Today's Topic - Lookout for the underdog

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• Why Tropes are important
• The chosen one
• The Mentor
• Lovable Rogue
• Elders
• Fish out of Water
• Ensemble vs Pure Protagonist
• Hybrid vs pure trope

WBT

What are your favorite characters tropes

RW  Task

What is your trope?

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Today's Topic – Stop working so much and relax

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• What is a Relaxation Accord
• Who are the parties involved?
• Why is according important vs escapism
• My Steps to the accord
  • The parties show review their weekly schedules
  • Identify a time that each person can have to do stuff
    • Worktime and Hobby Time
  • Have a shared schedule to remember
  • Escape clause
  • Get a win/win deal

WBT

Identify if you accord

RW  Task

            Let us know how it works out

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Time Budget

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Today's Topic – Why I like a routine for getting through writer's block

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• Music that I love, but do not feel the need to sing.
• Review the outline and make changes
• 10 Minute Break – Get the blood flowing
• Non-distracting environment
• Non- distracting mind
  • Is there something important distracting me?
  • Make a note and move on
• and a shower
• Just write for 15 more minutes. Anything that comes to mind.
• Take a notebook to bed End the process for the day.

WBT

Create a routine that works for you

RW  Task

Share your routine with us.    

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Today's Topic - Part one of X,  hey I am a novice video game designer

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Podcast Show Flow

• Overview needs for indie JRPG game
• Baurhdrakkeim
  • 7 Tribes – Lutteim, Ichluttiem, Äbunluttiem, Bhalfqareim, Tracchuliem, Veintraccqariem, Hirreim
• Ordassa
  • Location
  • Status Names
  • Duke in charge of the county
• Maps
  • Travel map(s)
  • County overview
  • 8 Community maps –
    • Lichenniczeedohar (Green Lake City, Location of (Mainzphar)
    • Berpqenololhumphar – Orc Danger Castle
    • Player home (Lutteim)
    • Ichluttiem home
    • Äbunluttiem home
    • Bhalfqareim home
    • Tracchuliem home
    • Veintraccqariem home
    • Hirreim home
    • Lichenniczeedfamïmas Green lake islands
  • Classes
    • Warrior Class per tribe
    • Poet (Rouge)
    • Holy magic
    • Carver Magic
  • Characters

WBT

Scene-by-scene – find your worldbuilding needs

RW  Task

Relax and have some fun

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Fundamentals of Story Structure

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The Five Essential Elements Of A Story

Parts of a Story: The 11 Essential Story Elements You Need to Get Right

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Today's Topic – Check yourself before you wreck yourself

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Podcast Show Flow

• This takes for granted you are creative
• Why we are the biggest problem in our creative endeavors.
• Three things that you need to achieve more
  • Ambition
  • Action
  • Attitude
• Not a one-time fix, it is about balance and awareness

WBT

Find out what

RW  Task

Go NVTS

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Today's Topic – Finding the basic building blocks of stories

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• What I know
  • Background
  • 1st Steps New Indie Single-Player RPG Video Game– Tuesday Tidbit for Episode 268
• Before the Story (BS)
• The Incident
• The Strike
• The Fallout
• The Run
• After The Story (AS)

WBT

Write a basic story

RW  Task

            Self-love

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Episode 268 Brainstorming video game content

1st Steps New Indie Single-Player RPG Video Game– Tuesday Tidbit for Episode 268

Episode 307 Story at the basics

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Today's Topic - Why do you think 1/1?

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• Why
• 1. Families are not just around in the holidays.
• What are the problems
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  2. Stopping the family drama
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  3. What to do when you think your toddler or infant is out to get you?

• How do I let go?
• 1. Let your kids be a kid, redirect them. They are not out to get you.
  2. Manage yourself
  3. Get your sleep (7-9) hours
  4. Transition
  5. Release meditation

WBT

Come up with a fictional New Year holiday

RW  Task

            Commit to improving yourself, do it for 60 days

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Today's Topic – Dealing the family after the holidays

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• Why
  1. Families are not just around in the holidays.
• What are the problems
  1. What if the family does not support my dreams?
  2. Stopping the family drama
  3. What to do when you think your toddler or infant are out to get you?
     • Learning, lack of impulse control, and hormones raging.

