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Today's Topic - Fantasy Worldbuilding Culture Rebuild
- Shared Experience
- Village based tribal culture
- Shared symbolism
- Color Blue
- local gods and minor gods for important visible geography
- Shared Beliefs and Norms
- Lunar Based Culture
- Tribal independence
- Each Tribe has there local chief god
- Lunar Culture
- Language
- Based 0n the Breton Language
- Words based on blocks
- Top down writing
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Today's Topic - Let's Build a Mythology
- Themes to the stories
- Reinforce cultural norms
- Tone
- Consistent
- Prose
- Over the top
- Epic Elements
- Covers Cultural Norms
- Its Fake
- Follows Cultural Logic
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Today's Topic - Let's Build a fantasy Villain
- Why Cat Mummies were made
- Increasing invasions
- Lose of cultural control of Egypt
- Persia and Commercial Mummies
- Greece and Govermeny Mummies
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Today's Topic - Let's Build a fantasy Villain
- Types of Villains Reluctant, Psychopath, Sociopath, Supernatural, Accidental, Misguided, Fanatic and All in
- Our's is a Misguided Fanatic
- Purpose - Protect family from Prince Hogar's family
- Motivation - fear of family losing wealth and good name
- Perspective - From the noble class of Baurhdrakkas
- Attributes and Traits
- CW Princess
- Young Adult
- Naive
- Social Thief
- Askerii Agent
- Hand Maiden is only real friend
- Quirks
- Hair Twirler
- Spitefully Fake
- Big Actions (Larger than life)
- TBD in a future story
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Today's Topic - Say hello to our newest Fantasy Hero, Ammalheim
- Ammalheim, but you can call her Amm or Ammalheim
- A Reluctant hero
- Purpose - Prevent a war between Prince Hogar and his son
- Motivation - Love for family and community
- Perspective - From the peasant class of Baurhdrakkas
- Attributes and Traits
- Thief-like with some basic magic skills
- Average Looking
- Smart and Physically strong
- Loved by community
- Quirks
- 1st Born child
- Distrust all nobles
- Ordered preparation
- Focused Staring
- Big Actions (Larger than life)
- TBD in a future story
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Today's Topic - The structure of a Fantasy Hero
- Type of Hero
Archtype-archetype- Boy Scout- Greek
- Dark
- Reluctant
- Anti
- Motivation
- Purpose
- Perspective
- Traits
- Quirks
- Big Actions (Larger than life)
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Today's Topic - Let's Build a creepy place for a creepy monster for Halloween
- PS this episode has very disturbing content
- Name of our Boogeyman
- Ichvacher or Ichvacher or translates directly to weak dark man or shadowman
- Location
- Time???
- Consequence for visiting
Results
- A small plane of horror that has a will of its own
- Allows entrance or exit
- alerts Ichvacher about tresspassers
- Has an alter inside a steppe tent
- Light dims when you enter through a mist
- Turns to night when Ichvacher is encountered
- People who are sacrificed or die turn into living sands
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Today's Topic - Halloween Let's Build a Boogeyman
- This episode really might have dark matter
- What is a boogeyman
- Motivations
- Attributes
- Powers
- Why do they appear
- Why and When
- How to stop
- Results
- Name see next Episode
- Feeds on fear
- Glowing steel eyes
- Shadow body and moves through shadows
- Punish children for disrespect or inhospitably
- Punishments start with stealing teeth and shock-white hair
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Today's Topic - Fantasy Worldbuilding Economics 101
- This is not meant to judge the correctness of actual real world economics. GO MISES! (Except for this line)
- Do pick a school or schools to evolve your economics. Cheat sheet Link form Pragmatic Capitalist
- Do Not try and force everything to fit the schools you pick perfectly... That would be the pretense of knowledge
- The Basic Path of how a economy grows Wiki Article on Economic Anthropology
- Collective sharing
- Value Theory
- Intrinsic Value
- Objective Value
- Labor value
- Basic Exchanges start to form
- Market
- Gift
- Commodity
- Barter
- Money
- Credit
- Banks
- Fractional-Reserve Banking
- Full-Reserve Banking
- Free Banks Vs Central Banking
- Advance economics start evolving after the economy shifts from an agricultural to industrial
- Do not over think it, just understand the flow of it
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Today's Topic - Basics of Secret societies
- Brain Storming from Wikipedia
- What are Secret Societies
- Types of Secret Societies
- Political
- Academia
- Internet
- Supernatural/Religious
- Where do they come from
- How should we use them
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Today's Topic - Why we play games
- Michael and Jeffery set a record of 37 seconds without trying to mess each other up.
