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A few weeks back on reddit I stumbled across several diagrams from an AP Environmental Sciences textbook by user Apomonomenos. All of these diagrams do a great job of illustrating various earth science concepts useful to world builders. The illustration …
Excellent Climate/Biome Diagram for Worldbuilders Read more »
The blog posts here have been light lately, mostly due to diving into work on Cityographer and the Creature and Encounter Cards projects. Taxes and some family stuff (planning a trip) are also taking some time. But I don’t want …
Wonders & Mysteries of Your World Brainstorm Ideas/Random Chart Read more »
I’m sure there are a number of people with interest in Worldbuilding visiting the site. I stumbled across a great thought-experiment on worldbuilding & climatology at the geek humor site XKCD. The article attempts to divine a climate for earth …
The Welsh Piper just posted a very well-timed article with advice for creating hex crawl encounters. I think it is well-timed because last week we kicked off a hex crawl location “contest.” I put contest in quotes because all you …
We’re planning to make Hexographer even better, but we want your help! Get a free copy of Hexographer for writing up 8 “hex crawl” locations! (If you’ve already got a copy of Hexographer, feel free to request a copy of …
I’ve done several worldbuilding articles here over the past few years. They are based on The Worldbuilder’s Guidbook, a number of Dragon magazine articles, a few other miscellaneous sources and of course my own take on things. The religion guide …
[This post in part of the February 2011 RPG Blog Carnival hosted by Evil Machinations. I’ve been looking forward to writing on the topic again but I’m not sure if I’ll have the time to do more.] One question often …
When you’re creating a world for your game or novel, it helps to have a bunch of facts about our world at your fingertips. This serves two purposes: You get the dimensions of things on our world as a guide …
51 Facts About Our World To Remember When You’re Building Your World Read more »
If you’ve determined that a given hex has some “Ruins” the following chart will give you some ideas of what those ruins may have in store. You may want to roll/pick multiple options from the last column: Roll The Ruins …
(Read Part I.) Larger Scale Maps A hex map in the shape of a D20. (This was a very simple example without labels or lines for roads, rivers, boundaries, etc.) As you move up to larger scale maps, the practicalities …