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Szebarz, the Island In The Evernight (3 replies)
The Steel City (7 replies)
On The Origin Of (Demihuman) Species (0 replies)
The Matter of Glenwyr (6 replies)
Looking for Mutants and Mastermins original settings (0 replies)
Elven Ghost Ships (0 replies)
"Generic" Setting: Fake geology, real feelings (6 replies)
Dungeon Drops (2 replies)
Empire! 8 - The Planets of Tekhum (39 replies)
Help with a Custom Setting- Choma, a Ancient Greece Inspired World for PF2e (6 replies)
The Book Of Kinda Evil Darkness (A Book Of Modestly Evil Gods) (27 replies)
Airships (4 replies)
Additional Specific Warlock Patrons (0 replies)
Divine Implements, tools of the gods (5 replies)
Blood Pines (0 replies)
The Greenships (8 replies)
Abovebright. Brainstorimng the opposite of Underdark. Join in. (35 replies)
Elves of the Dunes (0 replies)
Moral philosophies as an alternative to alignments (41 replies)
Brainstorming Undead Plants (11 replies)
Anyone have any Weird Fiction/Cosmic Horror ideas for disturbing revelations? (27 replies)
A Playable Utopia (0 replies)
Shattered Worlds (9 replies)
(Crusades Worldbuilding) Shadowlands? (1 replies)
Death of an Idea: What else may have happened? And how did the planet recover? (3 replies)
Pyramidal societies and demographic weights (3 replies)
[Worldbuilding] Some thoughts on noble attire (11 replies)
Creating A Fighting Game Roster (23 replies)
Lizardfolk idioms (9 replies)
Need help with building Tabaxi Japan (3 replies)
Brainstorming Sci-Fi Musings (31 replies)
Sageunay Fjord (7 replies)
Project [HELP NEEDED] Russian-speaking pre-reader for 3.5 campaign book needed. Badly. (0 replies)
My World Corsairs of the Celestial Sea: Wuxia Space Fantasy, OSR Style (5 replies)
Orcs and Goblins (2 replies)
Brainstorming Help coming up with an apocalypse no one could have predicted (50 replies)
New Takes On Common Fantasy Races (13 replies)
Motivating a BBEG (15 replies)
Prices of Goods & Services (1 replies)
Law vs. Chaos Multiverse (13 replies)
The Real World, The Mirror World, and the Real Real World (0 replies)
Help Designing my Pantheon (17 replies)
Diverse droves of different demons (4 replies)
A metaphysics of magic as the deformation of the boundary of the self (2 replies)
Doors to the Underground (4 replies)
Starter Quest (0 replies)
Dungeons as a key cosmological concept (1 replies)
My World Lokadia - WiP - Love to hear feedback! (1 replies)
Building on the ruins of dead civilizations, what would vampires leave behind? (5 replies)
Is weather too much to seriously track? (20 replies)
Equus, The City On A Hill (10 replies)
Project Pathfinder/D&D, Final Fantasty, Dragon Quest Crossover Setting (2 replies)
How do centaurs figuratively and literally fit into fantasy worlds? (50 replies)
Non-Euclidean Node-Based World (2 replies)
Brainstorming [Worldbuilding Game] Random Table World Generation (0 replies)
Brainstorming Post-apocalyptic ecological catastrophe spiritual successor setting, system-neutral (6 replies)
Thoughts on Running a Political Intrigue Focused Game in Eberron (0 replies)
Brainstorming Emotional Campaign System (0 replies)
Then, from the Deep, They came, and found the Light of Lords within the rain (6 replies)
Reborn as a bunch of crows - Looking for crow myth/folklore to mine for ideas (5 replies)
Gravity anomalies in a fantasy setting (7 replies)
Alternative planes of insanity (10 replies)
World War in DnD (8 replies)
Brainstorming Dungeons are Demiplanes (5 replies)
Willowdale - A Starting Village in Progress - Feedback and ideas welcome! (16 replies)
The Gold Dragon's Diary (0 replies)
The Dragon Crisis Lore (8 replies)
How Do Ships Sail Off Of The World? (4 replies)
What exactly is a dungeon core? (13 replies)
Strange Worlds (0 replies)
Looking for info on ghosts and ghost lore (8 replies)
Kingdom Under the Sun (Setting Brainstorm) (16 replies)
Worldbuilding Tools? (7 replies)
Party Hard, Train Harder (0 replies)
Brainstorming Expanding on Orcish Culture (PEACH) (7 replies)
World Help Ebonwood: Stormharbor and the People of the Sea (7 replies)
Worldbuilding and setting up the two big bad guys for it. D&D 3.5 (2 replies)
Project Adding to the Lower Planes (30 replies)
Family Dynamics (5 replies)
The Orcs Among Us (21 replies)
My World The Western Reaches - Sorcerers and Barbarians of the Great Wilds (9 replies)
World Help Top of the food chain (21 replies)
World Help Representation of Power Through Experience Levels (23 replies)
Some Specific Warlock Patrons (19 replies)
Deriving Population (14 replies)
Brainstorming Ebonwood: Race List Foundations (2 replies)
Thoughts on superpowered peace-keepers and festering issues (13 replies)
A god collection (6 replies)
Wild, Wild Post-Apocalyptic Arcadia: Building the Perfect D&D Setting (10 replies)
