3000 World Building Prompts (The Art of World Building, #8) (Paperback)
3000 World Building Prompts (The Art of World Building, #8) (Paperback)
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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.
- Are you using an analogue?
- What is your analogue primarily based on?
- What three things can you change to make your analogue less recognizable?
- Are you using a familiar name for your analogue, or inventing a new one for your creation?
- What can you combine your analogue with to make it unique?
How Many Worlds
The following prompts come from Chapter 1 of Creating Life.
- Do you intend to use this setting for more than one book series or a gaming campaign?
- How many books will the series be?
- How many worlds are in this story?
- If multiple worlds, will you develop some more than others?
- Is this an Earth-like planet or very different?
- If different, in what ways is it so?
- How do the differences affect the story?
- Why do you want to make it different?
- 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.
- Do you want or need gods in the setting?
- Are the gods real or imagined?
- How many gods are there?
- Are the gods part of a pantheon, like a family?
- Are the gods equally powerful?
- If not, how many tiers of power are there?
- What is the difference in power level between tiers?
- How many gods are in each tier?
- Which ones are in each tier?
- Do gods at different tiers have different rights and abilities?
- Can gods go up or down a tier?
- If so, what causes that to happen?
- Has it ever happened before?
- Are there are a set number of spots in a tier?
- If so, why is that?
- In order for someone to rise, must another fall?
- How is the falling deity chosen?
- Can they protest this?
- What is the result of a dispute?
- Who arbitrates the dispute?
- Is a ruling binding or customarily followed?
- Is one god considered the most powerful?
- If so, who and why?
- Has that always been the case?
- Is one god considered the leader?
- If so, who and why?
- Has that always been the case?
- How many pantheons of gods are there?
- Are they equal in the number of gods or power levels and abilities?
- Is one pantheon rising while another is falling
- What is causing their respective trajectories?
- Is each god gender fluid or do they remain a specific gender?
- Do the gods ever appear as animals?
- If so, what is the rationale for their choice(s)?
- Do they appear as objects that others can use?
- Do they become more vulnerable in another form
- Do the gods have astrological signs? What are they?
Table of Contents
- Creating Life Prompts
- Creating Places Prompts
- Cultures and Beyond Prompts
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