The Worldbuilder's Almanac launches on Kickstarter
Set aside your continent maps, and jump straight into the shoes of the people living in your setting. Is your world sturdy enough to hold that weight?
What are the most popular tourist destinations in your setting? Who builds and maintains the roads? What’s the fastest way to get a message to someone on the other side of the world? How do businesses and tradespeople get the word out about their services? In short - what does living in your world look like for ordinary people, when heroes aren’t around?
One part instructional, one part educational, and one part inspirational, The Worldbuilder’s Almanac is a worldbuilding handbook bursting with 52 weekly prompts to help you develop your world in a flexible framework over the course of a year. It includes follow-up questions to examine the side effects of worldbuilding decisions, story hooks related to each prompt, real historical examples from cultures across the world, and more!
Set aside your continent maps, and get your boots firmly on the ground of your world! The Worldbuilder's Almanac puts you into the shoes of the people living in your setting and guides you through every step afterwards.
You can get The Worldbuilder’s Almanac as a softcover handbook, as a spiral-bound journal, or in PDF and EPUB formats right now on Kickstarter!
The Worldbuilder’s Almanac is for:
- GMs running a campaign in a setting they want to enrich into an intricate and living world, whether that's a homebrew world or a published module that they want to customize and embellish.
- Aspiring fantasy or sci-fi novelists who want to ensure their setting is fresh, original, and internally consistent.
- Worldbuilders with partially-completed settings who want a structured schedule to follow, or got frustrated that the guides they used were focused on making high-fantasy quasi-European worlds.
- History enthusiasts who are more interested in learning about the daily lives of ordinary people in the past than the timelines of their rulers or wars.
- Worldbuilders who want to identify the aspects of modern life they take for granted so they can make an informed decision about whether to incorporate them into their settings rather than assuming them by default.
The Worldbuilder's Almanac is crowdfunding until October 30. Back on Kickstarter today!
Free Preview: One Sample Month!
Visit the Kickstarter to download the 16-page sample with the full text for four weeks of content!
About the Team
The Worldbuilder's Almanac is written by S. Kaiya J., an indie tabletop RPG designer, worldbuilder, and roleplay theorist. You can learn more about her work at mirror-lock.com.
No AI was used in the creation of The Worldbuilder's Almanac. All text and art in the project is human-made.
