A downloadable worldbuilding tool

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[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. 

  1. Project Plans & Ponderings
  2. Buildings & Structures
  3. Characters & People
  4. Conditions & Diseases
  5. Conflicts & Feuds
  6. Documents & Records
  7. Ethnicities & Cultures
  8. Geography & Places
  9. Items & Treasures
  10. Languages & Phrases 
  11. Military Units & Armed Forces
  12. Myths & Legends
  13. Natural Laws & Forces 
  14. Organizations & Countries
  15. Professions & Jobs
  16. Plots & Events
  17. Settlements & Cities 
  18. Species & Creatures 
  19. Technology & Inventions 
  20. 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).

Screenshots of reviews. Examples include: This is a really awesome resource and touches on a lot of points crucial to worldbuilding to really make your world feel alive that could easily be forgotten or overlooked., This is perfect!, I've paid $20 on Amazon for less than this, These are well-written and thoughtful, I'll definitely gift this to people.

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400-worldbuilding-questions.pdf 547 kB
400 worldbuilding questions - interactive Google Sheet
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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

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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

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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

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Hell yeah!! More power to ya man!!

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Thank you for this resource! It looks amazing, can't wait to use it myself!

Thank you!!