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What are your thoughts on system-less worldbuilding/setting books?
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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8914460" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p>Which is fine. The thread is about "system-less worldbuilding/setting books" so a number of people are talking about the system-less setting books that interest them. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>There are a number of worldbuilding books out there that are systemless.</p><p></p><p>I believe Kobold, Expeditious Retreat Press, Troll Lords (Gygax's from the d20 era to the extent they were systemless) and others have put out a number, as well as there being some non-RPG books on advice for building fantasy worlds for novels and such. I think TSR had some advice type books about making D&D campaign worlds that might or might not have been rule set specific.</p><p></p><p>I have no real interest in them. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Things like <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Art-Magic-Gathering-Innistrad/dp/1421587807/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+art+of+magic+the+gathering&qid=1674599795&s=books&sprefix=art+of+magic%2Cstripbooks%2C111&sr=1-1" target="_blank">The Art of Magic The Gathering Innistrad</a> though looks like it would be a great art and lorebook for use as inspiration or a setting if you are running a D&D fantasy gothic horror game.</p><p></p><p>And even from the OP the Dinotopia stuff I remember seeing in passing and they could be great.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 8914460, member: 2209"] Which is fine. The thread is about "system-less worldbuilding/setting books" so a number of people are talking about the system-less setting books that interest them. :) There are a number of worldbuilding books out there that are systemless. I believe Kobold, Expeditious Retreat Press, Troll Lords (Gygax's from the d20 era to the extent they were systemless) and others have put out a number, as well as there being some non-RPG books on advice for building fantasy worlds for novels and such. I think TSR had some advice type books about making D&D campaign worlds that might or might not have been rule set specific. I have no real interest in them. :) Things like [URL='https://www.amazon.com/Art-Magic-Gathering-Innistrad/dp/1421587807/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+art+of+magic+the+gathering&qid=1674599795&s=books&sprefix=art+of+magic%2Cstripbooks%2C111&sr=1-1']The Art of Magic The Gathering Innistrad[/URL] though looks like it would be a great art and lorebook for use as inspiration or a setting if you are running a D&D fantasy gothic horror game. And even from the OP the Dinotopia stuff I remember seeing in passing and they could be great. [/QUOTE]
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