The Complete Art of World Building

By: Randy Ellefson

Narrated by: Randy Ellefson

Creating a unique, immersive setting one world at a time.

A guide for authors, gamers, and hobbyists.

The Complete Art of World Building brings together volumes one through three in The Art of World Building series. This how-to guide will make listeners a master of inventing imaginary worlds and help a setting stand out from the multitude of fantasy and SF worlds audiences see.

Creating Life (book one) teaches listeners how to create gods, species, races, plants, animals, monsters, world figures, and even undead.

Creating Places (book two) teaches how to create planets, moons, continents, land features, bodies of water, sovereign powers, settlements, interesting locales, and maps. Learn the different government types, how climate impacts vegetation, and consistently calculate how long it takes to travel by horse, wagon, sailing vessels, dragon, or in space.

Cultures and Beyond (book three) teaches how to create cultures, organizations, armed forces, religions, the supernatural, magic systems, technological and supernatural items, languages, names, and various systems our world will have, from health, educational, legal, and commerce, to information systems.

The series draws on author Randy Ellefson’s quarter century of world building experience, and will quickly turn a beginner into an expert, making a time-consuming project more fun, easier, and faster. Ellefson shares his experiences, lessons learned, and insights, including how much of your creations can realistically be mentioned during storytelling, how far creators should go, and what the benefits/risks to each approach might be. Elevate your work above the competition.

Build better, faster.

©2020 Randy Ellefson (P)2020 Randy Ellefson

Valuable Ideas on Worldbuilding.

These books helped me to consider things I never would have. This will make my world building/stories for my games so much better. I thought his narration was fine personally. That other review is unjustified imo, considering how good of a deal this bundle is getting all 3 books in one and all the amazing info. His narration isn't perfect, but it never bothered me any. Great books!!!

Simply Amazing

They don't make em like this every day - at first blush it may sound roomy and odd but beyond you'll find one of the richest treatise on the subject out there.

It really comes down to quality control.

It comes down to a professional should have read this. It felt like it was being read word by word and any emotion or emphasis only built toward the end of each sentence and then dropped off hard at the end.

This would have really been improved by just hiring someone to read it.

I'm really not trying to be mean but it was rough when a few times common words were mispronounced because they were read by individual syllables.