Dai's Conworlding Links



Note: I don't vouch for the accuracy of any of these.

Some collected communities:

Frathwiki: http://www.frathwiki.com/Main_Page


Zompist Board
http://www.incatena.org/index.php?sid=f4684fea7e0dbcdf13edd33792035b2b


The CBB Board
http://aveneca.com/cbb/index.php


Cartographer's Guild
https://www.cartographersguild.com/content.php


World bulding Stack Exchange
https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/


Absolutewrite's SF/Fantasy Forum
http://absolutewrite.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?39-Science-Fiction-Fantasy&s=8d47367c3edc3d8cc683a9524f303781


Reddits

/rWorldbuilding
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/


/r/conlangs
r/conlangs


World Generation, Geography, Biology, and other Sciency Stuff:

Planet Designer: Calculator for stars and planets. Hard science
http://www.johnbray.org.uk/planetdesigner/

Archived version of http://www.johnbray.org.uk/planetdesigner/

Astro: Calculator for Stellar & Planetary Orbits, Planets and Satellite Orbits, Rotational Habitats, and Asteroid Crater Sizes. Originally aimed at the Hard SF RPG 2300 AD, but the science is good.
http://www.bumply.com/astro.html

Archived version of the above deadlink

StarGen: Random generator for star systems and planets. Also has a downloadable version.
http://fast-times.eldacur.com/StarGen/RunStarGen.html

World Generation: Another randomized generator, aimed at the Traveller RPG, but still useful.
http://www.trisen.com/sol/static/wg/wg.html

Plan a Planet Orbiting a Main Sequence Star
http://web.archive.org/web/20030218125318/www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/8611/mseqstar.htm

Building the Ultimate Solar System
https://planetplanet.net/2014/05/13/building-the-ultimate-solar-system/


Hard SF Tools
http://web.archive.org/web/20070823084250/http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/8611/hard-sf.htm

Antimatter Calculator: Just for fun, calculates the energy from matter/antimatter explosions.
http://www.edwardmuller.com/right17.htm

Church of Climatology Thread on ZBB:
http://www.incatena.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=34650

Creating an Earthlike Planet:
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~fc503/geoff/worldkit.html

Hosted versions of Geoff Eddy's Climate Cookbook:
https://astrographer.wordpress.com/bookshelf/geoff-eddys-climate-cookbook/

https://worldbuildingworkshop.com/tag/geoffs-climate-cookbook/

Cartographer's Guild Tutorial for the Climate Cookbook:
https://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=27118

Fundamentals of Physical Geography:
http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/contents.html

The Geography Site:
http://www.geography-site.co.uk/index.html

World Builder's: CSU's Worldbuilding Course
http://www.world-builders.org/

An Atlas of the Universe:
http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/

Star Data Pages:
http://www.alcyone.de/SIT/

Planetary Fact Sheets:
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html

Ecology
Introduction to the Biosphere, from Fundamentals of Physical Geography: http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/chapter9.html

FAO Soil Classifications
http://www.fao.org/wairdocs/ilri/x5546e/x5546e04.htm


Drake Equation: Calculator for the Drake Equation.
http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/SETI/drake_equation.html

Holly Lisle's Rollicking Rules of Ecosystems:
http://hollylisle.com/fm/Articles/rules-of-ecosystems.html

Holly Lisle's Holly Lisle's Shopping List for Better BEMs:
http://hollylisle.com/fm/Articles/bem-shopping-list.html

Astrobiology Magazine
http://www.astrobio.net/astrobiological_news.php

Major Biomes of the World:
http://www.runet.edu~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG235/biomes/main.html/

Maps
Fractal World Generator: makes fractal maps.
http://donjon.bin.sh/world/

Holly Lisle's Maps Workshop -- Developing the Fictional World through Mapping:
http://hollylisle.com/fm/Workshops/maps-workshop.html

Fantasy
Holly Lisle's Fantasy Is Not for Sissies: Real Rules for Real Worlds:
http://hollylisle.com/fm/Articles/rules-for-better-fantasy.html

30 Days of World Building:
http://www.web-writer.net/fantasy/days/index.html

Magical World Builder's Guide: Guide to building fantasy worlds.
http://www.web-writer.net/fantasy/

10 Steps to Creating Realistic Fantasy Animals
http://www.elfwood.com/farp/thewriting/animalash/animalash.html

Patricia C. Wrede's Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions: also useful for non-fantasy cultures.
http://www.sfwa.org/2009/08/fantasy-worldbuilding-questions/

Cultural, Ethnolographic, and Area Studies Resources

Dr. Zahir's Ethnographical Questionnaire on FrathWiki:
http://www.frathwiki.com/index.php?title=Dr._Zahir%27s_Ethnographical_Questionnaire

The Zaharam-Chapelle-Parunas Ethnographical Questionnaire (Thank you Tom Chapelle!)
http://bethisad.com/conculture/questionnaire.htm

The Importance of Food: Aimed at RPGs, but touches on an aspect of conworlding that I haven't really seen talked about much here.
http://ptgptb.org/0024/food.html

SSRIC Codebook of Ethnographic Data
http://www.ssric.org/trd/sccs/codebook

FM 41-10 Civil Affairs Operations, Appendix G: Civil Affairs Area Study and Assessment Format (A good checklist
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/41-10_2000/appg.htm


Worlds
The Speculative Dinosaur Project: no K-Pg extinction event.
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0000265/Spec/index.html

Orion's arm Universe Project: Huge galaxy spanning hard SF world building project.
http://www.orionsarm.com/

