
400 Worldbuilding Questions
A downloadable worldbuilding tool
[Human made & created without the use or assistance of AI.]
What you'll get:
- 🌍 400 thought-provoking worldbuilding questions
- 📄 A low-ink, printer friendly .pdf
- 📊 An interactive Google Sheet to keep track of your progress
Features:
Suitable for any worldbuilding project!
Each question has been designed to be genre-agnostic, meaning you can use and adapt them for any type of setting that you're creating. There's a huge variety of questions, spanning from broad concepts to quirky and complex ideas for you to enrich your lore!
Whether it's for an existing project or a brand new world, you can enjoy using these questions for:
- solo journaling
- writing inspiration
- game development
- building a TTRPG campaign
- collaborative worldbuilding
Let the dice decide!
The questions are conveniently grouped into lists of 20. If you're not sure what to explore next, try rolling a d20 to determine the outcome (or check the box on the spreadsheet to highlight a result)!
Easy-to-find inspiration in every category
These 400 worldbuilding questions are organised into 20 categories so that you can easily find inspiration for what to explore next.
- Project Plans & Ponderings
- Buildings & Structures
- Characters & People
- Conditions & Diseases
- Conflicts & Feuds
- Documents & Records
- Ethnicities & Cultures
- Geography & Places
- Items & Treasures
- Languages & Phrases
- Military Units & Armed Forces
- Myths & Legends
- Natural Laws & Forces
- Organizations & Countries
- Professions & Jobs
- Plots & Events
- Settlements & Cities
- Species & Creatures
- Technology & Inventions
- Traditions & Customs
The .pdf includes a menu to jump to each page, and in the Google Sheet you can click on the links to jump to each category (or return to the top).
Please leave a rating to help more people discover this worldbuilding resource! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Thanks for checking out my work :D
| Status | Released |
| Category | Physical game |
| Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (6 total ratings) |
| Author | TJ Trewin |
| Tags | Creative, d20, GM-Less, journaling, No AI, Print & Play, Solo RPG, Tabletop role-playing game, world-building, worldbuilding |
| Average session | A few hours |
| Languages | English |
| Content | No generative AI was used |
Download
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Development log
- Relaunched & Revamped!43 days ago





Comments
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Absolutely brilliant, used the old sheet for a long while, and cannot wait to dive into this one! <3 Really interesting questions, it gets me thinking about my projects and gives me a great motivational boost :D
Thank you so much!! It makes me super happy that you found motivation in these questions :D
Oh my, I had been using the old version to get lil sparks of inspiration for a while now and the new release looks awesome! Thank you for providing this (for free!), your work is always incredible :D
Thank youuu! I’m glad you’re enjoying it :D
Oh, hey TJ! I'm guessing you're moving your gumroad to here then?
Yep! I love the lively indie community here - it feels more like home :D
Hell yeah!! More power to ya man!!
Thank you for this resource! It looks amazing, can't wait to use it myself!
Thank you!!