Weekly Digest: Transportation
Haly examines transportation and travel by mundane, magical, and futuristic means; a double dose of Ask the Bard worldbuilding advice, and an interview with Chris Lontok, aka kitoypoy!
Transportation and Travel
The evolution of transportation is all about people seeking to get themselves and their stuff from place to place with the least effort possible. In short, we want to move everything in one trip as quickly as can be done. How this is accomplished is often a combination of environment and motivation.
Don’t forget, the most efficient mode of transportation will be the most popular, but other forms will still exist for both novelty and special circumstances. Busses and cars exist, but people still walk. Bicycles are efficient, but people have fun with unicycles.
Next Week
I’m really excited to share that next week I will be addressing a topic that many of you have been requesting: Magic. Across all fantasy genres, from medieval to urban, magic is used to bring a sense of wonder to the setting as well as provide opportunities for both problems and solutions within a plot.
I’ll go into how to craft a magic system from the ground up, making sure your magic is balanced, and even give you my own two cents on the hard vs. soft magic system debate.