Furaha: http://members.casema.nl/gertvandijk/

Epona: http://www.eponaproject.com/Epona_Home.html

Planetocopia: Variations on Earth.
http://www.worlddreambank.org/P/PLANETS.HTM

Snaiad: http://www.nemoramjet.com/snduterus.html

Collected Links:
Hobgoblin.net's World Building resources for writers: http://www.hobgoblin.net/modules/mylinks/viewcat.php?cid=7

Future Studies: Transhumanist resources.
http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Cultural/Future/

Hard SF: Collection of links and essays about Hard SF.
http://www.hardsf.org/NofrInde.htm

Orion's Arm Links: Orion's Arm is a huge hard SF world building project. These are their world building resources links. There's some overlap with this list.
http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa-links
World Building Links: http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa-page&page=gen_worldbuilding_links

World Builder Projects: http://hiddenway.tripod.com/world/

Specfic World's resouces: http://www.specficworld.com/resources/world.aspx

Fantasy World Building Resources: http://www.squidoo.com/fantasyworldbuilding

Conlang Resources:

List of Language Resources
https://glossika.com/blog/list-of-language-resources/?c=fb


The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) Database
http://wals.info/


Conlang Atlas of Language Structures
http://cals.conlang.org/


The Zompist BB Resources Thread
http://www.incatena.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=15191


Mark Rosenfelder/Zompist's Language Constuction Kit
http://www.zompist.com/kit.html


How to create a language (by Pablo David Flores, expansion of the LCK)
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/nyh/how__all.html


Rick Morneau's Essays on Language Design (archived)
https://web.archive.org/web/20120119125123/http://www.eskimo.com/~ram/essays.html


The Language Creation Society
http://conlang.org/


The Conlanger's Library
http://library.conlang.org/


Richard Kennaway's Internet resources relating to constructed languages
http://www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~jrk/conlang.html


Conlang Wikia
http://conlang.wikia.com/wiki/Portal:Main


KneeQukie
http://www.kneequickie.com/kq/Main_Page


Library of old US Foreign Service Institute Textbooks
https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/languages/oldfsi/index.html


Assorted Other Useful Resources:
(These are things that I've found interesting/useful.)
Space future: Promoting the human use of space - lost of SF/space information.
http://www.spacefuture.com/directory.shtml

Technovelgy: Collection of SF inventions.
http://www.technovelgy.com/

Maritime knowledge: Useful collection of information if you want details on sailing topics.
http://www.psych.su.oz.au/vbb/woronora/maritime/

1814 Nautical Glossary: What it says - a glossary of nautical terms in use in 1814. http://www.psych.su.oz.au/vbb/woronora/maritime/Glossary.html

1814 Questions for Young Officers: A "test" for young officers on sailing ships - useful if you want details on how sailing ships operate.
http://www.psych.su.oz.au/vbb/woronora/maritime/Questions.html

Lots of online calculators: http://www.csgnetwork.com/converters.html

Science calculators: http://www.csgnetwork.com/scienceconverters.html

Mapping Tool:
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/gprojector/download_win.html

Gravitational Simulator:
http://www.orbitsimulator.com/gravity/articles/what.html


Richard Cowen's Essays on Geology, History, and People
http://mygeologypage.ucdavis.edu/cowen/~GEL115/index.html


Airship Heritrage Trust
http://www.airshipsonline.com/index.htm


The AHT List of Airships
http://www.airshipsonline.com/airships/index.html


William Frisbee's Guide to Writing Military SF
http://www.milsf.com/


US NationalParks Service Maps:
http://npmaps.com/


"Specialty Produce" - Extensive list of fruits and vegetables with descriptions
http://www.specialtyproduce.com/produce/


Medieval Demographics Made Easy
http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/blueroom/demog.htm


Medieval Life and the Hundred Years War
http://hundredyearswar.com/Books/History/1_help_c.htm


Medieval Price List
http://medieval.ucdavis.edu/120D/Money.html


Worldbuilding Resources for Writers
https://www.legendsofaria.com/forums/discussion/180/worldbuilding-resources-for-writers


Reshaping Reality Guide Pt. 1
https://reshapingreality.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/creating-a-solar-system-part-one-a-star/


Reshaping Reality Guide Pt. 2
https://reshapingreality.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/creating-a-solar-system-world-building-part-2/


Reshaping Reality Guide Pt. 3
https://reshapingreality.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/planet-geology-world-building-part-3/


Seven Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding
http://io9.gizmodo.com/7-deadly-sins-of-worldbuilding-998817537


Kenneth Jorgensen's Big List of Worldbuilding Resources
http://kennethjorgensen.com/worldbuilding/resources


Global Security - an extensive resource for military, intelligence and national security matters, run by consultant John Pike - particularly well known for highly detailed information on military equipment and systems
http://www.globalsecurity.org/


Extensive Library of US Army Field Manuals
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/


Country Studies - Country Studies/Area Handbook Series Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress and sponsored by the Army, with describing the historical setting, geography, society, economy, political system, and foreign policy of various country/regions
http://countrystudies.us/


CIA World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/


Food by Country Index
http://www.foodbycountry.com/index.html


"Neglected Crops" - examination of lesser known staple crops on the Americas published by the UN FAO
http://www.fao.org/docrep/t0646e/T0646E00.htm


FAO Country Pasture/Forage Resource Profile
http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/Counprof/regions/index.htm


FAO Grassland species database (lots of crop species data)
http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/GBASE/Default.htm



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