u/Vague-Intent47

Worldbuilders assemble! Bring your favourite faction forth

Every world, every civilization, every region, every empire... all have a group of individuals who share a purpose. They all have a history. They are all received by other differently. They all believe they exist for a reason.

What is one faction, organization, cult, assembly, or group that you personally enjoy thinking about, designing, and forming ideas of how they impact your world?

For me, it is the Bayrushi. Ancient flame-wielding warriors that have become legend and myth. When they first formed it was in defence against the Kori-Akuma - ice devils, more commonly referred to as Frostreavers.
Large like trolls, but ferocious like wild wolves, the Frostreavers plagued the lands with senseless destruction. The Bayrushi formed to burn them from existence.
In current day, the Bayrushi legend is in the heart of the desert landscape of Ademar. The Kori-Akuma reside with the northern frozen wastelands.
What perplexes scholars is that the two are leagues apart from each other. It would take months of travel for one to find the other, so how did they come to be such feared and violent enemies? Ancient historians know that the lands that lay across the seas used to be one great expansive mass. Yet the history of the two existing in this time is not known.
Will the Frostreavers venture out of the north and renew their destroyer tendencies? Will the Bayrushi arrive to force the back? Do they actually still exist, or their story lost to time?

Who exists in your world to shape current events or is little more than a story?

Worldbuilders assemble! Bring your favourite faction forth

Every world, every civilization, every region, every empire... all have a group of individuals who share a purpose. They all have a history. They are all received by other differently. They all believe they exist for a reason.

What is one faction, organization, cult, assembly, or group that you personally enjoy thinking about, designing, and forming ideas of how they impact your world?

For me, it is the Bayrushi. Ancient flame-wielding warriors that have become legend and myth. When they first formed it was in defence against the Kori-Akuma - ice devils, more commonly referred to as Frostreavers.
Large like trolls, but ferocious like wild wolves, the Frostreavers plagued the lands with senseless destruction. The Bayrushi formed to burn them from existence.
In current day, the Bayrushi legend is in the heart of the desert landscape of Ademar. The Kori-Akuma reside with the northern frozen wastelands.
What perplexes scholars is that the two are leagues apart from each other. It would take months of travel for one to find the other, so how did they come to be such feared and violent enemies? Ancient historians know that the lands that lay across the seas used to be one great expansive mass. Yet the history of the two existing in this time is not known.
Will the Frostreavers venture out of the north and renew their destroyer tendencies? Will the Bayrushi arrive to force the back? Do they actually still exist, or their story lost to time?

Who exists in your world to shape current events or is little more than a story?

Every world, every civilization, every region, every empire... all have a group of individuals who share a purpose. They all have a history. They are all received by other differently. They all believe they exist for a reason.

What is one faction, organization, cult, assembly, or group that you personally enjoy thinking about, designing, and forming ideas of how they impact your world?

For me, it is the Bayrushi. Ancient flame-wielding warriors that have become legend and myth. When they first formed it was in defence against the Kori-Akuma - ice devils, more commonly referred to as Frostreavers.
Large like trolls, but ferocious like wild wolves, the Frostreavers plagued the lands with senseless destruction. The Bayrushi formed to burn them from existence.
In current day, the Bayrushi legend is in the heart of the desert landscape of Ademar. The Kori-Akuma reside with the northern frozen wastelands.
What perplexes scholars is that the two are leagues apart from each other. It would take months of travel for one to find the other, so how did they come to be such feared and violent enemies? Ancient historians know that the lands that lay across the seas used to be one great expansive mass. Yet the history of the two existing in this time is not known.
Will the Frostreavers venture out of the north and renew their destroyer tendencies? Will the Bayrushi arrive to force the back? Do they actually still exist, or their story lost to time?

Who exists in your world to shape current events or is little more than a story?

Comparing to the real world and last hundred years of people, corporations, and industries having something to sell, does your world have the industry of advertisements?
Is there something that is mass produced for sale?
Services available for hire?
Transportation systems that desire expansion?
Products and services that come fro distant lands?

What is someone trying to sell that people in your world apparently need?

For those that have used the website The Game Crafter, I have questions.
In my time designing a tabletop game, I came across the site and first go at it I found useful. Understanding production brought me to not only revise my own game components, but understanding possible cost brought me to remove components and mechanics from the core game to create add-on expansions.

So, the questions:
Have you found the process of taking your game idea into production design a relatively smooth process? Was any part overly cumbersome?

Have you completed the entire process and ordered a copy of your own game? Pleased with the results? Significant adjustments as a result?

Taking your product this far, have others purchased through the site? Was there any involvement from your end or did you just sit back and let it flow?

Has any level of success there taken you into other ventures as a result?

Have any of you purchased any games from the site? Pleased with the acquisition?

If you haven’t used the site yet, would you?

I appreciate your thoughts and opinions.

I just wanted to share with everyone here, that in my few short months of activity in various worldbuilding and related subreddits I have come across many incredible creations.

What you all come up with amazes me. The depth of creativity. The varied ingenuity. The artistic flair.

