Creating a unique, immersive setting one World at a time A guide for authors, gamers, and hobbyists The Complete Art of World Building brings together volumes 1-3 in The Art of World Building series.
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Ellefson shares his experiences, lessons learned, and insights, including how much of your creations can realistically be mentioned during storytelling, how far creators should go, and what the benefits/risks to each approach might be.
The series draws on author Randy Ellefson\'s quarter century of World Building experience and will quickly turn a beginner into an expert, making a time-consuming project more fun, easier, and faster.
Cultures and Beyond (#3) teaches how to create cultures, organizations, armed forces, religions, the supernatural, magic systems, technological and supernatural items, languages, names, and various systems our World will have, from health, educational, legal, and commerce, to information systems.
Learn the different government types, how climate impacts vegetation, and consistently calculate how long it takes to travel by horse, wagon, sailing vessels, dragon, or in space.
Creating Places (#2) teaches how to create planets, moons, continents, land features, bodies of water, sovereign powers, settlements, interesting locales, and maps.
Creating Life (#1) teaches readers how to create gods, species/races, plants, animals, monsters, World figures, and even undead.
This how-to guide will make readers a master of inventing imaginary worlds and help a setting stand out from the multitude of fantasy and SF worlds audiences see.
Creating a unique, immersive setting one World at a time A guide for authors, gamers, and hobbyists The Complete Art of World Building brings together volumes 1-3 in The Art of World Building series
