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Do you have visions of fantasy world’s dancing through your head? Are you a gamemaster that wants to tell stories in your world? Are you a fiction writer who wants you next setting to be your best? Do you want to understand how fantasy worlds are made? Then this is the podcast for you. You are hereby invited! To join me on an epic adventure to explore topics on my worldbuilding podcast. Every Monday, Wednesday, Friday at midnight Eastern standard time. These shows will be specific topic about worldbuilding for 10-20 minutes.
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Feb 14, 2022

Today's Topic – When you use a hobby to block your passion

 

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WBT

Do the creative task you want to do

RW  Task

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Feb 14, 2022

Today's Topic – When you use a hobby to block your passion

 

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Feb 7, 2022

Today's Topic – How a common person can change the world

 

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  • The Role
    • Anyone who is one the road
  • How could a minor personal?
  • What is the job?
  • Why does it matter
  • Do they have family
  • Friends
  • How long are they gone
  • How much information and goods can they carry
  • They will help destroy the economy

WBT

Create a character to be a friend of your guard

RW  Task

Check in with your loved ones

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Jan 31, 2022

Today's Topic – A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!” And More if you can teleport

 

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  • Is the Tavern trope bad?
  • I know more about Mainly English travel. Japan and Arabic versions are being looked into
  • Surplus or Religion leads to Traveling for all peoples in the middle ages
  • Until Trains and massive ships changed it all again
  • Before long-distance travel was for the rich and their parties
    • Caravans if stuck on land, ships being preferred
  • Walking, Eating, Sleeping for the lower classes
    • Walking and maybe hitchhiking
      • 10 miles a day up to 40 for courier
      • Up to 6o miles by horse
    • Eating Travel food stews and porridge not 9 days old
      • Inn if in a larger town or at locals house (bed and breakfast)
      • Hunting and fishing might have local laws
        • Dog or Ferret
      • Camping or lodging
        • Inn if you could, private homes, barns, or empty stables
        • Under the thicket
      • How could this be affected in a fantasy setting
        • Good
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WBT

Think about your setting how far do people have to travel to work, How far can they go for fun

RW  Task

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Dec 19, 2021

Today's Topic – Part 2 on Worldbuilding culture nouns

 

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  • The parts of Culture
  • People Questions
    • Who are they?
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    • Where do they live?
    • When are they?
    • How do they live
    • Why do they exist?

WBT

Bring your people home

RW  Task

Widen The Window

 

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Dec 12, 2021

Today's Topic – Cultural Worldbuilding Nouns starter kit

 

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  • Not the Buddha’s training on virtue, mind, and wisdom
  • Not with Wasteland of the Aeil
  • My neither holy or unholy trinity of ideas that merge into an culture
  • The Collective, Beliefs, and Characters of a group of common people
    • The Collective is how I look at fantasy races or ethnicities
    • The Beliefs which can be religious or other important ideas
    • The Characters… see season 3
  • The Three parts working together create the cookie dough of culture.

WBT

Look at your main race, culture wargame changing major changes see the variations. Even character changes could be massive think of Greek culture with no alexander.

RW  Task

Level up some virtue, mind, or wisdom into your life Joy with the sitcom letterkenny

 

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Dec 5, 2021

Today's Topic – It’s the circle… the Circle of Culture

 

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  • Choose your cultural pill Red or Blue
  • The Red Truth – What is a Culture?
  • The Blue Truth – There is no Spoon… Culture only exist from the outside because it is believed to exist from within
  • A Culture Exist through argument between its parts
    • … To Be a real Member you must”
    • … We must be better by”
    • … We must remember”
    • …We must forget”
  • Culture is a Circle
    • There is not beginning or Ending
    • The idea culture is an illusion caused by the nature of it changing and consensus
    • No Beginning or End (Hopefully)
    • Rapid Changes are possible
    • Names Can Change new tribes can form
  • How to make it work
    • Treat cultures like Characters
    • Some or Static and Some are dynamic
    • Realize you can never finish them

