Hi, I’m Jon.
I’m living the nerd life as a scifi writer and gamemaster.
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World Building For Novices
Middle-Earth. The Expanse. The Forgotten Realms. Westeros.
Characters don’t exist in a vacuum. The world they live in impacts, and sometimes even drives, their stories. A memorable and believable world will keep readers and players coming back again and again. So how do you build a world that will enthrall your audience, and no matter how fantastic the setting is, suspend their disbelief?
Game masters and authors face a daunting challenge building their first worlds. Where do you start? What’s most important for what you want out of your world? What are some of the pitfalls and traps to avoid while world building?
Jon R. Osborne, a veteran game master and international bestselling author, gives novices the basics of world building. Whether you want to forge your first setting as a game master or craft a world for the novel you itch to write, this book will set you on the path of world building.
Let there be write!
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About Jon
Jon R. Osborne is a veteran gamemaster and journalism major turned science fiction and fantasy author. The second book in the Jon’s The Milesian Accords modern fantasy trilogy, “A Tempered Warrior”, was a 2018 Dragon Awards finalist for Best Fantasy Novel. Jon is also a core author in the military science fiction Four Horseman Universe, where he was first published in 2017.
Jon resides in Indianapolis, where he plays role-playing games, writes science fiction and fantasy, and lives the nerd life.