Continued from last blog Post/Thought
Now you need to name the places, and give each place a culture. Don’t write yet, just think and look at your map and get ideas for what each place should be. If you want write a list of your ideas. Then head on to the next part.
This final part other than writing your world down, is finalizing your map by getting another sheet of graph paper, and start to draw the your rough draft of your world onto a new clean sheet of paper. This new map should look better than the rough draft of your world. Of course, if you don’t want to spend the time you don’t have to. But this might be important if you want to publish your world.
Finally, you are finished. The last thing you have to do is write down about a paragraph for each place in your world. Using the ideas you though off two paragraphs before this one. You should also write a paragraph for every Race and culture you have in your world.
After all this, remember that this is also your player’s world as well. And when they come to your first session, you might want to let the player’s create their own realms where the players come from. This comes with good plot hooks, and it eases some of the work off your shoulders.
If you don’t have enough time, or if your players are not that imaginative (not offense made to your players of course), then you don’t have to do it. I just suggest it.
Also, if you are letting them create their own realms, then make sure not to change the realm that each player has made, instead, supervise each player to make sure that it follows the type of world you made.
Remember, all this is a guideline. And don’t expect to follow every step of it. Your imagination will break through for at least one step!
By Garell
Now you need to name the places, and give each place a culture. Don’t write yet, just think and look at your map and get ideas for what each place should be. If you want write a list of your ideas. Then head on to the next part.
This final part other than writing your world down, is finalizing your map by getting another sheet of graph paper, and start to draw the your rough draft of your world onto a new clean sheet of paper. This new map should look better than the rough draft of your world. Of course, if you don’t want to spend the time you don’t have to. But this might be important if you want to publish your world.
Finally, you are finished. The last thing you have to do is write down about a paragraph for each place in your world. Using the ideas you though off two paragraphs before this one. You should also write a paragraph for every Race and culture you have in your world.
After all this, remember that this is also your player’s world as well. And when they come to your first session, you might want to let the player’s create their own realms where the players come from. This comes with good plot hooks, and it eases some of the work off your shoulders.
If you don’t have enough time, or if your players are not that imaginative (not offense made to your players of course), then you don’t have to do it. I just suggest it.
Also, if you are letting them create their own realms, then make sure not to change the realm that each player has made, instead, supervise each player to make sure that it follows the type of world you made.
Remember, all this is a guideline. And don’t expect to follow every step of it. Your imagination will break through for at least one step!
By Garell