Welcome to Episode 1 of We Aren’t Dead Yet, a podcast throwing magic missiles into the ttrpg, gamer and speculative fiction sphere and seeing whether we come out alive at the end.
Every Thursday will be WADY Day, a celebration of something gamer, literature or culture shocking with three friends who found each other online via World Anvil and went “Hey! Let’s talk”.
We have a veteran Dungeon Master, an award winning World Builder & Media Producer, and a bestselling cyberpunk + mythpunk author, here to snark, speak and speculate on fiction, creative professions and games.
Today’s episode… Magic Systems in Literature & TTRPGs!
We gab about Soft versus Hard Worldbuilding for magic, why Magic Realism is an outlier (also why you need to read A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez if you already haven’t), what magic means to fiction, character, setting and plot and plenty more.
Dazz brings in her tenure as a long-standing Game Master to talk Game Design and helping players figure out magic for themselves, while Emily talks player experiences.
It’s a tempting and tremendous bunch of ideas wrapped around the WADY enthusiasm.
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