No Place Like Homebrew – RPG Worldbuilding Toolkit

For when your players go somewhere you absolutely did not prepare.

Building a homebrew world doesn't have to mean inventing an entire civilization before anyone rolls a die.

No Place Like Homebrew from Roll & Play Press is a 252-page hardcover collection of ready-to-use settlements, factions, NPCs, monsters, and more, created to help Game Masters build richer worlds—or quickly find something interesting when the adventure takes an unexpected turn.

Use it while planning your next campaign, pull it out when you need inspiration mid-session, or borrow individual pieces to fill the unexplored corners of a world you've already created.

Build a World One Piece at a Time

Inside you'll find hundreds of ideas designed to drop into an existing fantasy RPG campaign.

Need a settlement?

A faction with its own agenda?

An NPC your players suddenly insist on interviewing at length?

A monster you definitely knew was living in those woods all along?

There's something here to work with.

Rather than presenting long blocks of lore you have to untangle before using, entries are divided into bite-sized, color-coded sections designed for quick scanning and easy reference.

Plan Ahead—or Improvise at the Table

No Place Like Homebrew works just as well during campaign prep as it does beside the GM screen.

Use it to:

Build settlements & communities

Create factions and conflicts

Populate your world with memorable NPCs

Find monsters and encounters

Add unexpected details to familiar places

Improvise when the party wanders gloriously off course

Take an idea exactly as written, modify it to fit your setting, combine several entries into something new, or simply use the book to get your imagination moving again.

System-Neutral Ideas + 5e Monsters

Most of the book's worldbuilding content is system neutral, making it adaptable to a wide range of fantasy role-playing games.

For D&D players, the book also includes new 5e monster stat blocks ready to bring into play.

That combination makes it useful beyond a single campaign or rules system: the places, people, factions, and ideas can travel wherever your next game does.

Why We Love It

It solves an actual GM problem. You cannot prepare everything. Your players will prove this.

It's designed to be used, not just admired. Color coding, bite-sized entries, and clear organization make it possible to find inspiration quickly—even during a session.

You don't have to adopt someone else's entire world. Take one settlement. Steal a faction. Borrow an NPC. Leave everything else behind.

It supports improvisation. Some of the best tabletop moments begin immediately after the players do something nobody anticipated.

Book Details

Title: No Place Like Homebrew
Type: RPG worldbuilding & Game Master resource
Format: Hardcover
Size: A4
Pages: 252
Content: Settlements, factions, NPCs, monsters & worldbuilding inspiration
Rules: Primarily system neutral, with new 5e monster stat blocks
Language: English
Release date: February 2026
Publisher: Roll & Play Press
Written by: Sam Bartlett, Beth Davies & Destiny Howell
Designed by: Sam Bartlett
Illustrations by: Toby Fox, Andreas Rocha, Samantha B. Lucas, Mat Wilma, Zeljka Dobras, Jog Brogzin, Ernanda Souza & Rafa Teruel
Manufactured in: China

About Roll & Play Press

Roll & Play Press creates practical, imagination-fueling resources for tabletop role-playing games, with a particular knack for turning the enormous job of Game Mastering into something more approachable. Their books are designed to help GMs generate ideas, improvise confidently, and spend less time searching for what they need when everyone at the table is waiting to see what happens next.

Of course there was always a village over that hill.