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Jul 2, 2017

Today's Topic How to create a fantasy magic system that works

Magic is really one of the key features of a fantasy world. Michael and I figured to stay on the ball we should now cover in depth creating a magic system for your fantasy world.

Podcast Show Flow

Why is magic system framework important?
- Consistency
- Saves time to start storytelling
- Avoid lame Deus ex Machina or a god from a machine
- Creates character conflicts
- Saves time adding detail later
1st Rule of Magic: What type of Magic System?
2nd Rule of Magic: How is magic powered?
3rd Rule of Magic: How magic is used?
4th Rule of Magic: Who can use magic?
5th Rule of Magic: What can magic not do?
6th Rule of Magic: What is the price of Magic?
7th Rule of Magic: What happens when magic fails?
Story warnings
- Magic systems do not make good stories
- Be careful breaking your rules
- Frame the system, track the details as you use it
- Follow your rules as you go forward
- Be careful limiting your system

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Jun 25, 2017

Today's Topic How a teenage boy has stuck around for so long?

Worldbuilding is not only the big parts of a fictional world, the cultures, maps, and states. It is the details. I would argue that the characters of a world, or the faces as I like to call them are the most important detail. However, this is a discussion for a different podcast episode. Let’s skip to Spider-man!

Spider-man homecoming is a great reason to look at one of the best fictional characters

Spider-man was born in august on 1962. However, he is still one of the most influential and oldest teenagers in the human experience. Marvel tries to age him. He is a nice character with some age. However, it is his youth and people’s ability to connect with him that make him such a powerful character.

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9 movies since 2002 countless television and comic appearances
(My first memory was electric company) and the high budget 1970’s live action and high budget tv experiences
Michael's first
Relatable with his target audience (Dorky kid struggling through high school or college)
Not a billionaire / playboy / Super Soldier or an alien
Imperfect
Less powerful than his foes (Anti superman)
Real struggle was not against his foes, but how to live his life)
- Supervillains took these struggles to the next level
- - Kraven (Bullies)
  - Kingpin (The unknown)
  - Venom (The price of shortcuts)
  - Green Goblin (Nightmares about a life we cannot control)
  - Doc Octopus (Being crushed by the school system)
We are only one minor thing from being a superhero

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Jun 18, 2017

Derek is a fellow veteran and game master best known for his work at Seize the GM Podcast, our favorite GM Podcast.

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· 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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Jun 11, 2017

Today's Topic Create a new Pantheons in fantasy fiction

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The bigger benefit for me was increased focus. It was another major issue of mine. However, that is a story for a different day.

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Not just for polytheism
Chief god or God
Major gods or archangels
Minor god / Angels or Major Saint
Demigods / Guardian Angel or Saints
Evil minor gods / Demons
Evil major gods / Devil of the Seven Deadly sins (Peter Binsfeld 1589
- Lucifer: pride, Mammon: greed, Asmodeus: lust, Leviathan: envy, Beelzebub: gluttony, Satan: wrath, Belphegor: sloth
Cultural Evolution round up (Or substitute world)
- Explain the natural world
- Explain the sky
- Explain the traditions (How to be moral in the culture)
- Explain the good and bad in people
- Remember better times
- Explain the old
- Path to the afterlife
- Path to a better life
- Rituals are ways to appease or bribe gods
Beware of the rabbit hole (Frame it!)

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The Apocryphal Jesus (Full Course)

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The Apocryphal Jesus

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Jun 4, 2017

Today's Topic How to create fantasy and worldbuilding when pain or disease get in the way

My back started killing. I was having trouble standing. My wife stood over me; her frustration turned into tears. She had won. Her tears are the most pervasive argument I heard. I felt ashamed.

I had let my pride control me. I was a warrior, a scout for the US Army. I could work until my body broke. I did not believe that the point would ever come. I was 32; I still felt invincible. However, lying in bed watching my wife in tears that that point had come. I had broken myself.

If I can achieve in pain, anyone can

The next several years it all got worse. My knee when out, my pain spread from my left foot to my neck. And then I started losing my confidence and suffering from anxiety.

My anchor, Kristin got sick as well. She called me and told me she had cancer.

She could not work. Our non-mortgage debt grew to $220,000. We had trouble paying for our house. I had to beg for money to pay for our mortgage which was larger than our non-mortgage debt.

