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- Explorations v3 World Building Tools - Build your custom hi-res landscapes, walls, buildings, and dungeons with Explorations World Building Tools.
- Fargoth World Building Project - Features some nice maps, graphics and political information with original races, monsters, and flora and fauna. A generic gaming world for all systems. A mailing list is available for would-be collaborators.
- Pisces - Site and message board for a collaborative world building project.
- World Building - Contains mainly links to world design related articles and pointers to interesting sites.
- Qaiyore - Qaiyore is a continent in the world of Celandra: the Unyielding Land, a game world based on the Fudgified Interactive History (FIH) system. Players take the roles of societies, rather than playing individual characters. Emphasis is placed on developing a detailed history and cultures for Qaiyore, along with myths and legends.
- Celandra - the Unyielding Land - A world in which 4 PBEMs occur simultaneously, in each the players play the role of societies, rather than single characters, and the purpose of the game is to plot the way of those societies through time, as well as to develop them and the campaign world further.
- Fantasy World Building - Step-by-step tutorial for setting design, based on establishing a "world vision" for its cultural/geographic regions.
- World Building - An example of designing a planet, from basic physical assumptions to geography to weather systems and archeological remains.
- Abrigon - Discussion list for an iron age setting in which supertechnology simulates the effects of magic.
- Dead Dragon Society - A community of game developers, authors, and roleplayers engaged in construction of a shared fantasy world for use with the d20 system. New participants are encouraged.
Wikipedia Articles
- New York World Building - The New York World Building was a skyscraper in New York City designed by George Browne Post and built in 1890 to house the now defunct paper, The New York World. The height of the building in stories is disputed, with estimates ranging from the 26 stories claimed by The World to ...
- World Organisation of Building Officials - World Organsiaton of Building Officials (WOBO) is the global association of building officials that promote the interests and technical standards of building officials. An association with the United Nations is to act as a clearing house of technical information on behalf of member states.
- Building officials - Building officials of developed countries are generally referred to as administering building control systems that are mostly defined in statute. According to World Organisation of Building Officials, there were two distinct levels of building officials: (1) the professionally-qualified building controls administrators, who are technically and/or professionally competent in examining design documents for compliance with the Building Codes ...
- World Bank Building, Asmara - The World Bank Building of Asmara, Eritrea is a large old Italian villa which was bought by the world bank to house its headquarters in that country. It is an impressive mixture of Futurist and Art Deco architectural styles.
- List of tallest buildings and structures in the world - While determining the world's tallest structure has generally been straightforward, the definition of the world's tallest building or the world's tallest tower is less clear. The disputes generally centers on what should be counted as a building or a tower, and what is being measured.