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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7322258" data-attributes="member: 29398">I'm not quite sure you do.Worldbuilding is about making the universe and world and kingdom in which the maze is located; and about making the history of how these things (and maybe the maze, too) came to be what they are, and about making the cultures and peoples and creatures and climates and terrain that a PC encounters en route to the maze.By the time you get down to designing the dungeon maze itself you've already done 99% of the work. (or, if using a pre-fab setting e.g. Greyhawk, had 99% of it done for you)Cool stories, bro, but nothing to do with worldbuilding.&nbsp; These are more related to game-mechanic-rules system building, which most worldbuilding doesn't really care about except as regards nailing down the setting's vague historical era (medieval, modern, far future, etc.).Again this has almost nothing to do with worldbuilding.&nbsp; Character building, maybe, but that's yet another different thing; and again its only real interaction with worldbuilding is the world's intended historical era defining what the character can be and-or do.Worldbuilding gives you the stage on which you play out all this character development.It gives the game a backdrop, a history, a sense of continuity and consistency and place.Without worldbuilding you have no wilderness to explore, nor seas to sail across, nor kingdoms to live in or to overthrow.&nbsp; You have no history, no deities (which kinda screws over any Clerics in the game!), no moons or weather or cities or kings.&nbsp; You have no raiding Vikings to the north, no cultured Romans, no desert marauders, no pleasant Hobbit-filled valleys, no Elven woods.All you have is...nothing.Lan-&quot;and worst of all you have no monsters to kill so you can take their stuff&quot;-efan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7322258, member: 29398"] I'm not quite sure you do. Worldbuilding is about making the universe and world and kingdom in which the maze is located; and about making the history of how these things (and maybe the maze, too) came to be what they are, and about making the cultures and peoples and creatures and climates and terrain that a PC encounters en route to the maze. By the time you get down to designing the dungeon maze itself you've already done 99% of the work. (or, if using a pre-fab setting e.g. Greyhawk, had 99% of it done for you) Cool stories, bro, but nothing to do with worldbuilding. These are more related to game-mechanic-rules system building, which most worldbuilding doesn't really care about except as regards nailing down the setting's vague historical era (medieval, modern, far future, etc.). Again this has almost nothing to do with worldbuilding. Character building, maybe, but that's yet another different thing; and again its only real interaction with worldbuilding is the world's intended historical era defining what the character can be and-or do. Worldbuilding gives you the stage on which you play out all this character development. It gives the game a backdrop, a history, a sense of continuity and consistency and place. Without worldbuilding you have no wilderness to explore, nor seas to sail across, nor kingdoms to live in or to overthrow. You have no history, no deities (which kinda screws over any Clerics in the game!), no moons or weather or cities or kings. You have no raiding Vikings to the north, no cultured Romans, no desert marauders, no pleasant Hobbit-filled valleys, no Elven woods. All you have is...nothing. Lan-"and worst of all you have no monsters to kill so you can take their stuff"-efan [/QUOTE]

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