Today's Topic – 5 steps to create great characters great characters

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1. Strong Archetypes
2. Use Quirks to add flavor and uniqueness and develop personality
3. Develop strong motivations think of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
4. Be able to visualize them in your head
5. Use story action to define character,

WBT

Create a new character follow our advice

RW  Task

                Create a character based on you

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Today's Topic – Let’s Build a new Campaign, part 3

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• Character conflict / ensembleß
  • Theme:
    • What lines are too far?
    • And is good and bad?
    • Lizard since of family
  • Why the invasion
    • In search of food
    • You are just a cow
    • Closest island is running out of food
  • High Fantasy ß
  • The Journey for the Item ß
    • The Frog hero bob is not of the right class
      • Shamans for war
      • Gender swapping frog
      • What changes the way things are
        • First contact this time with lizard
      • Climax Choose
        • Finally to change beneath to farm tool power gain
        • Peaceful Pete learns about family connection to frogs
        • Forged by a god
      • Path to resolution
        • What is the setback for Pete
          • How does he recover
        • What is the setback for Bob
          • How does he recover
        • What happens when Bob gets the item
        • Prove the relation is key to peace Trident is needed
        • Main story resolution
          • Bob becomes looses all gender and uses trident to prove the link
          • Peaceful Pete – Holds the Alamo and new shaman follow Pete’s
          • Evil Ed (Lizard Leader) - Exiled with Shaman
          • Silly Shamans() - Exiled with Shaman
        • Side quests and Random scenes stored
        • Character log
        • Player knowledge
      • The next season
        • Characters Details

WBT

Think about resolution and conclusion

RW  Task

                Listen means more than hearing

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Today's Topic – Let’s Build a new Campaign, part 2

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• Character conflict / ensembleß
  • Theme:
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    • And is good and bad?
    • Lizard since of family
  • Why the invasion
    • In search of food
    • You are just a cow
    • Closest island is running out of food
  • High Fantasy ß
  • The Journey for the Item ß
    • The Frog hero bob is not of the right class
      • Shamans for war
      • Gender swapping frog
      • What changes the way things are
        • First contact this time with lizard
      • Climax Choose
        • Finally to change beneath to farm tool power gain
        • Peaceful Pete learns about family connection to frogs
        • Forged by a god
      • Path Nenet
    • The next season
      • Characters Details

·        Start from the ending or the beginning

·        The Central conflict

·        The plan

WBT

Work on your outline

RW  Task

                Remember those you love everyday

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Today's Topic – Finishing the Framework

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• Character conflict / ensembleß
  • Theme:
    • What lines are too far?
    • And is good and bad?
  • Why the invasion
    • In search of food
    • You are just a cow
    • Closest island is running out of food
      •  
    •  
  • High Fantasy ß
  • The Journey for the Item ß
    • The Frog hero bob is not of the right class
      • Shamans for war
      • Gender swapping frog
      • Start Here
    •  
    • Climax Choose
    • Forged by a god
  • The next season
    • Characters Details

·        Start from the ending or the beginning

·        The Central conflict

·        The plan

WBT

Outline a story for your world

RW  Task

                Finish up your framework as needed

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Today's Topic – Finishing the Framework

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• RPG Vs Novel
• The Central Conflict
  • Epic makes sense but could be cover or complement.
  • Character conflict / ensemble ß
  • Inner Struggle
• Genre
  • High Fantasy ß
  • Sword And Sorcery
  • Dark Fantasy
• Story Archetypes
  • Hero’s Journey
  • The Journey for the Item ß
  • Rise of the old gods Pro or co
  • Tragedy
  • Other
• The next season
  • Characters Details

·        Start from the ending or the beginning

·        The Central conflict

·        The plan

WBT

Outline a story for your world

RW  Task

                Finish up your framework as needed

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Today's Topic – choosing the outline

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·        Moving forward from the framework

·        Review your story outline

·        Now to get to the Devil in the Details

·        When do you have enough?

·        Do not forget that this is full on fiddle battle for your soul

·        Remember you are not done building out the framework until you are done in the world

·        The story out    

WBT

Plan to store non-essential notes

RW  Task

When was the last time you helped another person?      

