Carl's Civ 5 Guide
for Civ 5 Complete, Gods & Kings, and Brave New World DLC

Civilization 5 Specialists and Great People

Writer Specialist Guide for Brave New World

Civilization 5 Specialist and Great Person Strategy Guides
ArtistMusicianWriterScientistEngineer
MerchantGreat ArtistGreat MusicianGreat WriterGreat Scientist
Great EngineerGreat MerchantGreat ProphetGreat GeneralGreat Admiral

Writers
A Civ 5 Writer Specialist generates GPP toward a Great WriterWriters are used to provide +3 Culture and +3 GPP toward a Great Writer for your Civilization. These can be used to create Great Works of Writing or Create Political Treatise, providing long-term Culture and Tourism or a one-shot injection of Culture into your Civilization. This Guide to the Writer Specialist will teach you about the buildings that give you the slots to recruit Writers and the buildings you can construct to house the Great Works of Writing these Writers produce.

Buildings with Writer Specialist Slots
Any Unique Buildings Carry the Same Slots but Better Bonuses
SlotsBuildingBuilding BonusTech to Unlock
2Writers' Guild+1 GPP flat toward Great WriterDrama & Poetry


Housing Great Works of Writing

Since you are using Writer Specialists, you'll inevitably want to store Great Works of Writing when Great Writers are born. Here are the various Buildings, National Wonders, and World Wonders that contain that type of Work and the others they can hold.

Buildings and Wonders with Great Work of Writing Slots
Any Unique Buildings Carry the Same Slots but Better Bonuses
Building/WonderSlotsUnlock Building
Amphitheater1Drama and Poetry Tech
Great Library2Wonder. Writing Tech
Globe Theatre2Wonder. Printing Press Tech
National Epic1National Wonder. Philosophy Tech, Monument all Cities
Heroic Epic1National Wonder. Iron Working Tech, Barracks all Cities
Oxford University2National Wonder. Education Tech


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