>>56754194Because it's boring, all fantasy lands end up looking generic because they resort to the same tropes (Passio), whereas those that take a civilization as a base gradually take on their own identity, perhaps it's because limitations stimulate the imagination.
For example, what if I take the iconography of an American city from the end of the 19th century? but I add retrofuturistic technology, while keeping the extremist political and religious thinking of that time.
