World Forge

World Forge

By Sam WeigelLeisureGames
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World Forge episodes

  • Dragons! - A Holiday Turdragon with Josh from Arcane Forge
    Welcome back listeners to the longest episode of World Forge yet! It just keeps dragon on am I right? I'm so sorry.
    Honestly this episode is a lot of fun, because we're talking about that most hallowed of topics: dragons! Are there enough of them in DnD? Does the game actually live up to the expectation of being 50% dungeon and 50% dragon? How are dragons best utilized in this dang old game? All of these questions and more will be answered this week!
    We've also got our dear friend Josh from Arcane Forge back to help us create some dragon characters we feel are truly worthy of inclusion in your adventures. Josh is currently in the middle of a whole month of dragon lore and art over on his youtube channel Arcane Forge, if you're looking for any additional inspiration after this episode you should absolutely go and check him out! He's also available on twitter @arcane_forge!
    Besides our own dragon creations, we talk about some really cool dragons that inspire us from all mediums including (surprise) the Tolkien mythos, the works of Miyazaki, and of the game Dragons Conquer America by Burning Games! Dragons Conquer America is an awesome supplement that is just out of a hugely successful kickstarter based around dragons in 1500s Mesoamerica! If you're looking for a totally unique roleplay setting with some incredible art, please go and check them out! They have a free supplement available HERE on drivethruRPG that will give you the rundown of what this setting is all about, with a core rule book available HERE!
    We also want to thank all of you, our faithful listeners for your love and support over these last few months, 1,000 Twitter followers is an incredible milestone for us, and we are over the moon about all of your awesome ideas and feedback. We are in the process of assembling a really exciting giveaway that pulls together content from some of our favorite collaborators, as well as some exciting new events including a livestream and some listener chosen episode topics to celebrate! Please stay tuned over the next few weeks, and follow us on Twitter @worldforgepod to find out more!
    As always, we had a lot of fun this week, and would love to hear your thoughts on our creations! So if you enjoyed this episode please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher, it's a great way to support the show for free that helps promote our content and get us new listeners. We would also love to hear any feedback you have on Twitter @worldforgepod or at [email protected]. If you want to send us your hot dragon on vampire fan fiction we would love to hear it, and maybe we'll read it out loud on the show!
    We also want to thank James Duke who composed our theme song for us, he can be found at jamesduke.info!
    Thanks for listening, and we'll be back next week with another exciting topic!
    1 hr 53 min
  • Bounty Hunters - Yukon Cornelius: Yeti Hunter with Mike Atchley from Dice Tower Theater!
    This week on World Forge we are joined by one of our dearest and best friends Mike Atchley from the amazing Dice Tower Theater! Mike has been a long time behind the scenes collaborator with our show and we are ecstatic to finally have him on air! If you're interested in finding more of his world you can follow him on twitter @dicetowrtheatre or on his show Dice Tower Theater all major podcast networks!
    As usual we explore some of our favorite pop culture influences this week including the crew of the Bebop, Samus Aran, Captain Falcon, Rick Deckard, and Dale Gribble, and more than that we create some of our own bounty hunting badasses to rival these most impressive of specimens!
    If you're interested in creating a great rival for your adventurers, or just an interesting NPC to fill out your world, this is a great episode for you!
    So the last time we talked about Harry Potter we broke down what makes an interesting and viable magic system, this time we mostly just talk about how to make Hogwarts sexy. Fair warning: this episode is definitely one of our more explicit episodes, BUT IN A FUN WAY!
    We decided to put our money where our mouths were and brought on some Harry Potter experts to take a stab at building a better magic school, and populating it with 4 houses that would put J.K. Rowling to shame. We also talk about things we actually like about our boy HP, and ways to take inspiration from Ms. Rowling's works.
    Also I apologize to all our headphones listeners for breaking your sweet little ears this week, it got pretty buck wild here.
    If you're interested in finding more of our wonderful guests this week you can find Maya at @ohfrocute on twitter, and Nick at... nowhere! Sorry friends he's all ours!
    We had a few rec room suggestions this week including Potterless, a podcast about a person who's somehow never read Harry Potter before (available on all major podcasting platforms), and Magic for Liars which is available here!
    As always, we had a lot of fun this week, and would love to hear your thoughts on our creations! So if you enjoyed this episode please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher, it's a great way to support the show for free that helps promote our content and get us new listeners. We would also love to hear any feedback you have on twitter @worldforgepod or at [email protected]. If you want to send us your sexy Mandalorian fan fiction we would love to hear it, and maybe we'll read it out loud on the show!
    We also want to thank James Duke who composed our theme song for us, he can be found at jamesduke.info!
    Thanks for listening, and we'll be back next week with another exciting topic!
    1 hr 48 min
  • Designing New Harry Potter Houses! - The Ocelot Purrs with Maya Parker and Nick Quam!
    So the last time we talked about Harry Potter we broke down what makes an interesting and viable magic system, this time we mostly just talk about how to make Hogwarts sexy. Fair warning: this episode is definitely one of our more explicit episodes, BUT IN A FUN WAY!
    We decided to put our money where our mouths were and brought on some Harry Potter experts to take a stab at building a better magic school, and populating it with 4 houses that would put J.K. Rowling to shame. We also talk about things we actually like about our boy HP, and ways to take inspiration from Ms. Rowling's works.
    Also I apologize to all our headphones listeners for breaking your sweet little ears this week, it got pretty buck wild here.
    If you're interested in finding more of our wonderful guests this week you can find Maya at @ohfrocute on twitter, and Nick at... nowhere! Sorry friends he's all ours!
    We had a few rec room suggestions this week including Potterless, a podcast about a person who's somehow never read Harry Potter before (available on all major podcasting platforms), and Magic for Liars which is available here!
    As always, we had a lot of fun this week, and would love to hear your thoughts on our creations! So if you enjoyed this episode please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher, it's a great way to support the show for free that helps promote our content and get us new listeners. We would also love to hear any feedback you have on twitter @worldforgepod or at [email protected]. If you want to send us your sexy Harry Potter fan fiction we would love to hear it, and maybe we'll read it out loud on the show! ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE WHEN YOU'RE A WIZARD!
    We also want to thank James Duke who composed our theme song for us, he can be found at jamesduke.info!
    Thanks for listening, and we'll be back next week with another exciting topic!
    1 hr 29 min
  • Creating Taverns, and how to Start a Quest the Right Way - A Cleric, a Wizard, and a Fighter Walk into a Bar

