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Sub-Categories in World Building

Characters (5)
Chats and Forums (5)
Created Worlds (119)
Demographics (3)
Fantasy@ (2)

Geofiction@ (33)
Invented Languages (6)
Map Making (66)
Names (17)
Science Fiction@ (3)

Web Sites in Category World Building

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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