Worldbuilder’s Guild

[Hyper129 He/Him]

Hello hello!

If you’re clicking on this, you’re probably either curious about what the heck this thread is, you may have clicked the link in my signature, or you are a worldbuilder! In either case, welcome!

Worldbuilding is a type of writing and creativity exercise where you make up a world and explore its intricacies. Worldbuilding can also simply be exploring part of a world or its factions. It can be totally original or heavily inspired by something!

In our favorite author Brandon Sanderson’s work, worldbuilding is prolific. Just look at Roshar—over a decade of thought put into a single world.

I myself love to worldbuild, and I wanted to see if anyone else here does too! I won’t overwhelm you with my projects just yet, but if anyone wants to chat I’d be glad to!!!

Edited July 16, 2025 by Hyper129

[IcedOutPenguin He/Him]

I am not only a writer, when I write, I must also be a hydrologist, ecologist, vulcanologist, economist, architect, king, trader, builder, physicist, and so much more...

[BlueWildRye he/him]

Welcome back Hyper!! As a fantasy author myself, worldbuilding is typically an essential part of my stories. I come up with dumb ideas most of the time, but I promise I've got some good ones! My Zodiac-based magic system, for one.

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

1 hour ago, Hyper129 said:

Hello hello!

If you’re clicking on this, you’re probably either curious about what the heck this thread is, you may have clicked the link in my signature, or you are a worldbuilder! In either case, welcome!

Worldbuilding is a type of writing and creativity exercise where you make up a world and explore its intricacies. Worldbuilding can also simply be exploring part of a world or its factions. It can be totally original or heavily inspired by something!

In our favorite author Brandon Sanderson’s work, worldbuilding is prolific. Just look at Roshar—over a decade of thought put into a single world.

I myself love to worldbuild, and I wanted to see if anyone else here does too! I won’t overwhelm you with my projects just yet, but if anyone wants to chat I’d be glad to!!!

I love worldbuilding and am great at it *cough cough* Cosmere RP *cough cough* but am not good at actually doing the writing. Probably because the only structure I have when I write is 'I think I should do these things! Yeah.'

But im good at Worldbuilding! I am just Definitely not a writer.

Edit: Heres my Portfolio

Edited July 16, 2025 by CoderDrag0n8

[Hyper129 He/Him]

Gang all of this looks so sick

also @BlueWildRye tell us about the Zodiac magic that sounds SICK

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

2 minutes ago, Hyper129 said:

Gang all of this looks so sick

also @BlueWildRye tell us about the Zodiac magic that sounds SICK

...

did you see my portfolio?

(I am also currently working on another magic system too)

Edited July 16, 2025 by CoderDrag0n8

[Hyper129 He/Him]

1 hour ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

...

did you see my portfolio?

(I am also currently working on another magic system too)

I glanced through it then took a nap. I’ll read more of the stuff in a bit, don’t worry.

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

1 minute ago, Hyper129 said:

I glanced through it then took a nap. I’ll read more of the stuff in a bit, don’t worry.

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

Hello!

I like worldbuilding.

 

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

40 minutes ago, KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren said:

Hello!

I like worldbuilding.

 

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same

[Hyper129 He/Him]

2 hours ago, KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren said:

Hello!

I like worldbuilding.

 

Yoooo wait me too!!!

[DragonHeir he/him]

I like worldbuilding as well, especially speculative bio and technology. I’m at camp, but when I return I shall certainly join in earnest. 

[Hyper129 He/Him]

12 minutes ago, Dragonheir said:

I like worldbuilding as well, especially speculative bio and technology. I’m at camp, but when I return I shall certainly join in earnest. 

Lets gooo! Spec biology and tech stuff is some of my favorite stuff to do

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

6 minutes ago, Hyper129 said:

Lets gooo! Spec biology and tech stuff is some of my favorite stuff to do

Spec Evo is by far the most superior aspect of worldbuilding.

[Hyper129 He/Him]

Off of the top of my head, my main worldbuilding/lore projects are:

• The Kaiju Defense & Research Corps of Japan - a Kaiju No. 8 inspired project about exactly what it sounds like, an organization dedicated to researching and eliminating Kaiju in Japan.
• The Cis-Lunar War - a hard sci-fi setting with fully designed fleet commands and scientifically accurate ships, set in an alt-history (starting in 1985) during the 2060s.
• Isthmus and the Faelands - a fantasy setting in which a conflict between the Concord, a heavily religious governmental entity for the world’s common peoples and the fae, who occupy the northern Faelands are at war.
• Solar System Governments - planetary governments for each planet of the solar system.
• Unnamed superhero world - a world with superheroes, both Natural-born and Engineered.
• UNASC - the United Nations Anomalous Security Council - SCP-inspired organization run by the United Nations that ensures anomalies are kept away from the public eye.
• Rhyfel - under development fantasy world that puts a twist on a pot of traditional fantasy elements

if you have questions about any feel free to ask

Edited July 17, 2025 by Hyper129
Spacing issue

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

5 minutes ago, Hyper129 said:

Solar System Governments - planetary governments for each planet of the solar system.

