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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AIM-54" data-source="post: 1608549" data-attributes="member: 15633">Lotsa good stuff here.  I've used several different methods, usually starting with some concept I want to drive the world, whether cultural, climatic or something else.  I tend to get a bug to world build every 1 1/2 to 2 years because it's something I really enjoy.  Most of them I never get to run anything in, but I keep doing it anyway  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> This time round I started with the map.  I love drawing maps and from them I can generally get a sense of what races, political relationships etc I want.  Then I create the pantheon and get a sense of their role in the world.  This is generally the point where I realize the calamitous event that had a significant effect on the geography of the world and begin trying to explain that, which leads me to further refine political relationships on the planet and the deity-world relationship.  Then I get into the history (I'm a huge history nerd, so writing my own is always a blast) trying to explain why the world is the way it is in the period I would, conceivably were I to ever run anything in it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> This time round I've really gotten into the mapmaking thing, so I have different maps for the various eras, with terrain changes over time, as well as the changing  "homelands" of the major/PC races.  These maps are then a guide for continuing the history.  I'm having fun with it.That's probably much more than anyone wanted, but there it is...I kinda get into this kinda stuff.. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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