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.
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.
Yep, it certainly does count! If people enjoy themselves, then it fits this prompt :p Sounds like a fun, romantic time. Got a story to go with the mage's initial sky lightup?
Yea magic was discovered over time rather than all at once. A mage born in the capital was discovered to possess magical ability that gave him certain mastery over light. The magic was so new it actually terrified the strongest magical institution in the land, and so they made a "request" for him to study in their institution. At the time the mage was involved with a woman. Not wanting to be separated from her, he refused. Of course the institution insisted even allowing the woman to live with him, but again he refused. He did not want her to give up her livelihood when he could never give up his magic for her. After a while even the local government placed pressure upon the mage, afraid of what his abilities could do, and he was sent away. On the birthday of the woman he loved he sent her a letter telling her to look to the night sky. With an uncontrollable magic, he lit up the sky with thousands of light projections that shown brighter than all the other stars. It was said that the purpose of it was that there were not enough stars in the sky to express how much he loved her, so he simply had to keep adding more to show her how infinite his love for her was.
I did indeed. I'd been meaning to come up with a few worldbuilding prompts to get people to post and get creative, when that showed up. I figured if there was an interest there, then I should get my butt in gear and start posting prompts to get discussions going.
I only glanced at the generator, but didn't give it too keen a perusal. My hope would be to both come up with prompts that the generator might not (be they more generic or extra specific), and to create threads which launch discussions based on a single topic. Certainly, if someone uses the generator and finds a particularly interesting prompt, they could post it for others to use and discuss, as well. Testing it just now, I got "Imagine a fruit that can be used to make armor"...
Pretty cool, right? Take a look at the source code, and you'll find that it consists merely of... what, fifty such templates?, with "fruit" and "armor" being variables (I still have the "Imagine a plant which could be using in building" to challenge myself with taken from the generator). Expanding it even by ten strings would mean a great deal more prompts.
I don't have a specific worldbuilding project going on at the moment, but in one of my idealized worlds: There is a lot of LARPing. Street theatre, performances, art. People can walk the streets in drag and dayglo paint. The PG furries hang out with the LARPers, aren't stigmatized, while the fetish furries have niche parties they can attend, kept private, like most sex parties are. A common habit is to spend at least a month alone in the wilderness, learning how to survive using found resources. Technology has evolved to the point where we're able to download copies of how other humans/animals experience/feel/see things, and we meet at rave type markets/parties, where people trade about SiM cards, sit in opium den corners in a group, blissing out. People live in city/town villages where everyone has learned a useful craft, and they help each other out, in a way that brings joy to life, a vivid sense of participation. Drugs are legal, sex for money is legal, we learn at an early age about religious rites, transcending thresholds, magical, unashamed. Art, experience, substance, trade is the prevailing currency.