Useful Links to Other Worldbuilding Sites

Sometimes you need a bigger hammer. So this is also a place one can go to find tools outside World Anvil.
These are some links to websites that we find useful. Most are free of charge.
The caveat is that, given the ephemeral nature of the Interwebz as we know it, these links may break. We'll try to fix them if they do, or make other notes as we find them. Please drop us a line if you have suggestions, questions, criticisms, critiques, or cookies—the non-digital real kind right out of the oven, please. So, this is a perpetual Work In Progress.

The Art & Science of World-Building

The Process of Building Worlds
• Worldbuilding Guild, Part 1 (by our very own Dimitris Havlidis )
• Worldbuilding Guild, Part 2

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• The WorldAnvil YouTube Channel

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Worldbuilding Tools

Universes
• StarGen: indispensably the most important tool you'll need for creating believable solar systems. Granted, it uses theories, concepts, and methods that the more recent Kepler missions are blowing away, but for your worldbuilding projects, StarGen is so, so much better than rolling random die.
• Celestia: Do you want to see what your world would look like from space? Or see how your planet orbits its sun? Try Celestia. It's free, powerful, and has a pretty good user base. Although meant for real stars and planets, making your own world is very easy once you learn how to script it.

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Worlds

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Civilizations
• Medieval Demographics Made Easy: This is another absolutely essential website for the creation of realistic medieval towns, crucial if you want your fantasy world to look like a European town (although once you get the hang of it, you could tweak for most any culture). A slightly more practical version of this link follow as...
• The Domesday Book - Medieval Demographics Made Easy

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Peoples

Random Generators

Other Tools

Never underestimate the power of little things to affect great change.

• The Unicode® character table: as useful as a dictionary or thesaurus, maybe more so

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Ambiance & Music:
• Tabletop Audio: this site offers ambient sounds for your RPG experience. Best of all, it is free to use. You can even program in a playlist of sorts, or loop the sounds of a fantasy tavern, zombie horde, or alien spaceport. You can even mix your own. Some music, too. You have to check this out if you want the audio to go with your games.

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