World Forge

World Forge

By Sam WeigelLeisureGames
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World Forge episodes

  • Creating Pets and Animal Companions - The Adventures of Pig Pen Kenobi

    Hello listeners and welcome back to another episode of World Forge!  This week we bring you not only a listener requested episode, but a lovely guest to talk about the topic they requested!  We've got AelxBomb here talking about how to create interesting pairings of adventurers and their pets... or pets and their adventurers?

    Please go and check out Alex on her twitch stream at twitch.tv/aelxbomb and tell her how wonderful she is!

    If you have any ideas about how to improve or expand upon our creations we want to hear them!  And if there's anything that YOU want us to help build please let us know!  We can be found on twitter @worldforgepod and via email at [email protected]!  If you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or your podcasting app of choice!  Leaving us a review or sharing our show with a friend are the best ways to support this podcast completely for FREE, and really helps to get our show in front of new listeners!

    We of course want to thank you all for tuning in, and we also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Talk to you again next week listeners!

    1 hr 6 min
  • Feasts and Banquets - Beat Bobby Flayed

    Hello listeners and welcome back to another episode of World Forge!  We're back this week talking about how to use feasts, banquets, and fancy dinner parties as a way to help tell better stories!  We share some of our thoughts on how to develop these types of encounters both mechanically and from from a roleplay perspective!

    We also want to recommend you go and give our good friends at Monsters and Multiclass a listen!  I was recently fortunate enough to record a lovely little guest episode with them where I share some details about one of my DnD worlds, and about my worldbuilding process!  They can be reached on twitter @monsters_multi and are available wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!

    If you have any ideas about how to improve or expand upon our creations we want to hear them!  And if there's anything that YOU want us to help build please let us know!  We can be found on twitter @worldforgepod and via email at [email protected]!  If you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or your podcasting app of choice!  Leaving us a review or sharing our show with a friend are the best ways to support this podcast completely for FREE, and really helps to get our show in front of new listeners!

    We of course want to thank you all for tuning in, and we also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Talk to you again next week listeners!

    59 min
  • Improving our Current DnD Characters - Philo Rossini and Dr. Rickard Morvo

    Hello listeners and welcome back to another episode of World Forge!  We're back in our brand new (again) studio talking about some of the characters we're currently playing and talking about what our inspirations were, and who we hope they become!

    If you have any ideas about how to improve or expand upon our creations we want to hear them!  And if there's anything that YOU want us to help build please let us know!  We can be found on twitter @worldforgepod and via email at [email protected]!  If you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or your podcasting app of choice!  Leaving us a review or sharing our show with a friend are the best ways to support this podcast completely for FREE, and really helps to get our show in front of new listeners!

    We of course want to thank you all for tuning in, and we also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Talk to you again next week listeners!

    52 min
  • Telling Stories about Gardens - The Crystal Corpse Conservatory

    Hello listeners and welcome back to another episode of World Forge!  It's been a long time since we've been in the studio, and while we're still transitioning to our new permanent recording space, we're very happy to be here with a new episode this week all about gardens!

    We are very happy to be back with a brand new episode this week but also want to make sure you check out our rec room recommendation for the week: Otro Mundo!  Our friends at the Brothers Pimm Society are such an amazing group of creators and story tellers, and we know that if you enjoy our show you'll feel right at home with them!

    If you have any ideas about how to improve or expand upon our creations we want to hear them!  And if there's anything that YOU want us to help build please let us know!  We can be found on twitter @worldforgepod and via email at [email protected]!  If you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or your podcasting app of choice!  Leaving us a review or sharing our show with a friend are the best ways to support this podcast completely for FREE, and really helps to get our show in front of new listeners!

    We of course want to thank you all for tuning in, and we also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Talk to you again next week listeners!

