Today's Topic Here are simple hacks I use to get the most out of my time

One of the major issues I hear from worldbuilders is that they do not know how to get the time.  However, often time they have no idea even how much time they have to work creatively each week

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• Win-Win goals support agreement
• • I need time, what time do you want?
  • Not judging
  • A weekly discussion about obligations and needs
  • Care about their hobby or secondary interest as much as you want them to care about yours… even if they don’t
  • Work on being flexible
• Gmail calendars
• • Shared with family
  • Track your must-do activities

• Budget time (Episode 133 Learn how I found 17 extra hours a week in 15 minutes)
• • 168 Hours
  • Minus Sleep – Work – eating – commuting -  stuff you have to do
• Trello Tracking
• • Major things I am doing (or want 2)  and the steps to get there
• Daily and task planning
• Daily Journal

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This missed moment: Why do we want to make it darker

1. Monster Vision with Joe Bob Briggs story of Highlander
2. Why we want it darker, or something else
3. Possibly a reaction
4. Maybe a reflection of our taste
5. The hope standing out will lead us to our magnum opus

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Today's Topic If you are writing grimdark. The characters are not going to have a good day.

If Horror had a child with Epic Fantasy and the child and the child has a really bad attitude it would be named Grimdark.  Join Michael and Jeffery as the look at the

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• Understanding Grimdark
• What it is not?
  • It is not horror
  • It is not epic fantasy
  • It is not anti epic either
  • It is not dark fantasy
• What it is if the last four items where relegated. Grimdark would be the child of all of them that was treated poorly its entire life.

• Pros
• Cons
• Interesting works
• Interesting stories
• Who does it work for?

If is not horror, it is not Epic but something using both ideas

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My ultimate reason for loving worldbuilding frameworks – Tuesday Tidbit for Episode 262

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This missed moment: My ultimate reason for loving worldbuilding frameworks

1. I am obsessed with cultures
2. I started worldbuilding reading National Geographic
3. My ultimate wonder, why do some areas have many ethnicities while others only have a few.
   1. Balkans verse Britain
4. Flexibility gives me the ability to look at the work in different time periods
5. Wargaming for the win

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Today's Topic – Sketch it out

For two years, Jeff has been working a framework to make better worlds more quickly. Join Jeffery and Micheal as the discuss frameworks, why Jeff made one, and what you need to have in a good framework.

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• Difference between amateur and professional worldbuilders… besides pay
• Benefits of a framework in worldbuilding
• Cons
• What should you look for in your personal framework

Worldbuilding and Real World Task

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Yeah what if I need more than a framework – Tuesday Tidbit for Episode 261

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This missed moment: When your builder is gone, what happens to the structure?

1. : Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average, and Do Work That Matters
2. The High Performance Planner
3. Bonus if you need to understand HP : High Performance Habits
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Today's Topic So many worlds so little time

If you are like Michael you might be a bit confused by the name of this episode.  These are a few ideas for worlds that I had though about last year.  If you are new to worldbuilding, you might think that this is a long list. It is not. This does not include every world, just the ones that came to mind quickly. Join Michael and I as we look at how Jeff approaches the problem of having to many worlds and to little time.

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• Gardul, Earth Destroyed, Cathia, System, Urban Earth What are they?
• Have you ever had this problem?
• Which world to build?
• If you love detail how do you make it rich without the decades of your live per world

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What happens when your builder is gone – Tuesday Tidbit for Episode 260

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This missed moment: When your builder is gone, what happens to the structure?

1. Why is this important
2. The Citadel of Many Arrows
3. The Keep and castle
4. The Training grounds
5. The tunnels
6. The Orc Face

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Today's Topic - Down By the Bay

The orcs came, the saw, the conquered; but they never left. Join Jeffery and Michael as the do a preliminary build of the Castle of Many Arrows situated high up on a cliff overlooking the old port city of Kleinpharas.

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5. Ruler Needs (Bludjest, Reginal Grembadas, Raban Unhirriem)
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7. Public Facing
8. Public Facilities
9. Working Sections
10. Residences

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Today's Topic – The Vaulted topic

I have always thought very utilitarian about creating the architecture for my fantasy setting. What do the people have? What do the people need? What is important to the people?  However, I have come to the belief that I missed 2 very important considerations. Join Michael and Jeffery as they rethink architecture.

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2. What is new?
3. What type of architecture?
4. What type of Resources?
5. What is made with the Recourses?
6. What about Luxury Resources?
7. Basic questions?
8. Palace construction
9. Public what does the government provide?
10. Private

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Today's Topic – Hallmark Christmas Movies are like a Romanic Fantasy Adventure, and no this in not a drinking game

I must admit something. I love Christmas movies. I have watched hours and hours of Hallmark Christmas movies. You might think they are horribly formulaic and they are. However, I have learned two very important lessons about them. They are great for learning structure for stories and they are … Fantasy movies.

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1. Formulas are not evil
2. Making them familiar like family
3. Christmas is a community celebration, Family, and Faith
4. One of the leads use to love Christmas or the hidden Grinch
5. Love taking story inspiration from classics
6. The Big bad foe
7. Use Tropes for characters
8. Magic abound both high and low magic
9. If you do not worry if people know it is a formula you can crank out the work so have fun with it

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This missed moment: Silly was used was not just because of Monty Python

1. Why I called them silly characters
2. Comedy has only come to mean everything that makes you laugh
3. The happy ending (Comedy) vs the sad ending (Tragedy)
4. Comedy verities can be used with characters or subplots resolutions to help pull back the tension from the main story you are trying to tell
5. Laughter is the most obvious way to counteract the tragic story tension building.

