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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 […]

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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 […]

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World Building With Words Competition Winner!!

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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 […]

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Competition: World Building With Words

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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 […]

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How To Design A Town The Fantastic Maps Way

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How To Design A Town The Fantastic Maps Way

Jonathan Roberts of Fantastic Maps has published a fantastic quick tutorial that teaches you how to design a town. I’ve been a fan of Jonathan’s work for a long time especially since he was commissioned to produce The Lands Of Fire And Ice.  I’ve also been playing with the idea of focusing my whole world […]

Filed Under: 7 Skills, Fantasy map, Sociology, Tutorials Tagged With: city, Fantastic Maps, maps, town

X-Men Artist Kickstart’s A Creative Commons World Building Project

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X-Men Artist Kickstart’s A Creative Commons World Building Project

Steven Sanders has drawn a number of comics for Marvel and Image; from Wolverine and The X-Men to Deadpool and Five Fists Of Science. He has over a decade of professional experience in the illustration field and now he’s turning his attention to world building. Symbiosis is a world where technology and biology are inextricably […]

Filed Under: Interview, News Tagged With: comics, RPG, Steven Sanders, symbiosis, X Men

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