Worldbuilder's Anvil

• Symbology - Basic to Complex
• Why is Color important?
• How is color used when developing a world?
• How far is the reach of color?
• Culture, Religion, And State

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• Scope
• Sun(s)
• Planet and Moon(s)
• Other visible planets
• What about comets and other signs in the skies
• Beyond the Visible night

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• Notebooks
  • Pen and Paper
  • Graph Paper
  • Cam Scanner
  • Spark Planner
• Post-it notes
  • brainstorming
  • Plots and Timeline management
  • kaizen board
  • Donuts or Snickers
• Whiteboard
• Excel
• Campaign Cartographer 3
• Fractal Terrains 3
• Scrivener
• Wordpress .Com or .Org
• Google Drive
• Why I do it all

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• Review of the basics of culture building check out this episode
• We learn the importance of Exit D
• Cover Michael's Lack of bullet points on the white board
• Explanation of Michael's Philosophy-first concept
  • From the Worldbuilder's Level to the Cultures level
• Cultural philosophical ideal vs Actual philosophy reality cultural norms
• Benefits of contradiction
• Various cultures philosophies discussed ... yep 100s a day
• Eagle Warriors of the Aztecs and human sacrifice
• Jeff's view of incorporating themes into stories and worlds

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• Basics
  • Episode 65: Erratic Explorers visit Earth
  • Alternate Earth Year 2287 in Boston, MA
  • For more check out Wikia
• Factions
  • Minutemen
  • The Institute
  • Railroad
  • Brotherhood of Steel
• Places
  • Northern Border Concord, Ma to Salem, Ma
  • Souther Border Sherbon, Ma to Quincy, Ma
  • I-95 corridor through Boston, Ma
  • Fenway, Northend, Back bay (Missing Hannover Street and Newbury Street)
• Races
  • Humans
  • Ghouls
  • Super Mutants
  • Synths
• Why It works
  • Very Immersive
  • In-game Worldbuilding
  • Drama / Humor
  • Tough Choices

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• Inspiration - Cwerin and Mystratos
• Reordering Culture Creation
• Why I like it?
• When to avoid it

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• Vision
• Goal
  • One Year
  • Five Year
  • Ten Year
• Goals Move you to vision
  • Personal
  • Business
  • Creative
  • Spiritual
• Action Items
  • Weekly actions that help achieve your goals
• Your future should determines your now

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This is an basic topic

• If you missed part 1 check it out.
• Religion
  • Local Chief god per tribe
  • World was created in a great flood
  • a god was sacrificed to create humanity
  • Sacrifices to the gods are important
  • Marriage is important ritual
  • any thing unnatural could be supernatural
  • Salvation is like a happy place to fish, farm, and hunt
  • Evil people reincarnate, because this life is hell
  • Water must be processed, normal water can kill
• Common food and drink
• Food is lots of vegetable, and sea food. Land meat is supplemental and looked down on.
• Art, Dress, and music
  • art starts with knot working and geometric shapes.
• Alphabet is based on blocks from elven language
• Dress is functional leather and cloth
  • Most colors are based on local plant or earth tones
  • a blue article will be used by the local chief

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This is an basic topic

• Shared Experience
  • Village based tribal culture
• Shared symbolism
  • Color Blue
  • local gods and minor gods for important visible geography
• Shared Beliefs and Norms
  • Lunar Based Culture
  • Tribal independence
  • Each Tribe has there local chief god
  • Lunar Culture
• Language
  • Based 0n the Breton Language
  • Words based on blocks
  • Top down writing

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This is an intermediate topic

• Themes to the stories
  • Reinforce cultural norms
• Tone
  • Consistent
  • Prose
• Over the top
• Epic Elements
• Covers Cultural Norms
• Its Fake
• Follows Cultural Logic

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