My World Skydia; Ask me anything! (0 replies)
A chance to put together the Ultimate pantheon (3 replies)
World Help I finally have something; Cooperative world-building (3 replies)
Low-Combat Adventure: The Vanished (15 replies)
Building Fantasy Constantinople (13 replies)
Brainstorming A D&D Mirror Universe (Thread Rehash) (6 replies)
Merfolk allegory to the real world Silk Road? (19 replies)
Iridium Moons - A retro-futuristic industrial Space Opera (24 replies)
My World The Lords of Umadra: 'Masters of the Universe' PF/3.5 Planetary Adventure Setting (2 replies)
Please Help: Creating Circle Magic (1 replies)
My World Contemplating Races and Cultural Effects (0 replies)
My World Port Demesne: A Safe Harbor in a Shattered World (2 replies)
What do Fair Folk want and need? Why do they interact with humans at all? (2 replies)
Looking for ideas for an 'exodus' campaign (5 replies)
Dungeons the Dragoning 40k 7e campaign setting goes to heck (16 replies)
World Hunter's Tournament (7 replies)
How are they related? (2 replies)
What’s a culture neutral name for a Sha’ir? (31 replies)
A World where Order vs Chaos is more important than Good vs Evil (6 replies)
A tool I created for creating fleshed out noble NPCs quickly (10 replies)
Notes on a world I'm brewing (6 replies)
Would wrathful nature gods logically lead to more ecofriendly culture? (42 replies)
Brainstorming How would Humans be the most numerous race? (53 replies)
Rock-Paper-Scissors Magic (3 replies)
Humans and Elves of my World for Pathfinder (2 replies)
My World Daystor (25 replies)
Native American Pantheon and the Great Wheel (5 replies)
Ritual ideas for an irascible evil storm goddess (10 replies)
Island plateaus above monster-infested foggy wilderness (14 replies)
My World The Legend of Esarlon Design Thread (15 replies)
World Help How can I fix the problem of scale in a Sword and Planet fantasy setting? (18 replies)
Fleshing out vehicles for the world(s) (12 replies)
Giant's Walk (0 replies)
World Help How to make a timeline? (6 replies)
Worldbuilding a Martial Campaign (10 replies)
Scale Mechanics (7 replies)
Feelings regarding a very Chauvinistic and somewhat racist world (15 replies)
Brainstorming Collaborative Worldbuilding: Creating a Starter Region through a list of questions (13 replies)
Brainstorming Macabre races/species (11 replies)
Empire!7 - Into the Depths: Waters of the World (CWBG) (71 replies)
Is there a point in detailing extinct races if they did not build dungeons? (16 replies)
Project Post-Apocalyptic Anime-Derived setting(System Neutral, feedback Welcome) (10 replies)
Would tree people (ents, dryads, trents, etc) really be extra vulnerable to fire? (17 replies)
Curses! (7 replies)
Creation myth for my setting - PEACH (10 replies)
Dark implications of healing, enabling brutal corporal punishment (16 replies)
Clan Chieftainship (14 replies)
The Lost Sea (8 replies)
A world where HP is meat (26 replies)
Illegal sentient dungeons! (5 replies)
The Goblin of the Grotto (0 replies)
A Realm of Monsters. (4 replies)
World Help Fatacor at large (18 replies)
World Help Making a barbarian homeland (43 replies)
Cooperative Worldbuilding - Adventures on the Abandoned Frontier (13 replies)
World Help Favorite Guides & Outlines? (4 replies)
The Fires of Mōnoiʻaimomo: Polynesian Setting (0 replies)
Trying to find GiantITP setting (misplaced bookmark), author unknown (6 replies)
Ruins of the Shattered Empire (32 replies)
Worldbuilding As History (1 replies)
World Help Bottom-Up Worldbuilding (7 replies)
All About Slimes! (3 replies)
Leeches for magic – a world of organic blood suckers (2 replies)
The River of Sand (1 replies)
Kalsema: The Lands of the Long Light (Isekai Homebrew Setting) (15 replies)
World/Element/Mind/Body Combinations (0 replies)
Project Dark Magical School Setting - Commentary Welcomed (22 replies)
What do Merfolk do to get drunk in their pubs in place of drinking wine and ale? (22 replies)
Balancing spiral campaign and world building (4 replies)
How do you use the Boogeyman archetype with adult adventurers. (13 replies)
Brainstorming All Psionics Campaign Setting -- Ideas + Brainstorming (12 replies)
Opposite of Undead (47 replies)
Spells that Exist, but are not in the game (12 replies)
Developing monastic orders in a high fantasy world WITHOUT kung fu monks (31 replies)
Charities in a mid-high magic world? (8 replies)
Random Encounters (50 replies)
Project Heralds of Armageddon (campaign) (8 replies)
Divinosis Campaign Setting (3 replies)
Future of a Low Magic Setting (21 replies)
Orcs, Hobgoblins, and other Walking Stereotypes (11 replies)
World Help Figuring out when an event took place: National Founding Myth (11 replies)
Hyperspace Opera: Retro-Futuristic Swashbuckling and Gunslinging (87 replies)
