Worldbuilder's Anvil

Worldbuilder's Anvil

By Jeffery W. Ingram And Michael MillerArtsLeisureGames
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  • Season 2 Episode 20 To the Framework and beyond
    Today's Topic – choosing the outline

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    Podcast Show Flow · Moving forward from the framework · Review your story outline · Now to get to the Devil in the Details · When do you have enough? · Do not forget that this is full on fiddle battle for your soul · Remember you are not done building out the framework until you are done in the world · The story out

    WBT

    Plan to store non-essential notes

    RW Task

    When was the last time you helped another person?

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    36 min
  • Season 2 Episode 19 Finishing the Framework
    Today's Topic – The end of the beginning of worldbuilding

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    Podcast Show Flow
    • Do you need to have good answers to all the questions?
    • Remember this is a framework so the fifth contact is not ready to start
    • Revisiting the frame
      • Have you looked at the basics of what you know?
      • First Contact (Overview)
        • Determine your Frame The area you want to explore
      • Second Contact (The Basics)
        • Frame Outline
      • Third Contact
        • Identify Needs (Cultures, Religions, languages, States, People)
      • Four Contact
      • Fifth Contact
    • Is the framework done for not so Waterworld?
    • Consider a full story outline
    • Revisit your framework and add as needed
    WBT

    Outline a story for your world

    RW Task

    Finish up your framework as needed Contact your family

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    34 min
  • Season 2 Episode 18 Let's make magic
    • Today's Topic – Less magic Rules more

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      Podcast Show Flow
      • What is world tech
        • As you go culture, race, and state tech
      • Framework vs 7 Rules of magic systems
        • Not a system yet
      • Where is the magic performed?
        • Anywhere
        • Place of power help
      • What can the magic not do or can?
        • Not done by the user
        • Hierarchy of spirits – Ghost, Soul, Nature Spirits, Wandering Spirits, Guardians, gods, the older ones
        • Other Planer, Cursed or GMO-Free
      • When can the magic be performed?
        • Anytime but takes time
        • Can be stored
        • Spirit work better at fix
      • Who can perform the magic?
        • Anyone, but someone attuned is the winner
      • How is the magic performed?
        • Supernatural
      • Why is the form of magic used?
        • Protect yourself from the supernatural and aid yourself in the world

      WBT

      Create your words

      RW Task

      Relax to the Prestige

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    51 min
  • Season 2 Episode 17 Let's add tech into our world
    Today's Topic – Simple might still be better

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    Podcast Show Flow
    • What is world tech
      • As you go culture, race, and state tech
    • Episode 116: The Simple, Succinct Technology Level Method
      • Agriculture
      • Energy
      • Communication
      • Engineering
      • Trades
      • Transportation
      • Cultural
      • Religious
      • Scientific
      • Magic --- Not today
    • Islands and the exception of agriculture rules
    • Where is the tech used?
    • Who used the tech?
    • What does the tech do?
    • When does the technology start?
    • How long is the technology important?
    • Why is this important?
    WBT

    Level up your tech

    RW Task

    Get out of social media, watch the social dilemma AND TURN OFF EVERY APP NOTIFCATION

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    35 min
  • Season 2 Episode 16 Let's Build a Thing or 2
    Today's Topic – Do got to make them all

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    Podcast Show Flow
    • Why are artifacts important – Spear of Water - Canoe
    • My Warning
    • Is there a correct order of answering the 6
    • Changing or updating results
    • Where is the Item
    • Who Made the item
    • What does the item do
    • When was it made
    • How was it made
    • Why was it made
    36 min
  • Season 2 Episode 15 Is Cyberpunk 2077 really problematic
    Today's Topic – A real conversation about the place of fiction in conversation is needed

