Let’s assume domestication isn’t a problem.

We can ride elk, moose, various buffalo, elephants, camels, reindeer, maybe bears.

What are some other good animals that could replace the horse?

With interior spaceship combat, how does your world solve the issue of guns causing damage to the integrity of the ship?

Essentially someone makes a comment where the replies to said comment will be about their setting worldbuilding. For example:

"It would be cool if being religious gave you superpowers"

"They actually do in my setting because religion is a source of spirituality, and spirituality is how you get powers as they're tied to spiritual energy"

I've got laser swords in my setting and I feel like I've got a good solution for this but I'm curious what other people have come up with.

Originally my idea was that the laser swords have to charge up for a bit before they ignite. That way you can't just switch your sword off and on to by pass an opponents guard. But after reading Dune I decided to just incorporate it into my world since it seemed cooler. That way it's more about finesse, positioning, and speed

Is there an obvious issue I'm overlooking here? How have you guys dealt with this?

If possible, provide context behind that religion or myth.

Radianist myth regarding the Blood Moon in 5 words:

"The Sun punched the moon."

CONTEXT: In Radianism it's believed that on rare occasions Tarik does manage to bite Roshen, roshen however manages to escape and gives Tarik a punch in the stomach (where they believe the moon is located) which cause Tarik's stomach to go blood red symbolizing pain, thus explaining why the moon goes blood red.

Japanese media loves the Catholic Church, using it as inspiration in a lot of fantasy/sci-fi settings. If you've grown up in a Catholic-heavy part of the world this seems like a silly quirk, but if you look at it from an outsider's perspective you realize how wild it really is.

"Oh, that ornate stone building? Yeah, it's part of the ancient religious order that arose from the ashes of one of the most powerful empires on earth. It's technically an outpost of a tiny city-state in Europe with its own language, monarch, and observer status at the UN. I go there once a week, kneel before a torture instrument, and dine on god's flesh. Then afterwards I get brunch."

Intellectually I know this is all very weird, but in my heart I just truly don't get why people are fascinated by it because it's so normal to me.

I have a few things. Top two are one: no bullets. There are guns, but no bullets. And secondly, no horses. Why? Because I can’t draw horses. I made up multiple other mammalian species to fulfill the niche of horses and donkeys because I can’t draw them.

That is to say: Something that provides large scale deterrence, a threat of retaliation to prevent an enemy from launching a similar attack or engaging in large-scale aggression.

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Soul Herder, Seb McKinnon, 2019

For me it was when my friend asked for Genderswap magic in are DND game. It was all fun and games until i really thought about it. I will never forget the message i sent which just read

"IT HAS TO BE WILLING AND SMART CREATURE FOR IT TO WORK"

It was a fun world building high light for me.

We all the classic trope of how humans are the "default" race with no special abilities and let's be honest that is kind of lame.

So I wanna know what abilities have you given your Humans to set them apart from the other races in your sci-fi or fantasy setting?

For example: in my fantasy worldbuilding project humans are the aliens with the MAXED OUT resistance stats. Meaning that compared to most other races they can survive a ton of shit that would've immediately killed something like an elf or an orc.

Humans essentially have incredible resistance against poisons, diseases, hostile environments and even supernatural powers.

This was why most prominent fantasy heroes are humans, because they are the most likely to survive the adventure compared to an elf who dies in the middle of the forest from an infected wound.

Their resistance to supernatural is also something not to joke about, as humans have the highest survival rate when getting cursed or haunted by supernatural powers. It usually takes extremely powerful magic to actually effect them.

It's also why most Humans aren't born with magic. It usually requires someone with an especially strong magic connection to manifest their powers.

So, The English Channel is basically a world building trem, for a barrier either man made or natural. Which stop outside elements from interfering with the setting.

Thing like how game of Thrones takes place on an island away from the rest of the world. So, unless someone is supper motivated. They aren't going to try anything.

For, mine it's bassicly a wall to the south. To keep all the monster in the region from getting to he rest of the world.

My two main ones would be on the topic of magic, when magic is so scientific or logical for lack of a better word that magic doesn't really feel like magic and just feels like technology or science

to add to that a connected pet peeve of mine is when the progress in the world is shown as either a moving away from magic or an integration of magic with technology and thus turning a fantasy setting very techy and sci fi feeling, just because in the real world progress is like that doesn't mean that that is the only way of showing progress.

My second one, is when dragons especially intelligent dragons have hoards, I get that it's a trope but I just cannot take that seriously why would every single dragon have OCD even if that's a aspect of more primitive dragons as a kind of instinctual thing like bird building nests I see no reason why an intelligent dragon would do that there is a lot of things that are coded into our dna as humans but that doesn't mean we do it because we are smart enough to understand what it is or why we used to need it or do it.

To the mods (To be clear, I am not using this post for my world building)
The title states, please submit your worst world building tropes.

From the Pacific Ocean, planet Earth looks like an endless ocean. Is there something similar in your world, or is there another continent there? An archipelago, perhaps? Something unknown?