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Friends at the Table is an actual play podcast about critical worldbuilding, smart characterization, and fun interaction between good friends. Find us (and a listener guide) @Friends_Table on Twitter.
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Have you ever wondered what life would be like on a planet different from our own, or how writers create your favorite fictional worlds? Well, wonder no more because we have the facts for you! Every other week, astrophysicist/folklorist Moiya McTier explores fictional worlds by building them with a panel of expert guests, interviewing professional worldbuilders, or reviewing the merits of worlds that have already been built. You'll learn, you'll laugh, and you'll gain an appreciation for how ...
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Lorekeepers is a worldbuilding podcast about two friends chronicling the journey of an ever-expanding tapestry of interwoven lore.While other podcasts may start a new world with each episode, Carter and Frank return to Halûme each week, determined to create the deepest, grandest, and most nuanced fictional setting ever. Never forget that in an infinite world, there are always more tales to tell.
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Full Worlds

Hampus Jakobsson

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When you write a novel or build a game, you have to design a whole world. A world with culture, hierarchy, taboos, economy, fairness, traditions, careers, and origin stories. In Full Worlds, we hear authors and creators explain the worlds they built, without the story getting in the way.
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Worldbuilding Blueprints

Marie M. Mullany from Just In Time Worlds

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Worldbuilding Blueprints is brought to you by Just In Time Worlds! This podcast aims to guide you through step by step world building. Each season of the podcast will close out with a book that collects the information of the podcast as well as a series of worksheets in one easy to digest and use resource.
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The Worldbuilder's Tavern

The Worldbuilder's Tavern

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The Worldbuilder's Tavern is a bi-weekly podcast for sci-fi and fantasy writers. The hosts (writer, makeup artist, and dungeon master Emma Maione; writer and developmental editor Allison Alexander; and marketing manager and academic Christiana Jones) break down the worldbuilding of speculative shows, movies, and books, sharing insights into how creatives can apply professional storytelling techniques to their own projects.
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Culture, worlds, and creativity in 301 seconds with Permanently Moved, a weekly podcast by Jay Springett. Guaranteed fresh insights in the same time it takes to listen to Teen Spirit.
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Ink & Bytes

Worldbuilder

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A podcast about a diverse range of topics hosted by a writer and nerd Colby Ebaugh. We will explore things like writing tips, literary critique, gaming, cybersecurity and more in shorter more bite sized episodes then dive deep in interviews with amazing people during longer form episodes. No matter what your interests are, you are likely to find something you like here!
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World Anvil Worldbuilding Podcast

World Anvil founders Janet (writer, worldbuilder, nutcase) and Dimitris (GM, worldbuilding wizard, techmonkey)

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Are you worldbuilding for homebrew RPG campaigns, novels, game development, films or anything else? Then you're in the right place! Designed to educate, inspire and entertain, World Anvil's founders - writer & RPG designer Janet Forbes and Gamemaster and RPG designer Dimitris chat with creators and academics about the brass tacks of worldbuilding, exploring a new theme each month. Expect topics like novel writing and short stories, game design, Cultures and Societies, Settlements and their n ...
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Lore Together

Mystic and Sapphy

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Mystic and Sapphy are a husband-and-wife team who love knowing the background of the video game worlds they've explored over the years. In Lore Together, the two talk about what they've found out as they deep dived into some of their favorite fictional worlds.
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The Pod Called Quest

The Pod Called Quest

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The Pod Called Quest is here to bring you the best long-form actual play podcast around. Die-hard players of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, the PCQ is dedicated to telling great stories while also fully utilizing the incredible ruleset that the Pathfinder RPG provides. All of this coupled with ardent devotion to quality audio and community engagement. So grab a drink and take a seat. For today, we quest!
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Game Master’s Journey is a discussion podcast for GMs and players of Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop RPGs hosted by Lex Starwalker. The show explores strategies players and GMs can use to enhance the gaming experience for everyone at the table. Lex also discusses the creation of his homebrew D&D setting, Primordia, providing a valuable worldbuilding resource for DMs creating their own setting.
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Writing For Roleplay

Digital Kaiju Studios

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Join hosts Kevin Carpenter and Kayla Knutson as they provide guidance on crafting narratives in your tabletop RPG, whether you're a player, GM, or Actual Play performer. Writing for Roleplay is a production of Digital Kaiju Studios.
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Worldbuilders Weekly brings you interviews with authors, artists, designers and more from the sci-fi, fantasy, and gaming community. Every episode also includes the latest news from Patrick Rothfuss' geek-powered charity: treasures from the Worldbuilders Market, trivia, nerdy tangents, and plenty of geeks-doing-good stories thanks to your incredible support! Worldbuilders works to create sustainable change for the better throughout the world in partnership with other charities and through ou ...
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Worldcasting Podcast

