Worldbuilding QOTD Collection

yeah, feel free to use any of these questions for your own worlds. this is just a place to collect the questions i've asked about worldbuilding
also feel free to answer them however you want. some questions can be pretty vague, so feel free to have your own interpretation for it

- BNTarwarn

Link to OC QOTD

2022 November Collection

  1. Does your world have any creation story? (It can be canon creation story, or any versions of creation story known to the world's population.)
  2. If applicable, how is your world's magic system? If there isn't magic or anything, what kind of stuff is considered magic in your world?
  3. How do messages/news get delivered in your world? Letters? Internet? Something else?
  4. To you, what are some of the most memorable locations in your world?
  5. Do you have any inspirations for your worldbuilding? What inspired your world's creation?
  6. If you were to start a story/campaign/series/etc. in your world, what would be the "starting location"? Why?
  7. What species are there in your world? (if they aren't like our current world's species, yknow) Or if the species aren't really different from our world... Are the humans different in your world? Like whether they got magic, or something like that.
  8. What holds your world's population together (to some extent)? Some kind of organization? Religion? Guilds? Something else?
  9. How's the weather like in your world? (You can answer for just a specific region, a specific area, or the entire world, idm)
  10. What kind of transportation methods are there in your world?
  11. Pick a character/random habitant from your world. What do they think about their world? How would they describe it?
  12. What is/are your favorite thing(s) to develop in your world? Feel free to answer this question with details of whatever you chose to answer this question with :D

2022 December Collection

  1. What kind of food are there in your world? (Or you can narrow it down to a specific region, if you want to. Or only give examples of unique foods.) How would someone get food?
  2. Pick an organization/a country/a nation/some nation/some group, what sort of laws/rules/traditions do they have?
  3. What sort of plant or plant-like thing have you created for your world?
  4. Does your world have any "(mostly) unexplored" parts? Why are they still unexplored?
  5. How developed is the tech in your world?
  6. What kind of weapons are there in your world?
  7. What major events are there/happened in your world? You can only give examples of a few events, if you want to
  8. What kinds of resources do the inhabitants have? Any unique resources?
  9. What is the most common building material? Why is it used (availability, cheapness, legal requirement)?
  10. Does your world have their own customs/beliefs about death? You can pick examples from few specific cultures in your world.
  11. Is there any recorded history in your world? If so, how is it recorded? Where are they kept?
  12. Pick two regions/organizations/groups (with population) in your world. What do they think of each other?
  13. What sorts of jobs are popular in your world('s regions)?
  14. Depending on what your world's population are really capable of (by their species/technology/magic/etc.), is there anything they couldn't accomplish so far? Like unable to go to space, unable to fly, unable to explore most of the oceans, unable to cross the funny barrier in your world, something like that
  15. How do people in your world('s regions) entertain themself?
  16. What are your world's region's exported goods and imported goods?
  17. Does your world have any naming conventions/any specific tradition when it comes to names? (You can narrow this down to a specific organization/region/whatever you want.) Like a character changes their name when they've grown up at one point, there aren't really surnames in your world, everyone refers to each other by nicknames instead of legal name, everyone is referred to by a code name after joining a group, or something.
  18. What kind of stuff is considered honorable in your world’s cultures? Like they value being able to throw hands, honoring family, or something like that.
  19. Pick a character/random habitant from your world. (You can pick multiple, idm) What's their favorite location in your world? It can be locations they want to visit, locations they find most appealing, or locations they find themself at home at, or something else. How would they describe that location?
  20. What kind of festivals/holidays/events are celebrated in your world('s regions)?

2023 January Collection

  1. Are there multiple languages used in your world? What are they?
  2. How does your world keep track of time? (watches, sundials, clocks, whatever's invented)
  3. How are criminals dealt with or punished in your world('s regions)? Bonus: What kind of stuff would make someone considered a criminal?
  4. Who/What holds the most power in your world? (you can pick what "power" means for this question :hi:)
  5. Is there anything specific that's considered valuable in your world's cultures, like gold or something along those lines?
  6. How's healthcare in your world? (And if your world has some kind of special healing, how are they managed/dealt with in your world?)
  7. If you have the choice, would you live in the world you created? Why or why not?
  8. If there's any sort of governments/ruling people in your world, how would you describe them?
  9. Does your world have any unique beliefs/symbols of good luck? Like there's some kind of lucky object, or something.
  10. What's something you just developed for your world recently? (yeah this is like yesterday's oc qotd, but for worldbuilding)
  11. Where did you start with your current world's worldbuilding? Magic system that your characters use? Designing creatures for your world? Something else?
  12. Do you have a certain mood/vibes/atmosphere you're going for with your world(building)?
  13. Where does your setting take place at?

Basically the same as our world? Our world but slightly to the left? Our world but something went down in the space and it's now a different place? Or somewhere far, far away in the space? A special realm? Or it takes place in an entirely different place than what I suggested earlier?

2023 February Collection

  1. Does your world have legends/fairytales/stories/folklores or stuff like that?
  2. How'd you summarize your world in the dumbest way possible?
  3. What are your world's money currencies?
  4. How is murder dealt with, in your setting? (if, somehow, everyone in your setting is unkillable/murder can't really happen in your world, how would they deal with people disappearing?)
  5. How does your world (or pick any location in your world)'s geography look like?
  6. What happens when someone dies in your world? Any afterlife? (If your world has a concept of souls/spirits/etc. or something similar, what happens to them when someone dies?)
  7. Does your world have some kind of strong forces/organizations/groups of population/etc. that influences a good part of your world?
  8. Pick a character/resident in your world/setting. How much do they know about their world? What kind of worldbuilding stuff they don’t know about?
  9. Do people in your world/region/setting have any skills/knowledge that they're expected to know? (Like swimming, knowing how to throw hands, etc.)
  10. What are some of the greatest or strongest organizations/clans/families/etc. in your setting?
  11. How's education like in your world/setting?
  12. Any big conflicts in your world? (Like conflicts between two nations, two big organizations, wars, uhh two gods throwing hands, two powerful guys throw hands and fuck the world up, etc.)
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Pub: 19 Nov 2022 05:02 UTC

Edit: 01 Mar 2023 08:06 UTC

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