#world-building

INTRO The last few days I have been playing with old ideas for a unique bug world. I have always had a fascination with the diversity of bugs and small creatures in general. As a kid, I used to stare at

Hi everyone. From this moment onwards, I will use LeoFinance as the main posting platform to share updates about Kalavian Tales. Image: Sarova Whitesword @notaboutme started Kalavian Tales started in January

Any people out there looking to get better at crafting stories, here is a little exercise, get a random map ( and write a story set on that map, at least this is a good exercise for fantasy. :)

Tarsan is a country located in the north-western coastal region of the continent. It borders directly against Gepaul. Despite being a relatively small country, Tarsan has provided significant influence

One of my longer projects is developing a Fedran-inspired set of cards and related games for the desert culture. I haven't really gotten far on this project, mainly because I want to draw them but I burned

While my household is mostly against Star Wars, there are a lot of things about that universe that have influenced my writing. I would say a big one is Splinters of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster (one

For this week's world-building post, I want to talk about tent poles. In this case, I'm not talking about the ones under a circus tent but ways of exploring the world through fiction and documentation

My name is Ronald Arobon, I am an aspiring entrepreneur who has decided to step out of the shadows, bask in the glorious bits and bytes of the shimmering internet, crack my knuckles and get to work. To

Greetings. After a longer than intended hiatus after HF20, I’m finally back with the fourth installment on Tiz-ah-Kor. This installment looks at the entities called the Watchers. As always, there is some

For I'm writing a story set in the Chibera world. With each entry, I grow more and more excited about Chibera. Here's the story so far: Prologue, The World Tree: Chapter 1, Inkpot: Chapter 2, Shabron:

This third entry about Tiz-ah-Kor explains how a storyteller might use Tiz-ah-Kor in something else they're doing, whether it's running a tabletop game or writing fiction. Remember that Tiz-ah-Kor is not

This second entry about Tiz-ah-Kor provides some details on some notable places that adventurers might arrive at in Tiz-ah-Kor. These places will feature in stories about Tiz-ah-Kor and are important for

This is the first entry in a series on a setting I've been working on, particularly focused on the city of Tiz-ah-Kor. I hope you enjoy reading what I've been working on, and I hope to post weekly updates

I have a passion for world-building. That much is clear to me. It's a testament to creativity and imagination. I find I have a spectacular time writing these events in which I recreate a crucial event

Stories Everywhere Stories in books, stories in FRP's, stories in games... Our life is full of stories and we do like exploring them. This is a known fact. But, have you ever wanted to create a story by

Inside World-Building “World-building” often seems to carry itself with an ostentatious tone. It implies that one has the audacity to stand before God with narrowed eyes and say, “I can do better.” Well,