Produktbeschreibung
The devil is in the detail! Designing games, creating fictional worlds, and mapping out campaign settings all require an extraordinary amount of work. And as any designer, writer or gamer knows, getting the details right is the best way to bring the world to life.
This sixth volume in the Gygaxian Fantasy Worlds series marshals a veritable host of information for the writer or game designer. Laboriously researched and written by Michael Varhola Nation Builder fleshes out themes first presented in World Builder (GFW II, Gygax & Cross) and Living Fantasy (GFW III, Gygax), but with its primary focus on the political, social and economic entities that comprise states in both modern realistic and fantastic settings. Each subject is supported with an ongoing series of detailed examples and miniature case studies, so that Nation Builder can serve as both a guide to creating campaign settings and a ready-made sourcebook and sample milieu for writers, designers and the like.
Nation Builder is divided into three parts:
Book One: The Land provides a wealth of information on the characteristics of the state, the land, the myriad forms of government and the communities and societies that comprise them. The reader finds over 30 forms of government carefully defined and explained, from bureaucratic to theocratic. Ecosystems, their impact on the development of the state and a region’s natural resources are dealt with in detail. Furthermore, careful attention is given to the value of ceremonies, customs and habits of the state.
Book Two: The Community explores the communities that comprise the state. What forces drive a community’s eventual development? Natural calamities, population density and composition and access to resources are only a few. These result in a host of particular physical characteristics such as size, architectural design and laws. All of these are represented in a communities social structure and its classes which fuel and drive the impetus for the types of economy a community has. From agrarian to industrial Nation Builder covers them all.
In Book Three: The Society The discussion of the state is rounded off by a careful look at religion, technology and the impact magic has on a nation’s development and outlook. A discussion of the importance of folklore and legends rounds the whole project out.
With d20 and LA Appendixes!!
The wealth of information gathered in Gary Gygax’s Nation Builder is itself a treasure to any beleaguered writer |