Then we learned the secrets that saved us from bankruptcy and saved our marriage

We were not defenseless, we had jobs that paid well, we loved each other deeply, and we are fighters. However, we had those things when we stumbled into our spiral. We knew we that more was needed. We first started to focus on our dreams, Kristin and I needed to look to our future together. It is what led us to create our Dream Catcher Assessment.

However, more on topic it prompts me to search desperately for ways to mitigate my chronic pain issues. I am not a doctor. However, I will share with you what worked for me.

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Chronic pain and illness is not weakness it is a condition

Now, I am not a Pollyanna. I know there are not always cure and some of the lead to the worse possible condition of death. However, I am a fighter. I have dreams I am working towards and want to get to them.

I have accepted that the pain will never end at first. My medical issue will not cause death. However, death can come at any time and since I am a fighter I have embraced these conclusions and use it as fuel to keep me working even when the pain hurts the most.

The one thing you must worry about

As humans, we are all capable of manipulating people. We are best at manipulating ourselves. When you suffer from chronic pain or illness, you do have real limitations. We owe it to our dreams to create, we owe it to our loved ones, and we owe it to ourselves to learn our actual limitations and respect them. We cannot punish ourselves for not being able to achieve what we want.

However, we also need to make sure that when we feel like Kristin and I cannot do it, it is because we actually cannot do it. So often fear and anxiety can creep in and help hold us back from creating the fiction of our dreams.

Great News! Chronic pain and illness does not mean you cannot leave towards your dreams

Kristin and I have thrived since she got past her cancer. We have eliminated our non-mortgage debt. We have successfully created her accounting firm and Ingram Digital Media, Inc. I started working full time with this company in March of 2017.

We could not do it on our own. We worked with many doctors and professionals to help us. We researched and learned how to improve our physical and mental health. Kristin is layering in changes to help us live better lives.

It was not always easy. However, it is possible.

The 3 keys to creating fantasy and fiction when suffering from chronic pain or illness

Awareness, Preparation, and Execution are the key stratagems that have helped me move from a burnout veteran to a full-time author, podcaster, and educator.

The Awareness tips

Test all your limiting assumptions (Talk to doctors and other professionals when needed)
Never neglect meals, unless you are on a special diet.
Eat three plates of food a day
Drink water, early and often
Realize the chronic conditions are cyclical. Track how you feel, it will help let you know what comes next
Always be honest with yourself.

The Preparation tips

Know what you need when you are getting worse, or in bed.
Stretch as much as possible
Have tools and supplies at hand.
Ask for help if needed

The Execution tips

Take the #15minute Challenge
- If you have an hour to work and do not feel up to it. Promise yourself to start. Work for 15 minutes if possible
- Take a picture of yourself starting and share it with me on Facebook.com/gardulstories or Twitter @JefferyWIngram
- I will share out the ones that are the best!
Keep your humor!
Don't punish yourself
Remember the pain or problem will ebb and flow in life.

The surprise benefits of managing my pain

The first is a substantially increase in energy. I have more energy when I suffer from pain and lots more energy when I am not suffering from pain.

The bigger benefit for me was increased focus. It was another major issue of mine. However, that is a story for a different day.

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Pain in the Jeff
Disclaimer
I am a fiction writer who lies, for the love of all that is good and holy seek advice from professionals before trying anything that affects your health
Story of Michael’s pain
Being honest with yourself
Pain causes extreme pain, and assholeness can develop
Remember you are not suffering alone
Kristin’s Struggles
Health, Mental and Physical, l before accomplishment
Try and start if you can work
15-minute challenge
Don't punish yourself if you cannot, be honest where you are at
Never have more than three things you need to want to accomplish for a day, pain or not.
Do not neglect meals and water
Have tools and supplies at hand
Ask for help if needed to get set up
Chronic pain and illness is not weakness it is a condition
KEEP YOUR HUMOR

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The Real-world Task for the Day

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May 28, 2017

Today's Topic Looking to the universe to show us why framing a world is so important

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Inspired with the release of Gotg Vol. 2
- And all space shows
Worlds differences
- Most worlds are sparsely populated with few settlements
- Or you visit very few places
- Less cultures and details per world
- Great detail about what they do have
Think about the important details
- How space works
- The technology
- How people live
Benchmark live on earth
- Life in space or in other worlds

