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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, 2018
Jan 28, 2018

Today's Topic Placing characters out of water

This episode was inspired to help show worldbuilder’s there are tactical choices that can be made to help remove or reduce infodumps in their stories.  I love my world! And I understand the desire to share as much as possible.  I feel the pressure of my world trying to force it way out of my fingers.  However, it can feel forced or worse yet, fake! So what we are proposing is find a way to work in a “fish out of water” character to accomplish sharing the world without large infodumps.

Join Michael and I in this episode as we discuss what a “fish out of water” character and different ways it can be deployed!

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Create a fish out of water character

The Real-world Task for the Day

Think of times you have been a fish out of water

 

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Jan 21, 2018

Episode 210 Building an Iron Age Gang

MS 119 BCE

Today's Topic Let’s make us a very old school gang

To further flesh out the world needed for the Marcus and the Jewels of Daivvavaahra heist story I knew I wanted a gang.  It would be easier to create a classic thieves guild, the trope is so common in fantasy.  However, it does not yet make sense in my world. The idea of guilds are starting to show up, however, they are currently only used in very common professions. Luckily this is not common enough in the city of Baurhdrakkas. I personally wanted a street gang to play the role of secondary antagonist.  I like the idea of having another group of criminals interfere with a burglary style heist story. 

So join Michael and I as we create a gang in the iron age city of Baurhdrakkas.

 

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The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Write a story about a pirate from space in the old west trying to get a ship crew to go to the sea. Bonus point

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Play Assassin's Creed Black Flag

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Episode 209 Marcus and the Jewels of Daivvavaahra, Part 3

Episode 200 Let’s Build a Crypt

Episode 199 Marcus and the Jewels of Daivvavaahra, Part 2 

Episode 194 Let’s Build a Fantasy Villain’s Lair

Episode 193 Marcus and the Jewels of Daivvavaahra, Part one

Episode 187 Pathway to DOOM

 

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Episode 209 Marcus and the Jewels of Daivvavaahra, Part 3 http://gardul.com/blog/episode-210-building-iron-age-gang/

Episode 200 Let’s Build a Crypt http://gardul.com/blog/episode-200-lets-build-crypt/

Episode 199 Marcus and the Jewels of Daivvavaahra, Part 2 http://gardul.com/blog/episode-199-marcus-jewels-daivvavaahra-part-2/

Episode 194 Let’s Build a Fantasy Villain’s Lair http://gardul.com/blog/episode-194-lets-build-a-fantasy-villains-lair/

Episode 193 Marcus and the Jewels of Daivvavaahra, Part one http://gardul.com/blog/episode-193-marcus-and-the-jewels-of-daivvavaahra-part-one/

Episode 187 Pathway to DOOM http://gardul.com/blog/episode-187-pathway-doom

 

 

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Jan 14, 2018

Today's Topic We Pick up with Marcus and Gregor stealing a bone

Marcus raids the toom of King Hermann and learns a very dark secret about the heist he is planning with Gregor. Michael and I pick up on the third part of the heist to steal the jewels of Daivvavaahra.

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Episode 200 Let’s Build a Crypt

Episode 199 Marcus and the Jewels of Daivvavaahra, Part 2 

Episode 194 Let’s Build a Fantasy Villain’s Lair

Episode 193 Marcus and the Jewels of Daivvavaahra, Part one

Episode 187 Pathway to DOOM

 

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Episode 200 Let’s Build a Crypt http://gardul.com/blog/episode-200-lets-build-crypt/

Episode 199 Marcus and the Jewels of Daivvavaahra, Part 2 http://gardul.com/blog/episode-199-marcus-jewels-daivvavaahra-part-2/

Episode 194 Let’s Build a Fantasy Villain’s Lair http://gardul.com/blog/episode-194-lets-build-a-fantasy-villains-lair/

Episode 193 Marcus and the Jewels of Daivvavaahra, Part one http://gardul.com/blog/episode-193-marcus-and-the-jewels-of-daivvavaahra-part-one/

Episode 187 Pathway to DOOM http://gardul.com/blog/episode-187-pathway-doom

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Jan 7, 2018

Today's Topic Every Hero needs someone to guide them on their journey

 Michael and I have been talking about starting an ongoing series about character archetypes. We understand the importance of creating characters that have patterns that will be easily identifiable by readers and players alike. It helps them step into a new world in comfort. It saves their imagination for envisioning your world. And we figured, why not start with a little DOOM!

Join us as we look at one of the most important and fun archetypes from the prophesiers, doomsayers, and soothsayers.

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Create a doomsayer

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