The Art of World Building: Creating Breakout Fantasy and Science Fiction Worlds In Stories and Gaming
Kanaal Besonderhede
The Art of World Building: Creating Breakout Fantasy and Science Fiction Worlds In Stories and Gaming
In every episode of The Art of World Building podcast, host Randy Ellefson discusses how authors, screenwriters, game designers, gamers, and hobbyists can do world building better, faster, and have more fun doing it. Popular topics include creating gods, species, animals, plants, races, monsters, un...
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46 episodes
EP 33: World Building Strategies
The podcast presents approaches to world building, how to organize files and folders, ideas on partnering with others, and more.
EP 32: Other Systems
Explore how to create other systems, including legal, health, IT, education, and more.
EP 31.2: Magic Systems
Explore how to create magic systems, including a brief look at types of magic (brief), the principles of creating a good systems, creating limits, how...
EP 31.1: Magic Systems
Explore how to create magic systems, including whether we need to create them, sources of magic, whether spells are needed, a look at the life of wiza...
EP 30: Creating Items
Explore how to create items. This includes regular ones, supernatural ones, and technological elements, like an AI, and more.
EP 29: Creating the Supernatural
Explore how to create the supernatural. This includes supernatural energy, magic paths, alternate realities, supernatural beings, and more
EP 28: Creating Languages
Explore how to create languages, including whether we should, what’s involved, how to hire someone, and more.
EP 27.4: Creating Culture
Explore how to create cultures, including rituals, pastimes, daily life considerations, and more.
EP 27.3: Creating Culture
Explore how to create cultures, including greetings, farewells, language issues, and more.
EP 27.2: Creating Culture
Explore how to create cultures, including how the body is part of culture, from clothing to hairstyles, body modifications, and more.
EP 27.1: Creating Culture
Explore how to create cultures, including defining what culture is and is not, how to develop a cultural vision, and the types of cultural depictions...
EP 26: Creating Religions
Explore how to create religions, including its all important history, beliefs, worship practices, and traits of those who belong to a religion.
EP 25: Creating Armed Forces
Explore how to create armed forces like the army, navy, and air force. This includes how to become a member of one, their ranks, and how they’re viewe...
EP 24: Creating Organizations
Explore how to create organizations. This includes forces for good and evil, what they have in common, and how someone joins or get expelled.
EP 23: Creating Names
Explore how to create fantasy and science fiction names using easy techniques that make it fun and uniquely yours.
EP 22: Assign Senses to Your Species
Explore how to create your species' senses, from the five basics to other real senses humans and animals have, to sixth senses (second sight).
EP 21: How to Draw Maps
Explore how to create maps like continents, settlements, and dungeon maps, and learn whether you should create any of this and why.
EP 20: Places of Interest
Explore how to create places of interest, including catacombs, interstellar sites, ruins, monuments, and more. Learn how easy these are to create and...
EP 19: Time and History
Explore how to create time and history, including why we should usually keep timekeeping like minutes, hours, weeks, and more similar to Earth, and ho...
EP 18: Travel in Space
Learn about travel in space. This includes the different types of engines, what to include inside a ship, and why we have a lot of freedom to decide h...
EP 17: Travel By Water
Learn how to determine travel times over water when using oars or the wind. This includes ship types like the frigate, galley, ship-of-the-line, and m...
EP 16: Overland Travel
Learn how to determine travel times for horses, wagons, people and more through various kinds of terrains and what can slow us down, and how.
EP 15.2: How to Create Settlements
Learn how to create a settlement. This includes the differences between an outpost, village, town, city, and even settlements in space.
EP 15.1: How to Create Settlements
Learn how to create a settlement. This includes the impact of location, population, zoning, its history, and any secrets it holds.
EP 14.3: How to Create Sovereign Powers
Learn how population, location, climate, symbols, and tensions between a sovereign power and others can all enrich your kingdom, republic, dictatorshi...
EP 14.2: How to Create Sovereign Powers
Explore how to create sovereign powers by understanding government types like federations, unitary states, kingdoms, dictatorships, authoritarian stat...
EP 14,.1: How to Create Sovereign Powers
Explore how to create sovereign powers like kingdoms, dictatorships, republics, and more. This includes what sovereignty is, how it is gained and lost...
EP 13,.2: How to Create Land Features
Continue exploring how to create land features, including grasslands, deserts, and various kinds of wetlands like bogs, fens, marshes, and swamps.
EP 13,.1: How to Create Land Features
Explore how to create land features, including mountains, volcanoes, rivers, lakes, and various kinds of forests, from woodlands to savannahs, jungles...
EP 12: How to Create a Continent
Explore how to create a continent, including how hemispheres considerations, understanding plate tectonics, and when to use what term for bodies of wa...
EP 11 (Part 2): How to Create a Planet
Continue exploring how to create a planet, focusing on climates. This includes understanding the role of the equator and oceans, climate zones, prevai...
EP 11 (Part 1): How to Create Planets
Explore how and when to create a planet. This includes talking about its rotation, other planets in the solar system, asteroids, comets, constellation...
EP 10 (Part 2): How to Create Undead
Continue exploring how and when to create undead. Learn about their goals, traits, how to kill them, and what uses we can put them to.
EP 10 (Part 1): How to Create Undead
Explore how and when to create undead. Decide whether you should create undead at all, what their minds are like and how this will affect them, their...
EP 9: How to Create Animals
Explore how and when to create animals. Consider the purpose your animals will serve for you as a creator or for your characters in their lives, inclu...
EP 8: How to Create Plants
Explore how and when to create plants. Consider the purpose your plants will serve for you as a creator or for your characters in their lives, includi...
EP 7: How to Create Monsters
Explore how and when to create monsters. Learn the differences between monsters and animals, and monsters and species. Use habitat to make them more c...
EP 6: How to Create World Figures
Explore how to create world heroes, villains, martyrs, and more. This includes determining why they're famous, what kinds of weapons, armors, ships, s...
EP 5 (Part 3): How to Create Species
Continue learning how to create species and races, including how gods can influence them, how characteristics like morale, charisma, intelligence, wis...
EP 5 (Part 2): How to Create Species
Continue learning how to create species and races, including overall attitude and disposition, what some call "alignment." Is good vs. evil a viable a...