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Today's Topic – Is it Kevin Phillips-Bong Not Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel

Michael and Jeffery do something completely different and go into the development of characters for comedy relief.  Even in the most dramatic of storied comedy is needed to allow the readers or gamers to achieve the proper level of dramatic build up. 

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1. Comedy vs Over-the top comedy vs Very Silly
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3. Keep in mind
4. Basics comedy characters
5. Execution is everything, but remember
6. Comedy Lives just beyond the land of Drama
7. Over the top comedy is 10x
8. Very silly is 100x
9. Prepare for lots of extra rewrites
10. And remember it is good to be the king

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This missed moment: Will of the Artifact!!!!!

1. Why will?
   1. Direct vs Indirect
2. Intelligence
3. Empathy
4. Player vs ally control
5. Land as an artifact (Barovia)

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Today's Topic - I forge this episode by the power of Thundera and Eterna

Michael and Jeffery go over the finer points of creating an Artifact or and extremally powerful magical item that to possess makes a character much more powerful but comes at a price. Oh, you want this marble. Mwhahahahaha. Sure.

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2. What is it?
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4. What happens if you are controlled by it?
5. What are the benefits?
6. Are there other drawbacks?

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This missed moment: The Question missed

1. What was the biggest mistake I made starting the anvil?
2. No strategy to monetize from the start
3. ~ 200,000 downloads.
4. How much money spent on gear, hosting, and time spent?
5. How many relationships did I not build?
6. How many people could I have help better or more efficiently.

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Today's Topic - The Undercroft Strikes back.... with questions for Michael and Jeff

Michael and I have asked lots of questions in the first 254 episodes. So for this episode, we are trying something new. We let our Facebook group The Fantasy Worldbuilder's Undercroft ask anything and to our surprise, they had some fun, tough, and good questions for us to answer in this episode. 

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• • If you are not a member you will have to ask to join make sure to answer the three questions.
• The Very cool and needed "Seize the GM" podcast of the Undercroft comedian Derek.

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This missed moment: No Ghostbusters!!!!!

1. Shows the mixing of genres
   1. Comedy and horror
2. Simply worldbuilding that makes sense but is not over thought
   1. Realist does not make things better especially when dealing in fantasy, horror, or metaphysical
3. Excellent storytelling
   1. Great characters built up and central to the story
4. Mood was conveyed in lighting and camera angles
5. Turned a generation against the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man

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Today's Topic – We always worry if our stories are compelling, try these 5 steps

One of the most common worries I hear from creatives is they are worried about making more compelling stories. This could be a topic for an entire podcast.  However, Michael and I identified the 5 most important ways you can make a more interesting story.

Join Michael and I as we discuss this topic.

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This missed moment: Do not let the games control you

1. Do you want to create or play video games?
2. Understand why you choose the game over worldbuilding
   1. Distraction can be good
3. Plan your time, understand what time you cannot control.
4. Have time planned to be creative and create during that time.
5. Have time for hobbies and relax in that time.
6. When your creative time happens, create for at least 15 minutes no matter how you feel.

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Today's Topic – Video games that help teach you to be better worldbuilder's

There are many games that have taught me lessons about worldbuilding. Heck most things I do have an impact on how I worldbuild. I could have picked many games, however, I choose a few that I really think can help others better understand some systems that can give you information that helps make your worldbuilding better. 

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Monday Mini’s is were I talk about something I missed in the latest episode or funny moment that I had to cut when I was recording with Michael. They will premier in Facebook live videos typically Mondays @ 11AM unless My Baby says otherwise on our page Gardul and then moved to our YouTube channel and finally the audio will be released on Fridays @ 12 PM

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This missed moment was in the segment about Christian Fantasy not as Historical Earth Fantasy

The Chronicles of Naria By CS Lewis

Did I screw up by saying Christian Fantasy is like a subset of Historical Earth Fantasy?

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http://www.narnia.com/us/

http://www.cslewis.com/us/about-cs-lewis/

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Today's Topic – Looking back to make it up with Historical Fiction

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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• What is historical fantasy fiction?
• Tightly related genres
• Pros
• Cons
• Interesting works
• Interesting stories
• Who does it work for?

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Today's Topic – Many topics one episode

So we have done several episodes recently about individual questions from members of the undercroft.  This episode will cover several questions that I did not think I could talk about for an entire episode.  So other thanks must go out to our Facebook Undercroft Group.

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• Lee How to design a high magic world without creating "magic superheroes."
• Evan and Robert - influences by other author’s work and concerns about being too similar
  1) similarity with other’s works,
  2) use of ordinary fantasy terms/beings(i.e., elves, orcs, dwarves) and their characteristics
  3) “influence/homage” versus “plagiarism/copycat” in one’s work.
• Does seeing similar ideas (constructs, characters, deities, cultures, etc.) paralleled in separate worlds bother you?

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Today's Topic Okay you want to world build a fantasy culture with the mimicking or appropriating

To be honest, this was a tough topic requested by Jonathan in our Facebook group, "The Fantasy Worldbuilder's Undercroft" The tough part of the question is it is two questions. How to create a fantasy culture inspired by culture and How to do to not culturally appropriate.  Join Michael and Jeffery as the talk about worldbuilding a culture without copying or appropriating the culture.

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