World Builder Projects:
Starting place for information on how to build an imaginary setting.
http://hiddenway.tripod.com/world/
Patricia C. Wrede's Worldbuilder Questions:
Advice on creating a believable fantasy world, with a particular eye
toward crucial yet easily overlooked details.
http://www.io.com/~eighner/world_builder/world_builder_index.html
World Building:
Contains mainly links to world design related articles and pointers
to interesting sites.
http://www.hut.fi/~vesanto/world.build.html
Rich Staats' RPG / World Building Articles:
Many interesting original and adapted articles of all aspects of
gaming worlds, with much of interest to world builders.
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/9329/staats2.htm
World Builders:
A website supporting a world building distance education course.
Reference material, lessons, downloads, and sample worlds.
http://curriculum.calstatela.edu/courses/builders/
Redragon's World Builder Resources:
This site hosts a message board and contains hundreds of reference
links useful in all aspects of world creation.
http://www.smartabase.com.au/fracturedlands
World Building:
An example of designing a planet, from basic physical assumptions to
geography to weather systems and archeological remains.
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/world_building
Guidelines For Creating Magic Systems:
Compiled suggestions and discussions about the design of magic
systems for roleplaying games and literature. Applicable to all
genres.
http://www.hut.fi/~vesanto/link.useful/MagicHtmls/magic.html