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Monster Building 101 Textbook!
This tutorial includes THREE complete special episodes, covering in detail the art of monster creation for your story world. The included PDF is a 50+ collection of essays, notes, worksheets and templates to help you design original and powerful monsters for your adventures.
As a bonus, you get an editable set of monster sheets, to help you create your own customizable grimoire, adaptable to D20 and other system stats, with editable worksheets for your monster-story notes and caption boxes. I’ve also included a writing tutorial focusing on developing a cinematic style, to help bring your monsters to life and create an atmospheric weight in your adventures (everything you wish you had in the English classroom, now diluted down to an easy set of writing rules that will boost your in-game descriptions and bring new life to your campaign).
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Have you ever wanted to build your own world or universe from the ground up, and then tell stories in that imagined world? Writers, webcomic and comic artists, film makers, game designers and role players alike build worlds of fantasy, science fiction, horror and comedy, that become the reality that their characters inhabit.This is an English teacher’s perspective about world building fantasy settings and game design, from a literary point of view.
This is the interactive online show about the craft of building fantasy worlds for use in role playing games and storytelling. In this course we focus on: the goals and methods of creating a rich and immersive fantasy world that others will want to explore; and, the Story World as a place for composing rich and varied adventures with interesting and appealing characters.
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- Are you a god? : The Premise of Arnâron on Worldbuilding Ep. 005: Premise of Your Story World
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