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<h1>World Building Prompts</h1>
<h1>World Creation Tables</h1>
<p>Feel free to use the tables on these pages whenever you're running short on ideas during world creation.</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p><strong>Create the major kingdoms and nations of your world, mark their borders on the map and discuss their relations: mutual trust, strained alliances, or open conflict?</strong></p>
<p>Each person at the table should contribute at least one kingdom or nation during this step, providing some details about their customs, beliefs, industry, denizens, and creatures.</p>
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<li>
<p><strong>Choose a shape for your world: is it round, flat, or are the regions floating amidst the clouds? Could it be donut-shaped, in typical JRPG fashion?</strong></p>
<p>You might even decide that the shape of your world is yet to be discovered!</p>
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<li>
<p><strong>Grab a map sheet that fits your concept (or draw a custom map; just make sure to leave plenty of blank space for settlements and locations).</strong> Your world can span more than one sheet, of course — but let’s keep things simple for now. Remember to establish the length of a travel day on the map (see page 106).</p>
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<li>
<p><strong>What is the role of magic and technology in your setting?</strong> Are you living in an age of industrial development, or is it more Renaissance-like?</p>
<ul>
<li>Is magic seen as a form of science, or mostly as a great mystery?</li>
</ul>
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<li>
<p><strong>Discuss the major historical events that shaped your world into what it is.</strong> Each person at the table should contribute at least one important event that dramatically altered the history of your setting.</p>
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<li>
<p><strong>What are the great enigmas and mysteries of the world? </strong> The questions left unanswered, and the truths that are now indistinguishable from legend?</p>
<p>Each person at the table should contribute at least one mystery of the world that they want to explore over the course of the group’s adventures.</p>
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<p><strong>What terrible threats cast a shadow over your world?</strong> Environmental disasters, furious deities, power-hungry empires, or perhaps even clouds of corrupting miasma that are enveloping and consuming the land?</p>
<p>Each person at the table should contribute a threat, preferably something that is endangering the future of entire nations. The Game Master will base a majority of their villains and antagonists on these worldwide threats.</p>
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</ol>
<h2>Magic and Technology (roll a d20 or choose)</h2>
<p>Below are 20 potential concepts for magic and technology that can influence your setting:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>1.</strong> Magitech disturbs the natural balance.</li>
<li><strong>2.</strong> Those who can wield magic carry a unique brand on their bodies.</li>
<li><strong>3.</strong> Magic is inherited through bloodline.</li>
<li><strong>4.</strong> The advent of magic is very recent.</li>
<li><strong>5.</strong> The Ancients lived in harmony with magical creatures.</li>
<li><strong>6.</strong> All magic in the world comes from a single sacred location.</li>
<li><strong>7.</strong> The world is kept together by some ancient and powerful magic.</li>
<li><strong>8.</strong> Technology is an offense to the gods.</li>
<li><strong>9.</strong> The world is a science-fiction dystopia where magic is experimented on.</li>
<li><strong>10.</strong> Magic is a gift from the gods.</li>
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<li><strong>11.</strong> Magic comes from another dimension.</li>
<li><strong>12.</strong> There are parts of the world where no people are born who can use magic.</li>
<li><strong>13.</strong> Airships revolutionized travel and war.</li>
<li><strong>14.</strong> Magic is largely a forbidden art.</li>
<li><strong>15.</strong> Spellcasters are trained in academies and then hired by nobles.</li>
<li><strong>16.</strong> Steam engines are commonplace and great golems join armies in battle.</li>
<li><strong>17.</strong> In the past, the world was almost destroyed.</li>
<li><strong>18.</strong> Magic was taught by dragons.</li>
<li><strong>19.</strong> Monsters are born from the restless souls of the dead.</li>
<li><strong>20.</strong> Magic comes from ancient crystals.</li>
</ul>
<p><em>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.</em></p>
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<p class="attribution">Philip Forlenza (Order #)</p>
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<h2>Kingdoms and Nations (roll a d8 or choose)</h2>
<p>Use these concepts to define the political structure of your setting:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>1.</strong> Empire</li>
<li><strong>2.</strong> Kingdom</li>
<li><strong>3.</strong> Villages</li>
<li><strong>4.</strong> City-state</li>
<li><strong>5.</strong> Union</li>
<li><strong>6.</strong> Holy Kingdom</li>
<li><strong>7.</strong> Tribes</li>
<li><strong>8.</strong> Protectorate</li>
</ul>
<p>Philip Forlenza (Order #)</p>