• How do I let go?
  1. Let your kids be a kids, redirect them. They are not out to get you.
  2. Manage yourself
  3. Get your sleep (7-9) hours
  4. Transition
  5. Release meditation

WBT

            Worldbuild or create when your are stressed or tired

RW  Task

The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive by Brendon Buchard

Bonus Book for parents: No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame by Janet Landsbury     

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How to Stop Fighting

Not Naughty: 10 Ways Kids Appear to Be Acting Bad But Aren't

How to Deal with Negative People

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Today's Topic – Finding the basic building blocks of stories

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• Why is it important to know what a story really is?
• What a story is not?
  • A structure
  • Theme or meme
  • Outline
  • A Goal
  • Elements (Setting, Characters, Plot, Conflict, Theme, Point-of-view, Tone, Style)
  • This list can go on forever.
• A story is an explanation of an event (Conflict) that is exchanged between people.
  • You need to explain important points before, and give resolution to help the other people satisfaction that the story is complete
• Jeff’s 6 Steps to a complete story
  1. Before the Story (BS)
  2. The Incident
  3. The Strike
  4. The Fallout
  5. The Run
  6. After The Story (AS)
• If you want a longer story repeat steps 3 and 4
• Character arcs should be this structure inside if your story
• Sub plots should follow steps 2-5

WBT

Write a basic story

RW  Task

            Look at your world and create a story to host your setting

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Today's Topic – a horrible job being outsourced to automation, part 2

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Today's Topic – a horrible job being outsourced to automation

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Podcast Show Flow

• A Fantasy Robot?
  • Golems
    • Iron Golem
  • Automaton
    • Dwemer Automaton
  • Clockwork
    • Hugo
  • What would the purpose of it?
    • Story / Theme
  • What is our robot?
  • Who made it?
  • Strengths and Weaknesses
  • Primary Material
  • How does it function
  • Is it charged? Does it need to recharge
  • Back Story fun

WBT

Wait for part 2

RW  Task

Wait for part 2

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Golems

Iron Golem

Automaton

Dwemer Automaton

Hugo

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Automaton https://www.greek-gods.org/greek-creatures/automatons.php

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Hugo https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970179/

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Today's Topic – Fer Realz

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• Why the Death
• The Solution
• The topics of undercroft
  • Worldbuilding
  • Storytelling
  • Life
• Episode types
  • Worldbuilding Basics
  • Worldbuilding Let's Build
  • Worldbuilding Nerd Up
  • Worldbuilding In the Wild
  • Storytelling Mechanics
  • Storytelling Writer Block
  • Storytelling Characters
  • Storytelling Let's Build
  • Life Education
  • Life Inspiration
  • Life Relax
  • Life Family

WBT

            Let us know if you want more or less of something

RW  Task

            Join the undercroft, let us know what we are missing or… what we should eat

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Today's Topic – The might be Giants, and what are we going to do if they are?

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• What is a legend?
• Are they based on reality?
• How core is the belief or stories?
• What happens if they meet the thing that exists?
• What happens if they do not live up to expectations?

WBT

Make a legendary creature called Michael.

RW  Task

Finish `NaNoWriMo then prepare for the holidays while layering.  

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Today's Topic – The Really Real Walking Dead

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1. Inspired by a Yahoo! News Article,
   1. Zombie studies: The scientists taking the living dead seriously
2. Thank you Scientific American… Basically Episode 79 is real
   1. Real-Life Zombies
   2. Zombie Carpenter Ants
3. What is a zombie?
   1. “someone who moves around as if unconscious and being controlled by someone else:” – Cambridge
4. Google Scholar 77,900
5. Types of Zombies
   1. Undead Zombies
   2. Magic Zombies
   3. Parasite Zombies – Warm Bodies
   4. Pathogen Zombies
   5. Drug Zombies
   6. Virus Zombies (Tech Zombies)
   7. Media Zombies
   8. Political Zombies
   9. Worker Zombie
   10. Electric Zombie / Science Zombie

WBT

Eat brains

RW  Task

What kind of gamer 4 Types Of Gamers And Learner Engagement?

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Real-Life Zombies

Zombie studies: The scientists taking the living dead seriously

Episode 79: Ant Zombie Over Lords

What kind of gamer 4 Types Of Gamers And Learner Engagement?

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Today's Topic – Ignorance will Destroy us… again

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Today's Topic –  Better Audio than the poorly edited part one.

Audio Issues in the first part could cause a bit of confusion when listening to the audio or possibly take the host out of context. 30 minutes was lost. It does take away from the audio! I apologize for any confusion.

