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Worldbuilder's Anvil

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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Now displaying: January, 2015
Jan 30, 2015

Today's Topic - Maps and Fantasy Worldbuilding

  • What are maps important?
  • What should they show?
  • What language should they be in?
  • How much of the world needs to be on it?
  • How can I map and store
  • What do I use and why?
Jan 28, 2015

None due to Blizzard.  Goto gardul.com for the shownotes

Jan 26, 2015

Today's Topic - Cosmos

  • Cosmos
  • Sun
  • Your Planet
  • Other Planets
  • Other Things in the night sky
    • Comets
    • Meteors & Asteroids
    • Stars
    • Star Clusters
    • Nebula's
    • Galaxies
    • Your Galaxy
  • Weather
Jan 23, 2015

Today's Topic - The Places of your World

  • Rules is the filter for each of your Basic topics
  • Places = Physical Geography
    • Cosmos
    • Natural Wonders
    • Oceans
    • Land
    • plate tectonics
    • Mountains
    • Plains
    • Steppes
    • Deserts
    • Rivers
    • Lakes
    • Seas
  • Weather
Jan 21, 2015

Today's Topic - Basics Breakdown

  • Rules is the filter for each of your Basic topics
  • Places
    • Cosmos
    • Natural Wonders
  • Religion
  • Language
  • Races
  • Culture
  • States
  • Faces
  • Technology is the limit to when the Worldbuilding ends
    • Histories are when I know I am done
Jan 19, 2015

Today's Topic - Makeover Session

  • Name of my world: Gardul Earth-like Fantasy
    • Sometimes: Podcastia
  • Important Rules
    • Recreation and Evolution
    • The elements of the universe are spread out amongst the stars when they explode
      • Life is caused by the elements present on a world
      • Life on different planets can be similar because of the last rule.
    • Speed of light is the maximum speed for particles a atom or larger
    • Cosmic strings can be tapped to bend space and time to allow for faster then light travel and move far distances
      • Some are Major and can be used to travel between different parts of the universe.
      • Others are minor and can be used to move across planets
      • Major points only exist in space
      • Minor points are places the races consider to be holy or magic sites
    • Survival of the fittest does not mean the best, strongest version survives.
    • surviving does not mean winning
    • Economics is ruled by “Human Action”
    • Magic simple another rule of the universe. It allows people to manipulate the other rules for a price.
      • The cost of magic prevents those that use it from dominating
    • Tech Level for first stories is Late Iron Age Technology
    • Magic has four forms True, Divine, Casting, and Spirit
Jan 16, 2015

Today's Topic - Technology Breakdown

  • Stone Age
  • Bronze Age
  • Iron Age
  • Early Medieval
  • Late Medieval
  • Renaissance
  • Pre Industrial
  • Industrial
  • Early Global
  • Global
  • Solar System
  • Short Interstellar
  • Universal
  • multiverse
  • Extra Dimensional

    The Rating

    This is an Basic topic

    The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

    Determine the Technology for your world. Check out all the GURPS books and visit Steve Jackson Games

    The Real World task for the day

    Prepare your lunch ahead of time, so you are not rushed in the morning going to work

    The Tease 1 Minute

    Makeover Session

Jan 15, 2015

Today's Topic - Rules Breakout!

  • What are the laws of your World?
    • Creation, Evolution or both
    • Does your world have to end?
    • Theory of relativity?
    • Speed of light?
    • How does magic word?
    • Are the gods or God real?
    • How many dimensions,Euclidean space, are there?
      • length, width, height, depth, and breadth
      • Fourth dimension of time
      • Warning on other dimensions

The Rating

This is an intermediate topic

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Create a list of the truths about your world

The Real World task for the day

Prepare your lunch ahead of time,  So you are not rushed in the morning going to work. And for more on winter check out George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons

The Tease 1 Minute

Technology Breakdown

Please take a moment and comment below on this episode.  I look forward to hearing from you about your Fantasy Worldbuilding adventures

Jan 15, 2015

Today's Topic - How to find Inspiration for worldbuilding?

  • How to find Inspiration for worldbuilding?
    • Google worldbuilding websites 
    • Follow me on Twitter or Facebook
    • Art and architecture
    • Read about cultures, languages, and religions
    • Physics and science
    • Mythology
  • How Not to find inspiration
    • Copy another person’s work
    • Take exact cultures and transplant

The Rating

This is a basic topic

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Check out worldbuilding content sign up for newsletters or subscribe to channels.

Worldbuilding Resources: ArtfexianWorld Building AcademyWorldbuilding School, and Launch Your Universe (Press the Button)

The Real World task for the day

Write a note to your significant other and hide it where they will find it

The Tease 1 Minute

Rules Breakout

Please take a moment and comment below on this episode.  I look forward to hearing from you about your Fantasy Worldbuilding adventures

Jan 15, 2015

Today's Topic - Why are you building a Fantasy World?

  • You want to write books
  • You want to create Video Games
  • You want to create Role-playing games
  • You want to create Role-playing settings
  • You want to learn more about the rules of the world, so you want to build a fake version
  • Maybe for money, maybe just to do it, maybe just because you need two.
  • Come up with goals
  • What you want to accomplish?
  • When you what to accomplish it by?
  • What do you need to accomplish?
  • what you want?
  • Don't have your stories end like a bad ending to The NeverEnding Story

The Rating

This is a basic topic

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Create goals for what you want to accomplish with Worldbuilding this year?

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The Real World task for the day

Make a list about why world building is important to you and share it

The Tease 1 Minute

How to find Inspiration for worldbuilding?

Please take a moment and comment below on this episode.  I look forward to hearing from you about your Fantasy Worldbuilding adventures

Jan 9, 2015

Today's Topic - How to find Inspiration for worldbuilding?

  • What is Worldbuilding?
    • A process for creating a natural setting for the world
    • Rules
    • Places
    • Cosmology
    • Geography
    • Cultures
    • Races
    • Faces
    • Happens over time

The Rating

This is a basic topic

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Create a list of items that you think will fit into the topics of the show.  Look to your notes and try and start. Be sure to leave questions or results in the comments below.  And sign up for my newsletter to get a copy of the mind map to help you play along at home.

The Real World task for the day

Simply check the trash in the kitchen if it is getting full take it out.

The Tease 1 Minute

Why are you building a Fantasy World?

Please take a moment and comment below on this episode.  I look forward to hearing from you about your Fantasy Worldbuilding adventures

Jan 1, 2015

This is the official teaser for the Wordbuilder's Anvil.  It is been a long time coming for me.  I hope you will be teased enough to check out my show on iTunes and please subscribe and take the time to rate our show to help other worldbuilder's join in on the fun.  It really helps.  See you for our first episode.

Please take a moment and comment below on this episode.  I look forward to hearing from you about your Fantasy Worldbuilding adventuresil!

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