World Anvil Academy

How to Start Worldbuilding Course

How do you start worldbuilding? What are the first steps, what should you create first, and what can you leave for later? This free worldbuilding course, "How to Start Worldbuilding", is a complete worldbuilding guide. It contains worldbuilding exercises that cover the basics step-by-step. By the end of this 10 lesson course, you'll have a brand new world setting -- for a novel, an RPG campaign or anything else. You'll have created new geography, magic and technology, your fantasy/scifi people and their history... and you'll even have story ideas too! The course serves any genre -- Fantasy or Scifi, Second World or Alternate Earth! Each lesson page contains extra worldbuilding resources, support & exercises (and a transcription!). The whole course is free, with no sign up & no credit card necessary.

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