WBT

Outline the world you need, then expand the area around you

RWT

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May 21, 2017

Today's Topic Using story boarding to help visualize your stories

Podcast Show Flow

Realization that many writers cannot visualize the story in their head from just outline
Solution Storyboard it
- Like is visual media, web design, marketing
Focus you to see elements of scenes in a book, without looking for the perfect words
The point, show the flow of scene
- One Board per scene
- Show the action of the scene
What to not worry about
- Your artwork
- Camera transitions or actions (unless you are making visual media)
Worry about
- Important reactions, emotions
- Sets
- Movement (setup to resolution)
- The number and position of characters
When should you do it
- After chapter outline
- Before you write a chapter
When you are done
- Follow the board and seeing the story
Recheck your storyboard before starting the next chapter

WBT

Create a story board for a scene you have written

RWT

Share it in the undercroft

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May 14, 2017

Today’s Topic How reading and fiction help in more ways than entertainment

If you are anything like me. You feel a bit guilty when you set a side time to create fictional work. Best case scenario in our minds is that we create something that enough people enjoy to help us feed our families.

However, the reality is that it could take years to build up enough fans to start writing full time as a fiction author. And for most of the people I know who write creating good books can feel more like a resource drain than an investment in our future.

We need to realize our fiction is more than just entertainment

Reading books actual paper books is a good thing for people to do. And reading books that entertain people can help in more intangible ways than non-fiction books.

However, most people do not know the intangible benefits of writing fiction. Join Michael and I as we look at the benefits people receive reading fiction.

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More than possible fame and less possible fortune
People need to escape
Improves peoples focus
Improves creativity
Improves cognition
Increases empathy
Helps elevate boredom
- People prefer using electrical shocks over being bored Just think: The challenges of the disengaged mind

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Reading Fiction Improves Brain Connectivity and Functionhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201401/reading-fiction-improves-brain-connectivity-and-function

7 Benefits of Reading Literary Fiction You May Not Know http://www.lifehack.org/307436/7-benefits-reading-literary-fiction-you-may-not-know-2

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May 7, 2017

Today’s Topic Who are the villain we are influenced by the most

Michael and I love villains. For both of us they define how good a story is. They can elevate a store or even limit a store if they are boring.

Now, this is one of the most difficult podcast we have had to prepare for. It is tough picking your favorite things. They are apt to change on how you feel that day or the perspective you take looking at the list.

Join Michael and I as we look at our dishonorable mentions. Our favorite three villains as chosen stepping into this episode.

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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

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Tell us your favorite

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It has been years since I visited the world of Krynn. However, the visit has flooded me with wonderful memories. Epic battles, great characters, and stories that still stick in my mind today. I will always love this world. I had tinkered with worldbuilding before I started reading and playing Dungeons and Dragons in this world.

However, the world sparked the desire to start worldbuilding. My memory was a bit weak on the world. I would like to thank Dragonlance Nexus and Wikipedia for helping me remember more.

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Dystopian fantasy world
Margaret Weiss and Tracy Chapman

o Price of constant war

o Survival makes Steel more valuable than gold

Huge

o 5 Continents

Ansalon
Taladas

o 5 Oceans

A Giant Ice wall
Dragons at the forefront
My favorite character of all time and other faces

o Raistlin Majere

o Tasslehoff Burrfoot

Races of note

o Irda (Twisted into ogre)

o Kender Skinny Halflings no sense of fear

o Minotaurs (in Roman armor)

o Draconians

o Dwarfs, elves, goblins and the such

About the time I started headlong into worldbuilding
War of the Lance and The Time of the Twins

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Look for the inspiration to your worlds and be grateful

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Today’s Topic How I failed at understanding taboos until I started researching this episode

I always overthought what a taboo was. I focused on the idea that taboos are these forbidden ideas, but how do you create them. How do these ideas form in a culture? Some, like murder, seem to be universal. However, others will be very culturally specific. Some taboos seem to be old cultural norms.

Wait, you are saying that some taboos use to be considered cultural norms

Yes, and this is the secret that made me realize the true pattern needed to create cultural taboos. They are much more simple than forbidden acts in a culture.

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The secret pattern to create taboos original to a fantasy culture

The truth in all of the research I have done is most taboos are really things as small as impolite and end in the death of people break them. And they seem to form up in 4 categories:

The negatives to important cultural norms
Extra holy acts
Reactions to changes in religion
State embracing cultural outrage

Wiki has a great place to start looking at taboos.

