Explore how and when to create monsters. Learn the differences between monsters and animals, and monsters and species. Use habitat to make them more compelling. Figure out how their origins can make them memorable, whether they were created by accident, on purpose, or by evolution. Finally, determine their motivation because even monsters want something, and knowing this will determine everything they do.

EP 7: How to Create Monsters

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, undead, continents, settlements, kingdoms, star systems, time, history, cultures, magic systems, religions, the supernatural, naming everything, and travel estimates for land, sea, and space.

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The podcast presents approaches to world building, how to organize files and folders, ideas on partnering with others, and more.

EP 33: World Building Strategies

Explore how to create other systems, including legal, health, IT, education, and more.

EP 32: Other 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 to invent spells, and more.

EP 31.2: 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 wizards, and more.

EP 31.1: Magic Systems

Explore how to create items. This includes regular ones, supernatural ones, and technological elements, like an AI, and more.

EP 7: How to Create Monsters

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