>>98027613
>Worldbuilding Resources
Yeah, its called a Library. Go read books published before the 90s.

>>98027613
>podcasts
do zoomers really?

>>98027613
op i really need you to understand that people aren't going to contribute to a project if they don't see you working on it too.

>>98027613
Try the worldbuilding general.

>>98027613
go to the worldbuilding general, open the worldbuilding for newbies link, check out the resources.

Everything you want already exists, you are just too lazy to find it. stop posting this stupid thread

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>>98027861
>>98027613
Oops, I meant to add a few links to get it started, mainly some random generators, not sure why they weren't in the OP, sorry.

>https://www.rangen.co.uk/world/worldgens.php
>https://perchance.org/world-building-generator
>https://springhole.net/writing_roleplaying_randomators/index.html
>https://springhole.net/writing/index.html
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx3eLrbP0H0

>>98027613
Do you actually want resources, or do you just want a pet thread that you can mindlessly spam with bumps for the next two months? Because if it's the former then you should've gone to /wbg/.

Saw a youtube vid about some new not etaking app for worldbuilding, called chronicler, but I don't know how useful that actually is, I use obsidian and will continue to do but perhaps it's interesting for someone else

>>98027613
Does anyone have anything specifically for designing races please? I haven’t been able to really find anything that looks like it’s worth checking out.

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>>98027613
Doing that. It'll be a wiki. 392 links to go, plus a lot of the old list.

>>98027613
I'm not sure where even to begin

https://www.alarichall.org.uk/forms.htm

>>98027855
It's boomers and millennials who feel really into that shit the most

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>>98027613
What YouTube channels specifically would you recommend? OSP is a great one in my book, both informative and funny, lol.

>>98035401
Thanks! Let us know when it’s done!

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>>98045299
Okay.

>>98043389
https://www.youtube.com/@TheEsotericaChannel

https://www.youtube.com/c/AncientAmericas

https://www.youtube.com/c/whatdamath

https://www.youtube.com/c/AztlanHistorian

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5Yo88QF-chdugJbAnB2tUw

https://www.youtube.com/c/DanikLoginov

https://www.youtube.com/c/KnyghtErrant

https://www.youtube.com/c/NathanaelFosaaen

https://www.youtube.com/@Type56_Ordnance_Dept

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA

https://www.youtube.com/user/RoyalArmouries

https://www.youtube.com/c/scholagladiatoria

https://www.youtube.com/@QuadrinhosNaSarjeta/videos

https://www.youtube.com/@morrodds/videos

https://www.youtube.com/@Oliver_but_digital/videos

https://www.youtube.com/c/TheGreatWarSeries

https://www.youtube.com/user/jastownsendandson

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMjTcpv56G_W0FRIdPHBn4A/playlists

https://www.youtube.com/@cmkosemen/videos

https://www.youtube.com/@PersonyPerson/videos

Besides the channels, I'll add specific videos, like these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRtV-ugIT0k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR511iAedYU

>>98035401
I'll be eagerly awaiting this.
>>98043389
If you're interested in religion and anthropology thereof, then I'll take the opportunity to shill these two:
>Let's Talk Religion
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9dRb4fbJQIbQ3KHJZF_z0g
>ReligionForBreakfast
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCct9aR7HC79Cv2g-9oDOTLw
The latter has a PhD in religious studies, if that helps his credibility.

https://opendata.uni-halle.de/handle/1981185920/32811

>>98043389
Just in time worldbuilding channel is legitimately decent and the person running it is extremely passionate about all aspects of worldbuilding.

>>98047509
Yeah, I thought they were great for helping with worldbuilding.

>>98035401
that's nice but does it actually have any succinct actionable resources like tables or quick workflows?

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>>98049058
Not sure, gimme an example of "succinct actionable resources" or "quick workflows", this shit sounds like stuff I read in Linkedln.

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>>98046212
>I'll be eagerly awaiting this.
I'll do my best.

https://www.elmar-lorey.de/prozesse.htm

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>>98049393
I dont want to read 300 pages of some guy talking about how to worldbuild or 40 pages of some guy talking about population numbers of medieval towns. I dont want shit to be encyclopedic, I want quick actionable resources which actually let me get shit done. Every single thing I spend time on should result in my world being closer to be ready to use.

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>>98050389
It's the link list, revised and expanded. I won't try to teach anyone. Some of the links might.

I'm considering adding stuff like "why thermal vents don't work for underwater forging, stop spreading this shit" plus links for alternatives.

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>>98049603
>>98047392
Thanks.

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>>98027613
The only resources you will ever need for this hobby.

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>>98050600
>I'm considering adding stuff like "why thermal vents don't work for underwater forging, stop spreading this shit" plus links for alternatives.
I fully support that, thanks!

https://web.archive.org/web/20191208005719/http://www.shroudeater.com/cdatlist.htm

>>98057161
Thanks!

