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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Col_Pladoh" data-source="post: 654295" data-attributes="member: 796">Gygaxian Fantasy Worlds SeriesHowdy!Just thought I'd post a relatively brief comment here in regards the WB.While I hope many gamers will like the book, find it useful, I have no quarrel with those who do not.  It is a part of a series of reference books of mainly generic sort that I have long envisioned for use by GMs and fantasy writers in need of source and reference material.  Troll Lord Games was good enough to agree with the concept, and to the line began with the CANTING CREW, now the WORLD BUILDER is there.  WB is a combination of lists, tables, and facts.  Dan Cross called it a "Descriptionary," and that's a fair term for much of the contents.  It's a one-volume work that makes the GMs life easier in describing and detailing something he is creating.  It facilitates development of a setting and encounter areas therein.I have submitted the FANTASY LIFE ms. to TLG, it being the third volume in the series.  This work covers the socio-economic classes in a fantasy world with active deities and at least moderate level of magic.  It is a who-what-where-when-why-how reference book that discusses in depth the roles and interrelationships of secular rulers with the spiritual ones (clerics), and then works on down through the classes.Other volumes in the series will cover the main places for adventurers to enter--inns, taverns, temples, traders shops, etc.  It is named ESSENTIAL PLACES, and Jon Creffield is the principal author.  Next come Malcolm Bowers fantasy perons/creatures/places anmes book, including ethnic names, this work not yet titled, and Alan Kellogg's NATION BUILDER.  the series will then add a work dealing with seas and ships and adventures there, and likely one on fantasy plots and plot twists for adventures.  More might be included if there is need and interest.In short, the line is meant to provide the gamer with a complete reference library that will make creating material easier and the end result better.It is not meant for everyone, and I keep the following in mind whenever I write any work:"He who publishes a book runs a great hazard, since nothing can be more impossible than to compose one that may secure the approbation of every reader."CervantesThanks for following along.Ciao,Gary</blockquote>

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