What happens when two warring tribes worship the same god? In a fantasy setting, things can get weird.

Want to inject some mundane fantasy into your setting? Don’t neglect the weather. Here are a few ideas.

Intelligence isn’t random. Bad writers try to make their aliens exotic behind a layer of randomness, but you can usually smell that on them. The AMAM Model is a better approach.

Want to build your own catastrophe? Something that spans kingdoms and will really mess things up? Here’s how Footprints can help.

Is your worldbuilding boring? There are two common traps - thinking all races are the same and thinking all members of a race are the same. Here’s the much, much better approach.

Let’s say you want to create a species of space-faring clouds of dust. Great – I’m intrigued so far. How do you not mess up the next step of figuring out how they’ll think and behave?

Living on the street takes wits and courage. If you want urchins in your setting with more agency than tragic orphans and more to offer than basic thieves, check this out.

What do you do when the classic tropes aren’t fun anymore? Rather than having the mysterious old wizard tell the PCs what to do, why not do this?

Priests are spiritual leaders in a world where gods create real miracles. What sort of person would go into that line of work?

If I asked you to design a new fae race, what would you come up with? Forget their physical traits and focus on their minds. If you take the boring, obvious path, you’re not alone - but here’s how to do better.

Merchants can be more than just talking storefronts for players. But they don’t need elaborate backstories. Here are four variables to build your merchants with, based on how they run their businesses.