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Tome of Worldbuilding

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Companion volume to the Tome of Adventure Design and The Nomicon, Tome of Worldbuilding is a system-neutral tool for designing fantasy worlds for TTPRG gaming. The book contains hundreds of random generation tables and other resources!

The Tome of World Building is written by ENNIE-award winning author Matt Finch, author of the critically-acclaimed Tome of Adventure Design. Using the Tome of World Building, you can create fantasy worlds quickly and fill them out with a wealth of detail from the random-generation tables in this book.

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David P July 08, 2025 3:17 am UTC
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Heard shipments start soon. Safe to say print copies will be through Mythmere?
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Josh F June 03, 2025 12:26 am UTC
just waiting on a physical run of this and the Nomicon to go with my tomb of adventure. No clue why they cant produce a printed version. requirements are beyond met.
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Douglas G May 17, 2025 4:07 pm UTC
Will another print run happen soon for this? I'd like to have a physical copy too.
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Chris C May 18, 2025 10:32 pm UTC
Me too
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Dr Ryan R May 29, 2025 2:33 pm UTC
Me three!
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Lesley N April 01, 2025 6:40 am UTC
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Sooo I bought the pdf

My thoughts

I wont 'enjoy' doing it, but the black side bars uhg, that's a bad design idea. I likely will crop them off of all 350 pages.
Might have seemed like a good idea to someone, but not me. Ugly not to mention ink gulping. Of course I get my pdfs professionally printed. But it's still ugly. I won't miss them.

Otherwise I'm pleased
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Lesley N April 01, 2025 6:16 am UTC
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Weeeeeell, I have seen Tome of Adventure Design. That's a stunning exhausting substational piece of work.

I'm guessing after looking at the table of contents here, it will be on par.

I likely won't be able to afford a someday hardcover.
But 28 isn't too high, and I kinda like this sort of book.
Might as well get it before I waste my money somewhere else :)
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Vincent P March 18, 2025 8:15 pm UTC
Is there any chance to ever see it in french ?
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Matthew F March 25, 2025 4:40 pm UTC
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It's not likely, but we're not against doing translations. There isn't a plan for this, though.
Matt
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Eric S March 17, 2025 3:11 am UTC
how many pages? TOC. for $20 it would be good info to know :)

I guess this was a kickstarter I didn't know. here the link has some very small samples https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adventuredesigntome/tome-of-worldbuilding
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John U March 19, 2025 7:23 pm UTC
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PDF is 354 including covers and endpapers (349 without)
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jonathan C March 08, 2025 10:14 pm UTC
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When will the nomicon drop? waiting on that pdf desperately.
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Matthew F March 09, 2025 2:32 pm UTC
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Soon, but it's still in layout.
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jonathan C March 15, 2025 8:21 am UTC
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any eta now that the nomicon has been dropped and when it will end up here for purchase?
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Nick S March 08, 2025 3:28 am UTC
The chapters looks very interesting, however the main font is too small/thin for my taste.
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Daniel E March 07, 2025 11:44 pm UTC
Will the physical edition be available to purchase soon? I missed the funding period.
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Matthew F March 08, 2025 3:09 pm UTC
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It will be available eventually through our website (and possibly POD here), but we are at the very early phase at this point. The books haven't been printed yet, and the Kickstarter backers need to get their books before we open it up for retail sale. So the answer is that it will be available but not soon.
Matt
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Matthew F March 07, 2025 6:08 pm UTC
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Sorry about the previews not being visible; I could have sworn they were enabled, but they weren't. They should be visible now.
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March 25, 2025 4:40 am UTC
Still no preview option. This looks awesome, but I'd like to see a bit before purchasing.
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Douglas H March 07, 2025 6:17 am UTC
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I did the kickstarter for this thing. It's massive. So incredibly dense in information. Between this and the Tome of Adventure Design, I have to wonder that if one were to look iin Matt Finch's ear one would see an infinity of swirling galaxies and worlds. I can't wait for the Nomicon to drop.

Once again, Finch has given the world a masterwork!
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Ezra S March 06, 2025 6:15 pm UTC
A bit of preview will do good
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Robert R March 07, 2025 1:12 am UTC
Yes, I agree. It needs a preview.
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