D&D: Pre-Order ‘Kobold Guide To Worldbuilding Vol. 2’ And Make A Whole New World
Advice from master worldbuilders like Keith Baker and Gail Simone await you in the upcoming Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding vol. 2.
Building a world is hard. It takes a lot of work, whatever your approach. Whether you’re carefully cutting and pasting from World of Warcraft and Metal Gear Solid or invoking peoples and places into being whole cloth, it takes effort. You either have to figure out how to carefully file off the serial numbers. Or you have to actually make your world make sense.
well… most of the time, anyway. via Warner Bros.
And whatever your approach, the best thing you can do is have some great help along the way. The Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding Vol. 2 is jammed full of good advice from incredible worldbuilders. As mentioned before, there’s offerings from Keith Baker (Eberron) and Gail Simone (Deadpool, Secret Six, Birds of Prey, stories about bears on Twitter). But Kobold has assembled a group of absolute gunslingers for this volume.
If you want some worldbuilding wisdom, look no further.
Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding vol. 2 – $19.99
Middle-Earth, Faerûn, Westeros, Eberron, The World of the Wheel, Exandria … these richly-detailed fantasy worlds have captured the imaginations of legions of fans worldwide. These settings offer worldbuilding that launched a thousand—or a thousand thousand—dreams.
Whether you’re worldbuilding because you want to write the next Game of Thrones, intend to build a rich, vibrant world to enthrall the players of an upcoming tabletop RPG campaign, or you’re just curious to find out how all these creators did it, the Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding, Volume 2, puts a team of master world-architects at your side.
Featuring practical essays and roadmaps for the intrepid worldbuilder to follow, this anthology shows you how to:
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- create a pantheon of gods
- incorporate technology into your fantastical environments
- build great settings that look beyond our own history and cultural expectations
- design a world in just 30 minutes
- leave space when building a world so the characters can help bring it alive
The Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding, Volume 2, features 15 stars of tabletop roleplaying games and fantasy fiction, such as Gail Simone, Keith Baker, Veronica Roth, Ken Liu, Kate Elliott, Mike Shea, Tobias S. Buckell, Shanna Germain, Cassandra Khaw, Gabe Hicks, the Dungeon Dudes (Monty Martin & Kelly McLaughlin) and more.
What worlds await? Let’s find out!
Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding releases in April 2022
