Worldbuilding

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I’ll never forget one of the first games I played with Mike Howlett. I was a forever GM, and I really enjoyed running things, but I had just met Mike through a mutual friend, and he was firing up a Cyberpunk Red game.

Color me intrigued…pun intended.

Session Zero rolled around and Mike got us started.

“If you click on the following link, it will take you to a website that has some information you might want about the game we are starting” he said.

So, I clicked the link.

The link took me to Legend Keeper.Com and that’s where I was introduced to how Mike plans for his games. Hundreds of pages of lore and information, images, links, locations, it was…a lot.

But that’s how Mike rolls. So today Mike and I are going to talk about World-building, how we go about putting things together and give you a few tips and tricks that might work for you.

Mike Howlett is the co-founder of Odd Fish Games. He is a longtime gamer, writer, designer, and one of my partners on this podcast.

Mike, You and I go about world-building very differently. How do you got started?

Mike and Steve talk about important steps in world-building, thought process, and how to get things moving. We also discuss two very different strategies and how they both have their strengths and weaknesses.