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3000 World Building Prompts (The Art of World Building, #8) (eBook)

3000 World Building Prompts (The Art of World Building, #8) (eBook)

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From his best-selling series, The Art of World Building, author Randy Ellefson provides more than 3000 World Building Prompts to inspire creators for everything they might want to invent.

Creating Life - species/races, gods, monsters, word figures, plants, animals, and undead.

Creating Places - planets, continents, land features, sovereign powers, settlements, land travel, water travel, space travel, time, history, and places of interest.

Cultures and Beyond - cultures, organizations, armed forces, religions, the supernatural, magic systems, items, names, legal systems, education systems, commerce, health systems, and more.

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Everything we need to know about how to create gods, species/races, plants, animals, monsters, heroes, villains, and even undead is included in Creating Life (The Art of World Building, #1), which inspired the prompts in this section.

Analogues

The following prompts come from Chapter 1.

  1. Are you using an analogue?
  2. What is your analogue primarily based on?
  3. What three things can you change to make your analogue less recognizable?
  4. Are you using a familiar name for your analogue, or inventing a new one for your creation?
  5. What can you combine your analogue with to make it unique?

How Many Worlds

The following prompts come from Chapter 1 of Creating Life.

  1. Do you intend to use this setting for more than one book series or a gaming campaign?
  2. How many books will the series be?
  3. How many worlds are in this story?
  4. If multiple worlds, will you develop some more than others?
  5. Is this an Earth-like planet or very different?
  6. If different, in what ways is it so?
  7. How do the differences affect the story?
  8. Why do you want to make it different?
  9. Does the setting have a significant impact on the story or could it almost be any fantasy or sci-fi setting?

The Gods

The following prompts come from Chapter 2 of Creating Life.

  1. Do you want or need gods in the setting?
  2. Are the gods real or imagined?
  3. How many gods are there?
  4. Are the gods part of a pantheon, like a family?
  5. Are the gods equally powerful?
  6. If not, how many tiers of power are there?
  7. What is the difference in power level between tiers?
  8. How many gods are in each tier?
  9. Which ones are in each tier?
  10. Do gods at different tiers have different rights and abilities?
  11. Can gods go up or down a tier?
  12. If so, what causes that to happen?
  13. Has it ever happened before?
  14. Are there are a set number of spots in a tier?
  15. If so, why is that?
  16. In order for someone to rise, must another fall?
  17. How is the falling deity chosen?
  18. Can they protest this?
  19. What is the result of a dispute?
  20. Who arbitrates the dispute?
  21. Is a ruling binding or customarily followed?
  22. Is one god considered the most powerful?
  23. If so, who and why?
  24. Has that always been the case?
  25. Is one god considered the leader?
  26. If so, who and why?
  27. Has that always been the case?
  28. How many pantheons of gods are there?
  29. Are they equal in the number of gods or power levels and abilities?
  30. Is one pantheon rising while another is falling
  31. What is causing their respective trajectories?
  32. Is each god gender fluid or do they remain a specific gender?
  33. Do the gods ever appear as animals?
  34. If so, what is the rationale for their choice(s)?
  35. Do they appear as objects that others can use?
  36. Do they become more vulnerable in another form
  37. Do the gods have astrological signs? What are they?

Table of Contents

  1. Creating Life Prompts
  2. Creating Places Prompts
  3. Cultures and Beyond Prompts

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Jay Irvine
Gives me ideas

This gets me thinking and that's what I wanted. Sometimes I'm not sure why a question is in there but I think it's because I haven't read the other books. I should! Don't let that stop you.

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Stacy Collins
New prompts are what I wanted

There are other lists of questions out there but I'd gone through them a lot and wanted something knew. This is definitely original.

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S.L.
Gets you thinking!

These are just questions. Yes, over 3000 of them! Here's how I use this - before leaving work or home, I sometimes skim through questions. As I drive, I think about what my answer would be. I've had a bunch of ideas from this, so if you're stuck, I'd totally recommend this.

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Steve DeMarco
Got for my son

My son's a budding writer and has said this helps him think of ideas. Planning to get other books in the series soon