Worldbuilder's Anvil

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• Spoiler warning (At Least minor character developing)
• WTF happened (Short form)
  • Genocide accusations are overblown from what we know
  • But he was eating other sentient beings
• What did we learn?
  • Hunger issues for the pair
  • Baby Yoda is noooo vegan
  • The Mandalorian is a horrible parent… so is the passenger
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• X reasons it is okay
  • Protagonist do not have to be good (even if they are cute)
  • Characters learn best through failure… like all people
  • All people act out of character
• As you develop the "People" of your your keep this in mind
• Remember if you have impact with your characters and stories, you will be called out for it. And it is okay.

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• The 5 Contacts to a world
• First Contact (Overview)
  • Determine your Frame The area you want to explore -Up to user
    • A Small Advance island vs larger primitive power
  • Determine reusability
  • Describe the Mission Free and Shareable world
• Second Contact (The Basics)
  • Create fill in the nouns you know 0
  • Just what you know do not force it
  • Frame Outline
• Third Contact
  • Looking through the frame at the world
  • Map it (Size matters)
  • Identify Needs (Cultures, Religions, languages, States, People)
    • Smaller Island
    • Invaders
    • 2 people
    • 2 Magic types
    • Geographic
      • Small
      • Currents
      • wind
      • Volcanos
      • reef
    • Tech
      • Early gunpowder
    • Transportation
  • Four Contact
    • The Foundations (Three Points of reference)
    • Advanced Island, Invaders, and Sea World
    • Frame Focus (Flesh out what you need to flesh out your outline)
  • Fifth Contact
    • Launch your Project – Open World
    • Flesh out the rest on demand

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• The 5 Contacts to a world
• First Contact (Overview)
  • Determine your Frame The area you want to explore
  • Determine reusability
  • Describe the Mission
• Second Contact (The Basics)
  • Create fill in the nouns you know ()
  • Just what you know do not force it
  • Frame Outline
• Third Contact
  • Looking through the frame at the world
  • Map it (Size matters)
  • Identify Needs (Cultures, Religions, languages, States, People)
• Four Contact
  • The Foundations (Three Points of reference)
  • Frame Focus (Flesh out what you need to flesh out your outline)
• Fifth Contact
  • Launch your Project
  • Flesh out the rest on demand

Create a document and store your contacts?

Try using framework perspectives and this list to look at your world. Maybe you need to stop building something you are spending too much time on. Maybe you need to start building in another area of your world.

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• Bottom-Up Worldbuilding – From Inspiration to Perspiration
  1. i) Identify the inspiring concept
  2. ii) Why is it interesting to me?

• iii) How can I make this interesting/inspiring to others?

1. iv) WHAT is it that I want to say?
2. v) Find the nouns that answer my questions

• The six questions that create my nouns
  1. i) Where are we? (Places)
  2. ii) How does it relate to us? (Rules)

• iii) When are we? (Time)

1. iv) Who is there? (Races)
2. v) What is there? (Props)
3. vi) What are they doing? (Cultures)

• The nouns I need
  1. i) Places
  2. ii) Time

• iii) Races

1. iv) Props
2. v) Cultures
3. vi) Rules

Write a one-page story using the Bottom Up approach to worldbuilding?

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5 Things to start worldbuilding

1. Storing what you have done
2. Finding your Frames
3. Identify Deviations
4. Creating a worldbuilding inventory
5. Creating a project for your world

Remember the Electrum rule of worldbuilding

Remember, every rule has an exception

Also remember rule six

There is no rule six

Rules 7 of worldbuilding is rule six has not exceptions

Relax with some Monty Python

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• Top Down – Naturalistic nouns on the world scale
  1. Identify the questions that consume me
  2. Find the nouns that answer my questions

• What are my inspirations … for this setting?

1. What is the overlap?

• The six questions that creates my nouns
  1. Where are we? (Places)
  2. How does it relate to us? (Rules)

• When are we? (Time)

1. Who is there? (Races)
2. What is there? (Props)
3. What are they doing? (Cultures)

• The nouns I need
  1. Places
  2. Time

• Races

1. Props
2. Cultures
3. Rules

• Inspiration for a new setting
  1. Gardul is about the collisions of cultures due to migration
  2. Ides New the development of a central culture???

• Island World

• Sum up and avoiding the trap

What are your questions that drive your worldbuilding? What are the nouns that they give you?

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• Knowing yourself in 4 points
• Free thinking Scale
  • Are you a curmudgeon to childish
• Worldbuilding Type
  • Top Down
  • Bottom up
  • Hybrid
• How you like your worlds Ep 138
  • Realistic
  • Naturalistic
  • Mosaic
  • Fantastic
• Scale of Purpose
  • World to Story only

What type of worldbuilder are you?

What kind of worldbuilder do you wish you could be?

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• We are human
• Self-loathing is our worst enemy
• Say sorry when you have to. forgive yourself. get back to living fully – Brendon Burchard
• Accept what is and what isn't, but do not make those things right or wrong. They just are. They just exist.
• Not everyone is going to like you...and that's okay.

Create a character of yourself, and make them the hero

Retrain yourself for self-respect

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• Basic Review
• How is Ralphie A worldbuilder
• What are the worldbuilding elements in the story (Nouns)
• Jeff's childhood worldbuilding moment Who in the world is Harry?... Hairy?
• Michael worldbuilding moments Werewolf tag game

WBT

Think back to worldbuilding you did as a child? What were some of your Favorites?

RW Task

Share your best stories with family/friend/undercroft

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• What is worldbuilding?
  • Games and Stories (at a VERY basic level)
  • A set of nouns we use to do something
• Not Just for Genre Fiction
  • Understanding the World
  • Backbone for Stories
  • 5 Steps to awakening your inner worldbuilder
• desire to be understood
• Before there is science there is worldbuilding
  • Fill in gaps of understanding
• Educational Curiosity
• Making Play Social
• Fictional
  • From Primal to sophisticated worldbuilding

WBT

Play with objects around the house. Make a setting, names, and rules for interaction

Cooler, Couch, and Beer Basket

RW Task

Share the Story in the Undercroft

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