Favorite Guides & Outlines?

[Necrosnoop110]

Any suggestions for downloadable forms and/or outlines for creating your own fantasy world setting? Lists of prompts, questions, and headings to help fill out the details of a homebrewed setting? Even if some-what elementary I think it would help me gather my ideas into one document.

Thanks,
Necro

[Borazine]

I’m not sure what scale you had in mind, but I’ll toss out a recommendation for the Local Area worksheet from Matt Colville / MCDM.

I can’t post the link directly since I’m too much of a lurker, but you should find it (and the associated Youtube video) easily if you google ‘Matt Colville Local Area’.

[JNAProductions]

World Anvil was recommended to me by a friend. It might work well for you!

[Melayl]

Expeditious Retreat Press has many guides to worldbuilding. I haven't read all of them, but their A Magiac Society series has been helpful. You can find them on DriveThruRPG, among other sites.

[Martin Greywolf]

There is a bunch of books written ov everyday life in medieval times. They are inevitably anglo-french-centric, but so is fantasy in general. These will serve you pretty well as guides for creating towns and cities and describing them - sure, some of the stuff is outdated, but still.

• Frances Gies: Life in a medieval city
• Frances Gies: Life in a medieval village
• Ian Mortimer: The time traveller's guide to medieval England

Even chapter titles alone can serve as a sort of a quick checklist.