Worldbuilder's Anvil

• What are Races?
  • Depends on how you define it for your world
  • Common appearance of the grouping
    • Not body height, weight, and intelligence should vary based on nutrition
  • Shared Traits by then vast majority of the group
• What Races is not?
  • All living in one country
  • Photocopies of each other (Depends)
  • What I say

• What is a culture?
  • Shared Experience
  • Shared symbolism
  • Shared Beliefs and Norms
  • Language
  • Religion
  • Common Food, and Rituals
  • Art, Music, and Dress
• What culture is not?
  • A country (Most likely not)
  • A Race (Most likely not)
  • Fixed in time

• Why do I keep Coming Back to Wonders?
  • Because they stick out in the world
• Some are natural
  • Mount Fuji
  • Great Barrier Reef
  • Aurora Borealis
  • Great Riff Valley or Grand Cannon
• Some are Man-made
  • Great Wall of China
  • Stonehenge
  • Pyramids
  • Chunnel
• Some are over looked as wonders
  • Great terrain features
  • Major States Capitals
• They are wonders as long have influence on central to the culture(s)
• They will change over time

• What are maps important?
• What should they show?
• What language should they be in?
• How much of the world needs to be on it?
• How can I map and store
• What do I use and why?

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• Cosmos
• Sun
• Your Planet
• Other Planets
• Other Things in the night sky
  • Comets
  • Meteors & Asteroids
  • Stars
  • Star Clusters
  • Nebula's
  • Galaxies
  • Your Galaxy
• Weather

• Rules is the filter for each of your Basic topics
• Places = Physical Geography
  • Cosmos
  • Natural Wonders
  • Oceans
  • Land
  • plate tectonics
  • Mountains
  • Plains
  • Steppes
  • Deserts
  • Rivers
  • Lakes
  • Seas
• Weather

• Rules is the filter for each of your Basic topics
• Places
  • Cosmos
  • Natural Wonders
• Religion
• Language
• Races
• Culture
• States
• Faces
• Technology is the limit to when the Worldbuilding ends
  • Histories are when I know I am done

• Name of my world: Gardul Earth-like Fantasy
  • Sometimes: Podcastia
• Important Rules
  • Recreation and Evolution
  • The elements of the universe are spread out amongst the stars when they explode
    • Life is caused by the elements present on a world
    • Life on different planets can be similar because of the last rule.
  • Speed of light is the maximum speed for particles a atom or larger
  • Cosmic strings can be tapped to bend space and time to allow for faster then light travel and move far distances
    • Some are Major and can be used to travel between different parts of the universe.
    • Others are minor and can be used to move across planets
    • Major points only exist in space
    • Minor points are places the races consider to be holy or magic sites
  • Survival of the fittest does not mean the best, strongest version survives.
  • surviving does not mean winning
  • Economics is ruled by "Human Action"
  • Magic simple another rule of the universe. It allows people to manipulate the other rules for a price.
    • The cost of magic prevents those that use it from dominating
  • Tech Level for first stories is Late Iron Age Technology
  • Magic has four forms True, Divine, Casting, and Spirit

• Stone Age
• Bronze Age
• Iron Age
• Early Medieval
• Late Medieval
• Renaissance
• Pre Industrial
• Industrial
• Early Global
• Global
• Solar System
• Short Interstellar
• Universal
• multiverse
• Extra Dimensional The Rating

  This is an Basic topic

  The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

  Determine the Technology for your world. Check out all the GURPS books and visit Steve Jackson Games

  The Real World task for the day

  Prepare your lunch ahead of time, so you are not rushed in the morning going to work

  The Tease 1 Minute

  Makeover Session