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Darkness wins as Nolan Locke’s Exquisite Corpse funds its grimdark and system-agnostic guidebook

May 2, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The relaunch of the nautical-themed grimdark has found success in hours.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, world building

YZ Worldbuilding: Mörk Borg

April 30, 2022 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Year Zero World Building creates campaign settings using Free League’s RPGs. This month delves into the dying by murder world of Mörk Borg, Artpunk RPG

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, Free League Publishing, mork borg, world building, year zero world building

YZW: The One Ring Landmarks and Werewolves

April 9, 2022 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

The One Ring has werewolf stats in it, but I wanted a more powerful version. So I created my own werewolf for my version of Middle-earth and placed him in the landscape called the Forgotten Hamlet.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Free League Publishing, rpg tips, The One Ring, werewolves, world building, year zero engine, year zero world building

The Royal Cartographer: A world-building, map-making RPG you can play by yourself

February 12, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are two versions of The Royal Cartographer; a solo RPG, in which the Regent’s will is an obstacle to accuracy, and a two-to-four player version.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, kickstarters, solo rpgs, world building

Warhammer World Building: Build Your Own Empire

December 12, 2021 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

This month Warhammer World Building covers what the final chapter of the Enemy Within, the Empire in Ruins Companion, brings to WFRP.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, cubicle 7, soulbound, warhammer, warhammer age of sigmar, world building

About a World illustrates how to do worldbuilding wisely

December 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Italian freelance artist Ezd hasn’t appeared on Kickstarter before and so might have a bit of a challenge, but the project looks promising.

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Professional-level worldbuilding toolkit for introductory prices

November 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Worldbuilder’s Toolkit 8 is live at the Bundle of Holding.

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Warhammer World Building: Soulbound City of Brightspear

March 14, 2021 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

An overview of the rules of Soulbound. Then details on kicking off a new campaign in the city of Brightspear follow to help a GM get started.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, cubicle 7, soulbound, warhammer, warhammer age of sigmar, world building, wrath & glory

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.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, world building

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.

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