INTRODUCTION:
Well, I've been talking about building worlds for nearly six months. So, I figure its time to take a look at how I used my own advice to create my own original setting and story: Xai, Tales of the Crossworld. For those of you who've mulled over my comments and those of you creating your own worlds, I hope my experience can help - I've built worlds before, but on Xai, I put all I'd learned together, and learned a lot more.

(Also, the Xai site, was insturmental in helping me write the webbing parts of this column.)

STARTING OUT:
Xai started out innocently with, not a world, but two characters in an online role-playing ...

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