Episode 219 Alternative sharing... not alternative facts

Today's Topic – Creating a compelling encyclopedia for your fantasy world

If you have ever gone to the Gardul.com and checked out my world tab. You would have noticed, it is very vague. I talk more about the story of my world-building than I talk about my world. It is deliberate. I want to share my world out slowly. It is massive, and to be honest. Most of it has never been made digital. Listen to the episode to learn why, and a workaround I have come up with to share more. It might inspire you on how you can share more of your world with others as well!

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I have had lots of requests to share more details about my world.
We are not talking about player guides that was in episode 152
Dangers of sharing your world outside of creating works and hesitations
- Information dumps are boring, only a very small audience would read it
- Might give away secrets to stories you want to release
- Most of the work has never been digitized
- I can talk forever about my world without getting to the interesting sections
- It might be neat! But what is the ultimate point of your endeavor?
- I care more about creating better fantasy worlds than sharing mine
What I think you should consider
- Why are you sharing
- How to limit the content and create more compelling encyclopedia-style content
  - From the perspective of a character or faction in the world
  - frame your work
  - Think of a hook to make it more interesting
- How to deliver the content
  - Video, art, words, or audio
- Use a system your borrow or create to allow more in-depth explanation and give the readers the ability to adapt it if you desire
  - How far can the use your world?
How I plan to overcome my dangers and hesitations
- I am sharing to give people examples of my work, allowing them to use it for their games or as inspiration
  - Reason to share some forms with people so they can use them in their world.
- I will limit the content to different ages of the world. bronze, iron …
  - Use the different ages to spit up the content to make it more digestible and shorter form and help show the evolution of the cultures
  - From the perspective of a Grandfather Farnek. The first and last being on the planet. This is his truth
  - Hook is is his word truth, can you have faith in someone in a world sharing the history as it happened? Yes just ask him
- Use multimedia to help share the content
- Use GURPS 4th edition rules to help explain differences with links to the free and paid versions if people what to better understand specifics
I am climbing on the backs of giants The Gazetteer Writer's Manual: Creating Travel Guides to Fictional Worlds (World Building Series)
- Deborah Teramis Christian aka Deborah Christian aka Terry Randall
- Bruce Heard