46 episodes
The Art of World Building: Creating Breakout Fantasy and Science Fiction Worlds In Stories and Gaming Unknown
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4.3 • 61 Ratings
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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
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This podcast is incredibly helpful when it comes to world building and thinking about what needs to be added - or NOT added - to your world to make it seem as real as possible to readers. The reason for 4 stars rather than 5 is the narrator has a tone and way of speaking that throws me off (not Bad, just a way I find Odd), but over all a very good podcast.
Insightful podcast
It’s a very helpful tool for a writer to listen to while doing the normal everyday job. A ton of information for someone to take in. But this speaker isn’t speaking he’s reading, so it’s not very personable. Also I understand ads but, my guy your episodes are 30 minutes I don’t need “let’s take a break” 4 times.
This isn’t a podcast - it’s an advertisement broken up by tiny bits of information
I think the author has some good information to offer. Only… the only thing he seems willing to share on his podcast is to sell his books. Now, I came here because I wanted to see if his information was good enough to buy his books (which are a bit OVERpriced. Only every 2-3 minuets, there was a 5 minute advert for his books, website…
Gah! AND stop trying to sell your music by showing it at us for the last 5-8 minutes of the show.
I came to learn a little more about his ideas of world building. I’ve come away with the idea that he knows little and just wastes our time marketing other works that do the same thing - market his other works - instead of giving us information.
Highly Idisappointed.
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