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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.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: itch.io, reviews, world building

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.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, rpg tips, world building

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.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: against the darkmaster, agon, batman, blue rose, Chaosium, chronicles of darkness, critical role, cubicle 7, diego pisa artworks, Dungeons & Dragons, en publishing, Evil Hat Productions, flames of freedom, Free League Publishing, gallant knight games, good strong hands, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, grim & perilous studios, HeroQuest, holler, icewind dale, James Introcaso, jetpack 7, Jim Zub, mcdm, Modiphius Entertainment, monolith, mork borg, Necrotic Gnome, open ended games, Pelgrane Press, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, powered by the apocalypse, rime of the frostmaiden, roll20, routinely itemised, sara thompson, skullkickers, soulbound, star trek adventures, starfinder, the yellow king, tiny dungeon, wizards of the coast, world building

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.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, skulls, world building

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.

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

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?

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: World Anvil, world building

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.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: gm binder, World Anvil, world building

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. 

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: Edward Cox, world building

Professional editor shares 10 common worldbuilding mistakes

March 1, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Gamers are used to making up worlds as are some authors. The latter might be trying to sell their world, though, creating a franchise that’ll enable them to sell book after book. As it turns out what might cut it for a tabletop game might not be enough for book you hope to get published. […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: world building

RPG ideas: 20 incredible concept skyscraper designs

July 9, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Are you running a future or alternative world RPG? Looking for building designs that will help your world feel very different from the world of today? Good news. The design and architecture site Evolvo has ran a competition to design futuristic skycrapers every year since 2006. There are very many impressive entries. This blog post […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: buildings, rpg ideas, world building

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