The Ultimate RPG Game Masters Worldbuilding Guide

The Ultimate RPG Game Master’s Worldbuilding Guide: Prompts and Activities to Create and Customize Your Own Game World by James D’Amato
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

I’ve got to say, if you are looking for a book that teaches you world building, this is not the book for you.
The book has prompts - only prompts. Lots of them. They are great, but they take up a lot of space. Every prompt has tons of possible outcomes written, so every topic takes up 5 pages of this book.
Sadly because of that this means that the book does not cover so many topics. In addition to that the book has 5 subtopics that may not be relevant to the world you are trying to build (so if you are building a cyberpunk world, only two of 5 sections are relevant, which is suddenly just 40% of the book).
It is basically just giving you points to start from, but none of them are particularly good, so mostly I was just reading through all the possible prompts to hope to find one that was good.

I don’t think I will use this book again.
If you want to learn how to worldbuild, there are better books out there. My personal recommendation would be ICRPG rules and if you want world building prompts, use AI - it will give you more for free.

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