- Why we started playing games
- Sports / Hunting and running
- The Run down hunt method
- Games to learn how to fulfill basic needs
- Add in chance and game theory
- Gamification
- Using games to impress
- Prosperity Tax
- games show us what we are good at
- We play games for relaxation and fun
- Jeffery learns that real world time
- The meaning of life
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Today's Topic - Favorite Fantasy Fiction and why they work.
Michael and Jeffery look at the fantasy titles that have had the most impact in their lives. Spoiler's abound
- What stopped most of our people that we have interviewed.
- Create it make it share it
- Excalibur [Blu-ray]
Jeff's number one
- Zelda Games
- The Baker's Boy (Book of Words)
- Record of Lodoss War
- Lord of the Rings, The: The Motion Picture Trilogy
- Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor Game of the Year - PlayStation 4
- Dragonlance
- Villains by Necessity
- The Dark Crystal
- Suikoden
- Drizzt
- Star Wars: The Digital Movie Collection
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Today's Topic - Books for Worldbuilder's to read
- Living as a creative
- Buy in
- Defined Writing Time
- Sharing
- Giveback
- Lead Don't Follow
- Partners
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Today's Topic - Books for Worldbuilder's to read
- The Rivan Codex
Question from João E. Nascimento on Facebook. If we follow David Eddings advice and not read fantasy, What books should we read?
- Types of books I read
- Books that better help me understand out world
- Dictionary of Symbols (Norton Paperback)
- Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction
- The Language Construction Kit
- Red Man's Religion: Beliefs and Practices of the Indians North of Mexico
- The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Penguin Classics)
- Gilgamesh: A New English Version
- Marcus Aurelius: A Life
- Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted
- Patterns in Prehistory: Humankind's First Three Million Years
- Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth
- Art History
- Architecture
- Roleplaying Games
- Aztec Art
- The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek)
- How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes
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Today's Topic - The Rebuild
After the world is blown up, and new groups start to form. It is time to start rebuilding your fantasy world. Check out part one! and Part two
- What is a magic system
- Look to games and fiction for inspiration
- Or to systems that have been used in our world
- Tarot
- Nordic Runes
- Astrology and many many more
- Systems
- Extra Magical
- Innate
- Learned
- Science as Magic
- Illusion
- A Bonus system from the producer
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Today's Topic - The Rebuild
After the world is blown up, and new groups start to form. It is time to start rebuilding your fantasy world. Check out part one! and Part two
MikeMichael is proven to be a Waterworld lover.- Society Redux
- Escape to Space
- Turning back on the technology
- A pooh story
- Two steps back
- Picking
- Scenario Battles
- Is it safe?
- Is the old world evil
- The deaths that come after a wave
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Today's Topic - Societies and Culture after your big bang
Michael and Jeffery talk about how worlds are reconstucted after they are destroyed in horrific ways in various forms of fiction. If you missed our first apocalyptic look at fantasy worldbuilding. Check out part one!
- a look back when Gardul blew up
- Fallout of my world into a look at society scenarios
- How much is left of your old world
- How many people are around
- Is the old world evil?
- How far are you from the evert? (Place and time)
- How does the new economy work?
