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43 – Effective Exposition – trusting your audience
It’s a bug bear isn’t it? Exposition. I mean, in one sense we’re told to show and not tell but we also need our visitants to understand your worldbuilding, to feel like they can anticipate outcomes so they’re not caught flat footed (or we...
43 – Effective Exposition – trusting your audience
42 – Worldbuilding Secret Sauce with Peter Chiykowski
But, what is the secret sauce!? Peter Chiykowski is all about it. He’s an award winning author, cartoonist, dog enthusiast and maker of awesome kickstarters and we get to pick his brains! We talk about it some of the key components to good worlds...
42 – Worldbuilding Secret Sauce with Peter Chiykowski
41 – Cultivating Player Engagement Through Worldbuilding
Isn’t it great when your players are obsessed? When they form massive cork boards with twine and string connecting images of different characters and phenomena in your world. How do you bottle this, though? How does a GM drive player engagement with worldbuilding? James...
41 – Cultivating Player Engagement Through Worldbuilding
40 – What Has the Empire Ever Done for Us!?
Well!? The Empire is obviously evil, I mean, obviously. However, we reckon most folks in the galaxy far far away were pretty ambivalent about it and might not have even noticed the change of the guard. Marcos and James discuss the Mandolorian and how...
40 – What Has the Empire Ever Done for Us!?
39 – Jedi, Good, Bad, and Ugly
Happy Star Wars day everyone! May the Fourth be with you! The Jedi are a staple in everyone’s worldbuilding imagination, most everyone wanted to be one at one time or another. Seth and I are gonna tell you why they’re terrible and not just...
39 – Jedi, Good, Bad, and Ugly
38 – Food Glorious Food
There’s one thing that unites us all, one thing that is totally and indisputably common to the human experience. We eat (and breath, and probably whole bunch of other stuff but mostly that first thing). Every people has unique food and that food is...