WBT

If you have an epic story how would your main culture change

RW  Task

Little Changes for big problems

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Nov 28, 2021

Today's Topic –Steps to awakening your inner worldbuilder

 

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  • What is culture not
    • A state, nation, or tribe… but
    • Achievements of human another races achievement….
    • A batch of bacteria
  • What is culture?
    • the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.
    • A building block for another culture
    • A group of 2 or more people that share believes and ideas working together towards a collective goal.
    • A Venn diagram mosaic of smaller culture groups
  • Is Culture the Chicken or the Egg?
    • Games and Stories (at a VERY basic level)
    • A set of nouns we use to do something
  • How is it
  • 7 prongs of Worldbuilding Cultural Ladder
  • Social groups (RPG Game group)
  • Local group (City, village)
  • Region groups
  • Status Groups
  • Culture Ethnicity
  • Common Language Ethnicities
  • World Group

WBT

What is your main setting's cultural ladder?

RW  Task

Look at the artifacts in your life that have lead to your current believes

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Nov 21, 2021

Today's Topic – Clothing is not optional 

 

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  • You need to know them 
  • Stories or list or both 
  • +1/-1 from norm 
  • Meta and Extended 
  • Where are they? 
  • Now 
  • Are They from here 
  • Who Are they? 
  • Name 
  • Attributes 
  • Personality 
  • Quirks 
  • What is their voice 
  • What do they do? 
  • Class 
  • Skills (Physical, Mental, Social, and Vocational) 
  • What is character goal? 
  • Do they achieve it? 
  • When do they do it? 
  • When do they exist compared to the setting date 
  • How do they get it done? 
  • What is need to learn to reach the goal? 
  • How are they connected to the world? 
  • Allies and Enemies?  
  • How do they fit into the settings society? 
  • Is the setting society theirs? 
  • What is their status 
  • Why are they doing it? 
  • The Motivation 
  • Why are they doing what they are doing? 
  • Do they think their reason is the actual reason? 

 

WBT  

Find your Favorite characters in life and use it 

RW  Task 

Live in the present 

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Nov 14, 2021

Today's Topic – The making of a good feather duster… err character 

 

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  • Beyond the Meta  
  • We have lots of create episodes on character going back to at least episode 48 and 49 
  • We have talked, Traits and flaws, stories, backgrounds, create great detail and motivation.  
  • Talking characters one dimensional or complex and sometimes even flat 
  • Before we take a break on three we need to cover one more very important character concept, voice 
  • Voice is the finishing salt to a great character this leads from  
  • Hi to “do not mean to pry, but you don't by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand?” 
  • How does a character speak 
  • How intelligent is the character?  
  • How articulate 
  • Do they like speaking 
  • Refer to your characters background does it make sense? 
  • When does their expression break the rules 
  • How does it break the rules 

 

WBT  

Please find a voice for my character.  

RW  Task 

Use a smoothaive if needed.  Realize people you disagree with at not they enemy.  

 

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Nov 7, 2021

Today's Topic – He is Dangerous 

 

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  • Basic Meta Questions 
  • Who are they? – Important character in priest class 
  • What do they do? – Priest Growth, Rain, and Gender swap plus the rule makers  
  • Where are they? – 2 tier Central, and frog in the tree 
  • When do they do it?  – Run the island 
  • How do they get it done? –  They are bigger than any village 
  • Why are they doing it? – Leading 
  • Extended Meta 
  • Type of character? - ??? 
  • Depth of Character Round or Flat thanks Judy Blume Round – ???? 
  • Who is the character connected to? – Every village and the core priest 
  • How are they connected? – Religion 

WBT  

Caiaphas and his Toadie 

RW  Task 

Start the Sandman Comic, I am not sure of the author. 

