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Mythos World: Rules, Adventures, and Setting

December 8, 2020 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Call of Cthulhu offers the entire Earth as a setting in a variety of different time periods. I am slowly building my own Mythos world and revealing the secret history and details of a world haunted by monsters and the Mythos to the PCs. I am working on creating a long term campaign.

Shieldice Studio’s world-building toolkit

December 2, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The graphic is intended as a mind map or a checklist for kick-starting world-building exercises. At its heart, it reminds us that things are connected.

Ex Novo: A way for DMs and groups to gamify worldbuilding

October 12, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ex Novo is a settlement building game from Sharkbomb.

Advanced World Building: Tower-Faced Demon Castle Adventure

October 4, 2020 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Advanced World Building uses the tools from 1981’s Basic Dungeons & Dragons and Expert D&D and re-imagined in Old School Essentials to build a starting campaign setting. It is further enriched with the Old School Essentials Advanced Fantasy, Advanced Fantasy Monsters, and Advanced Fantasy Treasures. Even though it is based on Basic D&D, it could be used with other D&D rules or fantasy RPGs.

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #67

September 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is Geek Native's bullet-point summary of RPG news. Catch-up on stories on the site, from around the web as well as new releases and gaming tips.

Basic World Building: Design a Waterborne Wilderness

September 18, 2020 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

This article covers creating a waterborne setting for PCs to explore.

Adept Icarus’ Arium RPG building RPG is going strong on Kickstarter

September 2, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Arium is an RPG which also contains rules for your gaming group to build their own campaign setting.

World Anvil introduces interactive diplomacy webs

August 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

How complicated is your gaming world? Do you have multiple countries, factions, religions and secret societies tied together in an intricate web of promises, treaties and relationships?

GM Binder and World Anvil announce partnership

October 6, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the latest Kickstarter update, Levi Rosol of GM Binder announced a partnership with World Anvil.

Weird Fiction world-building with Edward Cox

August 23, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A war between Scientists and Magicians nearly destroyed the world and the last of mankind is now holed up in magically/technologically protected cities.

Mythos World: Rules, Adventures, and Setting

Shieldice Studio’s world-building toolkit

Ex Novo: A way for DMs and groups to gamify worldbuilding

Advanced World Building: Tower-Faced Demon Castle Adventure

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #67

Basic World Building: Design a Waterborne Wilderness

Adept Icarus’ Arium RPG building RPG is going strong on Kickstarter

World Anvil introduces interactive diplomacy webs

GM Binder and World Anvil announce partnership

Weird Fiction world-building with Edward Cox

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