Worldbuilder's Anvil

• What do I mean by high drama
• Pitfalls
  • Fatigue
  • Unbelievable
  • Lack of buy in
  • Not Easy to pull off
• Benefits
  • No many people try to go there
  • A opus
  • Will leave a lasting impact on your audience

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• Special Thanks to lspace.org
• Discworld
  • The World is flat!
  • This is no Roundworld
  • It takes a Circumfence
  • Lunar Diffrences . . . Nice Plants
• Monsters
  • Grade 1: monsters invented by adults to scare children from dangerous of forbidden places (prohibitory) - Like Jenny Green-Teeth
  • Grade 2: monsters invented by adults to scare anyone, anywhere. One of the examples is The Headless Horseman.
  • Grade 3: monsters by accident (mostly) - The Eater of Socks.
  • Grade 4: monsters here for purposes of their own - Hiver.
  • Suggested new Grade 5: monsters invented by children for children!!! The worst kind!!! - The Child-eating Puddle
• Races
  • Where else can you find a Sneeb
  • Zombies Head of the Lawyers Guild, Mr. Reaper, and Life timers

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• Welcome to the World of Factions
  • Groups of States
  • Individual States
  • Intrastate Factions
  • Faction hostility does not mean war
    • Cold Wars will have violence
  • Look for causes of factions
    • Common Cause
    • Common Culture
    • Common Enemies
    • Convince

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• The Art of Troupes
  • Great Article on War Story Troupes via tvtropes.org
  • Realism is not the goal
  • Hero, Squad, or badass ?
  • War Sucks verses the Glory of Battle
• Keep in Mind
  • Battle might bring up conflicting emotions
  • Stealth is boring if it works
  • Understand the weapons
  • It might not always be professional military
  • Fatigue is real
  • Why they fight?
  • Selling the fear for life
  • Ask a Combat Vet

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• Based on the Anglo Saxon Calendar
  • Solar year 365
  • 12 30 Day months
  • 5 or 6 bonus days (Yule, Lithe, Mid-year day, Overlithe)
• Days
  • Stars of Varda
  • Sun
  • Moon
  • Two Trees of Valinor
  • Heavens
  • Sea
  • Valar

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• Influences of the calender
  • Solar year 363.1 days
  • Weeks are 11 days one
    • Sun Day
    • Moon 1 Day
    • Moon 2 Day
    • 5 visible objects day
    • Nebula Day
    • Star Day
    • Planet Day
  • Cwerin Major lunar Calender (Evolution of months)
    • Cycle of the large moon is 33 days
  • 4 Major holidays marking the changing of the seasons
  • 1 Holiday every 10 years (for the leap year) The day of second chances

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• Types of Calendars
  • Solar
  • Lunar
  • Solar and Lunar
  • Other Celestial
  • Societal
  • Fiscal
  • Magic
• Basics
  • Period of Planet
  • Cycle of moon(s)
  • Other Celestial cycles
• Great Calender generation at donjon
• Calendars and not necessarily

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• Special thanks to Fallout Series Wikia
• Nexusmods.com for a link to a great image.
• Basics
  • Post Nuclear Earth
  • Fallout
  • Fallout 2
  • Fallout Tactics
  • Fallout 3
  • Fallout New Vegas
  • 1950's Propaganda set in the 22nd century and beyond
• Races
  • Humans
  • Ghouls
  • Mutants
  • Super-mutants
• Places
  • California
  • Oregon
  • Capital Wasteland
  • Mojave
• Why it works
  • Fun 1950's Propaganda
  • Learning bits and pieces of what happened
  • Story lines break what you think about what is happening
  • Karma

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• Inspirations
  • Norse Runic Magic
  • Classic D&D Magic-User magic
• Carver
  • Creating temporary
  • A Learned Magic System
    • Time
    • Shaping
    • Summoning
  • Must learn how to cast the magic to learn it.
    • Better you know the spell the easier it is to do
  • Shaping and summoning are skills that you learn
    • Speaking, breaking, or thinking
• Common Traits
  • Magic Harmony(Must Have)
  • Curse of Thrax
  • Magic Sight
  • Genetic Memory

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• Fantasy is as much setting and a genre
• No Limitations on the types of stories you can tell
• Make a sub-genre story
• Use elements of other genres
• Use when the other genres fit or even when they do not seem to fit
• Love story between two characters
• Love story between a character and a sword

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