I'm currently outlining a book set ~2050 where people have colonised the moon. There are like 5 main nations on the moon all trying to conquer the others. Because Earth was busy dealing with a climate catastrophe, they had no time to worry about the moon and left them to their own devices.

I also got an idea for a Spec Evo world... a Gas Giant with an eccentric orbit and a Europa-like moon... 

[Hyper129 He/Him]

8 minutes ago, KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren said:

I'm currently outlining a book set ~2050 where people have colonised the moon. There are like 5 main nations on the moon all trying to conquer the others. Because Earth was busy dealing with a climate catastrophe, they had no time to worry about the moon and left them to their own devices.

I also got an idea for a Spec Evo world... a Gas Giant with an eccentric orbit and a Europa-like moon... 

Both of those sound sick. How would the gas giant and moon support life?

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

7 minutes ago, Hyper129 said:

Both of those sound sick. How would the gas giant and moon support life?

Like the real Europa - heated by the gas giant's tidal forces so it has a subsurface ocean. Due to the eccentricity, it will at time venture into the star's habitable zone, which will cause the surface to thaw as well before freezing again once leaving the habitable zone. The subsurface ocean stays year-round though.

So life could emerge in the oceans. There is no land, so this'll be purely aquatic. Unless, of course, technology allows a civilisation to drill to the surface, but when the surface melts and re-freezes they'll have to do it again.

[Hyper129 He/Him]

8 hours ago, KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren said:

Like the real Europa - heated by the gas giant's tidal forces so it has a subsurface ocean. Due to the eccentricity, it will at time venture into the star's habitable zone, which will cause the surface to thaw as well before freezing again once leaving the habitable zone. The subsurface ocean stays year-round though.

So life could emerge in the oceans. There is no land, so this'll be purely aquatic. Unless, of course, technology allows a civilisation to drill to the surface, but when the surface melts and re-freezes they'll have to do it again.

Faaascinating

[KnightSkye Reforged They/Them]

I love world building, and have at least two distance worlds that I've working on for a while now, both of which I would love to share, if that's ok.

And I would love feed back and suggestions and help filling in gaps if anyone want to suggest those.

Hi. 

Sorry about all that.

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

1 minute ago, KnightSkye said:

I love world building, and have at least two distance worlds that I've working on for a while now, both of which I would love to share, if that's ok.

And I would love feed back and suggestions and help filling in gaps if anyone want to suggest those.

Hi. 

Sorry about all that.

I have a blog full of worldbuilding

I am especially proud of my Shardmancers

[Akimikoisthecutest]

On 7/16/2025 at 11:16 AM, CoderDrag0n8 said:

I love worldbuilding and am great at it *cough cough* Cosmere RP *cough cough* but am not good at actually doing the writing. Probably because the only structure I have when I write is 'I think I should do these things! Yeah.'

But im good at Worldbuilding! I am just Definitely not a writer.

 

Me. This is me. I do this so much. Brandon says I have Worldbuilder's disease. I'm like is that a bad thing? 

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

4 minutes ago, Akimikoisthecutest said:

Me. This is me. I do this so much. Brandon says I have Worldbuilder's disease. I'm like is that a bad thing? 

clap clap clap yay

[Seonid he/him]

Oh this is me. It took 20 years from the time I first thought up characters and the world they lived in before I started writing a book...the worldbuilder's disease is real. By which I mean I am formally applying for membership in the guild. Wouldn't want to be producing non-guild-licensed products after all .

Before my retirement from the Shard, I did a lot of worldbuilding stuff in the Creator's Corner - I can link to some of my old posts, if anyone is interested. My current project is linked in my sig.

On 8/2/2025 at 5:57 PM, TheSpearThatBroke said:

I love world building, and have at least two distance worlds that I've working on for a while now, both of which I would love to share, if that's ok.

And I would love feed back and suggestions and help filling in gaps if anyone want to suggest those.

Hi. 

Sorry about all that.

You are more than welcome to slip on over to the Creator's Corner and share your world with us! And this goes for anyone and everyone.

4 hours ago, Akimikoisthecutest said:

Me. This is me. I do this so much. Brandon says I have Worldbuilder's disease. I'm like is that a bad thing? 

Depends on whether or not your goal is to write a book...

If not - worldbuilding can be a delightful and fulfilling hobby all on its own! If so, then...well, you have to learn when the world is built enough to actually start writing the story. But only you can determine which of these applies!

[Ink and Embers Any pronouns]

Hi 

I do worldbuilding for some stories I'm writing, but any advice would be cool? The worlds I have are:

- Everia (fantasy world with dragons, originally very Medieval European but I'm trying to move away from that)

- Calashante (fantasy world, quite new so not very detailed yet)

- "Far space" (still needs a proper name) (space world set in the future, a century or so after humans have met aliens, so everyone knows they exist but no one is quite sure what to think yet)

Thank you very much