Creative Services
Give Your World Stronger Foundations
Focused worldbuilding and character-development services for fantasy authors, game masters, and independent creators.
Build With Purpose
Your Ideas Deserve More Than Filler
A compelling fantasy setting is more than a collection of names and locations. Its history shapes its cultures. Its conflicts affect its characters. Its magic creates possibilities—and consequences.
Lewis B. Douglas helps creators examine those connections and turn promising ideas into foundations that are clearer, more consistent, and easier to develop.
Starter Services
Choose the Foundation You Need
Every project begins with a written inquiry. Scope, deliverables, timing, and price are confirmed before work begins.
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Worldbuilding Consultation and Lore Brief
For creators who have a promising setting but need help connecting its history, cultures, conflicts, magic, factions, or locations.
Possible areas of focus
- Setting history and major events
- Cultures, nations, factions, or faiths
- Magic or power-system foundations
- Locations and environmental storytelling
- Internal consistency and contradictions
- Adventure hooks and sources of conflict
What you receive
A structured written lore brief covering the agreed areas, observations about strengths or contradictions, and practical directions for continued development.
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Fantasy Character Foundation
For authors and game masters who need a character with stronger motives, history, relationships, internal conflict, and room to grow.
Possible areas of focus
- Personal history and formative events
- Goals, fears, needs, and contradictions
- Relationships and sources of tension
- Voice, temperament, and behavior
- Connection to the surrounding world
- Story, campaign, or growth opportunities
What you receive
A structured character foundation document designed to support fiction, campaigns, NPC development, or continued creative planning.
A Good Fit If You…
- Have ideas but need help organizing or connecting them
- Want constructive, honest creative feedback
- Care about consistency, consequences, and believable motivations
- Enjoy collaboration while retaining ownership of your project
- Can communicate goals and respond to written questions
Probably Not a Fit If You…
- Want someone to imitate a living author’s exact style
- Expect copied material from an existing franchise
- Need a full novel or game completed immediately
- Want praise without constructive observations
- Expect work to begin before scope and expectations are agreed upon
The Process
From First Message to Finished Foundation
1
Inquiry
Tell Lewis about your project, goals, and the areas where you need support.
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Scope
The deliverables, boundaries, price, communication method, and schedule are agreed upon.
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Creation
Lewis reviews the material, develops the agreed foundation, and communicates any important questions.
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Delivery
You receive the completed document and any included follow-up or revision defined in the agreement.
Clear Expectations Protect Good Work
Written communication is the default so ideas, decisions, and expectations remain clear. Only a limited number of projects are accepted at once, allowing each client’s work to receive proper attention.
You retain ownership of your original project. Any confidentiality requirements, credit arrangements, and permitted portfolio use will be discussed before work begins.
Tell Me About Your World
Share what you’re creating, where you feel stuck, and what kind of foundation would help you move forward.
