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    Guild Apprentice Scipio's Avatar
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    Default General Worldbuilding Resources

    Hey everyone, I'm relatively new here, but I'm glad to finally join the community and have been slowly working on my first map project recently, but I thought I'd share some quality resources for the wider process of worldbuilding that I've found during the course of my research. I'm sorry if these have already been posted many times, but I seems like most the stickies have to deal with actual cartography, image editing and so forth. I initially thought about starting a blog here that incorporated my current map project with a general worldbuilding overview/tutorial, but I decided that would really just slow down my progress on the actual map too much. I still have interest in eventually making a worldbuilding tutorial, as I am a firm believer that a successful cartographer must also be a reasonably proficient worldbuilder, but here's some useful sites I've found in the meantime:


    Generators
    World
    • http://donjon.bin.sh/world/ - a nice little fractal-based world generator, fun to mess around with for inspiration, many options for different projections as well

    Kingdom/City

    Names


    Articles
    Climate

    Demographics


    Miscellaneous
    • http://www.worlddreambank.org/P/PLANETS.HTM - a nice little collection of "dream worlds", most of which serve to illustrate some sort of geographic or climatic truism, therefore very valuable to those interested in a more or less scientific approach to the early stages of worldbuilding


    WIP- will add some overall worldbuilding guides soon, let me know if you have anything else you feel should be added, such as resources regarding astrophysics, plate tectonics, biology, culture etc.
    Last edited by Scipio; 03-27-2012 at 10:29 PM.

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