World Forge

World Forge

By Sam WeigelLeisureGames
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World Forge episodes

  • Creating and Adapting Custom Game Settings - The Gila, The Skele, The Santa Maria

    Welcome back to World Forge where this week we are doing something new, something big, and something we feel a lot of you will really find useful.

    We've been struggling for some time now to find ways to have satisfying gaming experiences in 1 on 1 settings, we know it can be difficult to get a group together regularly, and we've been looking for 1 on 1 roleplay options that can mimic the experience of having a full party. This week we take a stab at fleshing out a system and setting that allows for exciting interactions regardless of how many players you have available. For us this takes the form of a fantasy western in an alternate history America. We attempt to establish some interesting concepts that could work well in our games, or any others with a bit of light modification. We also attempt to fill out a party of characters that could act as a rotating cast for groups of any size.

    After taking a big swing at this, we also have some exciting recommendations that may be helpful in your own worldbuilding endeavors. This week we want you to check out the youtube channel Hello Future Me, and specifically their videos about worldbuilding! We love their insights and think that what they have to say could be really valuable for anyone out there looking to build something like what we attempt today.

    If you enjoyed this episode, please consider reaching out to us on twitter to let us know! We can be found @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 REALLY generous, please leave 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!

    1 hr 25 min
  • Sentient and Awakened Objects - Lightning in a Bottle
    Welcome back listeners to another episode of World Forge! This week we were tasked by twitter user @StarGazerPZS with creating sentient objects and artifacts! We created 6 unique items and stories for you to use, and we would love to hear how you think these can fit into your world! Whether you need a cursed orrery, a possessed lightning rod, or a sweater that loves to hug, you'll find something to scratch the itch this week.
    We also talk about some of our favorite sentient artifacts and objects, and recommend a podcast we love! City Limits by @brotherspimm on twitter! If you enjoy buddy cop stories and noir drama, you could do a lot worse than City Limits! Please consider checking them out, or dropping them a note on twitter! (Be sure and tell them we sent you!)
    We also wanted to recommend a great source of inspiration that we use to help research a lot of our topics: tvtropes, tvtropes is the ultimate pop-culture wiki, collecting all the memes, concepts, and plot devices from across all different forms of media.
    If you enjoyed this episode, please consider reaching out to us on twitter to let us know! We can be found @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 REALLY generous, please leave 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!
    1 hr 29 min
  • D&D Speed Dating and Writing Good Romance - A Two Horse Ride with Lillian Cotter!
    Welcome back listeners to World Forge! This week, in honor of Valentine's Day, we've decided to talk about how to incorporate romance into your stories and games. What makes an interesting love story, and how do you approach this in a way that everyone at the table is comfortable with? These are the kinds questions we'll be addressing on this episode!
    But we are not alone! We decided what better episode than this to invite one of our most cherished friends, Lillian Cotter, on air to help us spread the love to your ears and your games. So here's what we did, we each created a character based on a random prompt, then we lock them in a room and see who falls in love first! It's speed dating D&D style! We also talk about wild west slip n slide parties, how to escape a thirst trap, and what the perfect date night looks like for each of our characters!
    We also recommend a really fun party game that is also based on love and relationships, and that's Slash! Slash is a game where you compete with your friends to make the best romantic fan fiction pairing, using characters from movies, television, pop culture, history, and literature! It's got a little bit of roleplay, a little bit of nostalgia, and a whole lot of silliness. Check them out at Playdate Games!
    You can also find more of Lillian on twitter @LillianCotter and more of us on twitter @worldforgepod! As always if you enjoyed the episode please reach out to us and let us know! We love hearing your takes on our creations, and getting your fan art, fan fiction, and fan mail! If we really like it (we always do) we'll be sure and share it on air and on twitter! You can also contact us via email at [email protected].
    And if you're feeling REALLY supportive consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts, or your podcasting app of choice! It really does a lot to help us spread our show to new listeners, and it's totally free!
    Thanks to James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info
    And finally thank YOU listeners for tuning in yet again! See you next week!
    2 hr 1 min
  • Crafting the Perfect Prison Break - The Berg

    What's the craziest thing you've ever broken out of? For us it may just be a giant underwater prison tethered to an iceberg city hidden away in the antarctic. Join us, along with special return guest Maya Parker (@ohfrocute), as we tell the tale of the three souls who dared to try and escape from... The Berg! That's right this week we're talking prison breakouts, and break ins! We cover some cool examples of our favorite heists and prison breaks, and build a team that I daresay couldn't be housed by any prison known to man!