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>>98027613
Is The Story Engine Deck worth checking out? I found them via a YouTube ad just now, and I figured I should ask if anyone here would recommend them.

>>98027613
Does anyone have any magic-system specific resources? Besides Sanderson’s laws I mean.

>>98065508
kill yourself bumpfag

>>98050671
Not him, but thanks as well!

>>98063722
Check the share thread.

>>98063722
Huh, thanks for letting us know this exists.

Bump

>>98071362
Thanks!

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>>98027613
What are some good resources specifically for designing the races for your worlds? A friend turned me onto Wakfu and it inspired me to try and make more original races, or at least take existing race concepts and make them more “me”. I’ve found a couple random generators of course, but I’m not really planning to use them unless I have to, I want my races to be designed by me, not a roll of the metaphorical dice, and I want to avoid just copy-pasting stuff from D&D books if I can help it. Any help would be greatly appreciated please!

>https://toolsaday.com/writing/tools/pWeD2pY2byfIMmogFOR9
>https://www.rangen.co.uk/world/racegen.php
>https://fantasy-faction.com/2018/creating-a-fantasy-race

>>98035401
Hope that this is going well! You are a god amongst anons!

>>98049538
Thanks! What the heck are we looking at though? It's giving me cow Frankenstein vibes. Wait, there's an idea...

Bump

>>98051203
>The only resources you will ever need for this hobby.
Really? Just a notepad and pen? What have you made with those?

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How aesthetic is your setting's empire?

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I've been running a long-running sci-fi campaign, and the next arc is set on a planet that once had a kaiju infestation and has since been reclaimed by wilderness, with giant monsters roaming everywhere.
I came up with the idea a while ago and dropped a bunch of hints that this was what was coming next, but now, for the life of me, I can't remember what I actually wanted to do with the premise.
Any ideas for cool stuff I could do with this? The kaiju won, the world already ended, and the planet has been taken over by their ecosystem.

>>98103510
crap, wrong thread.
Disregard this post, I suck dicks

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>>98027613
I know that >>98103510 posted in the wrong thread by accident, but it got me thinking, what are some useful resources for creating Kaiju, other megafauna, and monsters/creatures in general? Or at least non-DnD compendiums of said monsters.

>>98103587
It's okay, we've all done stuff like that.

>>98045881
that's a lot of garbage

I'm that >>98103510 anon
>>98104705 you got me down memory lane: over a decade ago, I made a kaiju generator IN COPPERPLATE ENGRAVING. I was a fine art student back then, so I had access to everything.
The whole project got sidelined, so the only thing I can send you right now is this picture I took of the WIP.
Curse me for not scanning the full thing back then.

>>98109092
I forgot pic related

>>98109096
alright, it's not uploading for some reasons. That will have to stay a mystery for now, I guess.
>>98104705
So here's everything I have on my computer that's both kaiju and /tg/ related https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1E-nC1HUs8zlxRb-XrMz_8wELago5rEal?usp=drive_link
Both Horizon War and Ragnarok are wargames by Precinct Omega, in 6mm or so, where you can deploy kaiju units.
Mecha and Monsters is a mini ttrpg for playing either kaiju or mecha. Most of the book is taken by ideas of settings.

Bump

Half of hashtagthisyear /tg/ really are against anything constructive, creative, or on topic, aren't they?

https://osricrpg.com/tools/index.php
https://archive.org/details/galacticaliensalanfrank1979
https://archive.org/details/terrantradeauthorityhandbookspacecraft2000to2100ad
https://archive.org/details/the-shaver-mystery-free-e-book/The%20Shaver%20Mystery%20Compendium%20Free%20eBook/
https://archive.org/details/subterranean-worlds-100000-years-of-dragons-dwarfs-the-dead-lost-races-ufos-from-inside-the-earth
https://archive.org/details/hollow-earth-tales-free-e-book
https://archive.org/details/the-extraterrestrial-species-almanac-craig-campobasso
https://archive.org/details/the-field-guide-to-extraterrestrials
https://archive.org/details/barlowes-guide-to-extraterrestrials_202302
https://archive.org/details/historyoffourfoo00tops
https://archive.org/details/the-gygax-75-challenge-ttrpg-worldbuilding-resource
https://archive.org/details/100-beach-encounters-dd-random-encounters
https://archive.org/details/2bardon-2018
https://archive.org/details/dn-d-5e-running-a-kingdom
https://archive.org/details/r-worldbuilding-resources-master-list

https://archive.org/details/bullfinchsmythol0000unse
https://archive.org/details/declineandfallr00gibbgoog_202210
https://archive.org/details/to_forge_a_fantasy_world-greyhawks_creation
https://archive.org/details/gary-gygaxs-extraordinary-book-of-names
https://archive.org/details/osprey-warrior-048-english-medieval-knight-1200-1300-ocr-images
https://archive.org/details/28-medieval-mosaic-iii

>>98027613
What resources would be good for learning how a fantasy world might handle mining? Wikipedia is a start, but when magic gets involved…

>>98114300
Yeah, so annoying. Thanks for the links anon!

