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185 Tips on World Building

2 Ratings

3.5

Duration
1H 44min
Language
English
Format
Category

Fiction

From his best selling series, The Art of World Building, author Randy Ellefson has collected some of his best advice from every chapter in small, bite-sized tips. All three books are represented in the topics covered:

Creating Life - analogues, species/races, gods, monsters, word figures, plants, animals, and undead.

Creating Places - planets, continents, land features, sovereign powers, settlements, land travel, water travel, space travel, time and history, places of interest, and drawing maps.

Cultures and Beyond - cultures, organizations, armed forces, religions, the supernatural, systems of magic, items, languages, names, and more.

© 2020 Evermore Press, LLC (Audiobook): 9781946995322

Release date

Audiobook: 17 April 2020

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