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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- Sheinar, The Confederacy of
- Born out of a cataclysm war, the Confederacy of Sheinar is located on a archipelago that floats among the clouds. A campaign with aeroships, Plains Elves, and mysterious Dwarves.
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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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- The New Roman Republic
- The former nation of Nova Sparta; still dedicated to a Classical Renaissance, with the rebirth of Ancient culture.
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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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- Fictional Linguistics: KICKS Academy Course
- Online free course about creating languages, hosted at the KICKS Academy of the SciFiVine. Members of the SciFiVine may participate after a free registration in the class project for an invented language called "Trans-Galactic Lingo". KICKS stands for "Kenobi Intergalactic Council of Kindred Spirits".
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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.