World Forge

Hello dear listeners and welcome back to World Forge! This week is extra special because we're kicking off our month of Halloween horrors and hijinks, we've picked out some great Halloween themed topics to help you fill your games with seasonally appropriate content, cooked up by the host(s) with the most(s), along with some exciting guests!

This week we are joined by Kent Blue and Tim Devine from the Roll to Play Network to talk about Urban Legends and Folktales! We're talking slendermans, we're talking mothmen, we're talking babadooks. Anything that can and will hide under your bed is under the microscope this week! We analyze some of our favorite creepy crawlies, and of course build some of our own!

We also have some really awesome recommendations for you this week in the rec room in the form of Bluebeard's Bride, a roleplay system that explores themes of feminine horror in a dark fairy tale setting. Bluebeard's Bride is crated by Magpie Games and can be found at www.magpiegames.com/bluebeards-bride/

We also talk about Marblehornets, the classic youtube channel turned viral horror phenomenon that needs no explanation, found at www.youtube.com/marblehornets

You can find more of our guests on Twitter @GMTimD and @thatguykentblue, please go check them out if you you're interested in learning more about anything they talked about on the show!

If you like 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!

Welcome to our Dan Brown fan podcast where we talk about our favorite religious intrigue novel turned Tom Hanks film: Angels and Demons. That hurt to type, and is definitely not what this episode is about.

We're actually here to talk about literal angels and demons, and we have a good old time doing it! We change up the format a bit this week and intentionally create opposing characters, we thought it was a fun exercise and would love to hear your thoughts on the change up. If you enjoyed this episode we would love to do more like this!

Our recommendation this week is Peter Mohrbacher's Angelarium. It's an amazing pantheon of spooky, alien-like angels that could provide some awesome inspiration for a religious or supernatural adventure.

If you like 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, 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!

This week on World Forge we're joined by Zach and Jeff from the Rolled Table Podcast to talk about piracy! It's all on the table this time around, our favorite pirates, our favorite fetishes, and other less interesting trivia. It's also probably worth saying this is most definitely our sexiest episode by a wide margin, so just prepare yourself for that, we really just let it all hang out this time around.

Our Rec Room recommendation this week is the story of real life badass Grace O'Malley, the Pirate Queen of Ireland. She's a cool lady, and you would do well to look her up, I don't have a link or anything but you can find her pretty easily yourself. We also shared the roleplay consent document Zach mentioned at the end of the episode on our twitter recently so take a look at our twitter if you're interested in that!

If you're interested in learning more about our guests, Zach and Jeff can be found on twitter @rolledtable, and @MftZach, and their podcast Knights of the Rolled Table can be found anywhere you find your favorite podcasts.

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!

This week on World Forge we jump into the world of science fiction! We're back talking about alien races, and how to ensure that your homebrewed creations are both interesting and unique. We talk about some of our favorite alien races from pop culture, and do our best to try to measure up.

We also spent some time in the rec room talking about some great sources of inspiration that we utilize when writing and telling science fiction stories of our own. Our first recommendations were to check out the soundtracks for Mass Effect and Stellaris, which are also both great examples of epic science fiction storytelling. We also would love it if you checked out the amazing introductory Dungeons and Dragons podcast Dungeon Support! Dungeon Support is full of great tips and tricks for new and veteran DMs, and can help make jumping into this crazy hobby a little less intimidating. They can be found on twitter @dungeonsupport, and on most major podcast platforms.

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.

We also want to thank our amazing friend James Duke for our wonderful them music, he can be found at jamesduke.info.

Thanks for listening, and we'll be back next week!

Hello again listeners! Thanks for tuning into another episode of World Forge! This week Piper and I are back in the studio alone for the first time in what seems like forever talking about buddy cop pairings and unusual team ups. Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, Tango and Cash, Arnold Schwarzenegger and a bunch of kindergartners... there are countless examples of weird team ups that turn into unstoppable partners, and we think this week we've created the next dynamic duo.

We had a lot of fun with this episode and hope you did too, but we also want you to be on the lookout for some other awesome creators out there, namely our Rec Room recommendation this week: Rybonator1 on youtube and twitter! (That's twitter.com/rybonator1 and youtube.com/TheFluffinAmazin.

If you'd like to see more of Pipers writing and art you can find her on deviantart.com/boxjelly1 and on inkitt.com/pipercleavelant

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.

We also want to thank our amazing friend James Duke for our wonderful them music, he can be found at jamesduke.info.

Thanks for listening, and we'll be back next week!

This week we invite Josh from Arcane Forge onto the show to talk about the perfect killer of monsters. If you're a fan of Geralt of Rivia, Van Helsing, or Hansel and Gretel, this is the episode for you. We really get into what makes a practically, and dramatically effective monster hunter and believe we've created something that could fit well into any fantasy world you have cooking.

We also recommend this week that you check out the Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were, which can be purchased on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Things-That-Never-Were/dp/0140100083.

We used this book to help build our weeks creations, and hope it's a helpful resource for you in all of your worldbuildling endeavors. Please go check it out. We also recommend you take a look at Josh on youtube at www.youtube.com/user/Simmguy and his recommendation Worldbuilding Notes at www.youtube.com/channel/UCncTjqw75krp9j_wRRh5Gvw.

Finally, we want to thank the extremely talented James Duke, who can be found at jamesduke.info, for providing us with our theme music.

We can of course be found here, or on twitter @worldfogepod, or at at [email protected]. If you have any feedback please send it our way, we love fan fiction, fan mail, and fan art. If you send us something we really love we'll be sure to give you a shoutout on the show!

Also, sorry for minor the audio issues this week, we recorded in a different space with slightly different acoustics and a less stable internet connection, so there are some brief interruptions here and there and a slight echo in some parts. Next week we're back to our old location and good internet so these issues will not persist moving forward.