>>98117539
>What resources would be good for learning how a fantasy world might handle mining? Wikipedia is a start, but when magic gets involved…
Seconding this please.

OK. I filtered out the AI slop, hopefully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQwYj_9YBI8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pLjzlSz4R4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALHipUNK3I4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg-9BeP2ZrI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwlipLOBBiY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqX_7IYKNgg

>>98124489
Ah, cuntwaffle, I did one twice, well, I'm not doing it again.

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>>98117539
This is the specific stuff I'll add to the worldbuilding link list. Not sure it helps, because it will depend on you working out which sort of magic/beliefs/deities your world has and how they might affect mining or not. Would wild/High elf knowledge of plants allow them to create mangrove trees whose roots would leech gold from alluvial deposits, turn their leaves golden, and their bark as valuable as nuggets?

https://web.archive.org/web/20101218004035/http://minelinks.com/alluvial/goldPrimitive.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20101125150200/http://minelinks.com/alluvial/goldClassic.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20101125151950/http://minelinks.com/alluvial/goldMedieval.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20101125151732/http://minelinks.com/alluvial/goldRenaissance.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20101218004214/http://minelinks.com/alluvial/goldLore.html

https://mythicscribes.com/history/history-for-fantasy-writers-miners/

https://mythicscribes.com/history/medieval-mines/

https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/44861/how-do-underwater-societies-develop-mining

https://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-34582013000300016

https://web.archive.org/web/20191222074022/http://wiki.biomine.skelleftea.se/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

>>98043389
Way to make your channel sound and seem insufferable from the very first impression.

Posting in a bumpchad thread

>>98043389
My two cents:

https://www.youtube.com/@AdoreaOlomouc
https://www.youtube.com/@armoredmma
https://www.youtube.com/@dequitem
https://www.youtube.com/@deutschesklingenmuseumsoli6044
https://www.youtube.com/@holmganghamburg
https://www.youtube.com/@HorribleHistoriesOfficial
https://www.youtube.com/@JillBearup
https://www.youtube.com/@JohnClements3000
https://www.youtube.com/@scholagladiatoria
https://www.youtube.com/@TastingHistory
https://www.youtube.com/@ThePathOfFire
https://www.youtube.com/@townsends
https://www.youtube.com/@VintageEgyptologist

>>98126721
Thanks anon!

>>98132572
No wuckas.
I just wish the badmins would let us post books again so I could share what I have saved.

>>98071362
>arrived too late and two files are already in cold storage
>need premium to get them
Fuuuuuuuck
Thank you for the other files though, amazing stuff.

>>98133428
To be clear, I didn't POST the files there, just saw the link in the thread and mentioned it here, but thanks anyway! And yeah, that's annoying.

>>98133428
Dang it, I saw this too late. Maybe someone else will repost them?

>>98027613
any reason why this couldnt have been posted in /wbg/ >>98091157 ?

>>98143969
It's not the thread topic.
Any reason why you can't begin a sentence with a capital letter?

>>98027613
Does anyone have any good resources for speculative evolution creature design and the like please?

>>98027613
I am doing a small world of my own. Its technology level is victorian period, and i want to figure out what necessities are traded in that period. Stuff like:
Coal, metals (copper, iron, etc), precious metals (gold and silver), wool, cotton, and what else?
My mind keeps blanking out

>>98147572
Why, yes, yes I do. Thank you for asking.

>>98149714
NTA, but can you share them then please?

>>98124489
Thanks. We need more anons like you! I’ll check them out after work today.

>>98027855
Damn how old are you

>>98155182
https://speculativeevolution.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page
https://archive.org/details/all-tomorrows-a-billion-year-chronicle-of-the-myriad-species-and-mixed-fortunes-of-man

I'll also suggest the Eden series, by Harry Harrison, and Una Woodruff's "Amarant: The Flora and Fauna of Atlantis by a Lady Botanist", and "Inventorum Natura: The Wonderful Voyage of Pliny".
The Flight of Dragons, by Peter Dickinson

>>98160839
Huh, does the artist have more art like this? The filename implies that there are.

>>98164351
Yes, he designed everything for the first Conan movie.
Also did extensive design work on Alien, Aliens, Star Wars, Back to the Future, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Abyss, The Last Starfighter, Dark Star, Total Recall, Jodorowsky's Dune, was supposed to direct ET back when it was a horror film, and designed the international Ecology symbol.
Somehow, he's still remembered only as a political cartoonist. Or at least he was. He's been memoryholed and unpersoned.

>>98164351
https://roncobb.net/
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0167803/
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/cobb_ron.htm
https://archive.org/details/cobb-book-1975

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