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Today's Topic - First you made your fantasy world... now blow it up. Post apocalyptic views of fantasy realms
Michael and Jeffery talk about various ways to blow up you fantasy world. We look at diffrent ways and examples of those types of fiction. The list is based on this a list from this Wikipedia article
- Ecological
- Impact/Disaster
- War
- Aliens
- Psychological
- Technology
- Supernatural
- Disease
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Today's Topic - How to build the Buardrakkeniem Culture Part 3
Michael and Jeffery finish off with the history of the Buardrakkeniem culture. We discuss the invasion and the overreach of the orc tribes. From the orcish invasion we move to reconquest of the region by the Buardrakkeniem and discuss the rising threat of the Aeskrii to the east. We wrap up the pointing out how the events in the culture help shape the current form of the culture. They develop in history much the same way characters would develop in good story.
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Today's Topic - How to build the Buardrakkeniem Culture Part 2
Micheal and Jeffery start going over the history of the Buardrakkeniem culture. They start in the purple grasslands at the near the head waters of the Neski river. And the follow the migration into the Arm of the Continent .
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Today's Topic - Presidential politics inspiring Fantasy Worldbuilding
- Inspiration
- old germanic tribes (Franks and Francisca)
- Forced migration of tribal cultures
- battle of teutoburg forest
- How would magic influence ancient cultures
- What is the goal of the culture?
- Create a old style germanic culture that is influenced by magic?
- Focus on hearth and home
Episode 67: Baurhdrakkiem Calendars
Episode 64: Baurhdrakkiem Carver Magic
Episode 61: Kurriq Spirit Magic
Episode 54: Welcome to Fantasy Kingdom of Baurhdrakkas
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Today's Topic - Presidential politics inspiring Fantasy Worldbuilding
- There could be internal faction problems in a state
- This is more plot then worldbuilding
- Fight for the Millennial voters by Veronique de Rugy
- Median voter Theorem - Learn Liberty
- Helps create rules for how people and factions react
- Need for support from people
- Two-axis system
- x-axis Harmony To Dominion over nature
- y-axis Conformity to Divergence over people
- What is the actual
- What is the ideal
- Personal Struggle
- Faction Struggle
- Culture Struggle
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Today's Topic - Map 3,242 and other Fantasy Worldbuilding maps
- What are maps?
- Free maps with newsletter sign up
- Know your needs
- What is it for?
- What quality are you looking for?
- Free form vs Fractals
- Research
- Google/YouTube
- cartographers guild
- Options
- Pen and paper
- Generators @ Donjon.com
- Paid software
- Free software
- Hire a mapmaker
- Virtual RPG Tabletop software list
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Today's Topic - What Type of Worldbuilder are you?
- Inspiration for the topic
- The Architect(WhatI call framework worldbuilding)
- Pros
- Cons
- Gunslinger
- Pros
- Cons
- The Gardener
- Pros
- Cons
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Today's Worldbuilding Topic - Let's build a new fantasy monster
The Rating
Basic
- Hello World for New co-host, Michael Miller
- Let's build a new fantasy monster, Ant Zombie overlords
- Inspiration
- Started out of a joke with Matthew Bannock
- Old Zombie movies
- Deer attack!
- Original monster created was the salt zombie
- Goal
- A that small is scarier then large
- fear of loss of control
- cause a moral dilemma
- Physical
- tiny tan ant 5 mm
- Eat brain matter
- Monster
- Colony which builds harvesting outpost
- Workers will create an outpost in the brain of a human.
- Scouts will colonize human bodies to find more food.
- return to harvest site before body loses body
- victim will go crazy, die very quickly
- food returned to nest
- Will migrate if when food wiped out
Am I your avatar?
- Who are you? Michael Miller
- Tell us a bit about your yourself?
- What is your current passion?
- What type are your favorite genre(s) or are you a one title person?
- What is your preferred media format?
- What is your first experience where you knew you loved speculative fiction?
- What is the first title that comes to mind?
- What is your favorite title?
- What would you as for more of from the people who create the content?
- What would you ask for less of from the people who create the content?
- Where is the best place for people to chat with you on the Internet?