Worldbuilding Magazine

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Join us for some casual discussions about the craft of worldbuilding aimed at giving general advice, best practices, and support on the meta topics in the craft. If you enjoy Worldcasting, check out Worldbuilding Magazine for free-to-download worldbuilding articles, inspiration, interviews, and artwork. Worldcasting is an affiliate production of Worldbuilding Magazine.
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Heroes & Thieves

Heroes & Thieves

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A creative world building exercise led by brothers Michael and Greg Starks, in which they attempt to build fantasy and sci-fi worlds every week using only three words as the basis. Good, bad, and ugly ideas are all welcome here.
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The Lore Foundry

The Lore Foundry

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Two game masters continue a lunchtime tradition where they create new lore for their worlds, talk about cool new lore they find out in the wild, and other things relating to Tabletop Role Playing, Worldbuilding, and Lore in general.
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Your one stop shop for tips and tricks to help you get better at GM'ing your own, TTRPG game. Designed for Beginners and veterans alike. Join me each week as we discuss worldbuilding, storytelling and other game management techniques. Find me on X (twitter): @GMGreg1 Come play DND with me on discord: https://discord.gg/GdQ4z56fY9 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=102070255
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Ashen Snow

Christopher Rondeau

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Join Vin, Varren, Mia, and Freya on an extraordinary journey through the mysterious Missing Moment in the captivating Pathfinder 2e adventure path "Gatewalkers." Get ready for thrilling encounters, epic quests, and unimaginable discoveries. Don't miss a single moment of this thrilling show!
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Behold Lore

BeholdRoleplay

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Join us as we do a deep dive in to the lore, history, and creation of the worlds of our persistent D&D campaigns! Join us on...• Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/beholdroleplay • YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/beholdroleplay • Twitter - https://twitter.com/BeholdRP •
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Rite Gud

Kittysneezes

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This isn’t a podcast for total beginners. We’re going to assume that you know what plot structure is, what a protagonist is, where ideas come from, and how to use a semicolon. This is a podcast for people who can already write okay, but want to do better.
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Hi! I’m Fox Keyes. Shortly after my fourteenth birthday, I was tricked into passing through an inter-dimensional gateway to a world called Dunari. Years later, I’m still here. And ready to talk about it. From killer toilets to killer Spirit Storms, and just about everything in between, I will describe how I learned to survive living in another world. This podcast is for creatives who think outside the box. Perhaps you are a role-playing gamer searching for a unique character angle? Or maybe ...
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Roleing Imperfection

