Worldbuilder's Anvil
Do you have visions of fantasy world’s dancing through your head? Are you a gamemaster that wants to tell stories in your world? Are you a fiction writer who wants your next setting to be your best?
Do you want to build better fantasy worlds?
Then the Worldbuilder's Anvil podcast is for you. Learn to create the physical world, characters, cultures, kingdoms, races, species and monsters. Learn it all, with some banter to boot.
Join Michael and Jeffery on the weekly podcast that looks at storytelling, game mastering, pop culture and life through the lens of fantasy world building. Subscribe TODAY!
Listen to new episodes every Monday and BUILD BETTER FANTASY WORLDS.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 401
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2022
Episode 178 How to worldbuild a fantasy pantheon
Today's Topic Create a new Pantheons in fantasy fiction
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The bigger benefit for me wa…
Episode 177 Create your fantasy in pain
My back started killing. I was having trouble standing. My wife stood over me; her frustration turned into t…
Episode 176 From sci fi universe to fantasy world
Today's Topic Looking to the universe to show us why framing a world is so important
Podcast Show Flow
- Inspired with the release of Gotg Vol. 2
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- And all space shows
- Worlds differences
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- Most wo…
Episode 175 Storyboarding! It’s Not just for movies!1!
Podcast Show Flow
- Realization that many writers cannot visualize the story in their head from just outline
- Solution Storyboard it
- L…
Episode 174 Why the world needs your world
If you are anything like me. You feel a bit guilty when you set a side time to create fictional work. Best case scenario in …
Episode 173 Our dishonorable mentions
Michael and I love villains. For both of us they define how good a story is. They can elevate a store or even limit a store if they ar…
Episode 172 Enter the Kyrnn
It has been years since I visited the world of Krynn. However, the visit has flooded me with wonderful memories. Epic battles, great characters, and stories that still stick in my mind today. I will…
Episode 171 The Taboo in your fantasy world
I always overthought what a taboo was. I focused on the idea that taboos are these forbidden ideas, but how…
Episode 170 Subculture Why?
If you have followed the show you would not that Jeffery is a huge geek about studying cultures. We have talked about cultu…
Episode 169 The Total Beginner's Primer to writing
Writing is the second most important skill a worldbuilder can know. Curiosity is still the most important skill. Writing is invaluable to a worldbuilder,…
Episode 168 Frame your fantasy world
Join Michael and Jeffery in this episode as the look to help show how to create a…
Episode 167 Stop creating a world, start worldbuilding
Today's Topic Framework Fantasy World
Podcast Show Flow
- The importance of world building
- The challenge is to make it seem real from a perspective
- The Risk is focusing so much on creating the world…
Episode 166 Finding Everyday Worldbuilding Inspirations
Join Michael and Jeffery as they start looking into their life to for inspiration, at least for an episode.
Podcast Show Flow- The Tre…
Episode 165 Quick start guide for one-shot games
Podcast Show Flow
- Mission or Monty Hall style game
- Well planned Story outline
- Use your pre-built resources towns, NPCs and the such
- Pre-bu…
Episode 164 My GM Toolkit and bag of tricks
Podcast Show Flow
- Maps and Art needed ProFantasy Art
- NPC List in excel or google docs
- Scrivener Worldbuilding File
- Names lists
- Scriv…
Episode 163 Climate is the birth and sometimes death of cultures
Join Michael and Jeff as the climate in fantasy world-building.
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Episode 162 Podcast of the Dead
Join Michael and Jeff as the look at a simple system to develop death rituals for your fantasy worldbuilding cultures.
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Episode 161 Lessons from Excalibur and King Arthur
Podcast Show Flow
- Excalibur movie 1981
- I want to be a freaking mage, even with the drawbacks
- Raistlin Majere only showed…
Episode 160 Stop being stuck and start sharing your fictional world with these 3 simple steps
You have something inside you. A fictional world. You need to share it. You feel it in…
Episode 159 Big History, My Worldbuilding best friend
Big history is a great way see the patterns that have successful let to the civilization on earth. Join …