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Today's Topic – The end of the beginning of worldbuilding

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• Do you need to have good answers to all the questions?
• Remember this is a framework so the fifth contact is not ready to start
• Revisiting the frame
  • Have you looked at the basics of what you know?
  • First Contact (Overview)
    • Determine your Frame The area you want to explore
  • Second Contact (The Basics)
    • Frame Outline
  • Third Contact
    • Identify Needs (Cultures, Religions, languages, States, People)
  • Four Contact
  • Fifth Contact
• Is the framework done for not so Waterworld?
• Consider a full story outline
• Revisit your framework and add as needed

WBT

Outline a story for your world

RW  Task

                Finish up your framework as needed Contact your family

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• Today's Topic – Less magic Rules more

   

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  • What is world tech
  • • As you go culture, race, and state tech
  • Framework vs 7 Rules of magic systems
  • • Not a system yet
  • Where is the magic performed?
  • • Anywhere
    • Place of power help
  • What can the magic not do or can?
  • • Not done by the user
    • Hierarchy of spirits – Ghost, Soul, Nature Spirits, Wandering Spirits, Guardians, gods, the older ones
    • Other Planer, Cursed or GMO-Free
  • When can the magic be performed?
  • • Anytime but takes time
    • Can be stored
    • Spirit work better at fix
  • Who can perform the magic?
  • • Anyone, but someone attuned is the winner
  • How is the magic performed?
  • • Supernatural
  • Why is the form of magic used?
  • • Protect yourself from the supernatural and aid yourself in the world

   

  WBT

  Create your words

  RW  Task

  Relax to the Prestige

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Today's Topic – Simple might still be better

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• What is world tech
  • As you go culture, race, and state tech
• Episode 116: The Simple, Succinct Technology Level Method
  • Agriculture
  • Energy
  • Communication
  • Engineering
  • Trades
  • Transportation
  • Cultural
  • Religious
  • Scientific
  • Magic --- Not today
• Islands and the exception of agriculture rules
• Where is the tech used?
• Who used the tech?
• What does the tech do?
• When does the technology start?
• How long is the technology important?
• Why is this important?

WBT

Level up your tech

RW  Task

Get out of social media, watch the social dilemma AND TURN OFF EVERY APP NOTIFCATION

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Today's Topic – Do got to make them all

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• Why are artifacts important – Spear of Water - Canoe
• My Warning
• Is there a correct order of answering the 6
• Changing or updating results
• Where is the Item
• Who Made the item
• What does the item do
• When was it made
• How was it made
• Why was it made

Today's Topic – A real conversation about the place of fiction in conversation is needed

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• Disclaimer about qualifications and knowledge on the subject
• Disclaimer this is not about gameplay or bugs
• The Cyberpunk 2077 complaints sounds familiar
  • Transphobic
  • Poor Haitian Star
  • Poor treatment
  • Cultural appropriation
  • Toxic Fan-base
  • Causing Seizures
  • … I will miss many and for that I apologize
• The Genre is mean to show a punk backlash vs a corporate world where everyone is marginalized… taking the way we marginalized people and expanding it.
• Cyberpunk vs our world
  • Algorithms not implants
  • Influencer vs Followers
  • Marinizing individuals
  • Too much white noise
  • THE TRAFFIC
  • Large corporations us information to try and segment people to buying their products. Smaller corporation try the same to start carving out a niche
• Conclusions
  • NOT CLOSE TO PERFECT
  • It is more than okay to be offended by a cyberpunk setting… dystopian fiction must do this
  • More time is needed to see if genre was used as cover to generate buzz
  • Should we want fiction devoid of images that are offensive and is that even possible?
    • Even being offended can be offensive
  • Where is the line been fasciation and appropriation
  • Is a corporation that point to problematic behavior to get attention committing the same problematic behavior?

