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  • Season 4 Episode 9 Final Worldbuilder’s Trap
    Feb 14 2022
    Today's Topic – When you use a hobby to block your passion

     

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    • From 2015

     

    WBT

    Do the creative task you want to do

    RW  Task

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  • Season 4 Episode 8 How the Caravan Guard Changed the World
    Feb 7 2022
    Today's Topic – How a common person can change the world

     

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    • The Role
      • Anyone who is one the road
    • How could a minor personal?
    • What is the job?
    • Why does it matter
    • Do they have family
    • Friends
    • How long are they gone
    • How much information and goods can they carry
    • They will help destroy the economy
    WBT

    Create a character to be a friend of your guard

    RW  Task

    Check in with your loved ones

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  • Season 4 Episode 7 How do you get around
    Jan 31 2022
    Today's Topic – A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!” And More if you can teleport

     

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    • Is the Tavern trope bad?
    • I know more about Mainly English travel. Japan and Arabic versions are being looked into
    • Surplus or Religion leads to Traveling for all peoples in the middle ages
    • Until Trains and massive ships changed it all again
    • Before long-distance travel was for the rich and their parties
      • Caravans if stuck on land, ships being preferred
    • Walking, Eating, Sleeping for the lower classes
      • Walking and maybe hitchhiking
        • 10 miles a day up to 40 for courier
        • Up to 6o miles by horse
      • Eating Travel food stews and porridge not 9 days old
        • Inn if in a larger town or at locals house (bed and breakfast)
        • Hunting and fishing might have local laws
          • Dog or Ferret
        • Camping or lodging
          • Inn if you could, private homes, barns, or empty stables
          • Under the thicket
        • How could this be affected in a fantasy setting
          • Good
          • Bad
    WBT

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    RW  Task

    Walk to work for a month

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    Medieval Travel info

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  • Season 4 Episode 4 Finding your Worldbuilding People
    Dec 19 2021
    Today's Topic – Part 2 on Worldbuilding culture nouns

     

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    • The parts of Culture
      • Characters served up last season
      • Religion (In 2 episodes)
      • People Starting in a minute give or take a Michael
    • People Questions
      • Who are they?
      • What makes them different
      • Where do they live?
      • When are they?
      • How do they live
      • Why do they exist?
    WBT

    Bring your people home

    RW  Task

    Widen The Window

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    24 mins
  • Season 4 Episode 3 The Threefold Path of People (Virtue not included)
    Dec 12 2021
    Today's Topic – Cultural Worldbuilding Nouns starter kit

     

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    • Not the Buddha’s training on virtue, mind, and wisdom
    • Not with Wasteland of the Aeil
    • My neither holy or unholy trinity of ideas that merge into an culture
    • The Collective, Beliefs, and Characters of a group of common people
      • The Collective is how I look at fantasy races or ethnicities
      • The Beliefs which can be religious or other important ideas
      • The Characters… see season 3
    • The Three parts working together create the cookie dough of culture.
    WBT

    Look at your main race, culture wargame changing major changes see the variations. Even character changes could be massive think of Greek culture with no alexander.

    RW  Task

    Level up some virtue, mind, or wisdom into your life Joy with the sitcom letterkenny

     

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    47 mins
  • Season 4 Episode 2 Culture as a Spoon
    Dec 5 2021
    Today's Topic – It’s the circle… the Circle of Culture

     

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    • Choose your cultural pill Red or Blue
    • The Red Truth – What is a Culture?
    • The Blue Truth – There is no Spoon… Culture only exist from the outside because it is believed to exist from within
    • A Culture Exist through argument between its parts
      • … To Be a real Member you must”
      • … We must be better by”
      • … We must remember”
      • …We must forget”
    • Culture is a Circle
      • There is not beginning or Ending
      • The idea culture is an illusion caused by the nature of it changing and consensus
      • No Beginning or End (Hopefully)
      • Rapid Changes are possible
      • Names Can Change new tribes can form
    • How to make it work
      • Treat cultures like Characters
      • Some or Static and Some are dynamic
      • Realize you can never finish them

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    If you have an epic story how would your main culture change

    RW  Task

    Little Changes for big problems

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    39 mins
  • Season 4 Episode 1 The Worldbuilder’s Culture Guide
    Nov 28 2021
    Today's Topic –Steps to awakening your inner worldbuilder

     

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    • What is culture not
      • A state, nation, or tribe… but
      • Achievements of human another races achievement….
      • A batch of bacteria
    • What is culture?
      • the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.
      • A building block for another culture
      • A group of 2 or more people that share believes and ideas working together towards a collective goal.
      • A Venn diagram mosaic of smaller culture groups
    • Is Culture the Chicken or the Egg?
      • Games and Stories (at a VERY basic level)
      • A set of nouns we use to do something
    • How is it
    • 7 prongs of Worldbuilding Cultural Ladder
    • Social groups (RPG Game group)
    • Local group (City, village)
    • Region groups
    • Status Groups
    • Culture Ethnicity
    • Common Language Ethnicities
    • World Group

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    What is your main setting's cultural ladder?

    RW  Task

    Look at the artifacts in your life that have lead to your current believes

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  • Season 3 Episode 12 The Character’s Full Monty
    Nov 21 2021

    Today's Topic – Clothing is not optional 

     

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    • You need to know them 
    • Stories or list or both 
    • +1/-1 from norm 
    • Meta and Extended 
    • Where are they? 
    • Now 
    • Are They from here 
    • Who Are they? 
    • Name 
    • Attributes 
    • Personality 
    • Quirks 
    • What is their voice 
    • What do they do? 
    • Class 
    • Skills (Physical, Mental, Social, and Vocational) 
    • What is character goal? 
    • Do they achieve it? 
    • When do they do it? 
    • When do they exist compared to the setting date 
    • How do they get it done? 
    • What is need to learn to reach the goal? 
    • How are they connected to the world? 
    • Allies and Enemies?  
    • How do they fit into the settings society? 
    • Is the setting society theirs? 
    • What is their status 
    • Why are they doing it? 
    • The Motivation 
    • Why are they doing what they are doing? 
    • Do they think their reason is the actual reason? 

     

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    Find your Favorite characters in life and use it 

    RW  Task 

    Live in the present 

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