    53 min
  • A World Forge Moving Day Rerun - The Man Who is Just Snakes and Creating Stories Based on Real Places

    Hey listeners!  In the midst of all the chaos in our lives right now we were unfortunately unable to get a new episode recorded this week, and honestly how could we possibly follow up on last weeks amazing guest episode?  Have we peaked?  Who's to say?!  But at the very least for this week that question will remain unanswered as we re-release another favorite past episode of ours about creating stories based on real world places we've traveled!  Thanks again for your patience, and we hope to be back again next week with another new episode!


    Hello listeners and thanks for joining us again for another episode of World Forge!  We are freshly back from a much needed vacation and wanted to take some time talking about how to look out for inspiration in your daily lives (or travels!) and try to build some interesting stories and places based on some of our favorite places we've traveled to!

    Our inspirations include our recent trip to Michigan's Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, a past trip to Washington State, the black sand beaches of Iceland, and a some other really exciting places we've been lucky enough to visit.  After that we take a moment to talk about a really wonderful charity event we're fans of: Games Done Quick!  This years Summer Games Done Quick event has just concluded, having raised over 2 million dollars for Doctor's Without Borders!  This is an event that we've been closely involved with for years that we definitely want you to check out.  Not only is it the largest fundraiser in the world for DWB, it's just a great time all around.  Check out their twitch stream at twitch.tv/gamesdonequick for their live events, or their youtube channel youtube.com/c/gamesdonequick for all of their past content.  And please consider donating to one of their several events that take place throughout the year!  As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media!  If you have any ideas about how to improve or expand upon our creations we want to hear them!  And if there's anything that YOU want us to help build please let us know!  We can be found on twitter @worldforgepod and via email at [email protected]!  If you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or your podcasting app of choice!  Leaving us a review or sharing our show with a friend are the best ways to support this podcast completely for FREE, and really helps to get our show in front of new listeners!

    We of course want to thank you all for tuning in, and we also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Talk to you again next week listeners!

    1 hr 11 min
  • Linguistics and World Building - Good Vibrations with Gretchen and Lauren from Lingthusiasm

    Hello and welcome back dear listeners to another episode of World Forge!  It feels like a life time since we last recorded, and we certainly appreciate you sticking around while we got our lives and our new home (and studio!) all sorted out!

    We are so proud to be able to come back from our break with this absolute monster of an episode, and we are honored to have been joined by Lauren and Gretchen of @lingthusiasm!  This week we lean on their expertise in linguistics and worldbuilding, and talk about how you too can construct your own languages and use them to tell bigger and better stories!

    This was a listener requested episode that we are really happy we were able to pull together, so thanks to Skyler for the introduction and suggestion!

    If YOU have any ideas for episode topics we want to hear them!  Please consider reaching out to us on twitter @worldforgepod or via email at [email protected]!  We also love to hear your feedback on our creations!  If you have any ideas on how to improve upon what we've created on air please send them our way!  If you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or your podcasting app of choice!  Leaving us a review or sharing our show with a friend are the best ways to support this podcast completely for FREE, and really helps to get our show in front of new listeners!

    We of course want to thank you all for tuning in, and we also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Talk to you again next week listeners!

    1 hr 26 min
  • World Forge Jukebox 1.5 - Something Sus About This Demon v.2

    Hello Listeners and welcome to another episode of World Forge Rewind!  Unfortunately we weren't able to record another new episode this week as we're moving house, but we do have a very exciting episode nonetheless!  This week we're bringing you a special updated version of a past episode!  We are so excited to re-release the first episode of World Forge Jukebox in it's original intended format including all of our musical inspirations uncut and unfiltered!


