Just a Goth Girl, a Game Controller, and a Set of Polyhedral Dice
Let's step back from the heavy topics like race, culture, and sex/gender for a bit and talk about the always exciting world of economics! I'm not going to get into the sexy topics of trade wars among nations or rival guilds assassinating each other's leaders to gain control of a particular region's apple production (though those … Continue reading World Building 6 – Economics and You(r World)
One of the goals for my new homebrew world that I'm most passionate about is to remove many of the old fantasy tropes that bring all their baggage with them to any new edition. I've talked about these in my last two World Building columns on Race and Culture. Now, I'm going to turn away … Continue reading World Building 5 – Mythology and Culture
I know that I touched on Race and Racism in my last World Building post, but as I've thought about the issue more, I think that we, as gamers, can go beyond these basic descriptions in our manuals to create living, breathing, realistic worlds in which to tell our stories. We can create worlds that … Continue reading World Building 4: From Races to Cultures
In my first World Building post I talked about starting small - giving your world a name, a brief history, a cosmological sketch, and then mapping out a single country. In this example, I mapped the island nation of Kalibor, home of the Elves. Now, we're going to reduce the scale even more so that … Continue reading World Building 2: Just a Small Town Tale
For this Tabletop RPG post, I want to focus on tips for DMs/GMs who want to build their own fantasy worlds. I've built my own fantasy worlds since the mid-1990s, and I've learned from my mistakes as well as from the successes of others. So, as I work to create a new homebrew setting for D … Continue reading World Building 1: Start Small
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