    We also shoutout a few other creators who we've been enjoying quite a bit lately! Greg Quinnell (@GregZilla01) who has set out with the incredibly impressive goal to create something new every single day! The work we've seen from him already is amazing, and if you're interested in seeing some really interesting gods and monsters, you should consider giving him a follow. We've also been really enjoying the Dragon Wings Podcast lately! You can find them on twitter @DragonWingsPod, and on all major podcast platforms. If you're looking for a really fun, light hearted actual play podcast, with some truly spicy language, you could do a lot worse than checking out their show!

    As always we had a great time this week creating some awesome new toys for you to play around with, and we'd love to hear how you use or expand upon our creations! Please send us a message on twitter @worldforgepod or via email at [email protected] with any fan art, fan mail, or fan fiction you've cooked up for us! If we really like it (we always do) we'll be sure and share it on air and on twitter! And if you're looking for ways to support the show TOTALLY FOR FREE please consider leaving us a review on your podcasting app of choice! It's a great way to help us get our show into the ears of new listeners, and we would be eternally grateful if you did! Thanks again to James Duke for creating our theme music, more of his work can be found at jamesduke.info! And thank YOU listeners for coming back again, see you next week!

    1 hr 24 min
  • Creating Random Parties - No One Suspects the Dwarven Inquisition!
    Hello listeners and welcome back to another episode of World Forge! This week we are joined by @KaraAHarrisBook to create randomly generated DnD parties! We talk about how a party composition can influence your roleplay opportunities, and some of the most interesting adventuring parties that we've been members of!
    If you're interested in checking our more of Kara's work, especially her incredible work on the Hollowed Kingdoms supplement, be sure and follow her on twitter, or on her tumblr: hollowedkingdoms.tumblr.com. You can also find her artist on twitter @artsaphir.
    We have a few other exciting shoutouts this week, please also consider checking out DnDestiny if you're a fan of Destiny or SciFi roleplaying games. And be sure and check out JoCat's Crap Guide to DnD video series if you're looking for a good laugh.
    As always we had a great time this week creating some awesome new toys for you to play around with, and we'd love to hear how you use or expand upon our creations! Please send us a message on twitter @worldforgepod or via email at [email protected] with any fan art, fan mail, or fan fiction you've cooked up for us! If we really like it (we always do) we'll be sure and share it on air and on twitter!
    And if you're looking for ways to support the show TOTALLY FOR FREE please consider leaving us a review on your podcasting app of choice! It's a great way to help us get our show into the ears of new listeners, and we would be eternally grateful if you did!
    Thanks again to James Duke for creating our theme music, more of his work can be found at jamesduke.info!
    And thank YOU listeners for coming back again, see you next week!
    1 hr 19 min
  • Alien Planets and Civilizations - The High Chads vs the Low Stanleys with Jason Tondro
    Welcome back again listeners to another episode of World Forge! This week we are joined by an amazing guest, writer and developer for Starfinder Jason Tondro! We are so lucky to have him on the show, and given his expertise we decided this episode we would create a whole planet full of alien life and culture for you to use in your games. We cover flora, fauna, and a functioning alien society all centered around a few randomly generated prompts.
    We also talk about some of Jason's work with Paizo and on his own, including the Deck of Many Worlds, and his 6 part adventure path The Extinction Curse. If you want to follow him and keep yourself up to date with what he's working on (which we highly recommend!) you can follow him on twitter @doctorcomics, or check out the Paizo twitch channel at twitch.tv/officialpaizo. And if you REALLY want to get a hold of him, you can contact him with any questions about upcoming Pathfinder and Starfinder content via email at [email protected]
    Oh and here's that Catoblepas picture we were talking about!
    One last shoutout we want to give this week is to our awesome friend DM_Qwiksilver over on twitch. He streams Starfinder regularly and has been a big source of inspiration for us as we dip our toes into the stellar waters of the Pact Worlds System. He can be found on twitch @DM_Qwiksilver or on twitter @DQwiksilver!
    As always we had a great time this week creating some awesome new toys for you to play around with, and we'd love to hear how you use or expand upon our creations! Please send us a message on twitter @worldforgepod or via email at [email protected] with any fan art, fan mail, or fan fiction you've cooked up for us! If we really like it (we always do) we'll be sure and share it on air and on twitter!
    And if you're looking for ways to support the show TOTALLY FOR FREE please consider leaving us a review on your podcasting app of choice! It's a great way to help us get our show into the ears of new listeners, and we would be eternally grateful if you did!
    Thanks again to James Duke for creating our theme music, more of his work can be found at jamesduke.info!
    And thank YOU listeners for coming back again, see you next week!
    1 hr 38 min
  • Biomes, Creatures, and Ecologies - Untitled Goose Podcast
    Welcome back listeners to another episode of World Forge! This week we're creating creatures both magical and nonmagical, to inhabit the various worlds and biomes you may encounter in your adventures! We'll talk about bigfooted jackalopes, owl-eyed goat gliders, and a boar... but more!
    We apply our patented random prompt generating technology to generate both a biome we will create a creature to inhabit, as well as a random modifier to spice up the biome. We've been liking these lightning round style episodes lately where we each create multiple things, and would love to hear you feedback on the format, as well as our creations. Please consider reaching out to us at WorldForgePod on twitter, or at [email protected] with any suggestions for future topics, or ideas you have about our creations this week! We love seeing your fan art, fan mail, and fan fiction so keep it coming! We also greatly appreciate all of our listeners who have been kind enough to leave us a 5 star review on their platform of choice! Leaving us a review is the easiest way to support this podcast completely for free! Every review we get makes our day, and goes a long way towards helping us to get our show in front of the ears of new listeners.
    We also want to shout out some great friends and collaborators of ours: Cameron Day @daylightpub1066 on twitter, who created the awesome Garradrugh class supplement as well as the Root and Twig book which is FILLED with all kinds of custom classes and creatures to add a bit of Celtic flair to your world. His work can be found on twitte as well as on dmsguild and drivethrurpg!
    We also want to thank our good friend James Duke for creating our theme music, his world can be found at jamesduke.info!
    Thanks again for joining us and be sure to tune in next week when we will be joined by a VERY exciting guest, Jason Tondro! Jason is a writer and developer for the Starfinder tabletop roleplaying game, who we're sure will have all sorts of interesting insights into world building and character creation to share! See you again next week!
    1 hr 37 min
  • Places! - The Tomb of Ludacris

