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Dungeon Deep Dive
by That's Not Canon Productions
Your fantasy world-building podcast What kind of city has walkable sewers? How does pirate democracy work? Why is there a brewery in every city? For every element of your fantasy world, there are a thousand questions you need answered, and that’s where we come in. Join Lachlan, Danae, and Tully as we over-research, over-think, and over-explain everything from city planning to funerals to the literal nuts and bolts of your world. We do the research, so you don’t have to! We examine real-world history, inner workings, and how to incorporate it into your game, and then we’ll build one ourselves. Tailored to tabletop RPGs, but we can be used for anything from fantasy writing to annoying monologues at parties. We’d love to hear what you’re using us for. Shoot us a message on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram (@dungeondeepdive), or send us an email at [email protected] to tell us what you want us to deep dive next! Hosted on Acast. See <a style=
Episodes
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Drugs (Part 2)
We're doing drugs again! Wait, that's not what I meant. We're checking out some more details about drugs. SUMMARY: This week on Dungeon Deep Dive, we're checking out drugs AGAIN! This week we take a look at frankincense, and take a hard look into our understandings of addiction and how it affects...
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Drugs (Part 1)
We're doing drugs! Wait, that's not what I meant. We're looking at the widespread issues caused by rampant colonialism through the lens of drugs! This week on Dungeon Deep Dive, we're checking out drugs, and their effect on the world. Aaaaaand in true DDD fashion we got a little carried away. So...
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Salt (Part 2)
You've heard us get salty before, but now it's time to talk about salt! Again! This week on Dungeon Deep Dive, we're joined again by our friendly neighbourhood DM Maddy! Picking up where we left off last week, now we're working through all the ways we could play with our newfound knowledge. If...
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Salt (Part 1)
This week on Dungeon Deep Dive, we're joined by our friendly neighbourhood DM Maddy! Our journey begins in ancient China, with the history of salt currencies, and runs through the rules of salt in magic and region. Finally Grace eases or sorrows with the science of tears. If you'd like to get in...
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Flags
This week is a bit of a tour de Lachlan de force you could call it, as Tully and Grace get to learn all about flags right on the air because Lachlan did too much research! Flags are used by every country and by countless other groups as a symbol of their strength and unity, but why? Why were they...
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Ogres
We're coming out of our cage and we've been doing just fine! Just kidding, we've missed you all terribly, but we're back! Aaaaaaand now we're back in the studio it's time to talk about Ogres. Far from our beloved silver screen idol Shrek, these giantfolk can be all sorts of things. Take a listen…
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Character Corner - Adelaide the Gooey Gal
Once again we're back, talking about the characters in our campaigns. This week, it's Adelaide, a gooey homebrewed oblex. Catch us for a chat about building your character's motivations through your background. For the class as it stands, and references therein see...
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Character Corner - Greebo the Labor Rights Goblin
Once again we're back, talking about the characters in our campaigns. This week, it's Greebo, the labor rights goblin. Catch us for a chat about building your character's motivations through your background. Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice....
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Quarantine
This week goes out to all our listeners DMing to cope, as we explore quarantine! We look at how confinement changed the landscape of the medieval world, check in with everyones favourite disease vector, and try to better understand how people historically understood medicine and plagues! It's a…
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Character Corner - Squid Ran Away
It's a character corner with guest Brooke Reilly! EPISODE NOTES: With social distancing restrictions easing up in Queensland, the gang decided to meet in person next week. So in the meantime, here's a character corner where Tully and guest Brooke Reilly discuss their campaign, her runaway druid,...
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Thieves
While Lachlan takes a break this week, Grace brings Ned Kelly; a controversial figure that everyone, including our special guest Brooke Reilly, can agree is a daddy. Brooke introduces us to both some inspirational Mob Moms and a cheeky bit of Dick Turpin. Then Tully wraps it up with the timeless...
