This is the most comprehensive, step-by-step process on how to create an amazing, original species/race in 2 months or less, without being overwhelmed or unsure how to get it done.
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In 2 months or less
Here’s a Breakdown of Each Module
Module: About the Course
- The course goals
- How the course is laid out
- The count of video lessons, quizzes, and assignments included, and course length
- Who the ideal students are and what sets them apart
- About the instructor
- How the course templates and assignments are set up
- About the course bonuses and how to access them
Module: Reasons to Invent a Species/Race
- Reasons to invent our own species or race (this may include reasons you haven’t thought of)
- Why our species will be compared to others
- What is mandatory to invent and what is optional
Module: Names and Nicknames
- What makes some names better than others
- Ways in which names can be worse than we think and how to avoid pitfalls
- How we can use names to associate a species with its races
- The impressions and traits of names
- Tricks for how to invent nicknames
Module: When to call it a Species or Race
- What a species is
- What a race is
- Why the amount of difference between two humanoids helps determine which word to use
- Why it matters if two lifeforms are from the same planet or not, regarding which term to use
- How dwarfism on Earth (among humans) is different from fantasy dwarfism
- Whether the ability to interbreed matters for our choice
- How using a hierarchy of both terms can promote understanding of our life form(s) and setting
- My recommendations on when to use each term (or both!)
Module: Determining Disposition
- Why “good” and “evil” is an oversimplification but why it’s done on purpose
- What “good” and “evil” can mean
- The merits of one-dimensional dispositions
- Why having species that are uniformly good or evil is not the best option
- Why they might be uniformly good or evil
- Why more complexity in disposition is good
- Why a “good” species is more useful and how to make an “evil” species more comparable
- How to use races of a species to create more variety
Module: Their Source of Fame
- We’ll look at some reasons our species or race might be famous
- The types of items they can and cannot use
- Travel considerations for non-humanoids
- The benefits of humanoids
- Pros and cons of non-humanoids
- How to combine them
Module: Whether They’re Humanoid or Not
- The types of items they can and cannot use
- Travel considerations for non-humanoids
- The benefits of humanoids
- Pros and cons of non-humanoids
- How to combine them
Module: Determining Their Habitat
- What impact a habitat might have on a species, including underground, under water, flying species, and forests
- The impact of climate on development
- Whether they only live in settlements of their own or also in those of other species, and the impact this has
- How to fill out the habitat section of the template
Module: Creating Humanoid Bodies
- Whether races and species should bear some resemblance to each other, how to achieve this, and how to utilize this
- Facial features to choose from
- Terms we shouldn’t use
- What aspects of the body we need to develop
Module: Creating Non-Humanoid Bodies
- We’ll look at considerations for how to create the body of a non-humanoid
- How climate can affect clothing choices
- How attitudes about nudity can impact clothing
- Style considerations
- What sorts of items and accessories to think about them using
- Body modifications to consider adding
Module: Determining Their Clothing
- How climate can affect clothing choices
- How attitudes about nudity can impact clothing
- Style considerations
- What sorts of items and accessories to think about them using
- Body modifications to consider adding
Module: Determining Their Senses
- Sight
- Hearing
- Feel
- Taste
- Smell
- Sixth sense(s)
- And how to determine if there’s anything different about these based on what we’ve created so far, such as habitat and their bodies
Module: Determining Their Physical Traits
- Agility
- Dexterity
- Constitution
- Strength
- And how to determine these based on habitat and their body
Module: The Sixth Sense(s)
- Telepathy
- Clairvoyance
- Psychometry
- Precognition
- Mediumship
- And why a species may have one of these abilities, based on habitat, body, and lifestyle
Module: Determining Their Mental Traits
- Charisma
- Intelligence
- Morale
- Wisdom
Module: Determining Their Gods
- How traits can be used to chose or invent gods, including detailed examples
- The impact of already having gods (or not) on choosing ones for this species
- How to associate the species with religions
Module: Language Considerations
- Whether there’s a common language and who it originated from
- Language proficiency levels and how we can leverage this
- Writing systems we can employ (alphabetic, logographic, pictograms, ideagrams)
- What direction a language is written in and why
- How to use species characteristics to determine what language characteristics
Module: Creating Relationships with Family
- How long a species lives and the impact on outlook
- Family size and its potential impact
- Child rearing and who participates
- Expectations of teenagers
- Whether military service or taking over a family business is expected
- Major milestones we can leverage
- Species attitudes about various family subjects like marriage, monogamy, and more
Module: Creating Family Names
- The difference between a given name and surname
- When, how, and why each is chosen
- How compound surnames work
- The flexibility we have in choosing name order
- Mistakes and clichés to avoid
- Techniques for creating names
Module: Determining Customs
- What customs are and aren’t
- The effect of following or not following customs
- The types of customs we should invent as world builders
- Real world greetings and dining customs to leverage
- How to use your species characteristics, developed in an earlier lesson, to influence customs you invent
Module: Creating Civilizations
- The goals of governance so we can decide if our species desires this, and if they’re capable of it
- Whether they create settlements and what they’re like
- Whether they live in settlements created by others and how to decide
- Whether they form settlements with other species and how to decide
- Four major types of sovereign powers our species might form and the traits that would lead them to choose one
Module: Creating Relationships with Other Species
- How humans view your species
- How your species view humans
- How to do human commentary with your species/race
- When there are two races of a species, how to determine their interactions
- Techniques to creating relationships between species/races
Module: Relationships with the Supernatural
- How mental and physical traits impact a species’ relationship with the supernatural
- What to consider when deciding how they deal with magic, phenomena, and gods
Module: Relationships with Technology
- Different technologies to consider in both fantasy and science fiction settings
- Which personal traits (mental and physical) impact the ability to both create and use technologies
- How species can acquire tech they can’t create and the impact on relations between species
Module: Determining Combat Skills
- A look at what kinds of weapons are impacted by your body and which ones aren’t
- How physical and mental traits can be used to decide combat styles
- What weapons act as equalizers, making the weak strong
- When weapons designed for another species can be used by this one
- Attitudes often shown about combat
- Natural weapons and defenses some species may have and how to decide on this
Module: Creating History
- Their origins and where else they’ve relocated to to understand which civilization of them is oldest and newest
- Government changes, why these happen, and the impact they have
- Wars between species, race, and sovereign powers
- Inventions and discoveries they’ve made
- Significant events and characters