WBT

                Consider challenging thoughts in your art

RW  Task

Do a good deed in opposition of every offense you see

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Today's Topic – Well start one today

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• What is the idea of Minimumal Viable Planning
  • Inspires my visions of worldbuilding, but works with much more
• Goal of MV Planning
  • Show the needed roadway to get something done
• Tools You need
  • The Five Steps to Achieve your goals – Brendon Burchard
    • This might take research
    • Sample 5 Goals to Selling Courses Online
      • Curriculum
      • Find a message for an audience
      • Beta Launch Course
      • Course Launch
      • Evergreen Launch
    • Minimize your life focusing on what is important
      • Fear of the Theory of 4 Burners James Clear
      • Reducing your decision
      • Outsource As You can
    • Budget for time and money
  • What you need to do
    • Outline what you need to get each of the five things
      • Who, What, When, Where, Why, How
    • Rate on a scale of 1-10 how proficient your are each thing your need
      • Hint if you do not know where to start then your skill is 1
    • Turn your outline into a list
      • Asana or Trello work great
    • Look at the first Item. Can you do the work to achieve it. If you can do it
      • Only learn what you need to get the next task done
      • Do the work as you are learning.
      • Finish the other learning later. Move on to the next task when you finish

WBT

MVP your world

RW  Task

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Today's Topic – Self-care because we Care about you

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• Move it or Lose it
  • Physical activity
  • Caring for your body
  • Eating right
• Great Food/Health Documentaries
  • The Game Changers
  • What the Health
  • Fed Up
  • Food Inc
  • Forks over Knives
  • The Magic Pill
  • Rotten
  • Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dying
  • Hungry for Change
• Clean your Mind
  • Positive Self-talk
  • Letting go of Negativity
  • Thoughts and actions that serve you AND others

WBT

Use your clear mind to create a sassy world

RW  Task

Thoughts and actions that serve you AND others

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Today's Topic – You have got to tell them

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• Different Top/down hard vs soft
• What are the features we want to explore in really not water world
• Where do they live?
• Who are they?
• When are they?
• How Do they live?
• Why do they exist?
• Once per race

WBT

Bring forth fictional life

RW  Task

MVP or nothing

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Today's Topic – We’ll sea ya soon matie

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• Places
  • Planet Side first not space
  • Wind and currents
    • Thermo vs Surface
  • Lack of continents
  • Mountains or lack there of
    • Where is it?
    • What happens there?
    • When is it important?
    • How is it used?
    • Why did it start being used?

WBT

Right a story about the weather

RW  Task

Minimal Viable Planning

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Today's Topic – A spoon full of f*** keeps the passenger away

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• Spoiler warning (At Least minor character developing)
• WTF happened (Short form)
  • Genocide accusations are overblown from what we know
  • But he was eating other sentient beings
• What did we learn?
  • Hunger issues for the pair
  • Baby Yoda is noooo vegan
  • The Mandalorian is a horrible parent… so is the passenger
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• X reasons it is okay
  • Protagonist do not have to be good (even if they are cute)
  • Characters learn best through failure… like all people
  • All people act out of character
• As you develop the “People” of your your keep this in mind
• Remember if you have impact with your characters and stories, you will be called out for it. And it is okay.

WBT

Binge the Mandalorian today

RW  Task

Go the undercroft and judge baby Yoda!

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Today's Topic – Well start one today

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• The 5 Contacts to a world
• First Contact (Overview)
  • Determine your Frame The area you want to explore -Up to user
    • A Small Advance island vs larger primitive power
  • Determine reusability
  • Describe the Mission Free and Shareable world
• Second Contact (The Basics)
  • Create fill in the nouns you know 0
  • 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)
    • Smaller Island
    • Invaders
    • 2 people
    • 2 Magic types
    • Geographic
      • Small
      • Currents
      • wind
      • Volcanos
      • reef
    • Tech
      • Early gunpowder
    • Transportation
    •  
  • Four Contact
    • The Foundations (Three Points of reference)
    • Advanced Island, Invaders, and Sea World
    • Frame Focus (Flesh out what you need to flesh out your outline)
  • Fifth Contact
    • Launch your Project – Open World
    • Flesh out the rest on demand

WBT

Start a new world or time in world

RW  Task

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Today's Topic – Create a frame and starting

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• The 5 Contacts to a world
• First Contact (Overview)
  • Determine your Frame The area you want to explore
  • Determine reusability
  • Describe the Mission
• Second Contact (The Basics)
  • Create fill in the nouns you know ()
  • 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

WBT

Create a document and store your contacts?

Try using framework perspectives and this list to look at your world. Maybe you need to stop building something you are spending too much time on. Maybe you need to start building in another area of your world.

