>>6341064well TY+2EQQH anon, I am saddened by the confinement of your own mind. Why do you imprison and incarcerate your own intellect and curiosity so? What is this dull insipid withering of indentured imaginative servitude to which you consign the dessicated drudgery of your days to a grey monotonous demise? An endless vassalage of propriety in what you believe should or should not be comprehended shared and written? Perhaps you only watch animes? (anime is the worst, it is really really horrifying)
For example, earlier today, here are some of the topics I read about
- The role of the 13 Martyrs of Arad in the 1848 Uprisings in Hungary, alongside causes of widespread socioeconomic unrest following economic recession across Europe 1845-47
- The culture of jagunços, slave plantation bodyguards / mercenaries in South America versus cangaçeiros, nomadic armed outlaws in 19th century Brazil
- An interesting spherical trigonometry hyperbolic triangle whose interior angle sum is zero, with area of pi
- An article on obeah, a slave sorcery of the West Caribbean, and its differences to voodoo
- Some economic statistics on the historical fx reserve regime of CFA currency areas in Françafrique and their relation to capital outflows
-An essay on Schopenhauer and how his notions of Will, Art and the dissolution of Self finds a counterpart in later works by DH Lawrence, WH Auden and TS Eliot
The more interesting question to ask is not to rant about how these curiosities are irrelevant lol, but to imagine how you might use / transpose these ideas in games.
There is an endless wealth of intriguing historical socioeconomic mathematical technological philosophical phenomena to draw upon, that creates more innovative and peculiar fantastical speculative fiction beyond the cyberpunk robot laser spaceship space knight fighting a dragon samurai elf wizard.
And I don't think I am alone in doing this, I know some anons here follow the OSR blogs, I still read Patrick Stuart / Veins Of The Earth False Machine sometimes, he reads very interesting books. For instance I am reading this book (I have long contemplated a sort of desert silk road wuxia setting, too scared / ignorant to actually do it lol) but I am researching it with this book recommendation
https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-review-of-golden-peaches-of-samarkand.html(this book basically enumerates a list of gifts and tributes sent to the Tang dynasty, it is filled with slave girls yay lol)
or if you are of traditional medieval rpg taste, something like this
https://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-review-of-medieval-welsh-lyrics.htmlSo I feel you need to broaden your mind TY+2EQQH anon, hehe
