GrimLewd world overview
Welcome to GrimLewd [name pending]!
It is the year 721 AG.
The world is somehow still here . Corruption is slowly spreading everywhere. The Divine Corpse is still mercifully dead. The [Fornicators], [Crooks], and [Cult leaders] of the world rejoice as the shifting of the Path allows them the grow their powers in secret.
The Gods are still hiding up in the heavens, too terrified of what they've created to come back down.
All in all, it's an interesting time to be alive. Human or otherwise.
Overview:
GrimLewd is a LitRPG fantasy setting attempting to marry together GrimDark fantasy and Porn. Hopefully elevating both in the process.
What is a LitRPG? It's a type of fantasy setting where characters, in universe, gain levels, classes and abilities, like in a video game. It's not an actual game you could play. It's just an introduction of certain gamey elements into a literary setting to make it more fun.
The world itself is an early renessaince period dark fantasy type place, filled with warring human kingdoms, crazy magical corruption, evil magicks, terrible monsters and the like.
Magic is powerful but uncommon, armies fight with mostly medieval weaponry, but gunpowder is being introduced slowly. Most of the world is at least somewhat explored but there are still lands untouched by humans. Many ancient treasures and dangers to be found.
Gods exist and used to take an active role in the shaping of the world. They haven't been heard from for centuries giving raise to a lot of new and weird religions.
Major features of the world:
The Path:
Millenia ago, Gods took pity on primitive humanity, struggling to survive in a dark and dangerous world. They created the Path. A grand, semi sentient piece of magic that interfaces directly with humans, enabling them to gain superhuman resilience and abilities through the leveling and class system.
Over time, as humanity grew beyond what Gods predicted, the Path grew with them. Eventually becoming too complex for even the Gods to understand. Nowdays nobody knows that the Path wants, or if it even has it's own goals.
Nobody is in charge anymore! Gods no longer visit the human realm out of fear of the Path and it's creations.
Corruped levels and classes
One of the ways the Path strayed in it's original purpose is offering corrupted levels. Nobody knows what the requirements are, but sometimes, unlucky (or lucky) sentients get offered a choice.
Continue as you are or risk yourself to become more.
A new, unique class? Extra limbs? Utter insanity? The Path can take you into many wonderful places if you chose to walk it.
Secret Classes:
In the year 700 AG the path shifted and expanded. Up till then, the only [classes] offered to people were straightforward. [Blacksmith], [Soldier] ,[Scholar] and the like. You can tell everything you needed to know about a man just by looking at his [status]. Things were simple that way.
No more! The Path started offering people... Secret classes. Of the more fun variety.
[Fornicators], [Spies], [Cult leaders], [Sadists], [Degenerates], [Crooks] and the like rejoice! Finally there is a way to gain true power that are more... Interesing. And impossible to detect in any way. Nobody has to know!
Is your neighbour looking suspiciously healthy despite her age due to good breeding and healthy habits? Or is it because she's getting buffs from her secret [Tier 19 Adulteress] class? You decide!
The Divine Corpse:
721 years ago a God fell from the sky, crushing many kingdoms under it's bulk. Or so some people believe. Whether the divine corpse is actually a true God, or some other being is still hotly disputed.
A crusade or two once every century seems to settle the issue only temporarily.
Since then, kingdoms rose and fell by their ability to capitalise on the highly magical tissues found inside the depths of the Corpse.
And by their ability to defend themselves from the corruption radiating out of the big dead lug.
Magic Corruption:
The only truly safe way to engage with magic is through the Path. Any other way exposes you to magical corruption. Your soul and body twisting in unpredictable ways over time.
Humans used to be the only sentient beings around. In the millenia since, many other races spawned out of humanity. Goat men! Demonlings! Slug people maybe? Sexy ghosts? A tentacle monster or two?
There aren't that many True Humans left.
GEOGRAPHY:
Rather than try to develop a whole world, I'll focus on a small portion of it for now. The areas immiedeately surrounding the Divine Corpse:
Current map version 0.1. To be greatly revised and improved later.
As you can see much of the area is still underdeveloped. Both geologicly and politicly. I do have some broad ideas for some of it though:
Verakost:
Last bastion of True Humans. A kingdom ran by religious zealots trying to maintain human purity. They worship the Divine Corpse and jealously guard their access to it. Only the high ranking members of the church are allowed to delve inside of it.
The inquisition makes sure that any sign of corruption is swiftly, and brutally dealt with.
The borders are protected by the [Templars]. They are high tier true human warriors clad in powerful armor made out of God's tissue and bone.
The Spill:
Despite being dead, the Great Corpse still bleeds from it's wounds. The blood washes over the land corrupting it. Many strange people and creatures chose to make their home in the Spill.
The tides of blood decide how passable the land is. Sometimes, during historicly low tides, Verakost templars venture into the spill to "purify" the natives a bit.
