Century Atheists
- Government
- Imperialism
- Democracy
- Communism
- Monarchy
- Oligarchy
- Utililitarianism
- Ludditism
- Digital Animism
- Privacy
- Ubiquitous Surveillance
- Free Speech
- Freedom of Religion
- Freedom of the Press
- Right to Bear Arms
Organizations
- Secret Societies
- Neo-Nanite Freemasons
- Government
- CIA
- FBI
- Corporations
- Megasoft
- Advanced Biotechnica, Corp (ABC)
- Channel 999
- Recreation
- International Chess Grandmasters
Situations
- Addiction
- Apocalypse
- Nonstandard Spacetime
Places
- Space Station
- Near-Earth Orbit
- Meridian City
- Vatican VR Cathedral
- Mainframe 221
Qualities
- Bulging Muscles
- Hyperintelligence
- Charisma
- Eidetic Memory
- Hive Mind
- Lightning Reflexes
- Bullshit Detector
- Pediatric Cybersurgeon
Ideas for Edges
Stative Verbs
- has a
- is a
- feels
- likes
- loves
- hates
- thinks he wants
- believes
- is trying to _____ (with transitive verb)
- wants to _____ (with transitive verb)
- knows
- owns
- controls
- contains
- recognizes
- prefers
Dynamic Verbs
- leads / is leading
- chases / is chasing
- seeks / is seeking
Past Tense Verbs
- created / designed / invented / founded
- begat / gave birth to
- married
- retired from
- quit
- killed
- resigned
- joined
