Unlock Your Worldbuilding Potential with James D'Amato's Ultimate RPG Game Master's Guide

That One Guy: This book is aimed at creating ttrpg game worlds but is a good starting place for world-building for any medium. Whether one decides to follow the exercises or not the prompts and questions are excellent for getting the creative juices flowing. Recommended for anyone interested in creating their own world.

United States on Aug 08, 2023

Alex K.: Es ist ein hilfreiches Werkzeug, dass einen beim Worldbuilding unterstützen kann. Aber eben auch nicht mehr. Wer eine Inspirationsquelle hier erwartet wird vermutlich etwas enttäsucht sein, da es lediglich wichtige Fragestellungen und Aufgaben liefert um ein Horror, Fantasy, Sci-Fi oder x-Punk Szenario interessant zu gestalten. Und diesen zweck erfüllt das Buch meiner Meinung nach ganz gut.

Germany on Mar 03, 2023

Erin Ruston: Good beginner guide with a few tips that even experienced folks can onboard.

United States on Dec 29, 2022

Philipp Kowalski: ich habe dieses Buch gebraucht gekauft, aber selbst dafür ist das Buch in einer schlechten Qualität. Deckel deutlich eingeknickt, meines Erachtens ist auch der geklebte Rücken des Taschenbuchs gebrochen, was leider dazu führt, dass das Buch nicht mehr richtig geschlossen daliegt.

Der Inhalt is auch überaus mäßig. Sehr viele Wiederholungen, gerade der Fantasy Teil dreht sich fast einzig und allein um Magie. Sehr langweilig, denn das war nicht der Sinn und Zweck dieses Buches. Die anderen Bücher des Autors sind deutlich besser und das hatte ich mir auch hier erhofft.

Germany on May 05, 2022

M. Baar: Wer sich mit Worldbuilding im Bereich Rollenspiel beschäftigt, findet hier gute Anhaltspunkte und Ideen. Das Buch kratzt manchmal zwar nur an der Oberfläche gewisser Themen, aber es soll ja auch mehr ein Hilfe sein um eigene Ansätze zu finden, die man dann selbst weiter ausarbeiten kann.

Germany on Feb 16, 2022

Amazon Customer: Woah. I wish I had his Ultimate Amazon Review Guide.

I'm new to DMing. But not new to world building. I've always had ideas sprout up in little colorful flairs. Then I would have then sit in a notebook with nowhere for them to go. This book, it gives you the oomph to expand on your ideas. It has consistently gotten me out of ruts. And the best part is you can use the same prompts in the book and get different results, because your story and your world is unique. This guide is simply that. A guide. Yet it brings out so much flavor in your stories you wish you knew was there from the beginning.

Can't recommend enough. Check out his other books. And his podcasts if you get a chance. The star wars campaign stands as my favorite piece of star wars content in existence.

United States on Sep 24, 2021

Kruudelis: As a fan of D'amato's for many years, I can say that he has truly made a wonder collection of prompts and exercises to kickstart setting design. Great for RPGs homebrew settings, and I'd even go as far as to say it's a great resource for setting design for any medium, be it writing or what have you. The wonderful thing is you can pick and choose how deep you want to go with these questions, but no matter what he still helps you develop a more fully fleshed out sense of what sort of world you're creating.

Canada on Jul 02, 2021

dbw08a: This book is stocked with various exercises to build numerous world details for all sorts of settings! And if the setting of your focus isn’t included? It’s not that difficult to use an exercise from another genre or from the genre-free section! The exercises are simple and walk you through the process step-by-step. And this book doesn’t just need to be used during Session 0 or your planning stage. Have the heroes found a magic item in the lich’s lair? Bust this book out and build the magic item together! Your adventurers are arriving in a new land? Time to look up the Five Factions exercise to populate this new country with giver unique organizations with their own ambitions and goals! Make sure to do the exercises with another person or group of people! Use the prompts and ideas of other people to give yourself an extremely unique and compelling fictional world! This book will appear for EVERY ttrpg campaign I run from now on (and may very well make more than one appearance depending on if we need to build up a new aspect of the world).

United States on Jun 30, 2021

Amazon Customer: Just finished absolutely devouring this book in less than a week! Been a fan of James' writing since even before I started listening to his podcasts and both are a consistent delight. I've started dipping my toe into the waters of running RPGs recently and I will most definitely be using this book as a tool to help me more confidently do so. Absolutely love that it's broken down by genre so it's easy to reference for your campaign style of choice, and the various exercises in each chapter have highlighted a lot of things I haven't even thought of. Highly recommend for current and aspiring GMs, as well as anyone who just loves thinking up worlds for fun and profit. And if you're hungry for more, I definitely recommend checking out James' One Shot and Campaign podcasts to see his worldbuilding in action!

United States on Jun 16, 2021

Ben Beckinsale: James D'amato is some one I will buy from again and again due to his insights, as well as his absolute mission to improve everyone's RPG sessions. This one's for the world builders and it delivers.

United Kingdom on Jun 14, 2021