Already out of date. My reference materials were on Geocities, unfortunately, which went away. I'll update the links soon, but if you google for accrete, you'll find the star generator that I use.

These are the notes from my World Building panel at FurFright 2009. It's my attempt to get people to think about what makes up a world, how it's driven, and how you can go about making things work using principles of astrophysics. This is by no means a complete methodology, but it's engineered to get one started and to get the brain working and thinking about starstuff and how to spin it to your needs or to make something interesting.

My panel was during the Fursuit Parade. :P Still, I had a dozen people listening and I heard brains click in. It was amazing.

I plan to improve this and try the panel again in 2010 at Furfright. I may give this at other conventions too.