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Landscapes for Writers and Game Masters : Building Authentic Natural Terrain into Imagined Worlds, Paperback / softback Book

Landscapes for Writers and Game Masters : Building Authentic Natural Terrain into Imagined Worlds Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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Landscape science tells fascinating stories, whether in fiction or a role-playing game.

Earth's varied terrain provides many examples of scene-specific challenges and resources for story characters, with distinctive land features, compelling locations, and intriguing traits.

Landslides, floods, coastal erosion, glacier movement, and volcanism can deliver fresh plot points and alter the social character of an imagined region.

Characters traveling different river types encounter very different puzzles, opportunities, and combat environments and the same variety awaits within other classic settings, such as caves, mountains, deserts, shorelines, and volcanic zones.

Atypical landscapes such as tundra, karst, and vast glacier surfaces can breathe fresh air into any stories. This handbook is a reference source for creative writing and game world building.

It delves deeply into many landscape characteristics that help set the tone, shape character behavior, and drive the plot.

Chapters are divided into diverse geographic environments, from rivers and shorelines to caves and volcanoes, and show how knowledge of the terrain can deliver plot points, add veracity, pose key problems, establish conflict, and lead into the next scene.

Discover how authors and game masters effectively weave land and terrain into their stories.

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