... is that in January I will be teaching a class on worldbuilding for the Odyssey Online workshop. See https://odysseyworkshop.org/worldbuilding.html for further details. Because of this, worldbuilding is at the top of my mind at the moment, so that’s what I’m ...
Search again:... plot, but who never stop to consider their setting or world, apart from “They start in a city, then they go on a quest in the ... try to construct a fourteen-volume encyclopedia of their world’s background, but I’ll talk about that in a later post.) The world ...
Search again:... a series of questions from a student who was working on a worldbuilding project. Several of them caught my attention, most notably the ... there are limits and/or costs for working magic within the world of the story. How those limits are presented in a given story depends ...
Search again:by Patricia C. Wrede General Which peoples/countries/races fought, allied, traded, or were traditional rivals? Where are there still hard feelings about old events? Is there a “trade language” that facilitates commerce between countries that don’t ...
Search again:... years? Do they use a single event (the creation of the world, the end of the Great War, the invention of atomic power, etc.) or are ...
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Search again:... to name? What does this say about the way they look at the world? What things would the people of this culture not have a name for, or ... to name? How does this affect the way they see the world? Are there words that must never be spoken except at particular times, ...
Search again:... magic power come from: the gods, the “mana” of the world, the personal willpower of the magician? Is magic an exhaustible ... there a numerical limit to the number of wizards in the world? What is it? Why? How long does it take to cast a spell? Can spells be ...
Search again:... water source like a lake or large river; etc.)? World History How far back are there records or tales of historical events? ... (e.g., Troy)? How long have there been people on this world? Did they evolve, were they created by the gods, or did they migrate from ...
Search again:... the laws of nature and physics actually different in this world, or are they the same as in real life? How does magic fit in? How do magical beasts fit in? Is this generally an earth-like world? Is it an “alternate Earth”? Are there different human races, ...
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