can you help me with something? I would like to know how much time you needed to create forgottem realms? I started creating the Realms when I was 5 or 6 (didn't know it was the Realms back then) and still work on it every day, and I'm 61 years old.
And am far from finished. So…55 years and counting.
But the Faerûn you see on maps was pretty much done in 3 years.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 9, 2021
thanks eddie, me and my homie are trying to create something like that, maybe nothing will come of it but it never hurts to try You don't have to create a whole world from a standing start.
Ask yourself: what's the central story we want to tell? Or gameplay experience we want to have in the setting? Build around that, from essentials outwards.
And may you have the best of success!— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 9, 2021
how we start to create the story of our world?
thanks for the tips ^^ Start with the adventure or prose story you want to tell right now.
What places does it need in it? What sorts of creatures live there? How do they travel from one of those story places to another? What do they eat, and where does it come from? Are there any known perils or wars?— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 9, 2021
The answers you give can be incomplete at the outset, but will point to more. (If there's a merchant caravan on your road, there's a lack of something affordable locally, that somewhere else has in abundance.)
DON'T get bogged down writing an exhaustive history, to start.— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 9, 2021