Climate Modeling 101

Theory and Application for World-Building

Biology of Fantasy: Let’s Get Real, Shall We?

Throughout human history, mythology is alive with “humanoids”, creatures with certain human qualities. There have been particular cases in trying to justify their existence, but those cases focus on an evolutionary angle. If I were to find some…

Mapmaking Software

In this article, I will cover 17 different software products for making maps. Some of them are general image-manipulation software; others are more specific and have a more limited application. I chose those because they are the most widely used, they have more content, more resources, more…

How I generated artificial rivers on imaginary continents

Great Lakes Earth: Geography

Let us say that, in the future, some scientists have created satellites capable of something that seems science fiction for now — punching the walls of the universe to study an alternate reality. By that scenario, some hundreds of “alternate Earths” from hundreds of alternate…

The trouble with FTL.

Lets have a talk about time travel and hard science.

Medieval Warfare — An introduction

An introduction to using strategy and tactics to write (slightly more) realistic medieval warfare

It is said the warrior’s is the twofold way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for…

Stop Saying Rivers Only Converge

You may have been drawing a lot of silly maps

So you want to build a world…or ‘How to be a god’

If you are looking to start creating a world, I humbly suggest you begin here. This article was written just for you…and you, no not you, that guy behind you (go say hi, maybe you’ll meet someone interesting).

A horror named Jimmy.

I am sure that the gentle men and women of this place will no doubt find and confiscate this journal before too much…