Wandering Adventure Party

Seven

Hi,

There is something plaguing me and I am hopeful you can help. I am fairly decent at organization (files, people, etc.) but I am a little stuck and would like some advice.

I would like to world build. What I mean is, I have an idea, a concept/etc. almost fully fleshed out in my head. I have most of the concept down (Races, Classes, POIs, etc.) or at least the concepts of them... and I would like to write them down.

I have Obsidian, I know waterfall/agile concepts, I have kanbans, repos. I'm just not sure if there is a good way to put it all together or lay it down? Is there a better tool or concept I should apply?

At them moment here is what I'm thinking (In Obsidian):

World/
|- Points of Interest/
|   |- Towns/
|   |   |- Town1
|   |   |- Town2
|   |- Dungeons/
|       |- Dungeon1
|       |- Dungeon2
|- Races/
|   |- Each Race
|- People of Interest
|   |- Politics
|   |- Villians
|   |- Heroes
|- Monsters & Mundane creatures/

Or something similar? Inside each file could be the useful pieces of meta-data? So that, POIs would list notable NPCs and locations, whereas Races would mention known histories, etc.

Am I going about this wrong or stupidly? Is this a good method or way of thinking about these things? I would really appreciate anyone who is familiar to hit me up.

#writing #fantasy #scifi #gamedev #story #storytelling #worldbuilding #rpg
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Of Gods and Gamemasters

@creativegamingname looks pretty good, honestly. If you want to get more granular with the settlements and gods I have these formats free on my website: https://www.ofgodsandgamemasters.com/store/p/system-agnostic-town-format
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https://www.ofgodsandgamemasters.com/store/p/my-free-system-agnostic-god-format

S. John Ross

@creativegamingname I've been using Obsidian for my current #worldbuilding and I love it, but, really, the actual work and organization is no different than for prior books where I did it all in word processors, and that was really no different than my earliest books where I did it mostly in spiral notebooks.

Mainly my advice is to let the work itself guide you and don't become distracted picking at the tools when you could be building worlds.

Seven

@SJohnRoss I appreciate it, though I don't have your experience... you do!

In my writing experience, for fiction I describe what the reader see's. For non-fiction I write what should happen or what won't happen.

How do you organize this is? Without relation or reason for being... how do you connect it to another abstract location that exists in this non-world?

Sadly, I'm not writing a story but rather, I think, a place for stories to occur? I'm trying to create the spiral notebook so that the words can come out? If that helps?

I really appreciate your thoughts!

S. John Ross

@creativegamingname I design worldbooks for games, so they're travel and community guides to imaginary places or fictionalized historical ones. "What is" is very much the focus. The one-two punch of "what kind of characters does this world have?" and "what kind of adventures do they get up to?"

But nothing I do should be prescriptive to what anyone else does. I just mean the needs of your project will guide your project.

You already have what looks like an ample sense of organization.

Seven

@SJohnRoss I appreciate your words. Your designing sounds really cool.

It'd be cool if there was like a "fill this out" form. Someone should do that.

S. John Ross

@creativegamingname Many people have! They're not fitted to anyone's individual needs but they're fun prompts to work with.