46 episodes
The Art of World Building: Creating Breakout Fantasy and Science Fiction Worlds In Stories and Gaming Unknown
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3.0 • 1 Rating
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In every episode of The Art of World Building podcast, host Randy Ellefson discusses how authors, screenwriters, game designers, gamers, and hobbyists can do world building better, faster, and have more fun doing it. Popular topics include creating gods, species, animals, plants, races, monsters, undead, continents, settlements, kingdoms, star systems, time, history, cultures, magic systems, religions, the supernatural, naming everything, and travel estimates for land, sea, and space.
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EP 33: World Building Strategies
The podcast presents approaches to world building, how to organize files and folders, ideas on partnering with others, and more.
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EP 32: Other Systems
Explore how to create other systems, including legal, health, IT, education, and more.
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EP 31.2: Magic Systems
Explore how to create magic systems, including a brief look at types of magic (brief), the principles of creating a good systems, creating limits, how to invent spells, and more.
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EP 31.1: Magic Systems
Explore how to create magic systems, including whether we need to create them, sources of magic, whether spells are needed, a look at the life of wizards, and more.
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EP 30: Creating Items
Explore how to create items. This includes regular ones, supernatural ones, and technological elements, like an AI, and more.
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EP 29: Creating the Supernatural
Explore how to create the supernatural. This includes supernatural energy, magic paths, alternate realities, supernatural beings, and more
Customer Reviews
Great ideas, not so great execution
I wanted to learn more about world building and this podcast provided. I really liked a lot of the ideas that were brought up. However, the narrator seems a bit unprofessional when it comes to narration. I noticed that after every sentence, they take a very short sharp breath. Once I noticed this, it was very distracting and made it difficult to continue to listen to. He also speaks in a very bland tone which sounds rather uninspired. However, this particular person has released 3 books, which I plan on purchasing. The ideas are great and I want to hear more about them but, and I’m speaking to you now narrator, you had some great points, just please try to get a bit better at narration.