Worldbuilding 101 - Part 7: Welcome to my parlour...

To finish off the spider's web of relationship maps, here are the remaining five locations in the main city of El Puerto de Isabella.






If I were going to run a game of Walkabout, this is where I'd leave the worldbuildng. Since the characters travel from town to town on their quest to balance the spiritual disharmony in the world, there is little point getting into too much more detail for a single session. In a game where more sessions (or even the entire campaign) is based around a specific location, then a bit more care and attention may be required.

That's where we'll be heading next.

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