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**Worldbuilder’s Anvil**

Do you have visions of fantasy world’s dancing through your head? Are you a gamemaster that wants to tell stories in your world? Are you a fiction writer who wants your next setting to be your best?

Do you want to build better fantasy worlds?

Then the Worldbuilder’s Anvil podcast is for you. Learn to create the physical world, characters, cultures, kingdoms, races, species and monsters. Learn it all, with some banter to boot.

Join Michael and Jeffery on the weekly podcast that looks at storytelling, game mastering, pop culture and life through the lens of fantasy world building. Subscribe TODAY!

Listen to new episodes every Monday and BUILD BETTER FANTASY WORLDS.

Latest Episodes:

Episode 92: Books for Worldbuilders to read Sep 24, 2015

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Today's Topic - Books for Worldbuilder's to read

The Rivan Codex Question from João E. Nascimento on Facebook. If we follow David Eddings advice and not read fantasy, What books should we read?
Types of books I read

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Episode 89: Magic, What helps? What Hurts? Sep 03, 2015

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Today's Topic - The Rebuild

After the world is blown up, and new groups start to form. It is time to start rebuilding your fantasy world. Check out part one! and Part two

What is a magic system
- Look to games and fiction for inspiration
- Or to systems that have been used in our world
  - Tarot
  - Nordic Runes
  - Astrology and many many more
- Systems
  - Extra Magical
  - Innate
  - Learned
  - Science as Magic
  - Illusion
- A Bonus system from the producer

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Episode 88: First you made your fantasy world... now blow it up part 3 Aug 26, 2015

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Today's Topic - The Rebuild

After the world is blown up, and new groups start to form. It is time to start rebuilding your fantasy world. Check out part one! and Part two

Mike Michael is proven to be a Waterworld lover.
Society Redux
Escape to Space
Turning back on the technology
A pooh story
Two steps back
Picking
Scenario Battles
Is it safe?
Is the old world evil
The deaths that come after a wave

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Episode 87: First you made your fantasy world... now blow it up part 2 Aug 20, 2015

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Today's Topic - Societies and Culture after your big bang

Michael and Jeffery talk about how worlds are reconstucted after they are destroyed in horrific ways in various forms of fiction. If you missed our first apocalyptic look at fantasy worldbuilding. Check out part one!

a look back when Gardul blew up
Fallout of my world into a look at society scenarios
- How much is left of your old world
- How many people are around
- Is the old world evil?
- How far are you from the evert? (Place and time)
- How does the new economy work?

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Episode 86: First you made your fantasy world... now blow it up part 1 Aug 13, 2015

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Today's Topic - First you made your fantasy world... now blow it up. Post apocalyptic views of fantasy realms

Michael and Jeffery talk about various ways to blow up you fantasy world. We look at diffrent ways and examples of those types of fiction. The list is based on this a list from this Wikipedia article

Ecological
Impact/Disaster
War
Aliens
Psychological
Technology
Supernatural
Disease

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Episode 85: How to build the Buardrakkeniem Culture Part 3 Aug 06, 2015

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Today's Topic - How to build the Buardrakkeniem Culture Part 3

Michael and Jeffery finish off with the history of the Buardrakkeniem culture. We discuss the invasion and the overreach of the orc tribes. From the orcish invasion we move to reconquest of the region by the Buardrakkeniem and discuss the rising threat of the Aeskrii to the east. We wrap up the pointing out how the events in the culture help shape the current form of the culture. They develop in history much the same way characters would develop in good story.

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Episode 84: How to build the Buardrakkeniem Culture Part 2` Jul 30, 2015

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Today's Topic - How to build the Buardrakkeniem Culture Part 2

Micheal and Jeffery start going over the history of the Buardrakkeniem culture. They start in the purple grasslands at the near the head waters of the Neski river. And the follow the migration into the Arm of the Continent .

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Episode 83: How to build the Buardrakkeniem Culture Part 1 Jul 23, 2015

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Today's Topic - Presidential politics inspiring Fantasy Worldbuilding

Inspiration
- old germanic tribes (Franks and Francisca)
- Forced migration of tribal cultures
- battle of teutoburg forest
- How would magic influence ancient cultures
What is the goal of the culture?
- Create a old style germanic culture that is influenced by magic?
- Focus on hearth and home

Episode 67: Baurhdrakkiem Calendars Episode 64: Baurhdrakkiem Carver Magic Episode 61: Kurriq Spirit Magic Episode 54: Welcome to Fantasy Kingdom of Baurhdrakkas

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Episode 82: How can presidential politics inspire better worldbuilding? Jul 16, 2015

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Today's Topic - Presidential politics inspiring Fantasy Worldbuilding

There could be internal faction problems in a state
- This is more plot then worldbuilding
Fight for the Millennial voters by Veronique de Rugy
Median voter Theorem - Learn Liberty
Helps create rules for how people and factions react
- Need for support from people
- Two-axis system
- x-axis Harmony To Dominion over nature
- y-axis Conformity to Divergence over people
What is the actual
What is the ideal
Personal Struggle
Faction Struggle
Culture Struggle

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Episode 81: All these Freaking Maps! Jul 09, 2015

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Today's Topic - Map 3,242 and other Fantasy Worldbuilding maps

What are maps?
Free maps with newsletter sign up
Know your needs
- What is it for?
- What quality are you looking for?
- Free form vs Fractals
- Research
- Google/YouTube
- cartographers guild
Options
- Pen and paper
- Generators @ Donjon.com
- Paid software
- Free software
  - GIMP
- Hire a mapmaker
  - DN Frost
- Virtual RPG Tabletop software list

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