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22 Great Map Resources and Tutorials

by Nathan 'Vancano' Smith

22 Great Map Resources and Tutorials

Great Map Resources and Tutorials If you’re looking for a little something to spice up your maps then here are 22 great map resources that I’ve collected from around the web. Most are free but I’ve also included a couple of premium options when they’ve been great.

Filed Under: Cartography, Tutorials

Interview with a Creature Creator: Kathryn Zalecka

by Nathan 'Vancano' Smith

Interview with a Creature Creator: Kathryn Zalecka

The following is an interview with creature creator Kathryn Zalecka. I’ve long been a fan of Kathryn’s art style but especially a fan of her main race the Easkull, so I was rather excited when she agreed to do this interview. However, I must make a public apology to Kathryn as this interview was done […]

Filed Under: 7 Skills, Interview, Zoology

Cosmology: Building the nature of your universe.

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Greetings fellow blog enthusiasts and welcome to this special edition of The World Building School. My name is Simon Provencher and Nate was kind enough to allow me to make a guest post here in order to share some of my experiences relating to the creating fictional worlds. More specifically, I wanted to take a […]

Filed Under: 7 Skills, Science

Help grow a fantasy village with Facebook

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Help grow a fantasy village with Facebook

Ed: This is a guest post by James Vernon from the Eleajia project The Eleajia project is an experiment in community village building for a fantasy world. The project came into being because from the very moment I started thinking about The Three Moons Realm (the land Eleajia resides) I wanted to really build a […]

Filed Under: News, Sociology

World Building With Words Competition Winner!!

by Nathan 'Vancano' Smith

World Building With Words Competition Winner!!

For those of you who don’t know The World Builders Guild ran it’s first competition over the past few months. The aim of the competition was to write a location/environment article based upon one of 10 different images pre-selected by the judges. A number of kind DeviantART artists granted the guild permission to use their […]

Filed Under: 7 Skills, News

Competition: World Building With Words

by Nathan 'Vancano' Smith

Competition: World Building With Words

The World Builders Guild has launched it’s first competition and I’m inviting you to enter. The aim of this competition is to encourage the world builders out there to collaborate with artists from The WBGuild and create a description for a new environment/location. Prizes The winner will be announced in the WBGuild journal along with […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: competition

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