Building a Homebrew World for D&D

You want to build your own world. This is great. There are two schools of thought. The first is to start with the village your adventure is going to take place in, and grow from there as needed. However, if you want to build a world for the sake of building a world, this guide is for you. This is closer to the path a fantasy writer would take, but we specifically want it to be built for other DMs to grow the story and details of your world for Tabletop Roleplaying Games (TtRPGs). We are going to start at the beginning. From the outside in. It’s best to do so in this order.

Also, this is not the end all be all of your world building, but instead just tells you what the next most-helpful part is. Each topic has tons of help from the rest of the internet…