RW  Task

Ask a creative friend for feedback

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Today's Topic – The Starting Place

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• Bottom-Up Worldbuilding – From Inspiration to Perspiration
  1. i) Identify the inspiring concept
  2. ii) Why is it interesting to me?

• iii) How can I make this interesting/inspiring to others?

1. iv) WHAT is it that I want to say?
2. v) Find the nouns that answer my questions

• The six questions that create my nouns
  1. i) Where are we? (Places)
  2. ii) How does it relate to us? (Rules)

• iii) When are we? (Time)

1. iv) Who is there? (Races)
2. v) What is there? (Props)
3. vi) What are they doing? (Cultures)

• The nouns I need
  1. i) Places
  2. ii) Time

• iii) Races

1. iv) Props
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3. vi) Rules

WBT

Write a one-page story using the Bottom Up approach to worldbuilding?

RW  Task

Go enjoy the outdoors before it gets too cold!

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Today's Topic – More or less

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5 Things to start worldbuilding

1. Storing what you have done
2. Finding your Frames
3. Identify Deviations
4. Creating a worldbuilding inventory
5. Creating a project for your world

Remember the Electrum rule of worldbuilding

Remember, every rule has an exception

Also remember rule six

                There is no rule six

WBT

Rules 7 of worldbuilding is rule six has not exceptions

RW  Task

Relax with some Monty Python

Today's Topic – The Starting Place

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• Top Down – Naturalistic nouns on the world scale
  1. Identify the questions that consume me
  2. Find the nouns that answer my questions

• What are my inspirations … for this setting?

1. What is the overlap?

• The six questions that creates my nouns
  1. Where are we? (Places)
  2. How does it relate to us? (Rules)

• When are we? (Time)

1. Who is there? (Races)
2. What is there? (Props)
3. What are they doing? (Cultures)

• The nouns I need
  1. Places
  2. Time

• Races

1. Props
2. Cultures
3. Rules

• Inspiration for a new setting
  1. Gardul is about the collisions of cultures due to migration
  2. Ides New the development of a central culture???

• Island World

• Sum up and avoiding the trap

WBT

What are your questions that drive your worldbuilding? What are the nouns that they give you?

RW  Task

Share yours in the undercroft and get your copy of the Mind map

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Season 2 Episode 4 Finding your Worldbuilding

Today's Topic – As you wish

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• Knowing yourself in 4 points
• Free thinking Scale
  • Are you a curmudgeon to childish
• Worldbuilding Type
  • Top Down
  • Bottom up
  • Hybrid
• How you like your worlds Ep 138
  • Realistic
  • Naturalistic
  • Mosaic
  • Fantastic
• Scale of Purpose
  • World to Story only

WBT

What type of worldbuilder are you?

RW  Task

What kind of worldbuilder do you wish you could be?

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Today's Topic – Uncling yourself

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• We are human
• Self-loathing is our worst enemy
• Say sorry when you have to. forgive yourself. get back to living fully – Brendon Burchard
• Accept what is and what isn’t, but do not make those things right or wrong. They just are. They just exist.
• Not everyone is going to like you...and that’s okay.

WBT

Create a character of yourself, and make them the hero

RW  Task

Retrain yourself for self-respect

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Today's Topic – The only thing that can drag us away from electric sex

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• Basic Review
• How is Ralphie A worldbuilder
• What are the worldbuilding elements in the story (Nouns)
• Jeff’s childhood worldbuilding moment Who in the world is Harry?... Hairy?
• Michael worldbuilding moments Werewolf tag game

WBT

Think back to worldbuilding you did as a child? What were some of your Favorites?

RW  Task

Share your best stories with family/friend/undercroft

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Today's Topic –Steps to awakening your inner worldbuilder

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• What is worldbuilding?
  • Games and Stories (at a VERY basic level)
  • A set of nouns we use to do something
• Not Just for Genre Fiction
  • Understanding the World
  • Backbone for Stories
  • 5 Steps to awakening your inner worldbuilder
• desire to be understood
• Before there is science there is worldbuilding
  • Fill in gaps of understanding
• Educational Curiosity
• Making Play Social
• Fictional
  • From Primal to sophisticated worldbuilding

WBT

Play with objects around the house. Make a setting, names, and rules for interaction

Cooler, Couch, and Beer Basket

RW  Task

Share the Story in the Undercroft

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