What is Worldbuilding? | THE 3 KINDS OF WORLDBUILDING

What is worldbuilding, you ask? Whether you’re worldbuilding for fantasy novels, or worldbuilding a DnD5e campaign, Janet from World Anvil - the ultimate worldbuilding software - answers the question "what is worldbuilding", and unpacks the three main different categories of worldbuilding to help get you stared!

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N.B.! There are many kinds of worldbuilding which fall partially between the cracks of these three types - and that makes sense! Interesting fiction is all about being inventive and blurring the lines! For example, a lot of second-world worldbuilding uses real-world elements - e.g. the plants and animals in the Game of Thrones series are almost all earthlike! And some alternate earth stories are so close to "real world" that the line is blurred, like Naomi Alderman's novel, "The Power".

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World Anvil worlds featured in this video:
- Spirel by Chris Dravus:
- Ethnis by Brandon Rockwell & Tyler Lawton:
- Lethea by Mihkel Rand:
- The Hummelverse by “Arty”:
- Valvahan by “Yingfire”:
- Dark Shadows by Tobias Linder:
- Calyria by Susanne Lamprecht:
- Wanted Hero by Jaime Buckley:
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