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Nov 4, 2021

Today's Topic – Lightning not included 

 

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  • Basic Meta Questions 
  • Who are they? Bad boy, leads for self gratification 
  • What do they do?  - Leader the Hunger Empire 
  • Where are they? – From afar until act  
  • When do they do it?  – 2nd act and on 
  • How do they get it done? – Fear, and willingness 
  • Why are they doing it? – Prove themselves 
  • Extended Meta 
  • Type of character? - Static 
  • Depth of Character Round or Flat thanks Judy Blume Round – Flat 
  • Who is the character connected to? – Everyone in a bad way 
  • How are they connected? - Strife 

WBT  

Cut back on the meat 

RW  Task 

Soylent Green 

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Oct 17, 2021

Today's Topic – Let’s eat a Frog… or even a toad

 

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  • Basic Meta Questions
    • Who are they? – Warrior Leader (Veteran) She
    • What do they do? – Leader of Vanguard
    • Where are they? - on a ship getting ready
    • When do they do it? – Breaks the idea what the world was like
    • How do they get it done? – Number plus physical prowess
    • Why are they doing it? – Burnt ground both way. Desperate
  • Extended Meta
    • Type of character? Static
    • Depth of Character Round or Flat thanks Judy Blume Round
    • Who is the character connected to? Big Bad Lizzy
    • How are they connected? Oath bound

WBT

Have your races eaten… fantasy races

RW  Task

Watch Cannibal the Music

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Oct 10, 2021

Today's Topic – Let’s Build a Frog… yes it is not a toad

 

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  • Basic Meta Questions
    • Who are they? The Chonsen one – Play him as every
    • What do they do? Farmer
    • Where are they? On Farm on the Island
    • When do they do it? At the beginning of story
    • How do they get it done? The journey with the artifact
    • Why are they doing it? Desperation
  • Extended Meta
    • Type of character? Dynamic vs Static
    • Depth of Character Round or Flat thanks Judy Blume
    • Who is the character connected to?
    • How are they connected?

WBT

Build a frog race for your world

RW  Task

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Oct 3, 2021

Today's Topic – More or less

Jacob Hess. You may have caught his first book, The Bright Abyss. Jacob tells stories that are going to be reaching into your darkest fears and your deepest belongings.
He wants to connect with you through his stories in a way that many other writers don't bother trying and where we were lucky enough to get them on the show. So without further ado, an interview with Jacob Hess.

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    • Hello is there anything else you would like people to know about you? 
    • Do you feel Orc or Elf today 
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  • Main Feature: (A Conversation about these topics) 
    • Tell us about your latest work? 
    • How do you connect your worldbuilding back to The Story? 
    • When did you know you had a love for worldbuilding? 
  • Tell a STORY about how you knew you love building worlds. 
    • What was your “I can” experience? 
  • Biggest achievement to date? 
  • When you learned of it. 
  • What was its impact on your progress as an author and a worldbuilder? 
    • What real-world advice do you wish you had known sooner? 
    • Tell a quick STORY about some task that could have gotten you started sooner as a writer 
  • Character Building: 
  • What is your formula for a great character? 
  • What do you dislike about character creation 
  • What is your number 1 tip about character creation?  
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  • Not Quite the 3ms
  • Meant to add flavor, really a specialty quirk
  • They are linked to the Mythic but do not effect directly effect the story
  • Dark Ones Own Luck
  • Interest Power Quirks

 

WBT

Give one of your characters a wasteful use of high power

RW  Task

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Aug 8, 2021

Today's Topic –   The M^3 of Powers

 

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    • Tech, Supernatural, Superhero Power
  • If there is nothing here it is not fantasy
  • How are they mythical
  • We are talking Character but
    • Racial, Prop, Place, or
  • Interesting Powers from fiction
    • If not fantasy how can we make it mythic

 

WBT

Think of your creator side as a fantasy character. What is your creating Mystic Support

RW  Task

Listen to podcast while walking, Brain

 

