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Showing posts with label worldbuilding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label worldbuilding. Show all posts
Thursday, November 6, 2025

How to Not Get Weighed Down by Worldbuilding

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Worldbuilding is fun, valuable, and rewarding. Plain and simple, time we spend worldbuilding is time we spend enriching our worlds and makin...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

The Core Values of Each Cultural Group in My Homebrew Setting

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I recently did a series of guides to clans in my homebrew setting. It began as an effort to emulate the interesting details and complicated ...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Homebrew Setting Clans: Halflings

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This is the final guide in a series on the most notable groups of people in each culture in my homebrew setting, Evanoch . These guides are ...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Homebrew Setting Clans: Gnomes

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I'm nearing the end of this clan series, which has consistently helped me to understand my cultural groups better. This guide features m...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Homebrew Setting Clans: Half-Elves

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I remember many years ago sitting down with the 3.5 Players Handbook to study more of the world I was trying to exist in. My favorite thing ...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Homebrew Setting Clans: Elves

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This is the fifth of eight entries in a series on clans in my homebrew setting , featuring the elves of Evanoch. In the first half of this s...
Monday, June 16, 2025

Homebrew Setting Clans: Orcs

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This guide to important groups of orcs is part of a larger group of articles on clans in my homebrew setting, Evanoch . In this series, I ha...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

Homebrew Setting Clans: Dwarves

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This guide is part of a larger series on clans in my homebrew setting, Evanoch . This series, which I'm working on nearly ten years afte...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Homebrew Setting Clans: Faninites

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This guide is part of a larger series in which I delve into the clan identities of the groups in my homebrew setting. This accomplishes a co...
Sunday, June 23, 2024

Homebrew Setting Clans: Daltoners

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I've recently begun writing a novel based on a D&D campaign I was lucky enough to take part in over the last few years, and doing s...
Sunday, April 9, 2023

A Profile on the Underdark in My Homebrew Setting

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One of the most interesting parts of the traditional Dungeons & Dragons lore in terms of setting has been the Underdark. Introduced in a...
Sunday, February 19, 2023

Common Misperceptions About History in My Homebrew Setting

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In my never-ending quest to make my homebrew setting more detailed and realistic, I often set out to describe cultural phenomena. What are p...
Sunday, September 4, 2022

The Languages in My Homebrew Setting

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I have always been fascinated by language. It's a large part of why I'm an English teacher today--I just enjoy passing on a love of ...
Saturday, August 20, 2022

How to Develop a Random Idea into Worldbuilding and Storylines

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Worldbuilding is one of the best parts of tabletop games for many GMs, and there are many benefits to digging into the details and elaborati...