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3 Essential Elements for Fantasy Worldbuilding: Institutions, Nations, and Monsters

It’s time for another post on fantasy worldbuilding in both novels and pen and paper RPG games. Nothing too earth-shattering just me rambling as I always do. In my last post, we discussed several topics and ideas most often incorporated in the fantasy worldbuilding of novels and pen and paper RPG games. As noted inContinue reading “3 Essential Elements for Fantasy Worldbuilding: Institutions, Nations, and Monsters”

3 Critical Ideas for Fantasy Worldbuilding: Races, Cultures, and Religions

I wanted to post this quite some time ago, but life intervened. New job. That sort of thing. Anyway, back to the topic at hand. We were discussing the topics and ideas that are most often incorporated in the fantasy worldbuilding of novels and pen and paper RPG games. As noted in the prior post,Continue reading “3 Critical Ideas for Fantasy Worldbuilding: Races, Cultures, and Religions”

3 Fantasy Worldbuilding Tips: Time, Place, and The Magic/Science Distinction

Okay, so you’ve decided you want to build a fantasy world. You’re just not sure where to begin.

12 Tips and Ideas for Fantasy Worldbuilding in Novels and RPG Games

So, you want to build a fantasy world. Where do you begin?

Introduction

Greetings all! It’s me, Matthew D. Ryan, author of “Drasmyr” and the series “From the Ashes of Ruin.” Once upon a time, I had a website and a blog entitled “A Toast to Dragons.” I closed that down a while back, for a variety of reasons. I am starting this new site and christening thisContinue reading “Introduction”