Writer's Café discussion

You can do both. You can make everything you want at the beginning, and if something isn't right, alter it. Simple.

I struggle sometimes with worldbuilding. The last time I created a world from scratch, people trampled on it and changed it with no regard to how it fit or otherwise changed an entire realm, so I've been edgy about doing it again


Is there some kind of rule on how much or how little should be put into world building? I need to know as I've a great idea for a group but I really don't want to have my world get destroyed again like before, it really hurt to have members I invited show no respect to a world I had crafted so any advice that could avoid that happening again would be wonderful.

I create worlds from scratch. That's what I do. From the gods and their creation to what sort of bread the people underground eat. I like that and I'm good at it. *shrug* but that's just me.

I suggest not creating a world for an RP group at all. Just some details for them to go off of. It's not that it isn't a good idea, it's just... people are inconsiderate, and they don't listen.

I love creating worlds, inventing and designing everything from the land they live, to the animals that live there to the people and language and customs and what they eat and why they do what they do when they do it. I love all of it with a passion, its why i love to write.

I thought at first that taking my ideas and putting them into a group, creating a world into which others might make it alive with characters and plots and ideas, but perhaps you're right and it would be better to just refrain from anything more than some details.