    Welcome back to another episode of World Forge! This week we're talking about one of the most fundamental locations in any DnD adventure: the tavern!

    Whether you're preparing for your first adventure, resting after a long day of dungeoneering, or just trying to find a cozy place to eat, you're bound to spend some time in a tavern or two in your travels. We talk about some interesting taverns and rest stops that we think could inspire awesome adventures, how to create an interesting tavern, and how to build a more interesting party origin than "so you're all sitting around in a tavern..." So join as as we journey to The Gilded Petal, a tavern that sits upon a portal to the fae realm, and... a slaughterhouse? Trust us we make it work!

    We also turned to twitter to hear from some of our listeners and followers about what are important features in any good tavern, we've got lots of cool suggestions from @Will_Knight3, @nat1advice, @Guildfellows, and more!

    We also spend some time talking about an awesome supplement we were lucky enough to receive a review copy of, that's @dragonborndoug's Torzael's Guide to Insectfolk, now available on DMsGuild! Torzael's Guide to Insectfolk is a collection of insect-based playable races that can help give your next character a truly exotic edge. You can find this supplement on DMsGuild here: https://www.dmsguild.com/product/285684/Torzaels-Guide-to-the-Insectfolk

    We also want to thank our listeners @awrpod and @Chaotic Nerdful for sharing with us some of their ideas on how to use our previous creations in their writing and gaming! As always, we had a lot of fun this week, and would love to hear your thoughts on our creations! So if you enjoyed this episode please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher, it's a great way to support the show for free that helps promote our content and get us new listeners. We would also love to hear any feedback you have on twitter @worldforgepod or at [email protected]. We would be over the moon to see any fan art, fan fiction, or fan mail you have for us. We also want to thank James Duke who composed our theme song for us, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Thanks for listening, and we'll be back next week with another exciting topic!

    1 hr 27 min
  • Cowboys! - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Duster Coat

    Welcome back to another episode of World Forge! This week whatever color hat you wear, you've got a place around our campfire because we're talking about cowboys and outlaws! We go hog wild talking about all kinds of cool western tropes and how to use them to create interesting characters for just about any setting.

    This is a topic that Piper and I are extremely passionate about, and we really want to help you build a cowboy that can fit into whatever game you're trying to play, whether it's a western, a scifi, or really anything else, the lone gunslinger is always a fun character archetype to squeeze into your story!