Roleing Imperfection

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Our podcast features two friends with over fifteen years of gaming experience chatting about tabletop role playing games. Our philosophy involves complex character design integrated with fully fleshed out worlds. We aim to help people write characters, play tabletop rpgs, and run their own games. Each episode will break down a different roleplaying topic with stories from our past games and suggestions for how to make your games better.New episodes launch Thursdays! Remember to play what you ...
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Brandon Sanderson and Veronica Roth join the stage together at C2E2 2024 and talk through there processes of approaching Worldbuilding and answer some questions live from the audience! #worldbuilding #brandonsanderson #veronicaroth #cosmere #divergentWant to send me something to open?Dragonsteel EntertainmentATTN: AdamP.O Box 698American Fork, UT 8…
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Break out the spreadsheets for some spread cheeks in this week's episode as we explore the giant anatomy of a continent sized giant. Things devolve quickly but we ultimately pull out an extremely fun and hair raising setting from Patron Diplo Raptor's prompt as Jonnie Law joins us this week as special guest host. And: do you have opinions about Wor…
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Moiya is joined by writer Rachel Feltman to imagine a beautiful but foreboding world. They end up with a genre-bending world full of people convinced they have magical powers. HOSTED by Dr. Moiya McTier (@GoAstroMo), astrophysicist and folklorist GUEST Rachel Feltman is a science and technology writer, editor, and host of the weirdest thing I learn…
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In this episode, we're talking about mechs, feminism, disability representation, and more in the novel Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao. Proprietor's Pick: A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang Intro and outro music: "The Tavern" by Michael Ghelfi Visit the Tavern: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠D…
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Beat the summer heat and embark on an exhilarating river tour aboard the S.S. Clatfartbarge! This unique river tour through Clatfartburg offers a glimpse of the town’s historic landmarks and captivating local legends. Enjoy the rush as you zoom past these sites while your lively captain shares tales of days gone by (as well as too-personal anechdot…
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Show Notes This week, Fiona tries her hand at building her very own setting prompt by prompt, using Angeline Trevena’s ‘30 Days of Worldbuilding: An Author’s Step-by-Step Guide to Building Fictional Worlds’. Overwhelmed by creating fantasy worlds? Lost in your world? Unsure where to go next? 30 Days of Worldbuilding breaks the task into manageable …
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Send us a Text Message. Join Marie in discussing how to create a cultural framework, ideology and norms. My website: World Building | Marie Mullany Writing My Amazon Profile: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Marie-Mullany/author/B099QJMV6C Join the YouTube Channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxvBH0EkwuHsQ9ryHHQNi2Q/join Support the Show.…
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Thanks you Jed Herne for coming on! Check out his awesome channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@Jed_Herne Thank you Displate for sponsoring us! For 22-30% off - Visit https://displate.com/2toramble & use our code at checkout: "2ToRamble" Private Book Club! Join/Support: https://www.patreon.com/2toramble Check out our Merch! https://2toramble.com O…
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A lot of the time, fantasy worldbuilding invokes huge maps, spanning civilizations and continents, with characters traversing vast distances on their epic quests. But what about the worldbuilding that happens with a tighter focus on an intimate, even insular location? Guest Cherie Priest joins us to discuss creating small towns just ripe for gothic…
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Mechanics vs. Narrative? We spit on that false dichotomy! Join Kevin and Kayla as they discuss how the mechanics influence the narrative and the narrative influences the mechanics. If you want to play the game, you gotta know the rules. Want to support our work and gain access to bonus episodes and our private Discord? Visit our Ko-Fi at https://ko…
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Thank you Displate for sponsoring us! For 22-30% off - Visit https://displate.com/2toramble & use our code at checkout: "2ToRamble" Private Book Club! Join/Support: https://www.patreon.com/2toramble Check out our Merch! https://2toramble.com Our social media: https://linktr.ee/2ToRamble PO Box address: 200 Lawyers Rd #6 Vienna, VA, 22183 Advertisin…
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Today, we’re focusing on C.L. Clark’s “The Cook,” as we explore external and internal expression. We chose this story because it's a remarkably physical and touchable story with myriad sensory details. While the audience gets very little information about what Clark’s characters are thinking, you can still understand their internal landscapes by wh…
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We knew they were going to change some things, but some of the stuff changes the lore of the game and the D'ni universe entirely. Join us as we Lore Together! Contact us: Instagram: https://instagram.com/loretogether BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/loretogether.bsky.social Mastodon: https://universeodon.com/@LoreTogether Reddit: https://www.reddi…
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Due to my Aphantasia, I also have SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory), I never remember anything in the first person. This is why I keep a diary. Full Show Notes: https://www.thejaymo.net/2024/07/13/2415-first-person-memory/ Support the show! Subscribe to my zine Watch on Youtube Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in …
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Get the physical or audiobook here! Book 1 ("Dungeon Crawler Carl") - https://amzn.to/4brLVUo Book 2 ("Carl's Doomsday Scenario") - https://amzn.to/3VsQNmT Book 3 ("The Dungeon ANarchist's Cookbook") - https://amzn.to/4bytcWw Private Book Club! Join/Support: https://www.patreon.com/2toramble Thank you Displate for sponsoring us! For 22-30% off - Vi…
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Rich Dotson (@DynastyRich), Matt O'Hara (@DynastyMatt) and Garret Price (@DynastyPrice) have 3 different strategies from 3 different draft positions in a 1QB startup draft. Tune in to see what they do!(0:00) Intro(9:00) Rich’s Team(18:33) Underdog(19:57) Rich’s Team Continued(33:43) FFPC(34:59) Matt’s Team(53:10) Sleeper(54:42) Garret’s TeamFollow …
