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DuranOfForcena posted...

tbh I agree with most things you said, I guess I was being a little too simple.

I am pretty good and creating the overall skeleton of a world a story (or pnp campaign) will take place in but a lot of people find nitty gritty specifics difficult and overall I often caution towards going fully headlong into the framework and lore of the world. Often instead of writing productively you can end up drowning in the details of how spell casting works or the origins of the swamp elves or whatever else. Sometimes you just need to -go- and once your characters start doing things I feel its often easier to imagine places and things you want them to interact with

as you said though its different for everyone. This has made me think of an old episode of the podcast My Brother My Brother and Me where they had Patrick Rothfuss on and he talked for a bit about the way different authors play to their own strengths in terms of world building. Wish I could remember the episode number

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