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Aug 4, 2021

Today's Topic – Uncling yourself

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Podcast Show Flow

  1. Researching real-world connections
  2. RPG Starter
    1. Meeting characters they know. Normal and extreme behaviors will need to be explored in the story.
  3. Backstory(s)
  4. Rabbit Hole Stories
    1. Develop or use quirks in the stories
  5. Freewriting stories when advantages and disadvantages impacted the character
  6. Go beyond the character’s
  7. My stopping point is when I feel like I know the character

WBT

Create a character of yourself, and make them the hero

RW  Task

Find a topic you have a strong opinion and create a good counter argue

 

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Jun 27, 2021

Today's Topic – Yeah, they all suck

 

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  • Characters are never completely fleshed out, until your story is complete the can still grow and change
  • Basic Meta Questions
    • Who are they?
    • What do they do?
    • Where are they?
    • When do they do it?
    • How do they get it done?
    • Why are they doing it?
  • Extended Meta
    • Type of character? Dynamic vs Static
    • Depth of Character Round or Flat thanks Judy Blume
    • Who is the character connected to?
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WBT

Build your Moiraine, Lucifer, Baralis

RW  Task

Share your characters with family/friend/undercroft

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Jun 21, 2021

Season 3 Episode 1 The Character Primer

 

Today's Topic –Steps to awakening your inner worldbuilder

 

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Podcast Show Flow

  • How is Character Development worldbuilding?
    • Characters are both tool for you story to unfold. They are also tools for how you share your worldbuilding with people you interact with.
  • How does this normally fit into my style of worldbuilding?
    • Formally
    • Reality
  • This is not the normal top-down approach I prefer. However, it is realistic to how my mind works
  • Does this need to be deeper than the meta development?
    • When should it
    • When it should not be?
  • 2 Levels to character development
    • The Surface view
    • The Character Creation AKA GURPS meets Robert Jordan. Or Harper Lee… (insert author here)
    • From the Meta to the Detail
  • Goal of the season
    • Create the main antagonist(s) and the protagonist(s)
    • Generic Priest, Warriors for both sides and farmer for the frogs
    • Later season we will work backwards to the cultures

WBT

How to make characters in the past,

RW  Task

Learn about a real character

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Jun 21, 2021

Today's Topic – Living with Batman

We are now working on episodes again.  While we get going on Season three here is another best of Episode 205.

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Jun 1, 2021

Today's Topic – The Chosen Underdog

We are now working on episodes again.  While we get going on Season three here is another best of episode

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  2. 5 Favorite Troupes
  3. Ensemble vs Pure Protagonist
  4. Hybrid vs pure trope

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

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The Real-world Task for the Day

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May 23, 2021

Today's Topic – The world is a darker place

My Mommy passed the day 5/8/2021 a day before Mother’s Day. I still struggle to talk about this. So I want to share my mother and her wisdom one more time with the world from episode 154. You want to learn more about a wonderful mother please check out her obituary.

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1.      Are you an orc or an elf today?

2.      Talk about first memories of worldbuilding.

3.      Make up other stuff to push the conversation.

4.      Convert Mother into an orc, No she will always be an Angel

 

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May 10, 2021

Today's Topic – 5 steps to create great characters great characters

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  • Why the dishonorable mentions?
  • Special appearance from Mariner
  • Michael’s number 3
  • Jeffery’s number 3
  • Michael’s number 2
  • Jeffery’s number 2
  • Michael’s number 1
  • Jeffery’s number 1

WBT

Tell us your favorite

RW  Task

                Do Not become a villain, think like a villain when your write

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May 10, 2021

Today's Topic – They all cannot be Jayne

This was originally episode 288 if you want the complete show notes.

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  • What makes a character multidimensional
  • This should not be your main character
  • When They work
  • When they don’t work

WBT

Take a character you love, and cut the depth right out of them

RW  Task

                Identify one way you need to take better care of yourself. Do one thing every day to get a step closer to achieving it.

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