Is it only for high fantasy settings?

No, the frameworks are adaptable for various sub-genres including Urban Fantasy, Low Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, and even science-fantasy settings.

Does this skill help with character development?

While focused on world-building, it provides the vital social, historical, and cultural context necessary for creating characters that feel deeply integrated into their environment.

How does it help avoid genre cliches?

The skill includes specific warnings and strategies to avoid 'Planet of Hats' tropes, default medieval European settings, and the 'Chosen One' narrative trap.

Can it help design hard magic systems?

Yes, it specifically follows Sanderson's Laws of Magic to help you create systems with clear rules, specific limitations, and meaningful costs.

Fantasy World Building

Name: Fantasy World Building
Author: Microck

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Gestión de Contenido

Provides structured frameworks and best practices for creating immersive fantasy worlds, magic systems, and fictional societies.

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The Fantasy World Building skill equips Claude with specialized knowledge to help authors, game designers, and world-builders create cohesive and immersive fictional settings. It implements established literary principles like Sanderson’s Laws of Magic to guide the creation of consistent magic systems, detailed historical timelines, and diverse fictional cultures. By using this skill, users can ensure their worlds are internally consistent, avoid common genre tropes, and maintain a balance between mystery and mechanical clarity.

Características Principales

Frameworks for designing geography, ecology, and integrated societal structures
Strategies for organic information reveal to avoid exposition dumps
Implementation of Sanderson’s Laws of Magic for balanced system design
Guidelines for creating non-human races and magical creatures with biological and cultural depth
81 GitHub stars
Three-generation historical depth mapping to provide narrative weight

Casos de Uso

Developing a consistent geopolitical landscape for a tabletop RPG campaign
Designing a hard magic system with clear rules and consequences for a novel
Creating diverse cultures and histories to move beyond standard genre tropes

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Características Principales

Frameworks for designing geography, ecology, and integrated societal structures
Strategies for organic information reveal to avoid exposition dumps
Implementation of Sanderson’s Laws of Magic for balanced system design
Guidelines for creating non-human races and magical creatures with biological and cultural depth
81 GitHub stars
Three-generation historical depth mapping to provide narrative weight

Casos de Uso

Developing a consistent geopolitical landscape for a tabletop RPG campaign
Designing a hard magic system with clear rules and consequences for a novel
Creating diverse cultures and histories to move beyond standard genre tropes