The blood washes out into the sea creating it's own set of... Problems and opportunities. Being a [fisherman] around these parts is a very dangerous occupation.
Imperial colonies:
In the year 491 AG, The great Azure empire conquered and colonised the squabbling princedoms occupying the lands around the fallen Titan. Their only goal is extracting highly valuable materials from the Big Dead Fuck.
Since then The colonies became a dumping ground for the empire's criminals, disgraced nobles, and vaious elements deemed unfit for the Grand Empire. As long as the divine materials continue being mined and exported the empire doesn't care about how the place is run.
It is the best place in the world for a desperate adventurer to become rich... Or die horribly. It's a matter of luck for the most part.
The Whore Queen's island:
In 700 AG a certain industrious young woman recieved a sex related [secret class]. Since then she's been **very** busy leveling up and securing her power base.
In 718 AG she became one of the highest leveled humans alive.
In 721 AG she managed to take over an island off the coast and start a new kingdom of her own.
It's a very recent and controversial development. Few political bodies in the world recognise her little kingdom as legitimate.
She intends to show them them how grave of an error that is.
Old kingdom:
Undecided. Some sort of kingdom living in ruins of a vastly more powerful ancient civilisation? Elves? some sort of water based nation?
Big hole in ground leaks magic radiation making scary monsters?
Bigfoot? No idea.
Spinelands:
Another question mark. Some sort of wildlands, with magicly corrupted beastmen roaming about?
That's it for the broad overview of the GrimLewd setting! I have many more specific ideas for the nature of magic, and all that boring bullshit BUT I didn't want to make this post too long.
I will be updating this post as I solidify more details of the setting.
Let me know what you think!
Comments (88)
This setting looks like a lot of fun! I can't wait to see more
How does one level up with this system? regular fighting? or fornicating as well? is it [Path] based?
Wish I knew about this concept sooner. It's late as hell, but I always wanted to spin the "succubus siphons away hero's levels" on it's head with them never dying or becoming helpless because they're gaining levels in [Cum Pump].
This reminds me a lot of the rule set for the old Cyberpunk RPG. Especially the part about secret classes. The stuff from InCase reads like the game rules concerning cyborgs and how they can get advancements, and the dangers that go along with it.
It would be cool to see beast people that recognize people more than beasts in some way, like there were mutated in some way. Not like cat ears but like having half their head being a dog head that mashes with a human head, have some body horror with it I think.
LOVE IT!
Very interesting idea. We need worlds out there where sex is … well, just a part of the world, i.e. neither ignored nor the one-dimensional reason for its existence. That being said, please clean up your "its" vs. "it's" grammar errors. They're … grating,
This is a really interesting setup. Definitely want to write something like that.
Dungeon Masterpiece does a few nice videos about geopolitics by analysing Faerun and the likes. And Artifexian has a lot of cool videos about climates, tectonics, biomes, minerals and the likes which also would influence how a map is made. I don't know how many sort of climates one is planning to visit, but the more exotic the more difficult it might be to put them within realistic reach. Right now with the amount of water around this looks like a Mediterranean subtropical or temperate setting. But maybe there are magical forcefields and ancient enhancements on certain lands that keeps lands nearby artificially cold/hot/dry/wet.
This world you're building looks very cool. Have you ever played Microscope: A Fractal Role-playing Game of Epic Histories? I would love to play it for fleshing out (heheh) your grimdark world. I look forward to seeing what you do with this interesting world and cool classes and characters. I've always enjoyed your style and your writing. Will this be instead of finishing The Invitation? I'm super-curious to see chapter 3. It was one of the most horrifying things I've been aroused by Or most arousing thing I've been horrified by... Whatever you draw, I will be sticking around.
Love this idea.!
Big Kaiju Hole?
I am extremely excited about this project.
Both the fallen god corpse and the path are great world building features, looking forward what comes out of here.
Looking forward to whatever comes of this setting. Very interesting!
I'd play this. It sounds amazing, whether as a conventional digital TTRPG setting, or merely visual fiction. Heck, if you went all the way and made this into a game on Steam, I'd buy it.
The Path enhances the individual's capabilities and overall fitness. The sample images suggest that the Path abilities offer characters new traits as they level up. Does the Path also give individuals special techniques, like feats of amazing skill or supernatural power? Could a Fighter gain a sword strike that can slice through a tree? Could a Thief gain the ability to literally disappear into the shadows? Can a high level Farmer get his crops to grow faster?
Would definitely back the Kickstarter, and would ESPECIALLY back the Kickstarter if there was a Savage Worlds adaptation.
I love the idea. Would back kickstarter.
This is wicked! I love it
I am super excited about this! Grimdark and lewd is my favorite "genre" blend. I'll always love Alfie (and your other works of course) but now one of my top artists is creating content in my preferred type of setting. This is awesome!
