Worldbuilder's Anvil

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• The Role
  • Anyone who is one the road
• How could a minor personal?
• What is the job?
• Why does it matter
• Do they have family
• Friends
• How long are they gone
• How much information and goods can they carry
• They will help destroy the economy

Create a character to be a friend of your guard

Check in with your loved ones

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• Is the Tavern trope bad?
• I know more about Mainly English travel. Japan and Arabic versions are being looked into
• Surplus or Religion leads to Traveling for all peoples in the middle ages
• Until Trains and massive ships changed it all again
• Before long-distance travel was for the rich and their parties
• • Caravans if stuck on land, ships being preferred
• Walking, Eating, Sleeping for the lower classes
• • Walking and maybe hitchhiking
  • • 10 miles a day up to 40 for courier
    • Up to 6o miles by horse
  • Eating Travel food stews and porridge not 9 days old
  • • Inn if in a larger town or at locals house (bed and breakfast)
    • Hunting and fishing might have local laws
    • • Dog or Ferret
    • Camping or lodging
    • • Inn if you could, private homes, barns, or empty stables
      • Under the thicket
    • How could this be affected in a fantasy setting
    • • Good
      • Bad

Think about your setting how far do people have to travel to work, How far can they go for fun

Walk to work for a month

Medieval Travel info

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• The parts of Culture
  • Characters served up last season
  • Religion (In 2 episodes)
  • People Starting in a minute give or take a Michael
• People Questions
  • Who are they?
  • What makes them different
  • Where do they live?
  • When are they?
  • How do they live
  • Why do they exist?

Bring your people home

Widen The Window

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• Not the Buddha’s training on virtue, mind, and wisdom
• Not with Wasteland of the Aeil
• My neither holy or unholy trinity of ideas that merge into an culture
• The Collective, Beliefs, and Characters of a group of common people
  • The Collective is how I look at fantasy races or ethnicities
  • The Beliefs which can be religious or other important ideas
  • The Characters… see season 3
• The Three parts working together create the cookie dough of culture.

Look at your main race, culture wargame changing major changes see the variations. Even character changes could be massive think of Greek culture with no alexander.

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• Choose your cultural pill Red or Blue
• The Red Truth – What is a Culture?
• The Blue Truth – There is no Spoon… Culture only exist from the outside because it is believed to exist from within
• A Culture Exist through argument between its parts
  • … To Be a real Member you must”
  • … We must be better by”
  • … We must remember”
  • …We must forget”
• Culture is a Circle
  • There is not beginning or Ending
  • The idea culture is an illusion caused by the nature of it changing and consensus
  • No Beginning or End (Hopefully)
  • Rapid Changes are possible
  • Names Can Change new tribes can form
• How to make it work
  • Treat cultures like Characters
  • Some or Static and Some are dynamic
  • Realize you can never finish them

WBT

If you have an epic story how would your main culture change

RW  Task

Little Changes for big problems

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• What is culture not
  • A state, nation, or tribe… but
  • Achievements of human another races achievement….
  • A batch of bacteria
• What is culture?
  • the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.
  • A building block for another culture
  • A group of 2 or more people that share believes and ideas working together towards a collective goal.
  • A Venn diagram mosaic of smaller culture groups
• Is Culture the Chicken or the Egg?
  • Games and Stories (at a VERY basic level)
  • A set of nouns we use to do something
• How is it
• 7 prongs of Worldbuilding Cultural Ladder
• Social groups (RPG Game group)
• Local group (City, village)
• Region groups
• Status Groups
• Culture Ethnicity
• Common Language Ethnicities
• World Group

WBT

What is your main setting's cultural ladder?

RW  Task

Look at the artifacts in your life that have lead to your current believes

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Today's Topic – Clothing is not optional 

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• You need to know them 
• Stories or list or both 
• +1/-1 from norm 

• Meta and Extended 
• Where are they? 

• Now 
• Are They from here 

• Who Are they? 

• Name 
• Attributes 
• Personality 
• Quirks 
• What is their voice 

• What do they do? 

• Class 
• Skills (Physical, Mental, Social, and Vocational) 
• What is character goal? 

• Do they achieve it? 

• When do they do it? 

• When do they exist compared to the setting date 

• How do they get it done? 

• What is need to learn to reach the goal? 
• How are they connected to the world? 

• Allies and Enemies?  
• How do they fit into the settings society? 
• Is the setting society theirs? 
• What is their status 

• Why are they doing it? 

• The Motivation 
• Why are they doing what they are doing? 
• Do they think their reason is the actual reason? 

WBT  

Find your Favorite characters in life and use it 

RW  Task 

Live in the present 

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Today's Topic – The making of a good feather duster… err character 

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• Beyond the Meta  
• We have lots of create episodes on character going back to at least episode 48 and 49 
• We have talked, Traits and flaws, stories, backgrounds, create great detail and motivation.  
• Talking characters one dimensional or complex and sometimes even flat 

• Before we take a break on three we need to cover one more very important character concept, voice 
• Voice is the finishing salt to a great character this leads from  

• Hi to “do not mean to pry, but you don't by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand?” 
• How does a character speak 

• How intelligent is the character?  

• How articulate 
• Do they like speaking 

• Refer to your characters background does it make sense? 
• When does their expression break the rules 
• How does it break the rules 

WBT  

Please find a voice for my character.  

RW  Task 

Use a smoothaive if needed.  Realize people you disagree with at not they enemy.  

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Today's Topic – He is Dangerous 

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• Basic Meta Questions 

• Who are they? – Important character in priest class 
• What do they do? – Priest Growth, Rain, and Gender swap plus the rule makers  
• Where are they? – 2 tier Central, and frog in the tree 

• When do they do it?  – Run the island 
• How do they get it done? –  They are bigger than any village 
• Why are they doing it? – Leading 

• Extended Meta 

• Type of character? - ??? 

• Depth of Character Round or Flat thanks Judy Blume Round – ???? 
• Who is the character connected to? – Every village and the core priest 
• How are they connected? – Religion 

WBT  

Caiaphas and his Toadie 

RW  Task 

Start the Sandman Comic, I am not sure of the author. 

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