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51 – Deep Myth – DinoBeasts Interview

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What happens in your setting when someone dies? Are there gods? Are they deeply concerned with the comings and goings of people or are they aloof and indifferent? The Coats Brothers creators of the DinoBeasts Comic create some of the tightest worldbuilding on myth that I’ve seen in some time. Their setting seems to have…

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51 – Deep Myth – DinoBeasts Interview

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50 – Where Have We Been?

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50 - Where Have We Been?
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Holy Cow! It’s been a minute. Seth and I owe you an explanation for our absence. To that end, let’s appraise you of all we’ve been up to. The Worldbuilder’s Journal Kickstarter is now fully complete and delivered and reviews are coming back raving. Our Discord is in full swing and growing and now we’re…

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50 – Where Have We Been?

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46 – Creating Cultures, and why James needs to be asked at least 3 times if he wants tea

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46 - Creating Cultures, and why James needs to be asked at least 3 times if he wants tea
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Fish don’t know they’re wet. We all have a culture whether we know it or not. We tend to see it clearly in others and recognize that it’s a pivotal part of worldbuilding. We all remember a particular race or culture in our favorite media’s world-building that set our imaginations on fire whether it’s the…

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46 – Creating Cultures, and why James needs to be asked at least 3 times if he wants tea

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46 - Creating Cultures, and why James needs to be asked at least 3 times if he wants tea
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45 – Using Tropes In Your Worldbuilding

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45 - Using Tropes In Your Worldbuilding
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Everyone’s afraid of being unoriginal. I mean, it’s understandable that we want to stand out. We don’t want our world-building to be hum drum filled with the same junk that we see day to day. But we needn’t fear the humble trope because it’s like salt. Too much and it’s poison but just the right…

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45 – Using Tropes In Your Worldbuilding

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41 – Cultivating Player Engagement Through Worldbuilding

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41 - Cultivating Player Engagement Through Worldbuilding
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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 and Seth break down how to drive player excitement and engagement….

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41 – Cultivating Player Engagement Through Worldbuilding

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36 – Does your world have potential?

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36 - Does your world have potential?
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If you were to strip your story from your setting leaving just the world you made behind would people still want to be there? If you take Rocky out of Philadelphia you just have, well, Philadelphia, Will Smith out of Bel Air and… you get the idea. Some worlds are just saturated with potential even…

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36 – Does your world have potential?

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Alignment In Worldbuilding

What if the chaotic actions of the hero cause harm despite their good intentions? Consequences are part of the worldbuilding and within the Dungeon Master (DM)’s control as a result the DM should have a sense of how to handle them. The Big 9 The following is a basic layout for what alignments are skip…

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Alignment In Worldbuilding

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31 – Chekhov’s Obelisk

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As worldbuilders we constantly desire more detail in our settings but is it possible that we’re writing checks that can’t be cashed? When an object is placed in the world it’s inevitable that at least some your audience will place significance on it but the very act of worldbuilding is making things that exist, at…

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31 – Chekhov’s Obelisk

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29 – Worldbuilding in CyberPunk 2077, Post Play Discussion Part I

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29 - Worldbuilding in CyberPunk 2077, Post Play Discussion Part I
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Well, we finally played it. We had high expectations for this game, did they pan out? Seth, Marcos and James dive deep into the worldbuilding of cyberpunk and discover the truest core of the wordbuilding ethos that surrounds the game and its genre. We discuss how we approached the game, some of their general impressions,…

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29 – Worldbuilding in CyberPunk 2077, Post Play Discussion Part I

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Punk Never Dies: An Introduction to the Meta Genre

We’ve all heard about the genres of cyberpunk and steampunk at some point before. Some of you may also be fans of solarpunk and teslapunk, but did you know there are also the likes of dieselpunk, biopunk, and stonepunk? What’s with all of these “punks?!” Well, in this series we are going to take a…

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Punk Never Dies: An Introduction to the Meta Genre

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