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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 – 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 – Monster Consistency
This series is all about putting realism a bit more often into fantastic campaigns and other fictional worlds. We’ve talked about Currents of both air and water, vegetation, climate and biome considerations, and…
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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…
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From the Ground Up – Apex Predators
Piggybacking off of last week, I want to continue talking about the animal, or monstrous, inhabitants of the natural world that will be part of any solid fictional setting. This isn’t often a…
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From the Ground Up – Predators and Prey
Welcome back, Last week we put the touches on the landmass and vegetation portions of the continent I’d been creating, putting together the lessons from the first section. Now, it is time to…
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From the Ground Up – Biomes II
I’m just going to jump right in. Savannah, Rainforests and Deserts this week!
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From the Ground up – Biomes and Vegetation
Alright. We are almost there! I’ve put up a table of contents, a road map of sort, to how I am going to write these articles out. If I miss a topic that…