    We talk about a lot of movies this time around, among them of course the classics Sergio Leone's The Good the Bad and the Ugly, and Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, but our main rec room recommendation this week is the music of Jose Gonzalez! This is an artist that holds a special place in our hearts, he's the reason Piper and I are together, and he's also a great source of cowboy inspiration! If you want some music that will put you in the mood to hop on your horse and ride on into the sunset, you could do a lot worse than Jose Gonzalez, go check him out!

    As always, we had a lot of fun this week, and would love to hear your thoughts on our creations! So if you enjoyed this episode please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher, it's a great way to support the show for free that helps promote our content and get us new listeners. We would also love to hear any feedback you have on twitter @worldforgepod or at [email protected]. We would be over the moon to see any fan art, fan fiction, or fan mail you have for us. We also want to thank James Duke who composed our theme song for us, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Thanks for listening, and we'll be back next week with another exciting topic!

    1 hr 28 min
  • Mystic Artifacts - The Dreidel of Destiny with my Brother!
    Hello listeners, and welcome back to another episode of World Forge! This week we are joined by my one and only sweet baby brother, Tommy! No links for him since he barely exists on the internet, but if you want me to pass him a note after class I'm happy to do that for you!
    This week I'm sick so we have a slightly shorter episode, but we still have a ton of fun talking about the kinds of magical artifacts that can drive a story forward. The Holy Grail, the Sword of Green Destiny, The One Ring... these are the kinds of objects that inspire heroes and villains alike to seek out their power for good or ill. We discuss the implications of including items like this in your world, and come up with our own world altering magical items to match!
    We also share a book written by a friend of the show Chad Retterath! Chad just published his first book: Notes on Monster Hunting, which is available here!
    We had a lot of fun this week, and would love to hear your thoughts on our creations! So if you enjoyed this episode please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher, it's a great way to support the show for free that helps promote our content and get us new listeners. We would also love to hear any feedback you have on twitter @worldforgepod or at [email protected]. We would be over the moon to see any fan art, fan fiction, or fan mail you have for us.
    We also want to thank James Duke who composed our theme song for us, he can be found at jamesduke.info!
    Thanks for listening, and we'll be back next week with another exciting topic!
    50 min
  • Divine Warriors, Servants, and Acolytes - A Trip to Burning (Bush) Man
    This week we take some time to cleanse ourselves of our month of Halloween ghouls and ghosts and unsavory shenanigans by trying to get holy. We're talking about Paladins, Clerics, and Priests, and the kind of crap those folk get up to. Mostly we come up with divine multi level marketing schemes, but that's not all! We also talk about how to score VIP tickets to religious music festivals. You can take our word that this episode is at least as fun as it sounds...
    We also used a really great resource to help generate our prompts this week called Chaotic Shiny! Chaotic Shiny is an amazing collection of random generators that can help you to fill in just about any gap in your world you can imagine! There are tons of random word/prompt/idea generators here that can be useful for just about any type of creator, go check them out if you need that extra creative boost!
    We had a lot of fun generating random gods, and inventing random followers for them, and would love to hear your thoughts on our creations so if you enjoyed this episode please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher, it's a great way to support the show for free that helps promote our content and get us new listeners. We would also love to hear any feedback you have on twitter @worldforgepod or at [email protected]. We would be over the moon to see any fan art, fan fiction, or fan mail you have for us.
    We also want to thank James Duke who composed our theme song for us, he can be found at jamesduke.info!
    Thanks for listening, and we'll be back next week!
    1 hr 8 min
  • Haunted Houses - The House of 87 Corpses
    Hello listeners, and welcome back to World Forge! This week we're talking about the most quintessentially Halloween-y of topics: haunted houses!
    We design a murder house the likes of which you've never seen! In a story spanning nearly 100 years we end the lives of no less than 87 random tourists and townsfolk. How exactly do they meet their fate? You'll have to listen to find out!
    We really want to thank all of our amazing guests from throughout the month, who have come onto create incredible stories with us. Tim and Kent from the Roll to Play Network, Ben and Joe from We Speak Common, and Melinda and Cynthia from Wizards and Wine were all awesome additions to the World Forge Pantheon of Creators, and we're extremely thankful for all of them!
    We also want to thank James Duke who composed our theme song for us, he can be found at jamesduke.info!
    Our rec room topic this week was another podcast that we love: Lime Town! It's a spooky mystery about missing people in a small rural American town. If you're interested in conspiracy theories, audio dramas, or true crime it's a great show to check out.
