Alice Saga is an uber-setting envisioned by DumplingIsNice. The setting borrows its name from the promptly named “Alice in Wonderland” and an alternative terminology for a telling of tales.

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To build my heartbreaker fantasy setting. Names and locations are as generic as possible to be adaptable, and understandable at a glance.

A setting should offer a package of prebuilt resources ready to be spilt out onto a page of your mind like spilling a Lego set. You can play it as is, or hack it to your liking.

An expansive, robust setting is lucrative to dig into for TTRPG. However, I have found difficulty in actually making use of the setting. Barred by ludicrously complicated jargon, meaningless or saturated with made-up meaning, understanding; first and foremost becomes a hurdle. Plus, when unfamiliar, the ingenuity of relationships between entities is lost when an out-of-the-loop outsider to the setting fails to gasp at the several leverage points for play. Only the creator understands best only what they conceived.

Simple settings are quick to familiarise and effective to use. A track of Legos is a nightmare of decision paralysis and lost heads (no matter how well organised they are); while a hearty bucket-full of an irregular mix, the loss in completeness and volume stimulates creativity better than any full-house ride. The enemy of creativity is the absence of limitations. The best I had seen was TabletopTerror’s Adventure Toolkits. Incisive material is worth their reader’s time in buck loads of opportunity for a good TTRPGin’!

• All characters originate from one’s amusing ideas. While a character is likely to spawn for a given setting, scenario or scene playing in your head, they must remain free to be included elsewhere. Hence, for any particular uber-setting, the character should be allocated under a crux Namespace. Then is linked from and to settings, scenarios etc. Define what a crux is.
• Add a wunderkammer namespace for… magic items? Items or the timeline?

• namespace design

• Significant entities deserve a dedicated namespace after their name (for easy gallery generation).

Many sections of this wiki are scribed from the perspective of the residents of the world of Alice Saga. Fictional guest scribes are invited to share their thoughts and work on certain topics. User accounts are created for these guest personas.

The recommended readings whom the ideas have influenced this wiki’s conception.

• Structures of TTRPG Practice by Hao Lin
  • Quick reference of terminology from the PDF.