Worldbuilding question prompter.

Pick a category.Six dimensions of worldbuilding, one at a time.

Answer in writing.Not in your head. Real answers expose the cracks.

Keep what survives.Most worlds collapse on the first three. That’s the point.

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Geography & Climate

Make your map work as a system — climate, trade, and natural barriers.

  1. What is the prevailing wind pattern, and how does it shape trade and weather?

  2. Where is the food grown, and what happens when that region fails for a year?

  3. What is the most dangerous natural feature, and how do people live near it anyway?

  4. What body of water defines this region, and who controls it?

  5. Where is the border that separates two cultures, and what crosses it daily?

  6. What was destroyed by a past geological event that people still remember?

  7. What resource is concentrated in one place, and how does that concentration shape politics?

  8. What climate is the architecture optimized for, and where does that fail?

  9. What route is dangerous to travel, and what makes it worth the risk?

  10. Where is the safest place in this world, and why is it safe?

  11. What do farmers in this region complain about every year?

  12. What does the night sky look like from the capital — and how does that change at the borders?

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