Explore how to create maps like continents, settlements, and dungeon maps, and learn whether you should create any of this and why.

EP 21: How to Draw Maps

In every episode of The Art of World Building podcast, host Randy Ellefson discusses how authors, screenwriters, game designers, gamers, and hobbyists can do world building better, faster, and have more fun doing it. Popular topics include creating gods, species, animals, plants, races, monsters, undead, continents, settlements, kingdoms, star systems, time, history, cultures, magic systems, religions, the supernatural, naming everything, and travel estimates for land, sea, and space.

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The podcast presents approaches to world building, how to organize files and folders, ideas on partnering with others, and more.

EP 33: World Building Strategies

Explore how to create other systems, including legal, health, IT, education, and more.

EP 32: Other Systems

Explore how to create magic systems, including a brief look at types of magic (brief), the principles of creating a good systems, creating limits, how to invent spells, and more.

EP 31.2: Magic Systems

Explore how to create magic systems, including whether we need to create them, sources of magic, whether spells are needed, a look at the life of wizards, and more.

EP 31.1: Magic Systems

Explore how to create items. This includes regular ones, supernatural ones, and technological elements, like an AI, and more.

EP 21: How to Draw Maps

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