Fuck yes! Sounds amazing!
Sounds very interesting. I use Savage Worlds as my favorite RPG system. So both magic and "weird science" are already both in it. Mutations maybe a bit more challeging, but I want to read more first. Very excited. My RPG group likes kinky stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Very excited to see where this goes!
Hell yeah, excited! I hope we get to see some more things like those shortstack demon satyrs you did that one time :D
Sounds HYPE AS FUCK! Any chance for dragon/dragon-esque folks? I ALWAYS love me a beefy dragon-lady!
But seriously, I love it, lots to see, lots to play with while having like a general bit of structure to story. Sounds like fun times.
BIG HOLE! BIG HOLE! BIG HOLE! BIG HOLE!
Pretty excited for this. Depending on how far the worldbuilding gets (though i expect pretty far) it would be cool to collect everything and publish it for people to use in their own ttrpgs. I'd totally run a grimlewd campaign
OooooooOoooOooooOOoooOOOOOOOOHHHH!! I am SO here for this 🤩
OOOOH! A Lit RPG by the great Incase! I can't wait to get a read of this!
This looks like a lot of fun!
This sounds incredible and amazing and I can't wait to learn more about it. I've done some world building while playing D&D in the past and know just how exciting it can be to make the whole world at once. My only recommendation would be to resist that urge. Let the 'Empire' (or whatever) just be something you'll define later. Focus on the parts that you want to play with and establish new world lore when and if its appropriate/fun.
I'm very interested to see what the magic system details are like. The nitty-gritty of magic has always been the most interesting to me. The ways it can be described and visualized. Magic is definitely something I wish was real, if only so we could define it with science.
Dont have time to read all rn, but will. Sounds amazing so far!
Never gotten into LitRPGs, but I see a wealth of potential, and I'm here for it!
Wow u've been at least for a bit I see. Even got lands and history in there. Looking forward to more 😉
I'm throwing my lot in with the whore queen
This sounds amazing. It feels like the Spinelands should be a forest that has run rampant and wild. A dangerous place no one goes. No one tames those lands.
this gets me so hyped up. I love the idea of the divine corpse and how it affects the setting. Really cool that you have a main empire and colonies that are not seperated by empty distance like sea or desert but something new and interesting that you can fill with content. This is great worldbuilding.
Oh my god this is so cool I love it!!!
From my experience all great fantasy worlds have that one high level area where demons and evil things periodically spill out, but obviously it's up to you if you want that I'm still super excited!
Oh fuck, this looks excellent! I love LitRPGs, and a lewd, high-quality type adventure from you is extremely exciting.
I am indiscriminately excited about everything in this project. BRING ON THE SLUTS, FREAKS, AND BLOOD CULTS! I'M READY!
This is a solid start, and I read a lot of fantasy.
This is so horny, I'm so horny for this oh god
Love the worldbuilding already.
Aaaaa! This is the best! Put it in my veiiinnnns! Very excited to see/participate in this settings development. It would be funny if "old Kingdom" is Jack Vance style far future earth (or colony) ruins. My immediate fan theory is "Big hole" is the through-shot of whatever killed the Divine Corpse. So it's got magic bullet/spear/arrow/laser radiation AND dead god vitals in it.
Nah, no future tech. Weird super advanced ancient magic YES, space lasers NO. But I do like your idea for the Big Hole... Hmmmmm
Love this! World building is so fun and creative, you do it in a way that really celebrates and elevates the themes so delightfully!
This is great, though I'm mostly looking forward to corruption transforming people. Also, you've watched too many isekai! :(
Big Hole sounds like a nice place. And so does the Whore Queen's Island😇
Can’t wait looks cool!
I am interested in all fantasy realms, lewd or otherwise
...if the LitRPG proves successful...this would make a great setting for it's own RPG campaign setting book me thinks.
Since this looks like it will be a blast.
Lmao, big hole
This all looks very interesting. Very excited to see what you do with it. I hope there are subclasses for Fornicator and Adulteress. It is fun to specialize characters. XP Also if you are still looking for name ideas, I got some to throw at you that I think still fit your established theme. GrimTemptation. GrimDesire. GrimAllure. GrimAttraction.
I was thinking that [Fornicator] and [Adultress] are basic classes that evenyually evolve into more specialised subclasses. As far as the proper name I was thinking something along the lines of [[Name] : A GrimLewd LitRPG ] . So the [name] is gonna have to be more evocative/cool.
This is going to be soooo awesome!! I cannot wait!!
Spectacular, I'm eager to see where you take us on this journey. 👍
Two things. First, this looks awesome, amazing, and wonderful. Second, there's going to be a lot of RPG and world-building Grognards who are going to be asking useful (and useless) questions. Don't be afraid to ignore the ones that get annoying.
Worldbuilding does tend to bring out the worst in certain people haha. Thankfully I am very good at ignoring things I don't care about.
