Worldbuilder's Anvil

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• Big Picture of what is needed for Novel Vs RPG Setting
• 3 important needs for a novel setting
  • Details needed for the narrative
  • Details for the characters involved
  • Enough background to remember and understand the setting you are using
• • Everything the GM needs to know to understand what is needed
  • Main Quest is optional
  • Adventure hooks
  • Convert world elements into desired system
  • Everything the players should know in general about the setting. These could be total lies
  • Optional
    • Additions from the base system
    • Subtractions
  • Additional points of interest for the GM to flesh out if they want to
  • Testing is never optional

Worldbuilding Task

Swap settings

Real world task

Remember being involved in the world around you does not mean to shape the world to look like you

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• What makes a character multidimensional
  • Flaws or traits that suck
  • Shades of Gray… not that … maybe that
  • Contradictions
• This should not be your main character
  • Wonka was so much better than Wonka
• When They work
  • One off character, Maybe in Red shirts
  • When the main character is made better
  • When it is for a time, which could be the entire story
  • Add dimension to your main character(s)
  • Two many complex characters in story
• When they don't work
  • Most villain in 80's action movies
  • Plot is only about the main character
  • Story lacks subtext

Worldbuilding Task

Take a character you love, and cut the depth right out of them

Real world task

Identify one way you need to take better care of yourself. Do one thing everyday to get a step closer to achieving it.

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• What we want to see on TV Fantasy
• What has been done well
  • From the perspective of today
• What has not worked
  • Budgets do not meet the ambition – GoT
  • Not much Pure Fantasy
  • Cheesy or Epic or Both
• What we like
  • Stranger Things
  • Altered Carbon
  • GoT
  • Lucifer
  • Good Omens
  • More if you include Supernatural and Comic
• What was bad
  • Earthsea
  • Riverworld
  • Any Syfy I can think of
• What we would like

Worldbuilding Task

Create a list of the Fantasy Show you would like to see

Real world task

Join us in the undercroft and let us know what you would like.

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• Nashville
• Theme to Nashville By Night
• Geography (Map in ShowNotes)
• Points of Interest
  • Downtown
  • Badlands
  • Picket
  • Centennial Park
  • grand ole opry(Ryman Auditorium, House and Gaylord hotel)
• Politics
  • Prince - William Cowper
  • Seneschal – Black Prince of England Brujah
  • Keeper of the Elysium – Toreador
  • Keeper of Centennial Park – Brujah Hessen General
  • Sheriff - Nosferatu
  • Harpy- June Weaver
• Clans
  • Brujah – German – Audrey Murphy
  • Gangrel - Franklin
  • Malkavian - Brentwood
  • Nosferatu - ??
  • Toreador – Broadstreet Ella Fitzgerald
  • Tremere – Belmont / Hillsboro
  • Ventrue -Midtown/Vanderbilt
  • Caitiff - Bakerstown
  • Assimite – Centennial park or Downtown
  • Ravenous - Franklin

Worldbuilding Task

Start a new setting

Real world task

Do not suck peoples blood! Really

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• From Dracula to the word of darkness
• The Children of Cain
• White Wolf Games
• Bloodlines
• Bloodlines 2 – Why It can be great
• What we know for reading PC Gamer
  • March 2020? Will they stay close to Cyberpunk 2020
  • Based off 5th Edition
  • Seattle
  • 25+ Hours
  • Story packs and Expansions will follow
  • Not all clans are playable
  • Banu Haqim(Assamites), Nosferatu, Gangrel, Ministry(Set), Giovanni, Lasombra, Ravnos, and Tzimisce
  • Thin Blood, Brujah, Tremere, Toreador, Ventrue, and Malkavian
  • Mod support

Worldbuilding Task

What would vampires look like in your world?

Real world task

Do not suck peoples blood!

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• Dealing with the dead
• Surviving /Understanding the world
• The growth of symbols
• Basic Religions Type
• Shamanism and ancestor worship
• Pantheism
• Polytheism
• Monotheism
• Monism
• Dualism
• New Religions

Worldbuilding Task

Breakdown your religions

Real world task

Employ the strategy of deadlines

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• The Search for realism
  • Cultures
  • Races
  • Magic?
  • Technology
• What is wrong with it?
  • The world is messy, the audience wants to understand
    • Stranger than fiction
    • Vladimir Demikhov & Experiments in the Revival of Organisms
  • People often make choices that are contrary to their character
  • Nature and natural selection are hard to understand or guess at
  • Takes too long
• You should replace the search of realism with believable
  • Make approximations that seem real to you
  • Share your ideas and test them on people to see if they call it believable they might even use the word realistic.

Worldbuilding Task

Give up on the search for realism and start producing work.

Real world task

Explore a local town

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• What if the hobbit from Middle earth made it into space?
  • Thanks to James in the undercroft for the episode idea
• Who would make it out of the shire?
• What would be an interesting time period to look at
• What would be a great job for them?
• Advantages
  • Less space for crew quarters
  • Less oxygen
  • Comedy gold
• Disadvantages
  • Much more food space
  • Endless trouble
• What would they do?

Worldbuilding Task

Think out your hobbit in space story? Share it in the undercroft

Real world task

Block your work creatively, work, and chores

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• What are the problems with many of the story fixes
  • Game of Thrones was inspired by the past.
  • It was meant to take a Tolkien like story and subversion
  • Execution caused most of the problems, not what happened.
• Daenerys should be queen and/or
• Jon Snow should be King
  • No just know
• John Snow should have killed the Night King
  • Not as such
• Kings Landing should not have burned
  • Who could be king
  • Gendry
  • Ellaria Sand
  • Sansa Stark (The starks are the White Roses)
• Bran should not be King and John Snow should have at least hugged Ghost
  • Okay, cannot argue that
• Lessons for storytellers
  • Beware of breaking tropes
  • People seem to want Disney Fantasy
    • A little messy and scary at the beginning and tied up in a neat bow at the end
  • Monday Morning Quarterbacks will appear either way if your story becomes popular
  • Use character development not shock to change the course of a narrative.

Worldbuilding Task

Create a better story to share and execute it!

Real world task

Michael called it! Send your thanks

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• What is Writer's Block
• What we tell ourselves
• • I am not good enough
  • The work is not good enough
  • I am just too lazy
  • I do not have the time
  • I am too stupid
  • I am not a writer
  • …
• 3 Areas of Writer's Block
• • Imposter's Syndrome

• "Stop asking if you belong and start asking if you're being of absolute service every day." – Brendan Burchard

• • Fear
  • • Prep
    • Start working especially when your brain is screaming stop you are …
  • Lost
  • • Research just want you need to do
    • Find a structure you understand
    • Start
• Fixing it
• • Define the Problem
  • Find three solutions, one would be do what you are doing now
  • Figure the probably good and bad result of each
  • • Effect you and your relationships
  • Pick the one that most suits you

Worldbuilding Task

Start Writing for 15 minutes when you feel blocked

Real world task

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