I'm curious - have any of you run across a vore-friendly furry setting? I'm thinking of something to set stories and characters and RP in, something that's not just the product of a single artist or RPr, but used by at least a handful of people, and open for more. I guess I'm thinking of something like Karbo's Felarya, but for furs instead of fantasy.

I'm not a capital-F fur, but I suppose I'm fur-curious. I've been doddering around on Fur-Affinity lately, and gotten some exposure via the stories in the EPWG (especially AndrewLondon's - go read them!), and the idea of a formal setting has grown attractive to me. I'm thinking of something with elements of Disney's Robin Hood and the Rescuers, and the Secret of NIMH - something filled primarily with anthropomorphized but otherwise real animals, with size differences and interaction roughly appropriate to the species (more like NIMH than Robin Hood, there) - something that might have different time periods and levels of fantasy acceptance (I can imagine vampire and zombie animals as easily as I can people, and mythical creatures like dragons and kraken could just as easily have a semi-mythical reality), but has a theme and a feel and isn't necessarily a willy-nilly hodgepodge of every different bright-blue otter-sphinx with a rainbow mohawk that pops into someone's mind. (Not because I have something against azure otter-sphinxes, punk or not, but because I think themeless settings already exist in plenty.) I'm thinking of something that could have a wiki, and a city environment and a wilder/country environment, and maybe established locations/social groups/religions/personalities.

I don't think it needs to be vore-centric in any sense, but predator/prey relationships (whether or not actual vore is involved) would be a key point in the theme.

If no-one has run across something like this already, how hard do you think it would be to pull something like this together in a collaborative fashion? Do you think it would be herding cats to get a handful of people to agree on some basic premises?

I think what you might get is a fan-based consensus; ala the Anne Rice vampire mythos or something similiar. If you have a writer that introduces a compelling furry/anthro environment that inspires emulation.

I will read AndrewLondons' stuff post-haste -- and I recommend looking at Bannor's anthro stuff -- the Strangers in a Strange Dorm RP, the Pizza Boy and the Three Bears and the Androcles stuff that's even more recent. I'm writing stuff that emulates his mythos already in my own work.

How to build a fandom? Start with good accessible materials that are compelling to the readers.

ouroborous wrote:How to build a fandom? Start with good accessible materials that are compelling to the readers.

Well, I'm not particularly aiming for a fandom; that's the thing. That's definitely the way these kind of things spring up most naturally, but there are already so many little nascent aspiring fandom empires out there, and I don't have any reason to believe that I can offer something more compelling , or that I have the fortitude to create enough material to establish something complete enough (especially amidst my attempts at establishing two other worlds for which I don't ever expect a fandom. )

I'll have to check out at least a couple of Bannor's stories, though.

If you want to know how much work would be involved then ask Karbo. >.<

I think this kind of task would be frustrating--not due to the task of creating it, but because of the effort needed in getting people to agree with and obey this new world's rules.

I know I haven't run across one, but I would certainly be interested in participating in/creating one.
Can't exactly say how hard it would be, since I've never collabed with anyone, but I have been afflicted with world-builder's disease and absolutely love coming up with stuff.

Although it's hard to boast about, since I keep humming and hawing about putting my writing up online. Hrrrrrm. Someday.

prisoner wrote:If you want to know how much work would be involved then ask Karbo. >.<

I think this kind of task would be frustrating--not due to the task of creating it, but because of the effort needed in getting people to agree with and obey this new world's rules.

Yeah, those are the problems exactly.

Well I sort of have my own settings, only its I don't even use it all the time, let alone other people. Aside I don't know any others.

Well, I realize Im abit late here. But Orev Valley RP that took, and I believe still is taking place, in the Vore RP forum on this website; Was a fur friendly RP setting in a D&D fantasy type verse. It was pretty much agreed early on during the RPs conception that 'Furs' Fit into traditional D&D setting since alot of the creatures in D&D already pretty much were in Essence Already Furs in their own right, Such as Gnolls being Jackal-morphs, Lizard folk being Lizard-morphs, and alike. That basic Idea just being expanded upon to make other creatures.
Anyways, Not sure if its what your looking for since it had humans and the setting was pretty muched conceived by the DM, It it might be worth taking a look at.


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Hey, thanks for the mention---made my day (Your cheque's in the post.)

One sort-of-internally-consistent setting that comes to mind is Bill Holbrook's Kevin and Kell. He's prey, she's a pred, and the storyline (initially) focussed on society's reaction to their unnatural love. I certainly enjoyed the comic when I first came across it, even if it is a bit preachy. There are plenty of allusions to vore, and a few out-and-out scenes: the Christmas-depressed rodent that jumps down Kell's throat the instant she opens the door, for example.

4ofSwords wrote:Do you think it would be herding cats to get a handful of people to agree on some basic premises?

I think you'd need to discuss that analogy with them. To what degree would anthropomorphisation remove a cat's antipathy towards herding? For a more serious answer: could you clarify what benefit a wiki, etc. would bring? I can see it for collaborative writing or roleplaying, but for the purposes of individual stories I'd hope each would be as self-contained as possible, without reference to some common knowledge*. Really active fanfiction bases sometimes develop this, and can become really incestuous and difficult to break into because of it.

* Heh, something related that's been on my mind: I don't have a classical education, so I'm self-conscious about my ability to appreciate anything written before, say, 1900**. Real novelists and academics, however, revel in their shared wiki of Greek and Roman tradition. I'm not sure where I'm going with comparing millennia of what I am sure is work genius to the idea of a fixed setting for anthro fiction...

AndrewLondon wrote:For a more serious answer: could you clarify what benefit a wiki, etc. would bring? I can see it for collaborative writing or roleplaying, but for the purposes of individual stories I'd hope each would be as self-contained as possible, without reference to some common knowledge*. Really active fanfiction bases sometimes develop this, and can become really incestuous and difficult to break into because of it.

Actually, that kind of incestuous, self-referential environment is -just- what I'm looking for. Well, okay, not really, but I'm not as concerned about the stories requiring common knowledge - that's the same kind of problem authors have when they write series, too, but that seems to work out pretty well. A well-written story should be able to take place squarely in a defined universe without hobbling a new reader; I think the problem is that a lot of beginning authors write in fandoms because it's easier to borrow some of the awesome, and don't end up writing that well. :/