The Key to World Building for D&D

Creating your own DnD world is hard work, world building in general is hard! How can you go about worldbuilding in D&D for your campaign?

World Anvil is an extremely powerful world building tool to help you in your worldbuilding process. It allows you to create wiki style articles for basically everything in your campaign, allowing you to concentrate on the important part: creating an entire world. With tools like a writing software for your novel writing, a digital DM screen, and more, world anvil gives you everything you need to bring whatever fantasy world you can imagine to life!

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[pointyhatstudios]

Did you want to write a book as a teen and daydreamed about the fantasy world the story took place in constantly and when you finally started writing you lost steam 3 chapters in, but then you got into DnD and realized that you could just make your friends play in that world and tell stories in it?


yeah me neither.

[CaedmonOS]

So in this setting, you would rather encounter a drow than a wood elf.

[ElijahForLong]

"The point here isn't to make a utopia, it's to make interesting places for stories to happen in"

I need more people to realize this.

[drtisk]

I love that this World Building method doesn't even mention the geography and physical layout - something a lot of people start with. The big themes and ideas are definitely more important than where the mountains and rivers are

[lordkakabel]

Recent Session 0: "What kind of world do you guys want to play in?" Group: "Let's keep going in your homebrew world." *tears form in eyes* I never felt so validated!

[polpoulet]

What I liked the most about this video:
- Moth people
- Moth that are people
- People that are moth
- Moth, but also people

[LynKoyo]

I NEED a world building video on nations and factions! Please do it, Antonio 🙏

[michaelbaughman]

Considering the ramifications of having 24hr sunlight, I'm digging the idea of the party spending months or even years trying to reach the light side, and when they finally succeed they realize they've escaped on hell only to enter another, because the light side has become a lifeless, sun-blasted desert

[BrenGamerYT]

Your ability to get over dragon hate is incredibly brave, we are all so proud of you, Pointy Hat. Admitting you are wrong takes a lot of character.

[nehrumoreiradesousa]

1 - Conflict 2:15
2 - Thtret 7:06
3 - Goal 9:32
3.1 Causality 13:14
A - nations 13:58
B - Races 21:30

[paulsmart]

When you were talking about instability vs unfamiliarity it reminded me Matt Colville once said "There are two kinds of villains. Villains who want to change everything, and villains who want to keep everything the same."

Seems like you were kind of coming from the same place.

[timotheehuffman]

In my world the drow were made during the first winter when a young elf died from frostbite, giving them their dark skin. The child's mother literally followed the god of death to the underworld begging to have her child back. The god of death eventually gave into to the mother's plea and brought the child back, but because of it's connection to the underworld they were unable to leave the caves leading to it. The mother was unwilling to leave her child there and spent her time weeping outside of the underworld until she eventually died as well, becoming the first banshee.

[TheHej]

Imagine being a player in this world. You and your party have travelled the darkness for years to get to the light You pass the final gate and the GM goes to the door you are in (irl) and asks a new groop to enter. And says that you meet another group trying to escape the light.
The GM had two simultaneous campaigns in the same world, Darkness and light

[thomasdancy]

I love that description of the wood elves watching from the trees while some darkness creature mauls you to death, that is chilling.

More worldbuilding pls! I will happily gobble all that content up

[Kamyuyon]

Antonio, you are a blessing to this community. Please dont worry about the video time, I would listend to you and your ideas for hours.

[theemperormoth]

Something I learned when making a setting for an upcoming D&D campaign is that Worldbuilding for D&D, so that it incorporates Dragonborn, Orcs, most Elves, Aaracokra, Tabaxi, etc while also including the different planes of existence and taking into account the effects of certain spells on society is actually VERY VERY HARD!

[daydreamer]

What I would like to see him talk about is the oceans on the night side, becasue pitch black oceasn are absolutely terrifiyng.

[efestohorus]

USE THIS COMMENT AS A VOTE STATION FOR MORE WORLDBUILDING VIDEOS

[el_super_laser]

the amount of video editing you did is staggering, most people don't realize how long it takes to find the take and place it correctly and you do like 5 each sentence. Thanks for the great content.

[kidvandal]

@pointyhatstudios is one of a handful of DND-tubers that are genuinely informative, actually entertaining, and able to make high quality, accessible content. Thanks, Pointy!!