The Worldbuilder’s Grimoire
Fixes: “I have an idea but no world to set it in.”
Eight phases that grow one strange sentence into a living world. Economics, power, belief, geography, history, all of it connected. You start with a single seed and end with a place deep enough to hold a hundred stories. Every world I’ve built started here.
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Every phase has a worksheet, the steps that build it, and a challenge that forces the world out of your head and onto the page.
- Phase 1: Planting Your Seed. The one strange sentence everything else grows from.
- Phase 2: Growing the First Roots. Economics and value, daily life, social ripples. Challenge: A Day in the Life.
- Phase 3: Developing Core Systems. Power and control, belief and meaning, knowledge and expertise. Challenge: The Expert and the Novice.
- Phase 4: Creating Complexity through Conflict. Natural tensions, opposing viewpoints, adaptation. Challenge: The Dispute.
- Phase 5: Expanding Your Geography. Physical distribution, cultural variation, travel and trade. Challenge: The Map and Key.
- Phase 6: Deepening the History. Origin story, evolution over time. Challenge: The Historical Document.
- Phase 7: Building Connected Systems. How every system you built touches every other one. Challenge: The System Map.
- Phase 8: Bringing It All Together. A living society, current challenges, individual perspectives. Challenge: the world in motion.
Plus Special Applications (deep-dive frameworks for political systems, economics, and magic) and a Resources & Tools kit with every template in one place.