World Building Tips Volume 2

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This book is jam-packed with solid world building how-to and tips on every page. It is a compilation of weekly tips that have gone out to the World Building Academy list members for half a year. These tips will not be repeated online and are now available only in this book. World Building Tips Volume 2 covers points ranging from structural meta-considerations, to travel, communications, roads, cultural values and a grab-bag of related material. As author Talitha Kalago says, "I consider this book an invaluable tool in my arsenal and strongly recommend it to anyone who is designing a fictional setting for any reason."

CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTION
STRUCTURE TIPS
3 Travel
4 Core Cultural Values
5 Who Writes the History?

GEO TIPS
11 The Construction and Geography of Roads
12 Mountains as Boundaries
13 Resource Mapping
14 What Scarce Minerals Mean For Your World

SOCIO TIPS
13 Pilgrims and Pilgrimages
14 Dialects
15 Messenger Birds
16 Signal Fires
17 High-Speed Telecommunications
18 Sources of Government Power
19 Measurements: Length and Distance
20 Signs and Omens
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