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World Building

Resources and tools for building worlds suitable to be used in roleplaying games. These include resources such as mapping tools, discussion groups, guides to online world-building projects and invented languages.

Sites in World Building

World Builder Projects
Starting place for information on how to build an imaginary setting.

Patricia C. Wrede's Worldbuilder Questions
Advice on creating a believable fantasy world, with a particular eye toward crucial yet easily overlooked details.

World Building
Contains mainly links to world design related articles and pointers to interesting sites.

World Builders
A website supporting a world building distance education course. Reference material, lessons, downloads, and sample worlds.

World Building
An example of designing a planet, from basic physical assumptions to geography to weather systems and archeological remains.

Guidelines For Creating Magic Systems
Compiled suggestions and discussions about the design of magic systems for roleplaying games and literature. Applicable to all genres.

Rich Staats' RPG / World Building Articles
Many interesting original and adapted articles of all aspects of gaming worlds, with much of interest to world builders.

Criar Mundos - Building Worlds
A step-by-step guide for creating original settings and incorporating realistic details. Various resources and references. In English and Portugese.

Fantasy World Building
Step-by-step tutorial for setting design, based on establishing a "world vision" for its cultural/geographic regions.

Magical World Builder's Guide
Suggestions for creating consistent magic themes for fantasy settings, as well as general world building advice and resources.

Timeline Generator
A web-based application that creates generic random events for a nation or region. The user can specify the starting year, number of years, and events per year.