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How to Build A Rich Fantasy World For Writers
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Every writer of fantasy stories needs to build a world with a rich setting for their characters. The fantasy world needs to be flexible enough and detailed enough to make it believable.
It’s hard to build out a protagonist and antagonist, then set them in a town or landscape that needs to be described. There are so many features that need to be thought of. Is the world cold, hot, or temperate? Is your world made up of islands or is it one large Pangea? What are the weather patterns for a maritime adventure?
Then there are populations, religions, and history to think of. You almost have to write a whole wiki on just your world before you even start writing chapters in your fantasy novel! JRR Tolkien spent his entire life building a fantasy world! However, we have something he doesn’t have. We have computers and procedural generation.
Building a fantasy world
Every year I’m amazed at the innovation that’s happening in the table top role playing game (ttrpg) and procedural generation space. People love to play games, period. The ttrpg game space has been growing in leaps and bounds since about 2000 after it became cool to be a “DnD nerd.”
