World Forge

Happy holidays listeners!  This week we're kicking off the Christmas time festivities a bit early by building characters and stories based on random Christmas ornaments we've assigned each other!

Plus we share an awesome listener recommendation bardly.io!  Bardly.io is a service that lets you build custom playlists for your DnD games to help set the mood for adventure.  Whether you're exploring a deep dark dungeon, or gearing up for battle, bardly can help you create the right atmosphere for your players to fully immerse themselves in your game.

We talk about a lot of ideas we have for upcoming episodes but if YOU have any other ideas about topics you think we should explore we definitely 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 built 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!

Welcome back once again to another episode of World Forge!  On this week's episode we are talking about pocket dimensions and demi-planes, the secret hideouts of wizards, warlocks, and wannabe gods alike!

We are also joined by a very special guest this week: Ben from Lawful Great Adventures!  Lawful Great Adventures is a Dungeons and Dragons actual play about a group of friends on a long journey home.  If you want to give them a listen, they're available on all your favorite podcasting apps, and on twitter @great_lawful!

We definitely recommend you check them out, along with Found Familiar Coffee!  Small businesses of all kinds are struggling right now so we definitely recommend that you support them next time you need your coffee fix.  They can be found on twitter at @foundfamiliar.

This week was a really fun episode, and if YOU have any other ideas for upcoming topics we definitely 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 built 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!

Welcome back once again to another episode of World Forge!  This week we're creating some artificially intelligent heroes and villains based, as always, around random prompts!  We talk about what kinds of creations can come from science or magic gone too far, and how beings born of mans hubris can impact the world around them!

Then we hop into the rec room for a listener shared resource!  fantasynamegenerators.com!  Dale Ivarie thank you so much for sharing this most excellent of creative tools, as any long time listeners will know, we are terrible at coming up with names, and tools like this can be indispensable for any DM who is similarly cursed.

This week was a really fun episode, and if YOU have any other ideas for upcoming topics we definitely 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 built 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!

Welcome back listeners to another episode of World Forge!  This week we're tackling another user suggested topic from our dear friend Jarred over at Monsters and Multiclass!  Jarred recently shared with us that sometimes it can be difficult to create unique monk characters given their narrow definition in game, so we took it upon ourselves to try and explore some alternative approaches to the monk lifestyle!

Speaking of Monsters and Multiclass, why don't you go and check them out?!  They're a great group of friends and their show features a lot of great discussions about strange and unique combinations of DnD classes, and they've even had us on as guests!  Go give a listen to their Monk/Artificers episode where I try and explain why Santa Claus is the best example of both classes in question!

We also recommend you go and watch Any of Jackie Chan's Drunken Master movies, and the Ron Howard classic Cinderella Man!  Both movies have excellent examples of characters we feel demonstrate the kind of discipline that's at the core of the monk class.

This week was a really fun episode, and if YOU have any other ideas for 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 built 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!

Welcome back listeners!  You've officially made it to the other side of our spooky Halloween month and into the first episode of what we hope will be a recurring series of episodes of the show: the World Forge Jukebox!  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!

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!

Hello dear listeners!  You've made it to the final week of Fright Forge 2020!  We're so proud of you for traversing the abyss with us and helping us to make this most spooky of seasons a little more fun.  This week we finish off our month of fun and frights by building an adventure based around the grand daddy of phobias, the fear of death itself!

As always, if you have any ideas about how to improve or expand upon our creations we want to hear them!  Do you have any stories about your own near death experiences?  And what kind of spooky adventures are you running this month?  If you have something to share or if ideas for future episode topics please let us know about them!  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!

Welcome back to your favorite spoooooooky DnD podcast!  This week we're continuing our month of Halloween themed episodes by creating an adventure based on Nosocomephobia: the fear of the hospitals!  Some people hate needles, and some people can't stand the idea of being doctored up for any reason at all, this episode is for the latter.  We spend some time this week talking about spooky doctors and haunted hospitals (in the real world!) and build what we think is a really interesting multi session adventure for you to subject your players to!

As always, if you have any ideas about how to improve or expand upon our creations we want to hear them!  Do you have any stories about terrible hospital experiences?  And what kind of spooky adventures are you running this month?  If you have something to share or 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!

Welcome back and welcome to your favorite spoooooooky DnD podcast!  This week we're continuing our month of Halloween themed episodes by creating an adventure based on Nyctophobia: the fear of the dark!  Not only do we talk about some interesting shadowy evil doers, but we talk about ways to incorporate actual real life darkness into your players gaming experiences!  So dim the lights and grab a seat for Fright Forge part 2! 

Our rec room recommendation this week is for the strategy board game Dead of Winter!  Dead of Winter is a semi cooperative survival strategy game that tasks you and your friends with collecting supplies to survive the winter while besieged by ravenous zombies.  There are something like 50 unique scenarios, and a variety of characters to play as all with their own interesting survival abilities.  We love it, and we think you will too!

As always, if you have any ideas about how to improve or expand upon our creations we want to hear them!  How have you overcome the prevalence of dark vision in your games?  And what kind of spooky adventures are you running this month?  If you have something to share or 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!

Welcome back and welcome to the spookiest month of the year!  We are HUGE fans of October and Halloween here on World Forge, and so we've decided to celebrate by spending the month creating adventures based around phobias for you to use in your DnD games!  Our first venture is about arachnophobia and how to include interesting and terrifying spiders in your story.  We come up with some people, places, and things all woven into a terrifying tapestry of spider silk storytelling!  Look out over the rest of October for 3 more Dungeons and Dragons adventures based around other phobias!

We also have a very fun and spooky rec room recommendation this week in Limbo: a spooky monochromatic puzzle platformer that features a giant giant spider as one of it's primary enemies!

As always, 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!

Welcome back listeners to episode 69 (heh heh) of World Forge!  This week we have an extra special, extra spicy one for you all about our pop culture and celebrity crushes.  We spend far too much time talking about that, and eventually get into creating a fun sexy adventure that harnesses all that randy energy that we almost certainly should not have put out into the world.  Fair warning: this is certainly our most NSFW episode yet so please brace yourselves for that, we absolutely understand if that's not your cup of tea and will not feel bad if you give this one a miss.  Otherwise this episode kind of speaks for itself so we'll forgo any further explanation, if you're still here then well... enjoy!

As always, 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!