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Welcome. Tw o of my worlds began as AD&D settings. I haven't played the game in decades. I have a long thread here at MS dedicated largely to my marketing misadventures.

Count yourself lucky it is only two chapters. I made it ten chapters into the WIP before realizing I'd started it in the wrong place, then botched the first draft of the new start point so badly that I had to scrap it and start over. Most of the other chapters will work, though, which is...

There are other realms and regions on the main world that are not as well developed: a primitive quasi-Russian nation (a setting for unpublished short stories), a fragmented oriental realm that is mostly a sketch, a lot of feuding hobgoblin city-states, and the 'Hundred Nations,' huge nomad...

Climate Change of sorts plays a role on Dagon's World in 'Empire: Spiral.' Dagon's World is a marginal planet with a thin atmosphere that continually bleeds into space. The habitable areas are at the bottom of deep craters with large central lakes. As the atmosphere thins, these lakes shrink. In...

For Gawana, read 'Labyrinth War.' As to surviving alien tech... yes, some of it is 'Star Trek' level... when it works. Much of 'Empire: Judgment' (book 6) is set on what's left of a Kwintath starship, but keepining even basic systems operational is a challenge. Solaria and similar countries...

There are a very few 'Ancient Aliens' left. ('Kwintath': they resemble giant centipedes, but usually wear hooded, silvery robes when interacting with others.) They were never treated as Gods. What got them and everybody else in trouble was their extensive experiments with the 'Etheric Realm,'...

Two of the worlds began as AD&D game settings: a sort of 'mythic Europe dominated by a Roman Empire that didn't fall,' and a bizarre ribbon of land on aaaaaa world of water that wrapped around the entire planet. After a time, I began asking basic questions that mostly never occur to gamers or...

'Large, interconnected settings.' Been there, done that, still at it, with a dozen books out there set across three separate worlds. Interlinked histories, mythologies, all that. But character and story take priority.

Somewhat similar to what I did. 1 - Utterly inhuman aliens with naturally high PSI abilities terraformed several planets tens of thousands of years ago. 2 - Aliens brought groups of humans and other primitive races to these planets as servants and test subjects. Importation began around 10K...

Welcome aboard. I did a LOT of worldbuilding decades ago, back when the worlds in question were intended for AD&D campaigns. When I started writing in earnest, those old maps and notes formed the basis of the worlds in the books (a dozen of them, nowadays). And I STILL ended up creating a LOT...

You use short stories to build the world. You don't say that the City of Ty was attacked by barbarians; instead, the authors show what people went through during that event, with each tale from a diferent characters perspective. The barbarian warrior is going to see things very differently than...

We have a subforum dedicated to writing challenges. In the past, it has been used for short story contests. You might be able to build on something like that: Describe a city or other location and invite members to write short stories set there.