    If you enjoyed this episode please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or your podcasting app of choice, it's a great way to support the show for free that helps promote our content and get us new listeners. We would also love to hear any feedback you have on twitter @worldforgepod or at [email protected]. We would be over the moon to see any fan art, fan fiction, or fan mail you have for us.
    Thanks for listening, and we'll be back next week!
    1 hr 20 min
  • Cults! - Walking on Broken Glass with Melinda and Cynthia from Wizards and Wine
    Welcome back listeners to another episode of World Forge! This week we're talking about spooky cults and murder clubs!
    Right at the top here I want to point out something I'm sure you'll all notice right away, we had some weird audio issues this week. Due to issues we've since addressed, my mic wasn't picking up properly, and Piper's mic was coming in a bit hot. It's not the worst but we apologize for the dip in audio quality, the problem was fixed after recording so next week we're back to our normal standards!
    But even with our audio issues, we have a really great episode for you this week! We talk about the logistics of running, and being in a cult, what it's like to worship a god that constantly fills your mouth with spiders, and our favorite Annie Lennox song. We also take a look at a really cool supplement called The Compendium of Forgotten Secrets, put together by our friend William Hudson King over at Genuine Fantasy Press! It's an awesome collection of Warlock patrons, spells, and subclasses, if you're looking to branch out into new fields of dark magics, this would be a great place to look for inspiration!
    You can find Genuine Fantasy Press on twitter @PressGenuine, or at www.genfantasypress.com!
    If you enjoyed our guests, be sure and check out their show Wizards and Wine, and look out for our guest appearance soon where we talk about adapting our creations into Melinda's game world! You can find Wizards and Wine on twitter @WizardsandWine or anywhere you get your podcasts!
    Picture of Loviatar: https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Loviatar
    Our theme music was put together by the amazing Jakes Duke, who can be found at jamesduke.info.
    If you enjoyed this episode please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or your podcasting app of choice, it's a great way to support the show for free that helps promote our content and get us new listeners. We would also love to hear any feedback you have on twitter @worldforgepod or at [email protected]. We would be over the moon to see any fan art, fan fiction, or fan mail you have for us.
    Thanks for listening, and we'll be back next week!
    1 hr 17 min
  • Vampires! - 4,000 Years of Arthritis with Ben and Joe from We Speak Common
    Hello there listeners and welcome back to another episode of World Forge! This week we go for round two with some great friends of ours, Ben and Joe from We Speak Common! We also go back for a second helping of spooky Halloween themed creations, this week talking about vampires!
    Ben does his best to steal all the good vampires for himself, but we punch back with some old favorites and new creations of our own. We talk about what happens when the court jester finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, who the original vampire was, what kinds of things a vampire could feed on besides blood, and the physical drawbacks of eternal life.
    We also take some time to look at a very cool supplement written by our friend Chris Knapp at TBM Games. Chris was kind enough to share a review copy of his Vampiric Bloodline sorcerer variant so we give our take on that. Spoilers, we like it a lot! You can find more of his work at https://tbmgames.com, or on twitter @nat1advice.
    Ben and Joe also recommend you take a look at another fun supplement they had an opportunity to review on a recent episode of their show, and that's the Svilland campaign setting which can be found at dreamrealmstorytellers.com. Go check out their most recent episode of We Speak Common for a chance to win a copy for yourself!
    Our guests can be found on twitter @worldforgepod, and on all major podcast platforms. Please go check them out if you enjoyed their input!
    For more spookiness of this or any other kind, please be sure to tune in throughout the month of October for a series of special spooktastic episodes of World Forge, where we'll be bringing on some exciting new guests, as well as some old friends, to talk about all kinds of things that go bump in the night. Also, look out for some exciting new additions to the format, including product reviews and new types of creation prompts!
    Our theme music was provided by James Duke, who can be found at jamesduke.info.
    If you enjoyed this episode please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or your podcasting app of choice, it's a great way to support the show for free that helps promote our content and get us new listeners. We would also love to hear any feedback you have on twitter @worldforgepod or at [email protected]. We would be over the moon to see any fan art, fan fiction, or fan mail you have for us.
    Thanks for listening, and we'll be back next week!
    1 hr 32 min

About World Forge

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World Forge is a comedy story-telling podcast for creators and world builders, each episode your hosts Sam and Piper use random prompts to create a hero, a villain, a monster, or who knows what else! We hope our antics inspire you to create and expand your own stories and worlds!