r/worldbuilding Wiki
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The community-maintained wiki of the r/worldbuilding subreddit, collecting curated lists of guides, tools, mapmaking resources, and reference material on geography, cultures, languages, and magic systems. A starting index for finding vetted material on any specific aspect of building a fictional setting.
More resources on Worldbuilding
Mythcreants
Long-running craft blog and podcast by Chris Winkle and Oren Ashkenazi, analyzing story structure, worldbuilding, character arcs and common failure modes in published speculative fiction. Posts diagnose why specific scenes work or collapse, giving writers repeatable revision criteria.
World Anvil
Web platform for organizing a fictional world in linked wiki-style articles, with templates for characters, locations, religions, and organizations plus interactive maps and timelines. Helps writers and game masters keep a large setting consistent and searchable as it grows.
BYU Lectures on Fantasy Writing
Learn worldbuilding from Brandon Sanderson's BYU lectures! Explore fantasy writing techniques to craft immersive, believable worlds.
Conlangery
Long-running monthly podcast about constructed languages in which linguistically literate hosts discuss phonology, morphology, syntax and writing systems, often using natural languages as models. Listeners gain a working vocabulary of linguistic typology and practical techniques for designing a coherent invented language.
Brandon Sanderson's Writing Lecture Series (2025, BYU 318R)
Sixteen filmed sessions of Brandon Sanderson's BYU English 318R course on writing science fiction and fantasy, covering plot, character, magic systems, short fiction, revision and the publishing business, with guest lecturers from inside the industry. The most-cited free SFF craft course in existence. It is an actual accredited university semester, not a content channel: 16 hour-long sessions on plot, character, worldbuilding, short fiction, revision and the business, plus guest lectures from agents and indie publishers. It anchors the entire topic and makes several paid 'learn to write fantasy' products redundant.
Creative Writing: The Craft of Setting and Description
In this course aspiring writers will be introduced to the techniques that masters of fiction use to ground a story in a concrete world. From the most realist settings to the most fantastical, writers will learn how to describe the physical world in sharp, sensory detail. We will also learn how to build credibility through research, and to use creative meditation exercises to deepen our own understanding of our story worlds, so that our readers can see all that we imagine.