A collection of recommended name changes to make the Great Wheel more cohesive. (0 replies)
Gentik Academy Of The Arts (10 replies)
Brainstorming Changing up monster descriptions (0 replies)
Do captivating Fair Folk stories require a soft magic system to work? (12 replies)
Smallest population able to maintain regular sacrifices? (22 replies)
How do I distinguish dwarven clans from each other? (16 replies)
Culde Crossing: A Piece of Bottom-Up Worldbuilding (7 replies)
My World Explorers of the Great River (West Marches campaign setting) (5 replies)
Lets Build a Setting: Back to the Classics (4 replies)
The world of Meridiania a homebrewed setting with a decade long evolution (2 replies)
Brainstorming What's Your Most Off-Beat Setting Detail? (45 replies)
A Song of Scale and Claw: World-Building for A Reptilian Campaign (17 replies)
Vargach: A card game for your campaign (5 replies)
How would a dragon cuss? (19 replies)
Medieval/steampunk island inside a permanent hurricane (0 replies)
Brainstorming The Full Implications of Class Levels and PC Power Levels (7 replies)
Cooperative Worldbuilding - A Promised Necromancy (111 replies)
Kruthik Kingdoms (0 replies)
My World Navigating the seas of Quartus (4 replies)
Adventuring is illegal + sentient dungeons? (7 replies)
Poetry as a Magic System (2 replies)
The Guardians of Kalan-Adar (0 replies)
University of Magic setting (for Fantasy Craft) (5 replies)
"Never cast ANY spell without a properly-made wand, staff, or tower... (24 replies)
What would medieval life be like with electrical lights? (16 replies)
How long is long, long ago? (9 replies)
How ridiculous is my planet? (19 replies)
My World Rylanototh -- the World of the Vortex (0 replies)
A city of artists (16 replies)
Project Archipelago Campaign - The Sirasi Isle (3 replies)
World Help Ravenloft/Exandria Campaign Brainstorm (2 replies)
Help with Ecological/Political Catastrophe (15 replies)
My World Some Feedback on what I have so far (14 replies)
Lizardfolk of the Northern River Deltas (26 replies)
World Help Help with population dynamics math for a strange case (10 replies)
History of magic, thoughts. (5 replies)
Secret 40k Campaigns (15 replies)
My World The Elven Curse (10 replies)
Brainstorming Trad-fantasy/steampunk world cross idea (7 replies)
World Help give feedback on how to develop my fantasy world (6 replies)
Pantheon of Champions [Rate, advise, point out gaps, etc] ~~(Pethros (1 replies)
Medieval and ancient views on nature versus modern environmentalism in Fantasy (22 replies)
Explaining the races: Influence. (2 replies)
Pseudo war ritual (8 replies)
Artificers in a D&D 3.5 Renaissance-like setting: yay or nay? (6 replies)
Should fantasy worlds have iceboxes or magical refridgerators? (30 replies)
World Help Worldbuilding a Plane of Chaos (6 replies)
My World Aturan of the Thousand Worlds (1 replies)
Name for "Dark Age"/Void Century (26 replies)
Help with my setting, The Vents. (23 replies)
Deities Divorced From Alignment (51 replies)
Project The Clockface Gods - Homebrew Pantheon (4 replies)
Nomenclative Magic (9 replies)
The Four Laws of Undead Physiology (6 replies)
My World Ever had a world stick itself into your head until you wrote it down? (6 replies)
Brainstorming Trying to work out a third god for a trio; any suggestions? (7 replies)
My World A synthesized and unified story for the Ordning (giant pantheon) (2 replies)
Portals in the Temple (Zenthus, stay out) (1 replies)
Vast majority of manual labour in iron and bronze ages? (20 replies)
Schools, -mancies, -turgies, vagaries and other magical proficiencies (19 replies)
Ecclesiarchy in Games (17 replies)
My take on D&D 6th (1 replies)
World Help I need help coming up with a name for mortal servants of a death-associated entity (9 replies)
Medieval Demographics (11 replies)
A Debate of Dragons (4 replies)
I have trouble incorporating certain fantasy elements into my world (33 replies)
What would a literal "under-world" look like? (19 replies)
Five Worlds (1 replies)
Fix the afterlife: looking for suggestions on my setting (11 replies)
World Help Daemon World: Brainstorming ideas for a post-apocalyptic, PF Daemon-ruled world (4 replies)
Brainstorming Implications of a demon-binding Neutral/Good military (43 replies)
My World What programs do you use to draw your world maps up? (8 replies)
My World Vesligarn: Crucifex of the Paraelements (9 replies)
Bringing in new blood to a magical aristocracy (32 replies)
My World Of Cats and Death, a Valentine's Day Story (0 replies)
World Help Anti-Magic everyday folk (6 replies)
How do you turn your projects into a game experience? (3 replies)
World Help Domain of dread - short concepts (4 replies)
Where should fantasy feudal lords put their castles? (16 replies)