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Alien Planet Designer
Online calculations facilitate the creation of astronomically credible planets. Examples from our solar system and science fiction provide a starting point; tinker with the numbers or build a new world from scratch.
(http://www.compulink.co.uk/~vicarage/planets/)
Cities, Population, Subsistance and Land Area
This page provides guidelines to generate a rough, "it feels about right" guestimates about: the population of a region based on the amount of land area it occupies the area a city of given population occupies, and the amount of required rural land and po
(http://www.hut.fi/~vesanto/link.useful/worlds/citysize.html)
City - a medieval spreadsheet
A simple population model for countries and cities.
(http://village.vossnet.co.uk/h/hpttrsn/city.htm)
Constructing an SF Universe
Excellent article by professional, published science fiction author, S. Andrew Swann.
(http://www.sff.net/people/SASwann/text/wb.htm)
Division of Territory in Society
Sociology-fluent designers will have a ball with Ed Stephan's population density research. For the rest of us, his notes on tribal territory sizes are enough to enhance the realism of low-technology settings.
(http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Book/contents.html)
Fabulous Worlds
An exploration of the invention of settings for fictional stories and roleplaying games, with especially close attention paid to the world of Glorantha. Home of the World Design mailing list and archive for the defunct Giants in the Deep and GRASS lists.
(http://rider.wharton.upenn.edu/~loren/Fabulous/)
Guidelines for World Creation
Juha juuso Vesanto's classic primer in outline format, describing various approaches, resources, and advice about world design.
(http://www.hut.fi/~vesanto/link.useful/worlds/world.creation.html)
Phoenyx: The World Making Group
Website that supports a ad-hoc discussion group on world-building issues via mailing-list. Mailing list and participation information are included on the site, along with links to web-based world-building projects.
(http://www.phoenyx.net/worldmaking/index.html)
Planetary Fact Sheets
Extensive physical data describing the planets, satellites, and comets of our solar system, courtesy of NASA's National Space Science Data Center. Potentially useful to designers of science fiction settings and the detail-minded.
(http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html)
World Building
Karl Schroeder's experiences with devising fantastic settings, aimed at the new author but equally applicable to role-playing.
(helios.physics.utoronto.ca:8080/world.html)
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