Crucible of Realms
We like to create worlds of fantasy, sci-fi and other genres. In each episode, we brainstorm a new setting. Come and join us!
- Update frequency
- every 26 days
- Episodes
- 44
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2022
Epoch Iteration 7 - Release the Christmas Bears!
We talk about current events, make announcements, discuss feedback and develop a strange fascination with spices and animal attacks. The Worldbuilding Subreddit Jon mentions can be found HERE. You ca…
Tue 11 Dec 2012
Episode 18 - Accord
Hosts: Jim, Jon & Kent Guest: John "Scooter" Weaver In this episode we create a burgeoning city full of humans making its way in the world on the edge of three nonhuman lands. In this fantasy world…
Tue 27 Nov 2012
Epoch Iteration 6 - Help the Walking Eye
A quick iteration discussing the fire that happened recently at the home of two of the hosts of the Walking Eye Podcast. Here is a link to the ChipIn fund that's been set up to help them out: http://…
Sat 24 Nov 2012
Epoch Iteration 5 - Wondrous Feedback
We read listener feedback, freely toss around Avengers spoilers like they're Halloween candy, and acknowledge the wonders of video game exhaustion. The plant growth time-lapse video discussed in the …
Sun 28 Oct 2012
Epoch Iteration 4 - Dragon*Con Post-Mortem
We talk a little about show notes, read listener feedback and then talk for quite a while about what we did at Dragon*Con 2012! In October, Kent will be participating in the charity Extra Life - chec…
Fri 21 Sep 2012
Episode 17 - GLADIUS Sanction
Hosts: Jim, Jon & Kent Guest: Jon Carmody We present a world where everything is EPIC! A Michael Bay-ish world overflowing with testosterone. A world where even the smallest things are cranked up t…
Mon 13 Aug 2012
Epoch Iteration 2 - The Michael Rohan Memorial Fund Charity Bundle
A quick announcement about a charity bundle that upcoming guest Charles White of Fabled Environments has helped put together. It's $12.00 for nearly $300 worth of gaming PDFs and it will only last un…
Wed 18 Jul 2012
Epoch Iteration 1 - Recapturing Life Pieces
Here's a new thing - a show-between-the-shows! Just some announcements, listener feedback and general banter to tide folks over until the next full setting-creation episode is released. Recommendatio…
Wed 04 Jul 2012
Episode 16 - The Arcane Impurity
Hosts: Jim, Jon & Kent Guest: Matt Forbeck Fantasy and sci-fi collide as a medieval world inhabited by magical creatures and practitioners of the arcane is beset by cyborg invaders from another wor…
Wed 13 Jun 2012
Episode 15 - The Midgard Precedent
Hosts: Jim, Jon & Kent Guest: Edward Boudreaux We construct a setting in which Viking-inspired space fleets must deal with an Earth government that no longer wants them. Now that first contact with a…
Mon 11 Jun 2012
Episode 14 - Perdition's Hold
Hosts: Jim, Jon & Kent Guest: Clint Black of Pinnacle Entertainment Group We create a penal colony that exists in a medieval world where magic is outlawed and demons manipulate the future of mankin…
Sun 13 May 2012
Episode 13 - Kiklos
Hosts: Jim, Jon & Kent Guests: Tuna & Nick the Savage Greek In this episode we create an artificial world where the inhabitants fight each other for resources on the inside of an enormous sphere as p…
Fri 04 May 2012
Episode 12 - Acondus Spiral
Hosts: Jim, Jon & Kent Guest: Darin Kennedy We slap together a setting in deep space, in which a struggling federation of worlds attempts to push back threats from all sides. Recommendation: Jon…
Mon 16 Apr 2012
Episode 11 - Hell Noir
Hosts: Jim, Jon & Gregory Guest: Eden Royce In this episode we create a vision of a hell in which daemons try to live better lives, but are plagued by crime and corruption. And of course the occasi…
Sat 31 Mar 2012
Episode 10 - The Ashes of Albion
Hosts: Jim, Jon & Kent Guest: Eric On this episode, we create an Earth of the near future scarred by a mystical, fiery apocalypse. From the ashes of this world rise heroes of the Arthurian legends an…
Sun 18 Mar 2012
Episode 9 - Outlandia
Hosts: Jim, Jon & Kent Guest: Chris We build a galactic spiral arm in which magic and technology co-exist and humans and other strange species band together to defend against a threat that seeks do…
Fri 09 Mar 2012
Episode 8 - The Realms of Bennu
Hosts: Jim, Jon & Kent Guest: Mike of Sick & Twisted Productions We delve into a fantasy world in which the living and the dead are tied to each other in an unending cycle of birth, life, death, afte…
Sun 19 Feb 2012
Episode 7 - Neptune's Reich
Hosts: Jim, Jon & Kent Guest: Reece Ambrose We take an alternate look at World War II, imagining a world in which the Nazis found a mystical artifact that would lead them to conquer Europe and change…
Sat 04 Feb 2012
Episode 6 - Utopia Horizon
Hosts: Jim, Jon & Kent Guest: Gregory Weir of Ludus Novus We travel out into the depths of space to create a science fiction setting in which humanity has transcended physical needs. Factions within …
Sun 22 Jan 2012
Episode 5 - The Civil Engagement
Hosts: Jim, Jon & Kent We tackle the Superhero, Steampunk and Historical Fiction genres all at once by leaping into a world in which the Civil War is being fought not only with armies, but with stran…
Sat 07 Jan 2012
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