Creating Life: 1 (Art of World Building)

Creating a unique immersive setting one life form at a time. CREATING LIFE (THE ART OF WORLD BUILDING #1) is a detailed how-to guide on inventing the heart of every imaginary world - life. With chapters on creating gods species/races plants animals monsters heroes villains and even undead it draws on the authors quarter century of world building experience. Pointed questions and an examination of answers and their repercussions will help readers decide on goals how to reach them and whether they are even worth pursuing. Always practical Creating Life will quickly improve the skills of beginners and experts alike making a time consuming project more fun easier faster and skillfully done. Unlike other world building guides the series discusses how to use your inventions in stories while balancing narrative flow with the need for explaining your world. Tailored examples illustrate this. Extensive culled research on life forms is provided to classify and understand options without overwhelming world builders with extraneous details. Storytellers game designers gamers and hobbyists will benefit from seven free templates that can be downloaded and reused. CREATING LIFE will help your setting stand out from the multitude of fantasy and science fiction worlds audiences see. THE ART OF WORLD BUILDING is the only multi-volume series of its kind and is three times the length depth and breadth of other guides.