World Building
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- Magical World Builder's Guide
- Suggestions for creating consistent magic themes for fantasy settings, as well as general world building advice and resources.
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- Rich Staats' RPG / World Building Articles
- Many interesting original and adapted articles of all aspects of gaming worlds, with much of interest to world builders.
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- Khoras
- Forged from the fires of the Great War, the world of Khoras is reborn into the Age of Legends. It is a world haunted by the cataclysmic events of history and now left with a legacy of dark magic, lost legends, foul beasts bred for battle and long forgotten secrets waiting to be found.
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- Mythosa, Realm of
- Mythosa is a fantasy world intended for use in a fantasy role-playing campaign. It is probably best suited for those systems that aren't tied to a prefabricated world (such as Advanced Dungeons and Dragons or Rolemaster), but it can be used for any system (RuneQuest, and Warhammer FRP).
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- Sulerin
- Hundreds of pages of original fantasy RPG material. Spells, magic items, rules, monsters, maps, and stories.
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- Telvar
- A fantasy campaign world that has evolved over the last decade through the play of numerous characters. A virtual travelogue that allows visitors to wander and learn commonly known information about some of the countries of Telvar.
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- Thystra
- Home of Wulf the Freelance and other colorful characters, Thystra is a place of adventure, danger and humor.
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- Umbagollah
- A fictitiously Peninsula set in the 10th century. Regional information with maps and history, and information about culture and custom of its inhabitants. Also features an online community with support for online roleplaying.
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- The Language Construction Kit
- Intended for anyone who wants to create artificial languages -- for a fantasy or an alien world, as a hobby, as an interlanguage. It presents linguistically sound methods for creating naturalistic languages -- which can be reversed to create non-naturalistic languages.
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- Medieval Names Archive
- Numerous offerings, mostly from European and Middle Eastern cultures. Includes suggestions for evaluating the accuracy of name sources.
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- Planetary Fact Sheets
- Includes physical data describing the planets, satellites, and comets of our solar system, courtesy of NASA's National Space Science Data Center. Potentially useful to designers of science fiction settings and the detail-minded.
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- Hero Machine
- Build a character online. Using Macromedia's Flash program, the HeroMachine lets you control all visual aspects of your character, from capes and boots to faces and weapons.
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- The Character Sketcher
- You don't have to be an artist! Draw character and NPC portraits in seconds! Mix and match pre-drawn facial features to sketch out a composite portrait of your favorite character.
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- Orion's Arm
- A collaborative science fiction multi-race universe. Site contains numerous scientific, cultural, historical, and atlas entries as well as a beginner's guide, mailing list, FAQs, and community news.
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- The Santharian Dream - The Legacy to Tolkien's Fantasy
- Always wanted to develop a complete fantasy world in the style of J.R.R. Tolkien? Santharian excerpts, poems, maps - you're welcome in our realm!