If The Path gives out roles, what does that mean for rulers? Are kings born, or can you earn it? Does The Path give them abilities to hold their power? An interesting plot line might be someone who is born with, or accidentally earns, [future ruler]. At what age do they start on The Path? Can kids earn them? Or do the power struggles start after puberty when you can fuck your way to power? Before that is there anything protecting them? Indoor plumbing? This is shaping up to be very interesting.
Path gives roles out based on action, intention and time. You have to intentionally perform a certain role/job/action for a while to qualify for a new path. And even then you have to conciously chose it, even if reluctantly. So you can't really game the system by deciding that you're gonna be a [king] or something like that. But you can miss out on a [king] class by being lazy and not applying yourself as a [prince]. I do imagine that when any form of succession conflict break out, who already has which class/path would be a big consideration. Paths get offered at around age 15. Before then kids get apprenticeships/education to nudge them in desired directions. As a result of the system children of [farmers] tend to also become [farmers] etc.
very intrigued by "Big Hole" will there be delvers for that along with the Divine Corpse?
This is a very rad start, I'm super excited.
So if understand right : The humanity were flourishing throught the "Path". But some over the century poeple who tried to obtain magic from other way than the "Path" slowly got corrupted over time who leaded to new species being born like Beastman, Elfs ect. Some species created empire, country. Then when the Divine corpse fell down, it's body shaterred corruption throught the world, notably throught it blood and flesh. But some poeple scavenge the Corpse and manage to create item imbued with the titan magic. But more recently the Path started to give new secret abbility to poeple for unknown reason. So I think old kindgom would mostly depend on two thing : Was this landmass inhabited by Human before the Divine Corpse and what was below the Divine Corpse before it fell down. Was it a mountain or was it plain with city to link "Verakost" to what was before in the "Spineland" ? Also question, what was climate of the region before and now ? For the ? region I feel that the bottom left one should be a big forest and one of the other a monstruous species like naga or even insect based that could be cool.
You got that mostly right! There are more sources of corruption other than The Corpse and trying to do magic without The Path. There are a lot of naturally ocuring materials that infused some ecosystems. In certain areas of the world there is a constant low level magical corruption field going on so you're gonna get corrupted up to a certain point no matter what you do. I like the Idea of the bottom left of the map being a dense woodland. Other than that I don't have strong answers about the questions you posed.
I am picturing the whore queen as the begining of the entity in "the invitation" just starting to come into her power.
I’d like to suggest making the system early on and make it simple, something you can script pretty easily so you can partially automate historic stuff. Very much looking forward to seeing how this goes
I'm very excited. Those are all a lot of solid elements. I'm already hoping for a legit, real-world, published trade paperback or the like (which is something you probably would have done by now if it was feasible so I assume it won't happen, just to be clear) but I'm saying that to say that this sounds top-tier. This sounds like some fantastic reading. Looking forward to it.
So..you know it would be very easy to turn this into a 5e setting and actually roll out a table top role playing game? There are other ttrpg systems that could work too.
Not sure I understand the Empiral Colonies. Where's the Empire? Who runs it? How many/what sort of colonies? Generally, this all has potential. I like the idea of secret classes. How does one attain a secret class, though? So many questions. Keep at it, it'll work.
From the description, it's basically grim-lewd fantasy Austrialia during Edwardian/Victorian times. There's an empire across the sea, and they want extraction, and don't particularly care as long as it gets done.
This is really awesome! Have you seen the Shagahol RPG that Rapscallion is making? The mechanics of yours and theirs are going in very different directions, but I love both of them
Sounds like a grand old time! And with that mutant divine blood going into the sea, could be a chance for mermaids, sea monsters, and any which thing having tentacles for some lucky/poor fishermen/fisherwomen...
Definitely gonna do some big tiddy mermaids.
I love seeing you piece these elements together. Got me thinking of how this would realllllly spice-up a D&D type board game...
I think some of us are already playing D&D this way :)
I want to meet the Whore Queen!
This is awesome. I can't wait to see this put to use
Maybe the Tainted Sea? Because of *gestures* reasons? Also this is so cool!
The husband said "The Sea of Taint" 😆
I'm very excited about this!
So stoked to hear more!
I like the idea. There is media that tries to marry narrative and game mechanics in its story but it's mostly seen in Japan and the sort of results you get are a mixed bag. In a way its a good way to make the world seem more strange and exotic when there are actual, visible rules that govern the world that can be taken advantage of and whatnot. Depending on how you feel about it, if you want to stick to your own vision or have it be more 'collaborative', I could see people having opportunity to suggest elements of the setting.
I do intend to include some measure of audience participation in the worldbuilding. I have some very specific ideas about certain areas, but some lands/kingdoms could be more audience driven. I haven't decided yet how I'll handle that.