D&D Instant World Builder
Posted by Yax on October 31, 2007
Build a better world in less time
This is a quick read that will help you shave dozens of hours in world building. A lot of work went into this document and the content was edited and updated since it was first written. Have fun.
Download the Instant World Builder PDF (right-click and “save as”)
Build a great campaign in a great setting
As I edited the Instant World Builder articles to bundle them together I noticed that some of the content was complimentary with another Dungeon Mastering project: the Instant Campaign Builder. If you haven’t read it yet this is your chance!
Download the Instant Campaign Builder PDF (right-click and “save as”)
My suggestions
Sit down and brainstorm your world ideas but don’t start working on too many things at once if you want to keep your prep time down. If you feel like you spend a lot of time preparing for D&D sessions but don’t get proportional results email me - I’m always happy to help out.
Your suggestions
Your comments are worth a lot to me. Help me make this site more useful by telling me what you think of the DMing PDFs and the website in general. Thanks!
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Thanks Yax!
I used some of the stuff from the campaign builder series and it worked great in my game. Let’s see how the world building turns out!
Thanks for the kind words.
That was once again great! Now, let’s just wait for the next gamer created Planescape or Ravenloft! Off to blog ya!
very nice! i try it for the next session
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I never knew this resource was here, as in this site…but I’m oh so glad I found it. I’ve laboring over the design of my latest world and this allowed to put the icing on the cake rather quickly…thanx for the goodies
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