[Noisebridge-discuss] [world-building] Worldbuilding workshop participants and spectators wanted

[Mitchel McAllister]

I am planning a world-building workshop. Since most of the respondents so far prefer a one-off rather than a regular session, I am polling interested parties regarding what aspects they would like to concentrate on.

World-building is an exercise for writers of fiction, artists depicting strange places, developers of RPGs (table-top, computer, or video games), etc. World-building is creating cultures, myths, architecture, species (sapient, sentient, or otherwise), geography, etc.

I would like to cover a discussion on where creation of the world begins. Some people begin with different laws of physics, some start with a creation myth, some start with their own version of the Big Bang. It is also possible to start with a single character and build the world around them, or even build from a plot to the world in which the plot develops.

I will providing lots of links to resources to aid in World-building. If I can muster the cash, I will try to copy off some dead-tree versions of some step-by-step formulas, as well as some handy templates for maps and such.

- Reverend Mik
"In actuality, planning, organization, and
construction of the University did not begin for an additional seven centuries,
by which time the money set aside for it had disappeared along with the leaders
and rulers (except for the Despot-Executioner-For-Life of Forbin V.2, which
supposedly proved something) originally sponsoring it, the nations and tribes
they had governed, and most of the ecosystems. This forced the diverse
membership of the implementing body to send their assistants out among the
worlds to sell magazine subscriptions to cover costs."
- The Pedant's Guide to the Universitatum Megalithikus Aeturnae
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