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April 15, 2020 Episode 22: First We Eat (Featuring CASS MORRIS!)
We've finally done it--we're talking about food! Buffets of food description are a fantasy trope, but why is food so important to worldbuilding, anyway?
Transcript for this episode.
59 min
April 01, 2020 Episode 21: Medicine and the Concept of the Body (Featuring FREYA MARSKE!)
Bodies may not be technically required in fantasy, but most of our characters have 'em...what medicine and concept of physical health and self do they have?
Transcript for this episode
57 min
March 18, 2020 Episode 20: When Two Wizards Love Each Other Very Much... (feat. Cat Sebastian!)
On this week's episode we're joined by the fabulous romance author Cat Sebastian while we do some SEXY worldbuilding. With, like, slow jazz and shit. Saxophones. Rose petals on the bed. The whole thing. Get cozy!

The transcript of this episode is available here!
1 hr 2 min
March 04, 2020 Episode 19: Triskadekaphilia
On today's episode, we're doing a deep-dive and building up that Thirteen Families culture that we mentioned a little while back! From the ground up, here we go!

The transcript of this episode is available here.
1 hr 3 min
February 19, 2020 Episode 18: Monuments and Wonders
On this week's episode, we're talking about the wonders of the world, both natural and man-made, and how they can enrich your settings!
The transcript of this episode is available here. Thank you to our wonderful scribes!!
1 hr 2 min
February 05, 2020 Episode 17: A Brief History of... (featuring S.A. Chakraborty)
This week, we're joined by S.A. Chakraborty, author of the Daevabad trilogy (The City of Brass, The Kingdom of Copper and, forthcoming, The Empire of Gold) while we talk about the loooooong game: Not just recent local history, but thousands or tens of thousands of years of world history.

The transcript for this episode is available here. Throw a bouquet of roses to your local scribes!!
1 hr 4 min
January 22, 2020 Episode 16: A Game of Anything But Thrones
On this week's episode, we're talking politics. Yeah, yeah, we know, but we're gonna try to make it fun. Like, why does fantasy fixate so hard on monarchies, anyway??
The transcript of this episode is available here.

1 hr 2 min
January 08, 2020 Episode 15: Potpourri
Listeners have sent us questions, and we spend the episode answering them, and each of these questions was juicy enough to make a whole episode out of alone. So you get to hear random morsels of joy that you would only get with a Listener Questions: about travelogue plots and caraco jackets and crownball, whatever that is.
Transcript for the episode is here. Thank you to our wonderful scribes!

55 min
December 25, 2019 Episode 14: Have Yourself A Merry Little Something
Happy Holidays, dear listeners! This week, we're talking about worldbuilding holidays, and we giggle pretty much the entire time!
Transcript is available here. Blessings upon the heads of our wonderful scribes!
59 min
December 11, 2019 Episode 13: And Now A Reading From The Sacred Text... (feat. Tasha Suri)
On this week's episode, we're joined by our glamorous guest, Tasha Suri, author of EMPIRE OF SAND and REALM OF ASH to talk about worldbuilding religions!

Transcript is available here
59 min