Words about worlds
Worldbuilding: Holiday Drive
Candle flame close-up CC-BY 4.0 domdomegg, hosted by Wikimedia CommonsWhen does who celebrate what for which reason? Across 20+ years of gaming, most Players I’ve met liked a good party, either in-person or through the eyes of their Characters. The types of...
The State of the Game
Image © Heather OsborneOur worldbuilding series took a brief, unscheduled pause last week as we focused on editing a video for our upcoming Kickstarter. Sign up to be notified when it launches here! Since we already interrupted ourselves, we decided to talk a little...
Worldbuilding: Calling Cthulu
In these articles, I try to highlight techniques that anyone with an interest in worldbuilding could use: start with a detail that intrigues or amuses you and build out (bottom-up); start with a conflict that moves you and build around it (conflict-first); take a pin,...
Agile Worldbuilding
MotivationTheme: FeelMetaDramaPlotWe demonstrate several rounds of Agile Worldbuilding in this article, making this a longer article. Click the links beneath the jigsaw puzzle pieces to jump to the corresponding points in the article.In our last article, we talked...
Scaffolding your worldbuilding
Eglinton Tournament Bridge, image in the public domain, courtesy of Roger Griffith (Rosser1954)Dungeon23 is an example of worldbuilding as a daily practice. It began (as far as I can tell) with one simple goal and one concrete daily action: create a mega-dungeon by...
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