Worldbuilding Prompts are useful as exercises to get you to think about your world in new ways. They might help you clarify topics in your world and get your words in order, or they might get you to consider topics you'd never previously considered in your world. Or, if you are looking to create a new world, you might use the prompt as a seed or launching point.

Entertainment is one of the most common things to forget when worldbuilding. Since building a world is entertaining in itself, and an escape for us, we often forget that the people who live in our worlds have jobs to do and aren't enjoying themselves nearly as much as we are.

So what does your average citizen do for fun?

Maybe your average citizen is a labor worker, who goes to the pub on Friday nights to get rowdy and drink. Maybe your average citizen is a farmer, who sets up a barn dance in the summer that folks come to from miles around. Maybe your average citizen is a galactic trader, who has his own holodeck on his ship to play in. Perhaps your average citizen takes a boat out to sea and enjoys the waves (this is also useful for him as zombies can't swim and attack him). Maybe your average citizen can afford to vacation to some remote destination and enjoy pina coladas on the beach. Maybe your average citizen pulls the VR cord out of his neck and lives unplugged as a hermit in the woods for a few weeks to get away from the rat race.

If you have no "average citizen", pick a class, character, or occupation of any sort and apply the question.

War:

I'm not sure if it counts, but the average citizen no matter if it is small village, or capital citizen enjoys numerous festivals throughout the calendar year. One of the more popular festivals would be the Crystal Sky Festival. It resembles Valentines Day for us. It's a day where people confess their admiration, or strengthen their bonds with their significant other. The tradition is for each person to light a paper lantern signifying a promise to their significant other. When the night time comes everyone in the village, town, or city releases their lanterns into the sky to light it up the same way the mage did it with magic for the woman he loved all that time ago.


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