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Worldbuilding
Characters
Meet new characters, share your own, and create believable souls together.
General Worldbuilding
All about creating new worlds, universes, and ideas: anything goes.
Planets
Far out worlds call for far out worldbuilding. What's in your galaxy?
Magic
Magicbuilding could have an entire site dedicated to it. But here’s a forum to start!
Lores
Share the legends, myths, fables, and tales that breathe life into your world.
Locations
Explore anywhere from downtown Kansas City to the furthest reaches of space.
Items
From legendary items to the most common things lying around your world, items encompass your world's *things*.
Races
Humans aren't the only race in a lot of worlds. Elves, dwarves, orcs, oh my! What races are in your world?
Food
People of all kinds eat and drink things of all kinds. Come eat, drink, and be merry!
Flora
The plants, flowers, trees, and other nature that paint a rich landscape in your world.
Creatures
Lions and tigers and dragons, oh my! Show off your beasts!
Religions
Building new religions for your world? Chat about deities, followers, rituals, texts, and more.
Technology
Sci-fi brothers, unite! This is the place for all your crazy awesome technologies.
Traditions
Holidays, superstitions, customs, and more. What traditions are there in your world?
Jobs
Get help with jobs you don't know much about, or talk about brand new jobs from your world.
Languages
Linguistics, phonotactics, vexillogy, scripts, and more! Are you constructing your own language?
Landmarks
Caves, waterfalls, ruins, mountains—whatever your world has. If it's a landmark, it belongs here.
Conditions
Good conditions, bad conditions, and more. What affects the characters in your world?
Schools
From Hogwarts to Walkerville to Brakebills, schools educate every new generation in our worlds.
Sports
Sports seem to naturally emerge in of every world. What crazy sports are in your world?
Governments
Every world’s got ‘em. Some worlds like them, and some certainly don’t. What’s The Man like in your world?
Writing
General Writing
We’re all writers here, and we all know the need to just chat about writing sometimes. Anything writing-related goes!
Sharing & Critiques
Share stories, snippets, and Notebook.ai pages to get feedback!
National Novel Writing Month
National Novel Writing Month is in November! Discuss your progress, find writing buddies, and talk all things NaNoWriMo.
Writing Prompts
Need a little writing fuel or warm-up? Browse tons of writing prompts here to write on, or share your own!
Plot Factory
Need some help with your plot? Trying to come up with a new one? Need to fix that one tiny problem? We can help!
Roleplaying
Limited
For one-on-one, small group, closed, or otherwise space-limited roleplaying.
Fandom World
For all roleplaying containing pre-created characters or places from books, movies, video games, etc.
Wildcard Roleplaying
See and live worlds through the eyes of your characters here. Any and all genres welcome!
Fantasy Tavern
Roleplays set in fantastical worlds, pretty different from our own. Find crazy beasts, magic, and more.
Beginner's Lounge
Never roleplayed before? Any genre goes, and beginners are very welcome!
Character Chats
From the point of view of your characters, this board was born for character chats and Q&As.
Realistic/Modern
For all contemporary roleplaying set in a world and time very similar to our own.
Futuristic
When your world is set in the future, it’s probably futuristic. Dystopias (and utopias) very welcome!
Genre Lounges
Romance
Boy meets Girl. Girl visits Notebook.ai forums. Boy does too.
Mixed bag
Everything else (even the other genres with lounges) — any genre goes here!
Science Fiction
When tech takes your story to the next level, discuss SF here.
Dungeons & Dragons
Roleplaying, campaigns, and other D&D stuff
Fantasy
Fantasy worlds full of magic, kingdoms, races, and more.
Historical
Worlds set in the good ol’ old times of the past
Thriller
Stories with suspense, anticipation, anxiety, and... thrills!
Mystery
For all kinds of mystery chats: detective, crime, whodunnit, and more.
Modern/urban
Stories set in our world — or at least an Earth-like world
Resources
Topic Q&A
Are you an expert in anything? Start a thread here about it and help others by letting them ask you questions!
Skillsharing
Requests/offers for your art, map-drawing, and other skills you can share with other worldbuilders.
Tutorials
Share your tips, tutorials, and guides on all things worldbuilding, writing, revising, and publishing.
Off-topic
General Chat
Come on in and introduce yourself! All are welcome for all kinds of chat!
Art
Painting, drawing, sculpting, sketching, photography, and more. Art lovers unite!
Video Games
What are you playing? Talk about it or find people to play with here.
Movies
See a movie you liked? Disliked? We probably saw it too; let's talk.
Music
Love music? So do we! Music lovers very welcome!
TV Shows
We know you love TV shows. Talk about them here!
Hobbies
What hobbies interest you?
Books
What's your favorite book? What are you reading now? What are you reading next?