Taboos should be easy

You had done all the hard work when you created the history, cultural norms, the state, and the religions of your fantasy world. Join Michael and Jeffery in this podcast episode at they look at the wonderful world of taboos.

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Taboo is created when cultures believe certain acts are too sacred or accursed
- Really just forbidden customs
From cultural beliefs, Religion, or State
- Links from the past shared experience
- Misunderstanding of the natural world
- Deal with risk
- Sometimes replacing existing norms
Consequences
- From impolite to death
Freud’s universal taboos
- Incest and patricide or matricide
Common Taboos
- Sex Insect, necrophilia, interracial marriage, adultery (More so for woman), pedophilia
- Food
- No eating of sacred cows, kosher diet
- Murder
Neat taboos
- Don’t hog the butter knife in Sweden
- Kissing on the lips (only part of courtship in NA or Euro)
- Not seeing or speaking to betroth until marriage (Afghan)

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Episode 170 Subculture Why? 0

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Today's Topic First look into types of subcultures in fantasy worldbuilding

If you have followed the show you would not that Jeffery is a huge geek about studying cultures. We have talked about cultures and how they evolve in many ways.

We have even spent time talking about how cultures can form into states in your world. We really just love looking at naturalist ways to fake a world.

Sometimes culture is just too superficial

As you drill into a fantasy world, you might find that a fictional setting my not seem richly developed. It probably because as cultures even very small cultures usually start coming up with their own inner divisions.

In the world, we live in we often think of subcultures in our own culture. If you are my age you could never forget the jocks versus geek divide in high school. However, we usually do not consider those to be subcultures of the subculture of high school students.

There is a very good reason

If you get my example above, it might seem apparent why so many only add in the classic fantasy subcultures:

Thieves guild
Fighters guild
Mage Guild
Temples of various religions
Evil cult

Now, I have nothing against fiction that relies on these tropes. However, the goal of the Worldbuilder’s Anvil is to build more natural looking BS.

So, what the heck it a subculture?

A subculture as I define it is a part of a larger culture where enough people share a different set of cultural norms derived from the greater culture. A subculture is larger than a group of people, so large that no individual can completely control the direction it moves and people. People outside of the group who know of would know of it should have heuristic beliefs about the group.

Or more simply, subcultures grow out a culture's population as it food surplus allows for the sophistication grows.

Join Michael and Jeffery in this episode as a look into the basic patterns of subcultures.

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2 Main types of +subcultures

Normative
- Job
- Location
- Religion
- Commonalities
Counter Cultures
- Legal (Grow out in times of unrest)
  - Persecuted or Against the state
- Illegal
- Criminal or Persecuted

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Today's Topic Starting your writing journey

Writing is the second most important skill a worldbuilder can know. Curiosity is still the most important skill. Writing is invaluable to a worldbuilder, because you hone your delivery skills and immerse yourself in the world you are creating.

It does not matter what medium you share your work. The benefit comes from the exercise you mind receives when writing down the details of the world. You need not ever share your writing to become a writer. However, if you ever want to share the art of your worldbuilding you need to become a writer.

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The only two things that a writer need to do?

You only need to do two things to become a writer. Reading and Writing. You need to spend time reading great works. Not as a fan, but you are looking to find how the writer accomplishes. You are just looking for the brushstrokes used by authors to deliver their stories.

I think Jeff Goins summed it up really well in his article, “Why Writers Need to Read if They Want to Be Good”.

Don’t read to accomplish anything.
Study language.
Read what others are reading.

Remember, your reading as a writer is not about genre. Personally, I avoid reading new fantasy novels at this point when I am writing. I am looking for writers of other genres to inspire me with different ways to deliver words on the page.

The next step

If you need to improve your reading comprehension or writing skills, even after you start practicing those skills. Do not give up. Look for others to help you.

Writing circles
Beta read for others
Look for online courses from authors you respect
Look for more academic help through classes from colleges or through places like Great Courses Plus.

Author vs writer?

Now, I do not believe writers have to be published authors. However, if want to share your content online in any form. You need to add more writing to your routine.

You might want to write novels, short stories, or RPG adventures; or you might want to simply make videos, share art, or do a podcast. All of these types of creatives should write.

