Magic is more than window dressing, and we’ll help you to think through the impact adding magic to a world has on its people, its technology, its cultures, and the lives of your characters.
Worldbuilding: Landscape Science for Worldbuilders
Summary:
Get a geologist’s perspectives on regional natural settings to help bring your own world to life.
Description:
Get a geologist’s perspectives on regional natural settings to help bring your own world to life. We’ll focus on terrain variability, continental placement, key terrain issues, and distinctive sources of conflict. Topics include deserts, mountains, lowlands, tropical islands, and volcanic areas, with time for follow-up questions. Scott Rice-Snow is a professor of Geological Sciences at Ball State University in Indiana.
Worldbuilding: Landscapes Our Feet Can't Tread - But What if They Could?
Summary:
Most parts of volcanoes, glaciers, and the sea floor are closed to us, but what would they be like if we had the ability to explore them first-hand?
Description:
Most parts of volcanoes, glaciers, and the sea floor are closed to us, but what would they be like if we had the ability to explore them first-hand? How would our experience of terrain shift if we bypassed constraints of mass, time, and scale?
Scott Rice-Snow is a professor of Geological Sciences at Ball State University in Indiana.
Worlds Colliding: Diverse characters and fresh voices in Aethera Campaign Setting
Summary:
Join Aethera contributors as we examine characters from far-flung settings in communication & conflict—& the advantages & obstacles to calling on underrepresented & new voices to create them.