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  • The map looks great, but the title being City makes me think of the villages in Skyrim being called Cities. I am sure that this is only part of the city, but it just reminded me of the tricks we often use to help players believe they are somewhere larger and more real than they are. Anyways, it looks great! I’d certainly use that kind of map if I used a VTT.




  • For how I document, well it’s pretty loosey-goosey, other than locations I don’t really have much structure. Each note just kinda has whatever I think is important with lots of links so I can find it again. I do try and keep ideas fairly atomic - a single idea per note, so that they can be used as building blocks for other notes/ideas.

    For organization I am not using tags, I am using folders, and I change up the heirarchy as needed. For a while I had a Flora and Fauna folder, but the world I am building has a lot of non-earth creatures and plants, so those needed to be split out and given more ease of access, so now I have two separate folders at the top level. Right now I have:

    • Culture
    • Factions
    • Fauna
    • Flora
    • Magic
    • Materials
    • Regions
    • Species
    • Ideas (random thoughts go in Ideas before they are made real)



  • Yeah, definitely a bit of a longer read, and I feel like the ending of the article could have had more of a completed thought / conclusion, but all the same it really got me thinking in a good way.

    I think I the article is really good because it does capture a feeling I have been trying to focus on for my next game - that feeling of doing something cool.




  • I build for ttrpgs (GURPS in particular) and like to run many campaigns in one world, so having some believable inter-nation politics / conflict is a must.

    Also, if there are gods or super powerful beings, even high level spell casters there needs to be a good solid reason why they aren’t the ones who are saving the world. The Forgotten Realms made me question that too much, as a player I was meeting all these high level beings and they told me to go into the pit of evil bad guys who are going to take over the world.