I have posed questions. Read conversations. Greatly expanded my knowledge of what worldbuilding is and what it means.

You all are all incredible.
Your creations are incredible.
Whether new to this adventure or a seasoned veteran, what you bring to the world matters. The stories matter.

Don't stop creating.
Don't let negative criticism dissuade you.
Don't feel overwhelmed by pressure to complete.

Simply... create.
Also share. Wonderful things are best when shared.

Not something that is considered a conspiracy or secret.

A lie so old that nobody remembers it was ever a lie.

Perhaps it became religion.
Referenced history.
Recorded law.
Common wisdom.

What do people know and share that was never truth?

Not something that is considered a conspiracy or secret.

A lie so old that nobody remembers it was ever a lie.

Perhaps it became religion.
Referenced history.
Recorded law.
Common wisdom.

What do people know and share that was never truth?

Not necessarily because it’s dangerous. Because something feels wrong there.
Maybe it’s cursed.
Maybe it’s sacred.
Maybe everyone knows stories about it.
Maybe nobody remembers why it’s avoided anymore.

What is that place in your world? And how much of the rumor is actually true?

Not necessarily because it’s dangerous. Because something feels wrong there.
Maybe it’s cursed.
Maybe it’s sacred.
Maybe everyone knows stories about it.
Maybe nobody remembers why it’s avoided anymore.

What is that place in your world? And how much of the rumor is actually true?

I’ve been developing a collection of worldbuilding workbooks designed to guide creators through building fantasy worlds, settlements, creatures, magic systems, and more.

I’m looking for a small number of volunteers willing to test one Framework and provide honest feedback.

Currently available for testing:
Creature Ecology -> 30+ pages to help guide the creation of unique life
Resource Codex -> 20+ pages to help design material to create items of power, or to sustain civilization
Settlement Builder -> 50+ pages to help design meaningful places for residents of your world to live

No purchase required.

In exchange, I simply ask for constructive feedback after use.

If interested, comment below or send me a message with which Framework you’d like to test and what type of worldbuilding you enjoy.

“A manuscript hidden upon a shelf teaches only its author. A manuscript shared with trusted readers teaches everyone involved.”

Most think of something as it is - powerful potions, durable armor, weapons of elegant death, or fuel to empower something magnificent.
But how much thought do you put into not only the history of how something is created, but what it is created from?

A rare metal from the heavens or deep below ground to be forged.
A precious herb required to create a potion of powerful that is only found atop high cliffs once every ten years.
The feathers of an elusive white owl found in the hinterlands, which arcanists favour to write their spell books.
Or the deep rock spiders, whose silk is used to fashion incredibly lightweight and nearly indestructible rope.

What does your would hold that has great value?
Is it rare and hard to acquire?
Has industry formed upon it?
Do elders share stories with children about how it was first discovered?

Share something that your world depends on. Or maybe it hasn’t been discovered yet…

Most think of something as it is - powerful potions, durable armor, weapons of elegant death, or fuel to empower something magnificent.
But how much thought do you put into not only the history of how something is created, but what it is created from?

A rare metal from the heavens or deep below ground to be forged.
A precious herb required to create a potion of powerful that is only found atop high cliffs once every ten years.
The feathers of an elusive white owl found in the hinterlands, which arcanists favour to write their spell books.
Or the deep rock spiders, whose silk is used to fashion incredibly lightweight and nearly indestructible rope.

What does your would hold that has great value?
Is it rare and hard to acquire?
Has industry formed upon it?
Do elders share stories with children about how it was first discovered?

Share something that your world depends on. Or maybe it hasn’t been discovered yet…

Most think of something as it is - powerful potions, durable armor, weapons of elegant death, or fuel to empower something magnificent.
But how much thought do you put into not only the history of how something is created, but what it is created from?

A rare metal from the heavens or deep below ground to be forged.
A precious herb required to create a potion of powerful that is only found atop high cliffs once every ten years.
The feathers of an elusive white owl found in the hinterlands, which arcanists favour to write their spell books.
Or the deep rock spiders, whose silk is used to fashion incredibly lightweight and nearly indestructible rope.

What does your would hold that has great value?
Is it rare and hard to acquire?
Has industry formed upon it?
Do elders share stories with children about how it was first discovered?

Share something that your world depends on. Or maybe it hasn’t been discovered yet…

In the land of Athil Vestra, the mortals history has come to reference as the “primitives” were the first beings on the planet.
They lacked the understanding of the greater world and the cosmos. They formed tribes with simple hierarchies, where the leaders were the ones that believed great gods existed and controlled every aspect of their lives, so they needed to be worshiped and offered sacrifices.
There were gods that created them, but they only watched their creation live their simple, yet misguided, existence. They had no direct influence, regardless of what the simple mortals did. It was only nature and the presence of celestial bodies that held control and influence.

In the world(s) you have created, do simple mortals exist? Or had they?
Ones that hold no concept or understanding of magic or technology?
Ones that only know their world as far as they have travelled?