Welcome back to another episode of World Forge listeners!  This week we're talking about Monsters that we actually like!  And better yet...  that like us!  There are a ton of sympathetic monsters out there, and we dig into how you can use this trope to enhance your stories and games.

/r/SympatheticMonsters is a thing!

And Pipers cousin Matt is doing great stuff at Mateo-Art.com!

As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media!  Who's your favorite sympathetic monster?  Do you have any ideas about how to improve or expand upon our creations?  If so we can be found on twitter @worldforgepod and via email at [email protected]!  We're always excited to hear from our listeners, and if you send us something really interesting we may just share it on air!  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 another episode of World Forge listeners!  This week we decided we would talk about our approach to introducing new players to DnD and create a great starter adventure to show off some of the best things DnD has to offer.  We will actually be using the adventure we created on air this week in our next session with some DnD newcomers, so we'll be sure and update you on how all that goes next week.

And finally, I wanted to recommend a cute little city management game I picked up on the Steam Summer Sale called Kingdoms and Castles.  It's a really straightforward game without a ton of bells and whistles, but I often find strategy and management games to be great sources of inspiration for the day-to-day stuff that happens around my players when they're in town or traveling near large groups of people.

As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media!  What was your favorite opening session of a DnD campaign?  Do you have any ideas about how to improve or expand upon our creations?  If so we can be found on twitter @worldforgepod and via email at [email protected]!  We're always excited to hear from our listeners, and if you send us something really interesting we may just share it on air!  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 an especially trepulous episode of World Forge?  What does that mean?  Well for the low low price of 49.99 a month you can be privy to this valuable insider secret along with many more!  But wait that's not all!  This week we've sweetened the deal by bringing Michael and Ryan from The Brothers Pimm into the studio to share with you even more insider secrets, and to help us build the most effective and interesting grifters and con artists you've ever seen!

As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media!  Have you ever played a con artist character in your Dungeons and Dragons games?  Or do you have any ideas about how to improve or expand upon our creations?  If you do we can be found on twitter @worldforgepod and via email at [email protected]!  We're always excited to hear from our listeners, and if you send us something really interesting we may just share it on air!  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!

Hello listeners and welcome back to a special Fathers Day episode of World Forge!  This week we dive into the kinds of trouble fathers and father figures can get into with their children, biological or otherwise.  For inspiration we look to some of our favorite good and bad dads, like Wolverine, Darth Vader, Joel from The Last of Us, and more, and we take a swing at creating our own daddy duo (well duo plus one it turns out) in the form of Geraldo the smuggler, and Abigail the street urchin.  Their journey takes them from My Fair Lady to The Road to The Most Dangerous Game...  it's a blast.

We also had some really fun recommendations for you this week, first we wanted to recommend you check out Dream Daddy, the daddy dating sim.  It's...  well it's pretty much exactly what you'd expect which is just great.  If you want to go and meet some dads and wine and/or dine them this is the place to go.  We also wanted to wholeheartedly recommend that you check out The Last of Us Part 2 which is out now!  This is not a sponsored episode, we just genuinely really like it, and wanted to give our endorsement in the wake of all of the (ridiculous) controversy that has surrounded it's launch.  Trust us, it's a good!

As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media! This week we're especially interested to hear what other kinds of adventures Geraldo, Abigail, and Unicorn may get up to after their chance meeting!  If you have any ideas we can be found on twitter @worldforgepod and via email at [email protected]!  We're always excited to hear about all the ways you use and improve upon our ideas, and if you send us something really interesting we may just share it on air!  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, because it helps get our show in front of new listeners!

We definitely 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 talking about the rich 1% that fund and supply our adventures for us.  Is capitalism the best socioeconomic option for YOUR fantasy world?  Probably not!  But sometimes it's nice to just have a fantastically wealthy guardian angel sitting on your shoulder!  We talk about the how and why an individual may become wealthy, and what they may want to do with all their gold once they acquire it.  Maybe they fund a payday loan outfit for down on their luck adventurers, or maybe they help build a new class of hero from nothing!

As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media! We can be found on twitter @worldforgepod.  We're also available via email at [email protected].  We love to hear about all the ways you use and improve upon our ideas, and if you show us something really interesting we may just share it on air!  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 is the best way to support this podcast for FREE, because it helps get our show in front of new listeners!

We also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Thanks again listeners, we'll be back again next week!

Welcome back listeners to another episode of World Forge, this week we're talking about time travel!  What happens when you introduce this classically world breaking element to your stories?  Is there a way to do it without ruining everything that came before?  Is there a "soft" version of time travel, and what kind of rules are needed to make this work?

As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media! We can be found on twitter @worldforgepod.  We're also available via email at [email protected].  We love to hear about all the ways you use and improve upon our ideas, and if you show us something really interesting we may just share it on air!  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 is the best way to support this podcast for FREE, because it helps get our show in front of new listeners!

We also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Thanks again listeners, we'll be back again next week!

Hello listeners!  Welcome back to another week of World Forge where we are talking about a topic that we've been looking forward to for some time now, Pokemon!  While we both have different history with Pokemon, it's a property we definitely both love, and are very excited to have explored for you.

As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media! We can be found on twitter @worldforgepod.  We're also available via email at [email protected].  We love to hear about all the ways you use and improve upon our ideas, and if you show us something really interesting we may just share it on air!  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 is the best way to support this podcast for FREE, because it helps get our show in front of new listeners!

We also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Thanks again listeners, we'll be back again next week!

Welcome back listeners to another episode of World Forge!  This week we're joined by Dante from the Are We Rolling Podcast!  Together we design some interesting treasures, and the adventurers who seek them!  But what qualities are most important in a treasure hunter?  Or an interesting treasure for that matter?  What happens when a treasure is a place, a person, or an idea?

We also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Thanks again listeners, we'll be back again next week!

We did it listeners!  We made it to episode 50!  This is a huge milestone for us and we are so appreciative of all the support you've shown us since we started this little podcast.  We thought a fun way to celebrate 50 episodes would be to revisit some of our and your favorite creations from the last year or so, and see what happens when we stick them all in a blender together!

We also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Thanks again listeners, we'll be back again next week!

This is an episode for all the moms out there listening!  Also everyone else...  ok so it's for everyone really but mostly it's for moms!

We also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Thanks again listeners, we'll be back again next week!