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From the Ground Up – Nations, States, Kingdoms
In direct contrast to last weeks focus, this week I want to talk a bit about the concept, formation, and anachronisms surrounding some of the nations in our RPG campaigns and other worlds.…
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From the Ground Up – Points of Light
One of the greatest realizations about running a game came to me while reading my least favorite game to adjucate, D&D 4e. While the game had many flaws, its basic setting being…
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From the Ground Up – Divine and Arcane
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been looking at how to categorize, build, and tackle magic as it pertains to world building. its a broad subject with many facets. This week, I’m going…
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From the Ground Up – Schools and Concepts of Magic
(PS: I would love to have an orange/black version of the above image, or one like it, I just can’t seem to do the right editing to it. Help anyone?) The Last three…
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From the Ground Up – The Nature of Magic Part II – Biological and Elemental Magic
Last week, I talked about the way that Foundational, Primal magic would be explained, in a general sense, in a campaign world. Now, I want to take a look at two additional…
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From the Ground up – The Nature of Magic Part I: Foundational Magic
The first two sections in the series covered the basic tenants of building the foundation of a world, the building blocks upon which you will place the adventures, the nations, the villains and…
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From the Ground Up – Humans and Humanoids
This is the last article in section II, the natural world, and to me its the natural endpoint of a section focused on putting the finishing touches on a strong foundation of natural…
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From the Ground Up – Intelligent Monsters
The series to this point, has focused on the natural world. Preparing and setting the stage for the nations, states, peoples and cultures that will exist within the world and likely be its…
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From the Ground Up – Megafauna
A stand out features of many fantasy settings, and many alien-based sci-fi settings, are the huge creatures that dominate the landscape, mythology, and much of the attention of the heroes, people and villains of…
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From The Ground Up – Beasts of Burden and Livestock
“While the horses of the Ammaran warriors are impressive, no doubt, the riders of the Kalmorath sit astride massive lizards stretching greater than ten feet! A single charge has been enough to break…