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If your carefully crafted world looks great on paper but falls apart the moment the dice hit the table, you've missed the critical connection between lore and play. Good campaign worlds are not built to be admired; they are built to be experienced. This video breaks down the three essential scales every Dungeon Master must master to create a world that is consistent, consequential, and feels profoundly real to your players. We dive deep into why the scales matter in a specific, non-negotiable order: The Three Scales of Consistent Worldbuilding The Cosmology (Scaffolding): The furthest zoom-out. This is the realm of creation myths, gods, and primal forces. We discuss why, at this level, truth is optional but belief is mandatory. The cosmology is the foundational framework that dictates why magic works, where monsters come from, and why your world is possible. The World (Consequence): This is where abstract ideas turn into tangible mechanics. Your cosmology’s fingerprints shape geography, ecology, trade, and war. At this scale, you decide what makes your world fundamentally different from a generic fantasy backdrop. The Characters (Reality): The only scale your players truly interact with. This is where the grand, unseen structures of your world and cosmology shape a character’s daily reality—from what laws are enforced to why the local innkeeper treats certain races differently. The larger scales exist to make these local details feel inevitable, not arbitrary. We illustrate the power of this method with two radical case studies, showing how a single cosmological decision can violently reshape the cultural experience of every single character class at the table without changing a single rule: World 1: The Artificial World: What if your fantasy world is a constructed habitat, and magic is omnipresent nanotech infrastructure? How does this redefine a cleric's faith and a wizard's spellbook? World 2: The World-God: What if the entire planet is a single, living divine organism? How does the total absence of metal reshape society, and what does it mean to be a paladin sworn to an immunological protocol? Stop building mountains of unseen lore. Learn to build wide for consistency, build deep for realism, and then show your players only what affects their goals, safety, and identity. Settle back, grab yourself a tasty beverage, it’s time to get deeply nerdy. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro: The problem with most worldbuilding 1:35 - Why scale is the answer 3:01 - Scale 1: The Cosmology 6:50 - Scale 2: The World & Consequence 10:45 - Scale 3: The Characters & Reality 14:00 - Case Study 1: The Artificial World 20:15 - Case Study 2: The World-God 26:05 - Conclusion: The balance of worldbuilding Follow AJ Pickett: Twitter (X): @AJPickett1 Become a Fourthwall Hero: https://aj-pickett-ehc-shop.fourthwall.com/ Join the Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/HP8wgrq Pickett #TabletopRPG
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