Posts Tagged ‘world building’

Please Answer Survey

Posted on Jan 18 2010 | 2 Comments
Over at the Guang Keshar website, I’ve created a survey. Okay, the survey’s really at SurveyMonkey, but there’s a link to it from rpgGM.com. Even if you don’t plan on using a new campaign setting anytime soon, please stop by and let me know what you look for in a game setting. It’s short. Only these five questions. That’s all... Read More »

What’s in a Name?: Alphabet

Posted on Jan 15 2010 | No Comments
What’s in a Name?: Alphabet Here it is — the final post of our What’s in a Name? series. Today we’re talking about alphabets. Well, actually not about alphabets. While you can create a whole new alphabet for your language, it’s... Read More »

What’s in a Name? Stress is Go...

Posted on Dec 30 2009 | No Comments
What’s in a Name? Stress is Good Image by quinn.anya via Flickr It’s day 3 of our series on creating a naming language and today we’re talking about stress. Not that kind of stress — this is the emphasis we place on one syllable... Read More »

It’s a Brave New World —...

Posted on Dec 20 2009 | 1 Comment
It’s been a long-time coming, but I’ve finally done it. After nearly thirty years of kicking the idea around (and thanks to the guys at the Gamer Lifestyle program), I’ve finally take the plunge and started my own small-press game company, rpgGM.com. This is something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time now, but just never really was... Read More »

What’s in a Name? The Music of...

Posted on Dec 14 2009 | No Comments
What’s in a Name? The Music of Language Welcome to Day 2 of our series on creating a naming language. Every language has its own particular sound. Japanese sounds different from Spanish and few people would mistake guttural German for tonal Chinese. Frequently,... Read More »

What’s in a Name? Language!

Posted on Dec 11 2009 | 1 Comment
What’s in a Name? Language! Creating names can be one of the most challenging parts of creating a game setting. Sure, you can name things whatever happens to come to mind, but that can create names from all over the map (literally, if you’re borrowing... Read More »

“Where are we again?”: C...

Posted on Jul 24 2009 | 3 Comments
Sometimes creating a believable city or town is one of the hardest parts of building an adventure or campaign. You don’t want all your towns to look the same and you definitely don’t want to get stuck in the generic “fantasy town”, consisting of a tavern/bar, inn or other lodgings, magic shoppe, etc. Below I’ve gathered a list of... Read More »

City Creation: Kael Pathfinder Stout...

Posted on Jul 01 2009 | No Comments
Since the PCs aren’t likely to interact with Meadowbrook’s blacksmiths other than to have items repaired or commission new ones, I’m not going to spend much time detailing them. Most Meadowbrook’s blacksmiths focus on creating practical items — horseshoes, plows and farming implements, iron nails and building tools, etc. Kael Pathfinder... Read More »

City Creation: Hospitality

Posted on Jun 29 2009 | No Comments
According to our demographics , Meadowbrook has two inns and ten restaurants/taverns/pubs and one of the innkeepers is a retired adventurer. Let’s start with our inns. The Inns The most obvious choice would be to place one inn in Littletun and one in Bigtun. But since inns generally aren’t used by locals, and the river docks are in Bigtun, it makes... Read More »

City Creation: Religion

Posted on Jun 26 2009 | No Comments
The next entry on our list of Notable People is “Clerics of the local shrines”. While these would, indeed, be notable people (the head priest/ess of the largest shrines would likely have considerable influence), religions differ greatly from one game system to the next and one campaign to the next. So much so, in fact, that I’m going to leave... Read More »


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