Words about worlds
Worldbuilding: Count the Days
Perpetual calendar, German, possibly 16th century; public domain image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of ArtHow do beings in our setting count time? Planets orbit stars, spinning around those glowing orbs for billions of years. Some planets leave their parent...
Home-baked Roots: Names in the Unseelie Saga
Glacial iceberg in Argentina, CC BY 2.0 by Ilya HaykinsonNote: I published this article a little early, as I will be away from my keyboard on Wednesday.This started out as a post about names. Like a lot of my writing, my intention has twisted in my grip and the result...
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...
Newsletter
Join the Unformed Worlds tabletop games newsletter