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• 10x the cast
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• Avoiding conflict

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Call the people you love

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Today's Topic –  Most annoying problems in storytelling

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Today's Topic –  What we want to see and play

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  • The Testaments
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  • Ghost Recon
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  • Cyberpunk 2077
  • The outer worlds
  • Mount and Blade II
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• Movies or TV
  • The Witcher
  • The Wheel of Time
  • The Cursed (Updated King Arthurian)
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Today's Topic -  Let’s Build an elven culture 

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·         How the writing works.

·         What the religion looks like

·         Geography / Weather

o   Materials for building and

·         Types of clothing

o   Materials

o   Colors

o   Clasp

·         Accessories

·         Architecture

o   Inspiration

o   Important Structures

o   Type of materials

·         Arts

·         Based on materials

·         Stone

·         Wood and weeds

·         Mud

·         Metals

·         Pigments and Paints

·         Common goods

·         The Mouth

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Today's Topic –  Let’s Build a race of elves

All the way back in episode 246 we set the stage for looking into the fantasy genre. This episode we take our look into the Historical Fiction Genre. 

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Today's Topic –  Because history is so passée

All the way back in episode 246 we set the stage for looking into the fantasy genre. This episode we take our look into the Historical Fiction Genre. 

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• Not sure what the real name of the city is yet
• Why is it interesting
• • Takes from Mesoamerican, but creates it own feel
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• • Great circle island cut by 5 great canals and 2 minor canals
  • 1st ring – lowest status
  • 2nd ring – Nobles and clans
  • Center – Capital of the empire
• 1st ring
• 2nd ring
• Center
• Takeaways

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• The three things that make it urban
• • Earth based
  • Modern day … for the most part
  • Set in a large urban area
• The many spices of urban
• • Mystery, Romance, horror, Fantasy element are hidden from most of society
• Tightly related genres
• • YA, Para, supernatural, Vampire
• Pros
• Cons
• Interesting works
• • Twilight, Hungary games … most ya, Dresden Files, That potter boy
• Interesting stories
• Who does it work for?

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Today's Topic Starting a The what and why of the changes to history

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• Episode 286 Secret Episode: Starting a new setting in cWoDTheme to Nashville By Night
• This list is not everything, I would share
• Point of Deviation and subversion
• These are the key things
• Alterative History of Nashville 
• • April 30th 1892 Ephraim Grizzard was believed killed in 1892
  • • Turned into a Venture, All events appeared to happen as reported  
  • April 24th 1895 The Flu epidemic of Nashville.
  • • City cut off by Grover Cleveland
  • Great Flood of 1927, really hit the Downtown and west end of the city
  • June 6th 1953 Eisenhower is assassinated by Walter Rauff
  • 1956 Construction starts on Interstate 24, 40, and 65 all in Nashville
  • • No evidence what found linking the 
  • Oct 6th 1957 The Opry House Scandal breaks President Nixon is part owner of company that profited by the construction boom by the reporter Douglas Edwards
  • January 7rd 1958 Sevier Aerospace launched maiden flight of Minuteman supersonic Passenger test plan is makes its first flight from Nashville to London in under 4 hours
  • January 8nd 1958 Douglas Edwards is killed in car accident in the Catskills Walter Cronkite becomes the news anchor and CBS stope reporting on the scandal     
  • 1962 Nashville becomes the 10 Largest city in the US.
  • 1987 Nashville passes Chicago at the 3rd largest city

Worldbuilding Task

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 Real world task

Have a backup plan

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Today's Topic Not the internal tools either

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Worldbuilding Task

Right a paragraph about the last time you got angry by only describing how you acted, or how you felt

Real world task

Read something

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Today's Topic And do not forget the Kitchen sink

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• Big Picture of what is needed for Novel Vs RPG Setting
• 3 important needs for a novel setting
  • Details needed for the narrative
  • Details for the characters involved
  • Enough background to remember and understand the setting you are using
• • Everything the GM needs to know to understand what is needed
  • Main Quest is optional
  • Adventure hooks
  • Convert world elements into desired system
  • Everything the players should know in general about the setting. These could be total lies
  • Optional
    • Additions from the base system
    • Subtractions
  • Additional points of interest for the GM to flesh out if they want to
  • Testing is never optional

Worldbuilding Task

Swap settings

Real world task

Remember being involved in the world around you does not mean to shape the world to look like you

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