A Quick Adventure In Building A World Together

I have no idea if this will become a series, or if this is even something the crew wants. The other day I was sitting around and I thought to myself: “What makes Matt Mercer’s world so great that it got published?” It was not until I asked this question that it occured to me. Two major things impact the success of that world. The first, is the DND show that takes place in it. The second, is that it is something fresh, neat, and powerful. Matt Mercer takes full advantage of Homebrew, and takes the work away from the DM.

So after some careful thought, tinkering, and bullshitting I have decided that the blog would be a great place to build a world together. We can talk about philosophy, drama, lore… Ill add some cool stuff, you add some cool stuff, it will be a blast.

So thats what this is, this is where we are going:

Every good world starts with two things, a map and a pantheon. So I am going to provide the map, and then together we can start crafting the pantheon, god by god. It is important to note that you are free to steal from this for your own homebrew game, but none of this is to be published under personal blogs. See disclaimer at the bottom of each post for more information.

So for our world map we are going to start with something simple. If we do this again, maybe we draw together, but for this I am just going to use this: https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/world/

As for my details.. I am rolling some D10s to randomize it abit.. Our world will be: 53% water 23% ice.. Then we just hit GO and.. Well.. it creates a map for us. This will be the starting platform for the world we have created. What makes this really neat is that it pops out some city names (which will inevitably be changed) alongside some interesting locations.

We have what appears to be one major continent with a large island set off the coast. Most of the top and bottom of the world are covered with ice which immediatly makes me want to say that this land is slowly thawing from a massive Ice-Age.

Here is the list of weird locations it spit out at me:

Castle	Col	Row
Aceyn Tower	21	51
Arphenson’s Delve	85	58
Bowe Castle	69	22
Burney Keep	54	66
Erfalls Keep	113	35
Henuty Keep	79	29
Mutli Castle	112	33
Nesav Tower	16	8
Rayte Castle	29	34
The Citadel of Nevel the Betrayer	81	29
The Citadel of the Demon Duchess	85	23
The Fortress of Sumanni	179	32
The Tower of Abutam the Bloody	27	60
The Tower of the Lich Duke	59	15
Wafalls Keep	30	69
Woheath Castle	52	40
Woominster Tower	161	56

City	Col	Row
Abab	174	28
Bacot	111	30
Badun	145	62
Bahyrst	134	53
Bastow	32	43
Batun, City of the Old Ones	61	62
Breford	49	27
Bywood	33	35
Cabrycg, City of the Veil of Shadows	81	43
Cawic	188	73
Craburh, City of the First Light	143	55
Cuheath, City of the Golden Dragon	55	19
Doladhomb, the City of Seven Roads	78	26
Estahr	173	29
Etchford	96	43
Falonde	81	22
Framor	194	74
Gathurukth, the City of Markets	108	63
Glandy	116	38
Haburh, the City of Rings	160	69
Ingbluff, City of the True Name	63	49
Keheath, City of the Curse	55	62
Londe, City of the Spectral Guard	170	33
Maham, the Spider’s Web	175	30
Maki	29	49
Muleo	104	41
Negrione, the Throne of the Gods	178	27
Pehill	73	17
Rhepston, City of the Veil of Shadows	76	22
Sare	112	31
Sebluff, the City of Palaces	140	76
Seley	88	30
The Astral Port of Enmaen	74	20
The Great City of Llaisy	78	18
The Honorable City of Braford	95	29
The Majestic City of Kelu	38	39
The Mystical City of Vina	43	39
The Sentinel City of Atyr	179	17
Tone, City of the Dark Crystal	111	29

Ruins	Col	Row
The Bastion of Nabiesu	51	67
The Black Warrens of Necromancy	38	21
The Catacombs of Elemental Doom	67	44
The Monastery of Destruction	159	62
The Shrine of Pain	35	48
The Tomb of Horrors	62	32
The ruins of Barad Mata	99	45
The ruins of Caer Vica	140	62
The ruins of Castle Ravenloft	104	37

Now the only step will be to name the world, and then start building up the inner-map of our massive land.

Feel free to comment below for the name you would want for this land! I will be publishing the next chapter in this series next Wednesday creating a weekly world-building adventure.