Thanks for tuning in, and we'll see you again next week!

This week on World Forge we talk to Doug from 8bit Saga and The8bitgeek.com about writing interesting betrayals!

We change up the format a bit this week to accommodate this topic but we're sure you'll be happy with the results. We end up with a greedy queen betrayed by her closest adviser, two magical dueling weathermen, and an alien/spy love affair!

We had a blast with Doug and we definitely recommend you check him out on his podcast 8bit Saga! 8bit Saga is a long running Star Wars actual play podcast with a great balance of drama, humor, and adventure! You can find this and more at the8bitgeek.com on twitter @8bit_saga, as well as on all major podcasting platforms. 8bit Saga also has a great web comic that accompanies their show, illustrated by our good friend and previous guest Shannon Adamowski (@hazardousfancy on twitter), which you can find on their patreon!

For our recommendations this week, Doug suggests you check out James D'Amato's books! (We promise this was a coincidence!) You can find both of his books at bit.ly/rpggameplay and bit.ly/rpgbackstory

Doug also recommended looking up The Playcaster's Society on twitter @theplaycasters if you're interested in help finding other great rpg podcasts, or promoting your own!

We also realize we talked about Obsidian Portal a few weeks ago but it's such a great resource we wanted to highlight it again, obsidianportal.com is a great place to organize your campaign notes and find new players and DMs to play with.

Finally we want to thank the extremely talented James Duke, who can be found at jamesduke.info, for providing us with our theme music.

We can of course be found here, or on twitter @worldfogepod, or at at [email protected]. If you have any feedback please send it our way, we love fan fiction, fan mail, and fan art. If you send us something we really love we'll be sure to give you a shoutout on the show!

Thanks for tuning in, and we'll see you again next week!

If you're looking for an episode about the music of The Decemberists, the Canadian television show The Littlest Hobo, or my love of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, honestly we spend a lot of time on all that this time around so you'll probably like this one.

If you're NOT into all that, well we also talking about how to write about the mysterious stranger who lives at the edge of town. The Old Man from Scene 24, the witches from Macbeth, and the weird dude who gives you your first sword in the Legend of Zelda, they're all important characters because they help launch our heroes into their respective adventures. We need these aides, assistants, and quest givers, because they propel our stories forward, and in this episode we discuss how to write an interesting hobo of your own.

We're joined in this endeavor by the hilarious and insightful James D'Amato, creator of the One Shot Network, and host of such podcasts as the One Shot Podcast, Campaign, and Skyjacks! If you're interested in checking out more of his work well, you're in luck because his shows can be found wherever your favorite pods are casted. James is also the author of two fabulous books about RPGs and character creation, which can be found at bit.ly/rpggameplay and bit.ly/rpgbackstory

If you enjoyed our show, definitely follow us on your podcasting platform of choice, and please feel free to leave us a review on iTunes, it really helps us to get our show in front of the ears of new listeners. We rely on recommendations from you, the listeners, to help spread our show, so please share us with anyone you think will enjoy our company!

Our theme music is provided by the extremely talented James Duke, who can be found at jamesduke.info. We can be found here, or on twitter @worldfogepod, or at at [email protected]. If you have any feedback please send it our way, we love fan fiction, fan mail, and fan art. If you send us something we really love we'll be sure to give you a shoutout on the show!

Thanks for tuning in, and we'll see you again next week!

This week on World Forge we try our hand at creating a superhero team to rival the Avengers! To do so we had our good friend Rory Spence from Doghair presents on to (try to) keep us from making fools of ourselves, we'll let you be the judges of how well he did.

We talk about a man who was bit by a radioactive fiddler crab who also might be the son of the devil, a sequel to the human centipede, and a cool lady made of kicks who hangs out with the ghost of her dad's arm. Give us a listen and let us know how we did!

We also talked about a great resource for dungeon masters and players alike called the Obsidian Portal, a place where you can manage your campaigns, and find players and DMs looking for groups in your area. Check obsidianportal.com for details if you think this may be a helpful resource for your games.

If you want to find more of Rory, his show Doghair Presents can be found on all major podcast apps, and he can be reached on twitter @RoryMSpence or @DoghairNetwork

And as usual you can find more of us on twitter @WorldForgePod. We can also be reached via email at [email protected]. If you enjoyed this episode please let us know by contacting us at whichever of those methods you find most convenient. We also love to see your ideas for prompts and any kind of fan art, fan mail, or fan fiction you come up with based on our silly ideas.

If you're feeling especially generous, please leave us a review on iTunes, it really helps to get our show out there and in front of new listeners.

Thanks for tuning in listeners, as always we'll be back again next week with another fun topic. Bye!

This week we are joined by our good friends from We Speak Common to talk about witches and wizards!

We really pulled out all the stops this time around, and honestly this is probably one of our favorite episodes we've done so far! We create a wizard that fights against flat earth cultists on the high seas, a 13 year old child that's 99% old woman, a cursed broom thief, and the ultimate feminist icon. Yep.

We hope you enjoyed this episode of World Forge, and if you did, we would encourage you to leave us a review on iTunes! We also would love it if you sent us feedback in whatever form you find most appropriate, all fan mail, fan art, and fan fiction can be directed to us on twitter @worldforgepod or at [email protected].

We also encourage you to go and check out Ben and Joe on We Speak Common! These guys have some great weekly insights into all things table top roleplaying, and you can even catch us on their most recent episode about different approaches to dungeon mastering!

Ben and Joe can be found at the following links or anywhere else you find your favorite podcasts!

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Thanks again to James Duke for our wonderful theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info.

And thank you listeners for tuning in once again! We hope you had a good time, and we'll be back next week!