Worldbuilder's Anvil

Worldbuilder's Anvil

By Jeffery W. Ingram And Michael MillerArtsLeisureGames
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Worldbuilder's Anvil episodes

  • Episode 101: Rise of the Cat Mummies
    The Rating:

    This is an basic topic

    Today's Topic - Let's Build a fantasy Villain
    • Why Cat Mummies were made
    • Increasing invasions
    • Lose of cultural control of Egypt
    • Persia and Commercial Mummies
    • Greece and Govermeny Mummies

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    51 min
  • Episode 100: Am I evil?
    The Rating:

    This is an basic topic

    Today's Topic - Let's Build a fantasy Villain
    • Types of Villains Reluctant, Psychopath, Sociopath, Supernatural, Accidental, Misguided, Fanatic and All in
      • Our's is a Misguided Fanatic
    • Purpose - Protect family from Prince Hogar's family
    • Motivation - fear of family losing wealth and good name
    • Perspective - From the noble class of Baurhdrakkas
    • Attributes and Traits
      • CW Princess
      • Young Adult
      • Naive
      • Social Thief
      • Askerii Agent
      • Hand Maiden is only real friend
    • Quirks
      • Hair Twirler
      • Spitefully Fake
    • Big Actions (Larger than life)
      • TBD in a future story

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    59 min
  • Episode 99: Holding out for a hero
    The Rating:

    This is an basic topic

    Today's Topic - Say hello to our newest Fantasy Hero, Ammalheim
    • Ammalheim, but you can call her Amm or Ammalheim
    • A Reluctant hero
    • Purpose - Prevent a war between Prince Hogar and his son
    • Motivation - Love for family and community
    • Perspective - From the peasant class of Baurhdrakkas
    • Attributes and Traits
      • Thief-like with some basic magic skills
      • Average Looking
      • Smart and Physically strong
      • Loved by community
    • Quirks
      • 1st Born child
      • Distrust all nobles
      • Ordered preparation
      • Focused Staring
    • Big Actions (Larger than life)
      • TBD in a future story

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    58 min
  • Episode 98: We Don't Need Another Hero
    The Rating:

    This is an basic topic

    Today's Topic - The structure of a Fantasy Hero
    • Type of Hero
      • Archtype - archetype - Boy Scout
      • Greek
      • Dark
      • Reluctant
      • Anti
    • Motivation
    • Purpose
    • Perspective
    • Traits
    • Quirks
    • Big Actions (Larger than life)

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    51 min
  • Episode 97: A Creepy home for our boogeyman
    The Rating:

    This is an basic topic

    Today's Topic - Let's Build a creepy place for a creepy monster for Halloween
    • PS this episode has very disturbing content
    • Name of our Boogeyman
      • Ichvacher or Ichvacher or translates directly to weak dark man or shadowman
    • Location
    • Time???
    • Consequence for visiting

    Results

    • A small plane of horror that has a will of its own
      • Allows entrance or exit
      • alerts Ichvacher about tresspassers
      • Has an alter inside a steppe tent
      • Light dims when you enter through a mist
      • Turns to night when Ichvacher is encountered
      • People who are sacrificed or die turn into living sands

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    1 hr 1 min
  • Episode 96: Something Not So Nice This Way Comes
    The Rating:

    This is an basic topic

    Today's Topic - Halloween Let's Build a Boogeyman
    • This episode really might have dark matter
    • What is a boogeyman
      • Motivations
      • Attributes
      • Powers
      • Why do they appear
        • Why and When
      • How to stop
    • Results
      • Name see next Episode
      • Feeds on fear
      • Glowing steel eyes
      • Shadow body and moves through shadows
      • Punish children for disrespect or inhospitably
      • Punishments start with stealing teeth and shock-white hair

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    50 min
  • Episode 95: Fantasy Worldbuilding Economics 101
    The Rating:

    This is an advanced topic

    Today's Topic - Fantasy Worldbuilding Economics 101
    • This is not meant to judge the correctness of actual real world economics. GO MISES! (Except for this line)
    • Do pick a school or schools to evolve your economics. Cheat sheet Link form Pragmatic Capitalist
    • Do Not try and force everything to fit the schools you pick perfectly... That would be the pretense of knowledge
    • The Basic Path of how a economy grows Wiki Article on Economic Anthropology
      • Collective sharing
      • Value Theory
        • Intrinsic Value
        • Objective Value
        • Labor value
      • Basic Exchanges start to form
        • Market
        • Gift
        • Commodity
      • Barter
      • Money
      • Credit
      • Banks
        • Fractional-Reserve Banking
        • Full-Reserve Banking
        • Free Banks Vs Central Banking
      • Advance economics start evolving after the economy shifts from an agricultural to industrial
      • Do not over think it, just understand the flow of it

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    47 min
  • Episode 94: Basics of secret societies for SFF
    The Rating:

    This is an basic topic

    Today's Topic - Basics of Secret societies
    • Brain Storming from Wikipedia
    • What are Secret Societies
    • Types of Secret Societies
      • Political
      • Academia
      • Internet
      • Supernatural/Religious
    • Where do they come from
    • How should we use them

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    52 min
  • Episode 91: Why we play games
    Today's Topic - Why we play games
    • Michael and Jeffery set a record of 37 seconds without trying to mess each other up.
    • Why we started playing games
      • Sports / Hunting and running
      • The Run down hunt method
      • Games to learn how to fulfill basic needs
      • Add in chance and game theory
    • Gamification
    • Using games to impress
    • Prosperity Tax
    • games show us what we are good at
    • We play games for relaxation and fun
    • Jeffery learns that real world time
    • The meaning of life

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    1 hr
  • Episode 90: Favorite Fantasy Fiction
    Today's Topic - Favorite Fantasy Fiction and why they work.

    Michael and Jeffery look at the fantasy titles that have had the most impact in their lives. Spoiler's abound

    • What stopped most of our people that we have interviewed.
    • Create it make it share it
    • Excalibur [Blu-ray] Jeff's number one
    • Zelda Games
    • The Baker's Boy (Book of Words)
    • Record of Lodoss War
    • Lord of the Rings, The: The Motion Picture Trilogy
    • Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor Game of the Year - PlayStation 4
    • Dragonlance
    • Villains by Necessity
    • The Dark Crystal
    • Suikoden
    • Drizzt
    • Star Wars: The Digital Movie Collection

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    1 hr 18 min

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