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Creative Conclave, Fantasy World Builders Forum, World-Building Home Page, Yahoo! Groups: rpg-tools, Yahoo! Groups: world-create

Created Worlds

Cooperative World Building, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Web Rings, Big Event World, Daleth, Domus Project, Drak - The World of the Dragoncats, Empire of the Jade Sea, Geoza, Hariyawa, the Kingdom of Free Tigers, Kalyr, Khoras, Land of the Six Guilds

Demographics

Division of Territory in Society, Fargoth Materials Page, Medieval Demographics Made Easy

Invented Languages

Constructed Human Languages, Earth Minimal language, Fictional Linguistics: KICKS Academy Course, Language Creation, Model Languages, The Language Construction Kit

Map Making

Tools, 3-D Starmaps, Fantasy Mapmaking 101, Gozzy's Cartographic Emporium, Lankhmar Geomorphs, Maps, Peter's Guide to Map Creation, Stellar Cartographer

Names

Generators, Kate Monk's Onomastikon, Medieval Names Archive, Phantasy Names Index

Criar Mundos - Building Worlds

http://criarmundos.do.sapo.pt/

A step-by-step guide for creating original settings and incorporating realistic details. Various resources and references. In English and Portugese.

Fantasy World Building

http://www.astrofantasy.com/fantasy_world/fantasy_world.htm

Step-by-step tutorial for setting design, based on establishing a "world vision" for its cultural/geographic regions.

Guidelines For Creating Magic Systems

http://www.hut.fi/~vesanto/link.useful/MagicHtmls/magic.html

Compiled suggestions and discussions about the design of magic systems for roleplaying games and literature. Applicable to all genres.

Magical World Builder's Guide

http://www.web-writer.net/fantasy/

Suggestions for creating consistent magic themes for fantasy settings, as well as general world building advice and resources.

Patricia C. Wrede's Worldbuilder Questions

http://www.io.com/~eighner/world_builder/world_builder_index.html

Advice on creating a believable fantasy world, with a particular eye toward crucial yet easily overlooked details.

Rich Staats' RPG / World Building Articles

http://www.geocities.com/dr_games/staats2.htm

Many interesting original and adapted articles of all aspects of gaming worlds, with much of interest to world builders.

Timeline Generator

http://www.fantasist.net/timeline.shtml

A web-based application that creates generic random events for a nation or region. The user can specify the starting year, number of years, and events per year.

World Builder Projects

http://hiddenway.tripod.com/world/

Starting place for information on how to build an imaginary setting.

World Builders

http://curriculum.calstatela.edu/courses/builders/

A website supporting a world building distance education course. Reference material, lessons, downloads, and sample worlds.

World Building

http://www.hut.fi/~vesanto/world.build.html

Contains mainly links to world design related articles and pointers to interesting sites.

World Building

http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/world_building

An example of designing a planet, from basic physical assumptions to geography to weather systems and archeological remains.