World Creation Tables

Feel free to use the tables on these pages whenever you're running short on ideas during world creation.

Magic and Technology (roll a d20 or choose)

Below are 20 potential concepts for magic and technology that can influence your setting:

• 1. Magitech disturbs the natural balance.
• 2. Those who can wield magic carry a unique brand on their bodies.
• 3. Magic is inherited through bloodline.
• 4. The advent of magic is very recent.
• 5. The Ancients lived in harmony with magical creatures.
• 6. All magic in the world comes from a single sacred location.
• 7. The world is kept together by some ancient and powerful magic.
• 8. Technology is an offense to the gods.
• 9. The world is a science-fiction dystopia where magic is experimented on.
• 10. Magic is a gift from the gods.
• 11. Magic comes from another dimension.
• 12. There are parts of the world where no people are born who can use magic.
• 13. Airships revolutionized travel and war.
• 14. Magic is largely a forbidden art.
• 15. Spellcasters are trained in academies and then hired by nobles.
• 16. Steam engines are commonplace and great golems join armies in battle.
• 17. In the past, the world was almost destroyed.
• 18. Magic was taught by dragons.
• 19. Monsters are born from the restless souls of the dead.
• 20. Magic comes from ancient crystals.

All these options can be applied to the entire world or to a specific nation or region. For instance, steam engines might be a common sight in one continent and reviled as heresy by a neighbouring country, or magic might be an ancient art in one region and a recent discovery somewhere else.

Kingdoms and Nations (roll a d8 or choose)

Use these concepts to define the political structure of your setting:

• 1. Empire
• 2. Kingdom
• 3. Villages
• 4. City-state
• 5. Union
• 6. Holy Kingdom
• 7. Tribes
• 8. Protectorate