    Welcome back dear listeners to another episode of World Forge! The FIRST episode of World Forge of 2020!

    The holidays are over! So we're out here thinking of exciting places to visit in the new year, we take some queues from our listeners on some of their favorite places they've visited in their DnD games, and take a swing at coming up with some exciting adventuring locales of our own! From magic swamps filled with mummies, to... dolphin husbandry? We cover it all this week!

    Besides our own creations, we take a moment this week to highlight some of our favorite mapmakers and artists out there. If you are in need of some art or a battlemap for YOUR DnD games please consider checking out @DomilleW, @J_Dungeonmaster, @Thai_Williams, @mrvalorisalive, or @Dysonlogos! They all do incredible work and could help you add that extra special touch to your next game!

    Oh also if you want to check out that show I was talking about Dinosaucers, here's the intro!

    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, Google Play, Stitcher, or anywhere you get your favorite podcasts! It's a great way to support the show for free that helps promote our content and get us in front of 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 fan art, fan mail, or fan fiction we would love to hear it, and maybe we'll share it on the air! 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 15 min
  • Creation Myths - The Absentee Gods
    It's the BEGINNING of the world as we know it and we feel FINE! This week we're talking about creation myths! We talk about religious, mythological, and totally fictional creation myths from around the world, and attempt to come up with some of our own that we really hope measure up to some of the greatest works of literature in history. Did we succeed? As always you, dear listeners, can be the judge.
    This is the final episode of World Forge of 2019, and we have a ton of exciting plans for 2020, we know we've been teasing that for some time but concrete details are actually coming very soon. So if you're enjoying our antics now, stay tuned for some cool details about new projects and collaborations we have coming up in the new year.
    Besides our own creations this week, we talk about a few other creators we love including Will Savino! An extremely talented musician who has offered to provide us with some music for some of those mysterious new projects we've been talking about for the last few weeks. You can find him on twitter @music_d20, at his website willsavino.net, or on his soundcloud page as will-savino. Will also has a patreon where you can go to support his art financially if you so wish (which we definitely encourage!) and to see all of his work!
    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, Google Play, Stitcher, or anywhere you get your favorite podcasts! It's a great way to support the show for free that helps promote our content and get us in front of 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 fan art, fan mail, or fan fiction we would love to hear it, and maybe we'll share it on the air!
    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 26 min
  • A World Forge Christmas - The [Christmas] Ghost Train to Hell
    Ho ho ho and merry Christmas World Forge listeners! We are back this week with a very special episode exploring all manner of Christmas and holiday tropes and goofs to delight and amuse!
    This is a very special episode of World Forge because we decided to bring back some of our favorite creations from the last 6 months and teach them a dang old Christmas lesson!
    If you were wondering what Angus Cash, Leon and Neville, or Kermit the Hermit were up to since we last visited them this is a great episode to jump in on. And if you're unfamiliar we encourage you go and check out our Cowboys, Buddy Cop, and Hermits and Recluses Episodes!
    In this weeks rec room, we talk about an awesome game that we love called Concept! It's essentially charades rendered in board game format, that can help you to twist your mind and encourage an exploration of new methods of communication and cooperation! Please consider looking into this game if you need something to help you push the boundaries of story telling and improv!
    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 36 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!