Today's Topic - Discworld and the Brilliance of Terry Pratchett
- Special Thanks to lspace.org
- Discworld
- The World is flat!
- This is no Roundworld
- It takes a Circumfence
- Lunar Diffrences . . . Nice Plants
- Monsters
- Grade 1: monsters invented by adults to scare children from dangerous of forbidden places (prohibitory) - Like Jenny Green-Teeth
- Grade 2: monsters invented by adults to scare anyone, anywhere. One of the examples is The Headless Horseman.
- Grade 3: monsters by accident (mostly) - The Eater of Socks.
- Grade 4: monsters here for purposes of their own - Hiver.
- Suggested new Grade 5: monsters invented by children for children!!! The worst kind!!! - The Child-eating Puddle
- Races
- Where else can you find a Sneeb
- Zombies Head of the Lawyers Guild, Mr. Reaper, and Life timers
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Today's Topic - It takes two, or maybe more
- Welcome to the World of Factions
- Groups of States
- Individual States
- Intrastate Factions
- Faction hostility does not mean war
- Cold Wars will have violence
- Look for causes of factions
- Common Cause
- Common Culture
- Common Enemies
- Convince
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Today's Topic - The Art of War Storytelling
- The Art of Troupes
- Great Article on War Story Troupes via tvtropes.org
- Realism is not the goal
- Hero, Squad, or badass ?
- War Sucks verses the Glory of Battle
- Keep in Mind
- Battle might bring up conflicting emotions
- Stealth is boring if it works
- Understand the weapons
- It might not always be professional military
- Fatigue is real
- Why they fight?
- Selling the fear for life
- Ask a Combat Vet
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Today's Topic - Shire Calendar
- Based on the Anglo Saxon Calendar
- Solar year 365
- 12 30 Day months
- 5 or 6 bonus days (Yule, Lithe, Mid-year day, Overlithe)
- Days
- Stars of Varda
- Sun
- Moon
- Two Trees of Valinor
- Heavens
- Sea
- Valar
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Today's Topic - Baurhdrakkiem Calendars
- Influences of the calender
- Solar year 363.1 days
- Weeks are 11 days one
- Sun Day
- Moon 1 Day
- Moon 2 Day
- 5 visible objects day
- Nebula Day
- Star Day
- Planet Day
- Cwerin Major lunar Calender (Evolution of months)
- Cycle of the large moon is 33 days
- 4 Major holidays marking the changing of the seasons
- 1 Holiday every 10 years (for the leap year) The day of second chances
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Today's Topic - Worldbuilding questions: How to I build a fantasy Calendar?
- Types of Calendars
- Solar
- Lunar
- Solar and Lunar
- Other Celestial
- Societal
- Fiscal
- Magic
- Basics
- Period of Planet
- Cycle of moon(s)
- Other Celestial cycles
- Great Calender generation at donjon
- Calendars and not necessarily
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Today's Topic - Erratic Explorers visit Earth
- Special thanks to Fallout Series Wikia
- Nexusmods.com for a link to a great image.
- Basics
- Post Nuclear Earth
- Fallout
- Fallout 2
- Fallout Tactics
- Fallout 3
- Fallout New Vegas
- 1950's Propaganda set in the 22nd century and beyond
- Races
- Humans
- Ghouls
- Mutants
- Super-mutants
- Places
- California
- Oregon
- Capital Wasteland
- Mojave
- Why it works
- Fun 1950's Propaganda
- Learning bits and pieces of what happened
- Story lines break what you think about what is happening
- Karma
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Today's Topic - Baurhdrakkiem Carver Magic
- Inspirations
- Norse Runic Magic
- Classic D&D Magic-User magic
- Carver
- Creating temporary
- A Learned Magic System
- Time
- Shaping
- Summoning
- Must learn how to cast the magic to learn it.
- Better you know the spell the easier it is to do
- Shaping and summoning are skills that you learn
- Speaking, breaking, or thinking
- Common Traits
- Magic Harmony(Must Have)
- Curse of Thrax
- Magic Sight
- Genetic Memory
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Today's Topic - Fantasy Storytelling does not have to be a genre unto itself
- Fantasy is as much setting and a genre
- No Limitations on the types of stories you can tell
- Make a sub-genre story
- Use elements of other genres
- Use when the other genres fit or even when they do not seem to fit
- Love story between two characters
- Love story between a character and a sword
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Today's Topic - What's Around the Corner - Thanos and The Infinity Gauntlet
- Great example of a universe building or Worldbuilding
- Involved the miniseries Infinity Gauntlet, Infinity Wars, and Infinity Crusade
- Involved crossed overs with most every marvel title
- Twisted love story, I think
- Patient
- The ripples of this story-line is so powerful still controlling the box office today
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Today's Topic - Kurriq or Baurhdrakkiem Spirit Magic
- Inspirations
- The little know about Druids
- Baurhdrakkiem religion and alphabet
- Kurriq
- Earliest Cultural Religion
- A Spirit-based Magic Ritual, Location, Time
- No symbols outside of the runes in the alphabet
- Sacrifice from the life forces plant, animal, sentient,
- Potion, amulets, elixirs, and balm bases
- Spirits can be used to create non-direct effect
- gods can be called upon to cause direct effects
- Common Traits
- Spirit Connection
- Spirit Speech
- Spirit Sight
- Channeling
- Medium
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Today's Topic - Storytelling from a framework-based world
- Storytelling from a framework-based world
- Outline your plot,
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- List of characters you need
- remember to look to other genre's to strength your overall story
- Picking your location
- Picking your time and place
- Check your created characters to see if any characters should or could be used
- Sketch out the physical dimension of import locations that are new
- Review the locations of other area's
- Write out your first draft! Just write it out.
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Interview: Philip E. Carroll
From World building in his youth with his twin brother, Philip's course has been set. Now a husband, father, grandfather, podcaster, and author; Phillip dedicates himself to building better fantasy and science fiction worlds. He as dedicated himself to transition to this full time. Let's give worldbuilders Welcome to Philip E. Carroll. Go Army!
- Introduction
- Do you feel Orc or Elf today?
- 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?
- Biggest achievement to date?
- 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
Gauntlet round
- What held you back from sharing your world(s)?
- Favorite types of fantasy worlds: alien, earthlike, or earth-based?
- What is your favorite time period for fantasy settings?
- What is the most important habit or skill in creating a world?
- What tool(s) could you not work without?
- What is one resource you would offer to a Worldbuilder starting down your path?
- If you ended up in the (a) world you created. What would be the first thing you would do? (Please keep it as clean as possible.)
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Today's Topic - Erratic Explorers visit Middle Earth
- Special thanks to One Wiki to Rule them all
- Basics
- The 800 pound Gorilla for fantasy worlds
- Races
- Humans
- Dwarves
- Elves
- Ents
- Orcs
- Goblins
- Hobbits
- Gaints
- Trolls
- Spiders
- Wraiths
- Wolves
- Places
- Misty Mountains
- The Great Sea
- Mirkwood
- The old forest
- Gap of Rohan
- Moria
- Mordor
- Brandywine River
- States
- Mordor
- Gondor
- Rohan
- Rivendale
- Languages
- Adûnaic
- Black Speech
- Khuzdûl
- Rohirric
- Westron
- Valarin
- Why it works
- Devilish details
- Map with the books
- Rich history
- Deep lore
- Division of good verses evil
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