Cultures and Beyond: 3 (Art of World Building)

Creating a unique immersive setting one culture at a timeA guide for authors gamers and hobbyistsWritten to help fantasy and science fiction storytellers game designers gamers and hobbyists CULTURES AND BEYOND (THE ART OF WORLD BUILDING #3) is a how-to guide for filling an imaginary world with fascinating societies. It includes chapters on creating culture organizations armed forces religions the supernatural magic systems technological and supernatural items languages names and various systems our world will have from health educational legal and commerce to information systems. Youll learn how to leverage real world cultures while making them seem original. Even those whove never invented a world will soon be masters as the authors decades of experience walk readers through using pre-made templates that make world building faster better and easier to complete.Invent interesting laws crimes and punishments that involve imaginary creatures or technologies and learn how to leverage trial by ordeal and other judicial acts from Earths past. Determine how much education is available and what form it takes. Create currencies for different places while keeping them easy for your audience to fathom plus learn how to determine the value to assign labor materials products time and more. Master the art of creating naming styles for different societies. Fashion new military groups in gritty detail. Dream up sensible rules for magic its practitioners the supernatural and what happens when things go wrong. Learn what kind of files youll need to create how to organize them and get jump started with a dozen free templates youll use again and again.CULTURES AND BEYOND is the third volume in THE ART OF WORLD BUILDING the most in-depth multi-volume series of its kind.Build better faster.