Reading, Writing, and Slaying Dragons
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Create Fantasy Names and Languages
How do you create names and languages for your fantasy people and places? Do you make a unique creation, base it loosely on earth, or try to find some middle ground? How do you mold random names and phrases into something consistent? There are two ways of doing this: Hire a linguist and get it…
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Creating Roleplaying Game Campaigns
Creating new roleplaying game campaigns requires three decisions: create characters, pick a setting, and pick a story or at least a theme. You can do this in any order you like, or all at once. I’ll discuss one possible way to do this in the following post. Outlining is the most exciting stage of creating…
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Creating Fantasy Maps
Creating a fantasy world means creating maps early on. The key is to keep the map on a sketch level as you are outlining because you will have a lot of moving parts. It doesn’t matter if this a region, continent or the whole world. What matters is that is big enough to cover your…
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Creating Fantasy Roleplaying Game Starting Areas
You need an area to start the adventure if you want to run a fantasy roleplaying campaign. You can spend hundreds of hours creating your world and drawing your maps, but at some point, you want to get started with your game. Or perhaps skip the hundreds of hours, and start right away?
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Lessons from One Month of Blogging
In November 2017 I started the Mudworld Blog to hone my writing skills and explore ideas regarding gaming, world building, and writing. I read many “how-to” guides to blogging and watched many YouTube videos as I figured out how to do this.
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Fantasy Races For Your Roleplaying Game
Building a fantasy world usually involves including fantasy races and even “monsters”. What races do you need, or want, in your world, and how do you pick them?