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Building worlds that are alive.
Worldbuilding isn’t only about building a world. The world might be the foundation, but in itself, it's rather boring. A world comes to life once people or NPCs as roleplayers call them start living in it. And when conflicts arise between them.
So worldbuilding consists of a world, the people in it, and the conflicts between them.
The world
First things first, let's build a world. Ground to actually let your People and NPCs walk on. A place to fight out their conflicts.
The people or NPCs
People & NPCs, are the most important part to make your world interesting. Let's listen to masters Matthew Mercer, Matthew Coleville, Brandon Mull, and Mike Shea. And see how they create their NPCs. There's no real order in which to read these. Dive in and enjoy.
- Steal my notes, Matthew Mercer on NPCs
- Steal my notes, Matthew Colville on NPCs
- Steal my notes, Brandon Mull on Characters
- Steal my notes, Mike Shea on NPCs
- Create Epic Casual and Storyline NPCs without epic preparation.
- Steal my notes, the conclusion on NPCs
The conflicts between them
Encounters
Backshadowing guns, cats, and diaries.
- The DM and Schrodingers cat
- Abandoned storylines Schrodingers cat and Chekhovs gun
- Backshadowing the DMs Diary
General
Combat Encounters
Art by Rembert Montald