    We hope to bring you more of these in the future, and certainly hope you enjoy this visit from the ghost of episodes past!  The way it works is we open our favorite Spotify playlist, press shuffle, then build a character based off of the song we get!  We've even created a playlist for YOU to listen to all the songs we discuss in the episode here!  World Forge Jukebox I Playlist For this week's rec room we of course recommend all the lovely songs we base our characters off today, but we also wanted to share another great podcast full of inspiration and insight, A Couple of Characters!  If you're looking for more character ideas, prompts, and discussion, Alex and Quinn are full of great ideas!  Go check out their show, and give them a follow on twitter @ACoCPodcast! This idea was sent to us by World Forge listener Angus on Twitter, and we couldn't be more pleased with how it came out!  Thanks Angus for the great idea!  If YOU have any ideas for episode topics we want to hear them!  Please consider reaching out to us on twitter @worldforgepod or via email at [email protected]!  We also love to hear your feedback on our creations!  If you have any ideas on how to improve upon what we've created on air please send them our way!  If you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or your podcasting app of choice!  Leaving us a review or sharing our show with a friend are the best ways to support this podcast completely for FREE, and really helps to get our show in front of new listeners!

    We of course want to thank you all for tuning in, and we also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Talk to you again next week listeners!

    1 hr 17 min
  • Creating Trials and Challenges - Escargot Away Please

    This week on World Forge we are taking on another listener requested topic!  We're creating trials, challenges, tests of mettle, and feats of daring for your players to overcome!


    If you're looking for some interesting obstacles to throw in your party's way, look no further than this episode!  Thank you @roguishtambek for recommending this very fun topic!

    And thank you Keith and Jess from the Underground Oracle for being such amazing supporters and creators!  We are so happy to recommend you both for our rec room this week!

    As always, if you enjoyed this episode, please consider reaching out to us with any questions or suggestion you may have for the show!  We have a lot of ideas for upcoming episodes but if YOU have any other thoughts about topics you want us to explore we definitely want to hear them, so come find us on twitter @worldforgepod or via email at [email protected]!  And if you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or your podcasting app of choice!  Leaving us a review or sharing our show with a friend are the best ways to support this podcast completely for FREE, and really helps to get our show in front of new listeners!

    We of course want to thank you all for tuning in, and we also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Talk to you again next week listeners!

    51 min
  • Intelligent Weapons - The Ambassador's Blade

    Hello again to our lovely listeners!  This week we are coming in hot with a topic recommended by ONE OF YOU!  We are talking about intelligent weapons and how to use them as motivating factors in your stories!  A wine soaked rapier, a linguistically leaning longsword, and John Henry's quarterstaff...  all these and more await you in this episode!

    Thank you Nell Davis for recommending this topic we had a lot of fun with it, and thank you to @8BitTarot for the amazing work you've done lately working up stat blocks for our creations.  You are a champion amongst men!

    As always, if you enjoyed this episode, please consider reaching out to us with any questions or suggestion you may have for the show!  We have a lot of ideas for upcoming episodes but if YOU have any other thoughts about topics you want us to explore we definitely want to hear them, so come find us on twitter @worldforgepod or via email at [email protected]!  And if you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or your podcasting app of choice!  Leaving us a review or sharing our show with a friend are the best ways to support this podcast completely for FREE, and really helps to get our show in front of new listeners!

    We of course want to thank you all for tuning in, and we also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Talk to you again next week listeners!

    54 min
  • A World Forge Valentine's Victory Lap - The Great Valentine's Caper

    Hey lovely listeners!  This week due to some pretty serious technical difficulties we were unable to record so we've gone back into the archives and picked out one of our favorite episodes to bring to you as a rerun!  Whether you've heard it or not before we hope you enjoy this extra special episode with one of our favorite people!

    We'll be back next week with another brand new World Forge for you!

    As always, if you enjoyed this episode, please consider reaching out to us with any questions or suggestion you may have for the show!  We have a lot of ideas for upcoming episodes but if YOU have any other thoughts about topics you want us to explore we definitely want to hear them, so come find us on twitter @worldforgepod or via email at [email protected]!  And if you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or your podcasting app of choice!  Leaving us a review or sharing our show with a friend are the best ways to support this podcast completely for FREE, and really helps to get our show in front of new listeners!

    We of course want to thank you all for tuning in, and we also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Talk to you again next week listeners!

    2 hr 2 min

About World Forge

From the publisher's feed

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!