Worldbuilding Tips and Tricks (MD 179)
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Episode 179 of Mastering Dungeons! Main topic: Worldbuilding Tips and Tricks! How do we create worlds that reflect the RPGs used to play them? How do we serve our readers, GMs, and players? Let’s talk worldbuilding! News: Surviving Strangehollow,| No D&D in Portuguese, D&D Off-Broadway, and more! Contents 00:00 Dark Weekend 01:01 Running Factions? 12:51 Mechanic Struggles? 21:51 Surviving Strangehollow 22:42 No D&D in Portuguese 26:01 Off-Broadway D&D 28:22 Star Trek 2E Announced 30:30 Emerging Designer Submissions 31:09 Weird Wizard Available 32:22 BX Inspired 5E 33:07 EN World Covers Evil Genius 35:36 Worldbuilding 35:48 Shawn's Worldbuilding 39:48 Build with Words 41:54 Show vs Tell 44:58 When to Get Detailed 47:10 Reality Matters 49:45 RPG-Based Fiction 55:55 Top-Down vs Bottom-Up 01:04:59 Microscope RPG 01:07:58 Surviving Strangehollow 01:15:32 Shout-Outs Thank you for listening! Get the full show notes with links on Patreon. Our intro and outro music is Metropolis Fanfare, provided royalty-free by Tabletop Audio (https://tabletopaudio.com) under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). MP3 file metadata populated with Online MP3 Podcast Chapter Editor, built by Dominik Peters. https://mp3chapters.github.io/ and customized for Mastering Dungeons by Vladimir Prenner from Croatia.
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- 0:00 Dark Weekend
- 1:01 Running Factions?
- 12:51 Mechanic Struggles?
- 21:51 Surviving Strangehollow
- 22:42 No D&D in Portuguese
- 26:01 Off-Broadway D&D
- 28:22 Star Trek 2E Announced
- 30:30 Emerging Designer Submissions
- 31:09 Weird Wizard Available
- 32:22 BX Inspired 5E
- 33:07 EN World Covers Evil Genius
- 35:36 Worldbuilding
- 35:48 Shawn’s Worldbuilding
- 39:48 Build with Words
- 41:54 Show vs Tell
- 44:58 When to Get Detailed
- 47:10 Reality Matters
- 49:45 RPG-Based Fiction
- 55:55 Top-Down vs Bottom-Up
- 1:04:59 Microscope RPG
- 1:07:58 Surviving Strangehollow
- 1:15:32 Shout-Outs
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