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******* Our Data is right here!*******https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KO6K6vG3wDqn2ApY0_D8weBCLluq1PJ_DirxzXNqTSc/edit?usp=sharingRich Dotson (@DynastyRich), Matt O'Hara (@DynastyMatt) and Garret Price (@DynastyPrice) talk through data points that are important for future success in fantasy football. (0:00) Intro(10:00) QBs(27:10) Underdog(…
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Many writers dream of moving to one of the big cool culture cities to make it. New York. L.A. Portland. Seattle. Increasingly, Austin. But not all of us can live there, for whatever reason. Some of us live in itty bitty rural hamlets, and we’re happy there. Some of us live in cities with a terrific cultural scene, but the city gets overlooked for b…
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Many writers dream of moving to one of the big cool culture cities to make it. New York. L.A. Portland. Seattle. Increasingly, Austin. But not all of us can live there, for whatever reason. Some of us live in itty bitty rural hamlets, and we’re happy there. Some of us live in cities with a terrific cultural scene, but the city gets overlooked for b…
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In an age of information overload, we need, more than ever, to find someone to help us make sense of it all. But there are self-proclaimed experts, life coaches, and just plain hucksters everywhere! What're we to do? Well, maybe we need to take a page out of Russian fairy tales. Just as Ivan the Prince found his frog princess in a swamp, our answer…
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Last year, I was convinced that if we want to not merely survive the pandemic, but come through it as better people, then there are many stories that can help us do this.Some resources I mention in the video are here below:A collection of Wendell Berry’s essays collected by Paul Kingsnorth (https://www.amazon.com/World-Ending-Fire-Essential-Wendell…
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Garret has 8 players that might be washed... or maybe not?!(0:00) Intro(0:45) Derrick Henry(2:09) Stefon Diggs(3:22) Davante Adams(4:29) Keenan Allen(5:47) DeAndre Hopkins(6:49) Cooper Kupp(7:37) Austin Ekeler(8:53) Mike EvansFollow the guys on Twitter!Rich - https://twitter.com/DynastyRichGarret - https://twitter.com/DynastyPriceMatt - https://twi…
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From cunning masterminds to powerful brutes, we love to hate villains of all varieties! Join Kevin and Kayla as they discuss crafting the perfect villain for your campaign. Want to support our work and gain access to bonus episodes and our private Discord? Visit our Ko-Fi at https://ko-fi.com/digitalkaijustudios Follow us on social media! Bluesky: …
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J.R.R. Tolkien wanted his work to be taken seriously. But his magnum opus The Lord of the Rings was unlike most literature of the mid-20th century, which was modern. And wasn't The Hobbit a children's book? Critics mused, is this sequel supposed to be serious literature for adults?https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/the-hobbits-and-the-…
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The Thanes regroup! JOIN OUR DISCORD Check out the CAUSES WE SUPPORT to get involved and donate! Help support the show by visiting our Patreon and find even more content on our Website! Tracklist and Creative Commons Attribution Can Be Viewed HERE Intro/Outro Music “Jotunheim (Chiptune Version)” Courtesy of Rush Coil Original Composition by Serpent…
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Thanks so much to @thomaswrites for coming on! Check out his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@thomaswrites Private Book Club! Join/Support: https://www.patreon.com/2toramble Thank you Displate for sponsoring us! For 22-30% off - Visit https://displate.com/2toramble & use our code at checkout: "2ToRamble" Check out our Merch! https://2toramble…
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Where did modern bureaucracy come from? Colonel Sylvanus Thayer, the Father of the Military Academy, or the ‘man who made West Point’. Full Show Notes: https://www.thejaymo.net/2024/07/07/2414-the-origins-of-modern-bureaucracy/ Support the show! Subscribe to my zine Watch on Youtube Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, wri…
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Today we introduce our next close reading series—we’re focusing on character through the lens of three of C.L. Clark’s short stories: “You Perfect, Broken Thing,” “The Cook,” and “Your Eyes, My Beacon: Being an Account of Several Misadventures and How I Found My Way Home”. They are all hyperlinked above and available online for free through Uncanny…
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There, on the edge of the Twilight Mirage, after a period of rapid revolution, the world of Palisade seems to find a slower rate of turn. Objects that hung in the air find their place on the ground—or commit to leaving the world, carrying their outward momentum with them. But even a world at peace exists in a broader orbit. This week on PALISADE: A…
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Rich Dotson (@DynastyRich), Matt O'Hara (@DynastyMatt) and Garret Price (@DynastyPrice) have 6 tier down targets for dynasty fantasy football!(0:00) Intro(8:20) Terry McLaurin to Jakobi Meyers (20:44) Underdog(22:10) Trevor Lawrence to Jared Goff(30:01) Sleeper(31:30) James Cook to Rhamondre Stevenson(40:41) David Montgomery to Devin Singleterry(48…
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Episode 128 - The Gateway (Part 4) (Star Trek Adventures) FRONTIER SEASON 2 - CHAPTER 4 Approaching the end of their dangerous journey through the subspace storm surrounding the Bermuda Cluster, the crew of the USS Tenzing take the opportunity to let their hair down for an evening, taking part in the ship's monthly karaoke night! Meanwhile, the mys…
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Hello Travelers & Tourists!Welcome to the first video in a new series I hope to slowly fill out in the coming months - a deep dive into Spellcasting in Pathfinder 2nd Edition! I am a huge fan of spell casters in any TTRPG, and despite some online debates about spell casting in Pathfinder 2nd Edition, I find there is a lot to love about Paizo's appr…
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Storytellers obsess over our goals - long and short term. In this episode, Janet is chatting with Peter Chiykowski, creator of the Story Engine Deck, about doing it in a balanced, responsible way to avoid burnout and overwhelm. Grab a cozy beverage, your favorite planners and pens, and let's prepare for an amazing year of worldbuilding!…
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Storytellers obsess over our goals - long and short term. In this episode, Janet is chatting with Peter Chiykowski, creator of the Story Engine Deck, about doing it in a balanced, responsible way to avoid burnout and overwhelm. Grab a cozy beverage, your favorite planners and pens, and let's prepare for an amazing year of worldbuilding!…
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