However, if you are in the first group. Those people who will deliver their art through the written word. You need to start reading and writing every day. For the rest of you, try do spend some time every week. The only risk to you is exercising your mind.

Now join Michael and Jeffery in this week’s episode action packed episode of the Worldbuilder’s Anvil.

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READ YOUR ASS OFF
- I started with comic books
- Fantasy got me into reading novels
writing book/story reports and reviews to confirm comprehension (remember all those reading comprehension exercises in school?
Take writing/literature classes
They Only two types of narrative stories ever told
Have an opinion
Have something to say

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Write a book report.

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Get rid some of all those old books you don't need anymore. Someone else wants to read them.

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Episode 168 Frame your fantasy world 0

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Today's Topic Before you start building your fantasy world. Build a framework that helps you get to telling stories

Join Michael and Jeffery in this episode as the look to help show how to create a framework for worldbuilding.

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The two reasons I call it my style a framework world
- Scaffolding
- Framing the shot
What is the point?
- Speed to production
- Consistence
- Allows for further growth
The 5 Contacts to a world
- First Contact (Overview)
  - Determine your Frame
  - Determine reusability
  - Describe the Mission
- Second Contact (The Basics)
  - Create a Basics (Places, Rules, Faces, Races Culture, And Technology)
  - Just what you know do not force it
  - Frame Outline
- Third Contact
  - Looking through the frame at the world
  - Map it (Size matters)
  - Identify Needs (Cultures, Religions, languages, States, People)
- Four Contact
  - The Foundations (Three Points of reference)
  - Frame Focus (Flesh out what you need to flesh out your outline)
- Fifth Contact
  - Launch your Project
  - Flesh out the rest on demand

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Today's Topic Framework Fantasy World

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The importance of world building
The challenge is to make it seem real from a perspective
The Risk is focusing so much on creating the world that you forget when people interact with it from the angle you show them.
- Scope of the earth
  - 15 Techtronic plates
  - At Least 163 ethnic groups
  - Over 510 Million km^2 of surface area
  - Over 4.5 billion years old give or take
  - Over 107 billion people have been born
- Then there is the rest of the universe
  - 91 Billion Light years’ side to side (Diameter really)
- Alternate reality’s, other planes of existence, etc etc
Could you come up with the time to create all that?
- Movies – Sets vs reality Studio fight scene in Blazing Saddles
- Stage Magicians – Catching a bullet
Worldbuilding is the art of Bullshitting
- Faking the set
- Creating an illusion

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Think about your world, are you stuck? Create borrow cheat and steal a framework. Something to give you a checklist so you consistently create the BS you need to share

The Real-world Task for the Day

Look for ways to increase your energy, Start with breathing. And I mean deep breathing.

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Today's Topic Fantasy worldbuilding inspiration in the every day

Join Michael and Jeffery as they start looking into their life to for inspiration, at least for an episode.

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The Tree stump
The Snow piles
Pets and kids in action
People watch
Walkabouts
- Pick a place
- Start in the center
- Where and how do the inhabitants move and eat
- Where do they work?
- Where are the importing structures
- How much do they stand out?

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Today's Topic How to get a game rolling for a one shot

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Mission or Monty Hall style game
Well planned Story outline
- Use your pre-built resources towns, NPCs and the such
Pre-built characters (optional quicks for players)
Pre-written notes and maps
Post-it notes to plan
Keep the person in charge controlled by the GM
Kill Michael’s characters before important scenes
Or Just fucking wing it and pray

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Run a one-shot game

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Mar 5, 2017

Today's Topic The Tools I use to keep my campaign organized.

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Maps and Art needed ProFantasy Art
NPC List in excel or google docs
Scrivener Worldbuilding File
- Names lists
Scrivener Campaign file
- Story Outline
- NPC List linked
- Generic NPC Jobs list
- Excel Name Generators
Notebooks of doom
- Rocket book wave smart notebook

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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Start sharing your world

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Start your website and then figure out the details

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Episode 159 Big History, My Worldbuilding best friend 0

Jan 30, 2017

Today's Topic Using the patterns of long history to create a natural framework fantasy world

Big history is a great way see the patterns that have successful let to the civilization on earth. Join Michael and I as we explore studying Big History to better build fantasy worlds

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Big History
That is it
Weak planning, great passion for the topic.

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Learn more about big history

The Real-world Task for the Day

Enjoy the winter season, unless you live south of the equator than enjoy the summer.

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