Salutations! I am Torvern, a successful DM. I need someone to help me with lore for my campiagn. I am currently having difficulty Making towns/lands/maps. I had stuff pop up. If youre interested in Being My Lore advisor I have no money so i wont exactly pay-
I just need someone to help. I cant pay so i need it out of charity. But i will help in the long run. Any one wil do
A good place to start is to read some lore from the published D&D worlds, either to use it in your campaign or as inspiration.
I'm wondering, are you starting completely from scratch, or have you already decided some basic things on what your world looks like? If you have made some of those decisions, what are they?
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I may not be the best at making maps, but I can definitely help! I can also help you develop parts of the lore itself, including NPCs, folklore, strange mysteries (that could divulge into side quests, or not), and any of the smaller pieces of storytelling you need. I'd be glad to help you with absolutely anything you need, from one DM to another! Just PM me if you want to start a private convo about it, or on the forums is ok too.
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If you don't mind a random generator doing the heavy lifting for you, donjon is an excellent resource for maps of everything from dungeons to towns to globes. You can customize the parameters to suit your needs, too.
For maps, consider where the water will flow - from the mountains to the sea. Consider where it might pool - forming lakes - and where it will flow out again. It might take routes through the underdark as well, so consider that.
It is the result of a day of digging about place names, and could probably be made much better by someone with a real keen interest or qualifications on the subject, but I enjoyed writing it and I think it's of some help for naming places!
If you're not too worried about sharing, then your best bet is to share it in a thread and ask for advice, that way you'll get a rnage of ideas from a range of people. It's also best to world-build with the group - the party can shape the world brilliantly (I have 2 schools of wizardry and a temple devoted to a dragon, and the historic culling of the dragons, a thieves guild, an entire sewer system, and a creepy monster thing called Tim who loves horses all included thanks to my players!) Make the basics around them and then let their backstories and the things they are looking for shape the world around them to make it interestign and engaging for them (EG if the wizard asks for a magic school to visit, saying "no, I haven't written one in so there are none here" is unengaging. Instead, write one up for them and add it to the world!)
Salutations! I am Torvern, a successful DM. I need someone to help me with lore for my campiagn. I am currently having difficulty Making towns/lands/maps. I had stuff pop up. If youre interested in Being My Lore advisor
I have no money so i wont exactly pay-
I just need someone to help. I cant pay so i need it out of charity. But i will help in the long run. Any one wil do
Theres a site called World Anvil which is very helpful for world building
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A good place to start is to read some lore from the published D&D worlds, either to use it in your campaign or as inspiration.
I'm wondering, are you starting completely from scratch, or have you already decided some basic things on what your world looks like? If you have made some of those decisions, what are they?
Panda-wat (I hate my username) is somehow convinced that he is objectively right about everything D&D related even though he obviously is not. Considering that, he'd probably make a great D&D youtuber.
"If I die, I can live with that." ~Luke Hart, the DM lair
I may not be the best at making maps, but I can definitely help! I can also help you develop parts of the lore itself, including NPCs, folklore, strange mysteries (that could divulge into side quests, or not), and any of the smaller pieces of storytelling you need. I'd be glad to help you with absolutely anything you need, from one DM to another! Just PM me if you want to start a private convo about it, or on the forums is ok too.
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If you don't mind a random generator doing the heavy lifting for you, donjon is an excellent resource for maps of everything from dungeons to towns to globes. You can customize the parameters to suit your needs, too.
The charts in dmg are super helpful
For maps, consider where the water will flow - from the mountains to the sea. Consider where it might pool - forming lakes - and where it will flow out again. It might take routes through the underdark as well, so consider that.
For place names, see this document I wrote for the Toponomy of fantastical worlds.
It is the result of a day of digging about place names, and could probably be made much better by someone with a real keen interest or qualifications on the subject, but I enjoyed writing it and I think it's of some help for naming places!
If you're not too worried about sharing, then your best bet is to share it in a thread and ask for advice, that way you'll get a rnage of ideas from a range of people. It's also best to world-build with the group - the party can shape the world brilliantly (I have 2 schools of wizardry and a temple devoted to a dragon, and the historic culling of the dragons, a thieves guild, an entire sewer system, and a creepy monster thing called Tim who loves horses all included thanks to my players!) Make the basics around them and then let their backstories and the things they are looking for shape the world around them to make it interestign and engaging for them (EG if the wizard asks for a magic school to visit, saying "no, I haven't written one in so there are none here" is unengaging. Instead, write one up for them and add it to the world!)
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