Episode 163 Climate is the birth and sometimes death of cultures 0

Feb 26, 2017

Today's Topic The effects of climate on Fantasy Worldbuilding

Join Michael and Jeff as the climate in fantasy world-building.

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Global warming lead to abundance in areas, usually around rivers
Abundance leads to people moving less
Moving less and abundance leads to over population
And overpopulation leads to farming or migrating
The warmth gave then it took at least some of it away
- Nubia is now a desert
- Fertile Crescent is much less fertile
- Mediterranean lost its touch
- Indus had a bad day

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War game out different climate effects on your main culture.

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Episode 162 Podcast of the Dead 0

Feb 19, 2017

Today's Topic Death helps create a culture and that in turn becomes religion

Join Michael and Jeff as the look at a simple system to develop death rituals for your fantasy worldbuilding cultures.

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How did they die?
- Considered natural
- Suicide
- Martyrdom
- Warriors death
What is the major cultural risk to having someone dead around?
- Attracting dangerous animals?
- Diseases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_risks_from_dead_bodies
  - Miasma Theory – Diseases spread from the smell of the dead
- The night of the living dead
- Punishment from a god
Mourning
- Your loss
- Their loss
- What happens to them now
  - Afterlife or not?
- Take out your dead
  - Burn her
    - Cremation
  - Bury Her
    - Grave (Together or apart)
    - Known or hidden
    - Tomb
    - Cave
    - Side of the hill
    - Freezer
  - Dump her
    - Dumped out in nature
      - Sky burial
    - 150 Rocks fired into space
    - I am not dead yet! (Cryonics)
  - Eater
- Other factors that might change the ritual
  - Important, good or bad
  - Died in war
  - Martyrdom
    - Self or determined
  - Suicide
    - Alone or aided

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Look at the rituals involving death in your main culture

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Episode 161 Lessons from Excalibur and King Arthur 0

Feb 12, 2017

Today's Topic The movie that helped shape a fantasy lover and worldbuilder

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Excalibur movie 1981
I want to be a freaking mage, even with the drawbacks
- Raistlin Majere only showed me how a good mage
Based on the 15th-century Arthurian romance, Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory
Fantasy has been around for much longer than we know
- Llancarfan Life Fake or alternative history History ~ 1100 AD
- Roots at least to a 6th-century monk called Gildas
Courtly love is a bad day
- Flirting and fighting for forbidden fruit good, anything else bad
- What happens when you go too far
Reality vs Desire
- Uther was reality, Arthur was hope
- Wars and Quest suck, but the idea of them are romantic
People look to explain they’re past

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Take a culture that has formed a kingdom from chaos, develop ideas for how they would explain their past

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Episode 160 Stop being stuck and start sharing your fictional world with these 3 simple steps 0

Feb 6, 2017

Today's Topic So you want to share your fictional world and you are stuck, here are 3 simple steps to start now

You have something inside you. A fictional world. You need to share it. You feel it in you. You are exciting. You sit at the keyboard. You are ready to start. However, you don’t. You tell yourself it is too difficult. You tell yourself you are not sure what to do. You tell yourself, you have time. You will just wait until you have something to share.

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Stop lying to yourself

You are like me a couple of years ago. You are not smart, you are building regret. Stop it and Start. Join Michael and I as we look at why and how you should start. Do not hold off are you are ready to launch your first creative product or you will find yourself alone and lose money.

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Tirade
Three things you need
- Buy a website address called a URL at NameCheap
- Get a Website host at HostM and update the name servers to point the URL to Host M
- Get Newsletter Account at MailChimp for GetRepsones.Com for a small budget
Free tips to do next
- Add Job to Facebook listing your website
- Add link to site in your Twitter profile
- Find topics you might want to talk about in social media and just be you
- Send out an email consistently. Start monthly and try and get up to weekly.