Young Writers Society

Hii guys!

I'm doing some worldbuilding en masse for a bunch of locations and characters. I want to brainstorm and have them exist to add flavour to the story and be available as a creative archive, but since none of them will play any kind of significance to the plot I don't really want to spend too much time developing them.

I was wondering if anybody had any recommendations of questionnaires or templates that might be of use?

I don't use templates or questionnaires myself, so sadly, I don't have any to recommend.

Some things I do consider for my own worldbuilding are things like climate, number of ethnic groups, population distribution, is there plumbing, and such.

Side characters get a basic physical description, occupation, and perhaps a quirk or two that sets them apart from the others of their occupation.

Not quite a template/questionnaire, but I have in the past used Patricia C Wrede's worldbuilding questions as a resource, and you could probably derive a template from those. There are various mirrors around, but here's the first one that came up on Google: http://www.sfwa.org/2009/08/fantasy-wor ... questions/