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    Podcast Show Flow
    • Disclaimer about qualifications and knowledge on the subject
    • Disclaimer this is not about gameplay or bugs
    • The Cyberpunk 2077 complaints sounds familiar
      • Transphobic
      • Poor Haitian Star
      • Poor treatment
      • Cultural appropriation
      • Toxic Fan-base
      • Causing Seizures
      • … I will miss many and for that I apologize
    • The Genre is mean to show a punk backlash vs a corporate world where everyone is marginalized… taking the way we marginalized people and expanding it.
    • Cyberpunk vs our world
      • Algorithms not implants
      • Influencer vs Followers
      • Marinizing individuals
      • Too much white noise
      • THE TRAFFIC
      • Large corporations us information to try and segment people to buying their products. Smaller corporation try the same to start carving out a niche
    • Conclusions
      • NOT CLOSE TO PERFECT
      • It is more than okay to be offended by a cyberpunk setting… dystopian fiction must do this
      • More time is needed to see if genre was used as cover to generate buzz
      • Should we want fiction devoid of images that are offensive and is that even possible?
        • Even being offended can be offensive
      • Where is the line been fasciation and appropriation
      • Is a corporation that point to problematic behavior to get attention committing the same problematic behavior?
    WBT

    Consider challenging thoughts in your art

    RW Task

    Do a good deed in opposition of every offense you see

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    https://nichegamer.com/2019/06/17/cyberpunk-2020-creator-mike-pondsmith-to-cyberpunk-2077-detractors-stop-telling-me-what-to-be-offended-by/

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    36 min
  • Season 2 Episode 14 Minimumal Viable Planning
    Today's Topic – Well start one today

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    Podcast Show Flow
    • What is the idea of Minimumal Viable Planning
      • Inspires my visions of worldbuilding, but works with much more
    • Goal of MV Planning
      • Show the needed roadway to get something done
    • Tools You need
      • The Five Steps to Achieve your goals – Brendon Burchard
        • This might take research
        • Sample 5 Goals to Selling Courses Online
          • Curriculum
          • Find a message for an audience
          • Beta Launch Course
          • Course Launch
          • Evergreen Launch
        • Minimize your life focusing on what is important
          • Fear of the Theory of 4 Burners James Clear
          • Reducing your decision
          • Outsource As You can
        • Budget for time and money
      • What you need to do
        • Outline what you need to get each of the five things
          • Who, What, When, Where, Why, How
        • Rate on a scale of 1-10 how proficient your are each thing your need
          • Hint if you do not know where to start then your skill is 1
        • Turn your outline into a list
          • Asana or Trello work great
        • Look at the first Item. Can you do the work to achieve it. If you can do it
          • Only learn what you need to get the next task done
          • Do the work as you are learning.
          • Finish the other learning later. Move on to the next task when you finish
    WBT MVP your world RW Task

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    24 min
  • Season 2 Episode 13 Rebuilding the Worldbuilder
    Today's Topic – Self-care because we Care about you

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    Podcast Show Flow
    • Move it or Lose it
      • Physical activity
      • Caring for your body
      • Eating right
    • Great Food/Health Documentaries
      • The Game Changers
      • What the Health
      • Fed Up
      • Food Inc
      • Forks over Knives
      • The Magic Pill
      • Rotten
      • Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dying
      • Hungry for Change
    • Clean your Mind
      • Positive Self-talk
      • Letting go of Negativity
      • Thoughts and actions that serve you AND others
    WBT

    Use your clear mind to create a sassy world

    RW Task

    Thoughts and actions that serve you AND others

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    23 min
  • Season 2 Episode 12 Let's Build Some People
    Today's Topic – You have got to tell them

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    Podcast Show Flow
    • Different Top/down hard vs soft
    • What are the features we want to explore in really not water world
    • Where do they live?
    • Who are they?
    • When are they?
    • How Do they live?
    • Why do they exist?
    • Once per race

    WBT

    Bring forth fictional life

    RW Task

    MVP or nothing

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    55 min
  • Season 2 Episode 11 Let's Build some places
    Today's Topic – We'll sea ya soon matie

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    Podcast Show Flow
    • Places
      • Planet Side first not space
      • Wind and currents
        • Thermo vs Surface
      • Lack of continents
      • Mountains or lack there of
        • Where is it?
        • What happens there?
        • When is it important?
        • How is it used?
        • Why did it start being used?

    WBT

    Right a story about the weather

    RW Task

    Minimal Viable Planning

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    19 min

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