Worldbuilding

Tags

A tag is a keyword or label that categorizes your question with other, similar questions. Using the right tags makes it easier for others to find and answer your question.

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For questions that require answers based on hard science, not magic or pseudo-science, but do not require scientific citations. Contrast with the hard-science and reality-check tags. Do not use this t…
22 asked this week, 104 this month
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realistic in a given context. Answers should say yes or no, with supporting info. Compare this with the science-based and hard-science tags. This tag should never be the onl…
20 asked this week, 64 this month
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For questions about living things. Does not exclude aliens, but additional information is usually necessary (consider using "xenobiology" instead).
8 asked this week, 44 this month
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For questions dealing with how sentient beings interact with each other in a community.
9 asked this week, 25 this month
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For questions that have to do with magic, as opposed to science/technology. Remember to explain any limits.
17 asked this month, 323 this year
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For questions about any large astronomical bodies classified as planets, and their effects on their systems.
5 asked this week, 27 this month
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For questions about the creation, use, and application of all types of technology.
19 asked this month, 261 this year
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For questions regarding the viability of a life-form design. These questions should focus on biologically plausible creatures.
23 asked this month, 266 this year
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For questions relating to worlds with a setting of common science-fiction.
7 asked this week, 27 this month
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For questions related to the effects of certain circumstances, conditions, or locality changes on war. Related tags: [civil-war], [nuclear-war], [cold-war]
23 asked this month, 194 this year
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For questions regarding the physics relevant to fictitious worlds. General physics may be off-topic.
5 asked this week, 25 this month
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For questions about the long-term change of a specific species, type of creature, or trait, usually through the process of natural selection and reproduction. Consider also [creature-design].
5 asked this week, 18 this month
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For questions related to outer space, stellar systems, stars and other astronomical phenomena.
15 asked this month, 172 this year
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For questions about humans as we know them or slightly changed, their physiology, psychology, politics, society and goals.
19 asked this month, 153 this year
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For questions about existing weapons or designing new ones.
16 asked this month, 180 this year
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For questions about a different and uncharacteristic species or object that has come to the world from another world. NOT for questions about extraterrestrials in their native environment.
8 asked this month, 86 this year
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For questions regarding wealth, trade, or financial concepts.
7 asked this month, 94 this year
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For questions about an environment or aspects of it such as geographical, atmospheric or climate.
11 asked this month, 115 this year
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to mark questions related to creating plausible alien biologies that may be close to or far removed from Earthly biology but within the realms of hard science.
16 asked this month, 140 this year
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For questions about the process of traveling through space, including in orbit around a planet or moon. Consider also [spaceships]. See also the tag information (click "info") for more details on when…
124 asked this year
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For questions involving implemented theory or technology for travelling through space. Consider also [space-travel]. See also the tag information (click "info") for more details on when this tag appli…
10 asked this month, 124 this year
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For questions about the medieval era (500-1500AD o.e.) as a whole.
5 asked this month, 108 this year
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Requires answers backed up by equations, empirical evidence, scientific papers, other citations, etc. Contrast with: science-based and reality-check tags. This tag should never be the only tag on a qu…
5 asked this week, 13 this month
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For questions that ask what might have happened if history had taken a different path.
86 asked this year
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For questions regarding planets similar to Earth in most respects. This tag should be used when describing a planet that follows the rules of Earth with exceptions outlined in the question. Usually q…
6 asked this month, 88 this year
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For questions dealing with the political body with authority over a nation or world and its people.
5 asked this month, 85 this year
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For questions dealing with the customary and artistic characteristics of a society.
6 asked this month, 54 this year
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For questions dealing with events taking place after a catastrophic event.
12 asked this month, 113 this year
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For questions about governance of the people, including methods, effects, and interactions with the people.
5 asked this month, 57 this year
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For questions about specific changes in the characteristics of the weather in a location. You should also consider the tags [weather] and [seasons].
8 asked this month, 84 this year
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For questions about the characteristics and effects of natural features on a world.
14 asked this month, 99 this year
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For questions about the progress of a society's technological state.
7 asked this month, 63 this year
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For questions about the universal accelerative force between all objects.
6 asked this month, 102 this year
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For questions about animal life in general.
12 asked this month, 80 this year
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For questions pertaining to natural satellites, such as our own Moon.
6 asked this month, 78 this year
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For questions about the gases which surround a planet or some other celestial body.
7 asked this month, 108 this year
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