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Games
The first 20 sided die dates back to Ptolemaic Egypt, but people have been playing games a long time before our favourite polyhedron was born. It's another week of recording at home, and an edit shipped off to a fan with far more RAM than us (thanks Brooke). We take a snapshot of children's…
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Textiles
Since people learned to cover their naughty bits, we've been using textiles! While we recorded from separate houses (and any one of us COULD have been working in the nude), it was a great chat about fabric throughout time. Tully coloured our days with talk of dyeing in various forms. Grace gave…
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Hair
This week, the gang are talking all about hair, and why that's important. Grace takes us through the history of hair care, and what sort of methods were used historically. Then Lachlan takes us through an insightful (if harrowing) look at the significance of hair and personhood (between 28:46 and...
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Siege Machines
We've already told you how best to defend again a siege in your fancy freezing castle, but here's all the siege things you should keep in mind when you are the one besieging. Lachlan's gone deep into the political motivations for sieging and how people have gone about it in the past, Tully's all...
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Update and Tidbits
A quick update for everyone! As the year has grown nearly a whole month old, we've realised that we could be looking after ourselves better, and giving you a better podcast if we changed up the schedule. So from now on, we're going to a fortnightly schedule, so that we can continue this wild ride...
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Funerals
It's a cheery episode this week as we here at DDD talk about funerals. Grace gets into some fun examples of interesting items people throughout history have been buried with, Lachlan gets into the concept of death and dying meant from back in ye olde days right up to our modern day approach to…
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Thieves Cant
It's our first deep dive into a class specific ability! That's right, it's thieves' cant. Grace talks all about the rise of hobo symbols in the USA, and what they mean for you. Then Lachlan takes us on a linguistic journey into creoles and anti-languages, and finally Tully gives us some real…
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Guns (Part 2)
The gang go on a whopper of a deep dive, so big we split it in two! It really is amazing that for all these years, people have stuck by their guns through thick and through thin. Despite incredible cost, unpredictability, and risk of accidental death, we continued to use firearms until we got…
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Guns (Part 1)
The gang go on a whopper of a deep dive, so big we split it in two! It really is amazing that for all these years, people have stuck by their guns through thick and through thin. Despite incredible cost, unpredictability, and risk of accidental death, we continued to use firearms until we got…
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Castles
It's been a whole month since we've had a full episode for you, so we made sure the first couple were absolute doozies! Not only do we bring in the new year with a new episode, but we introduce a new host, Grace Schodel! This week we're diving into what you need to know about castles. Lachlan...
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Hiatus - Session 1 DM chats
MERRY CHRISTMAS!! We're celebrating with a discussion about our campaigns and how they were planned. Fun times for anyone planning a session one, and wanting to know where to start. Catch us next week for more official episodes! Subscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your...
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Hiatus - Um
We're taking a holiday hiatus, so here's a little teaser of what we have in store after the break ;) It's been a wild time for us at Dungeon Deep Dive, and due to a number of factors (new host, holidays, Tully forgetting to check the goddamn mics) we'll be taking a holiday hiatus. Rest assured,...
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Hiatus - Mickey's A Lich
It's been a wild time for us at Dungeon Deep Dive, and due to a number of factors (new host, holidays, Tully forgetting to check the goddamn mics) we'll be taking a holiday hiatus. Rest assured, that doesn't mean you'll have to go without quality content, it just won't be quite as much. This week...
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Hiatus & Outtakes
It's been a wild time for us at Dungeon Deep Dive, and due to a number of factors (new host, holidays, Tully forgetting to check the goddamn mics) we'll be taking a holiday hiatus. Rest assured, that doesn't mean you'll have to go without quality content, it just won't be quite as much. Here are...
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Plagues
When we think of plagues, the black death is surely the most iconic (and terrifying) example. This week, Tully gets right into the nuts and bolts of how to build a disease for optimal virulence. We check out symptoms, systems, and modes of transmission, before breaking into some fictional and…
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Roads
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not help but wonder what that meant for my world! This week, we sadly bid farewell to Danae, but soldier on to ask "what's the deal with roads?". Lachlan takes a look at the distances a historical citizen may have travelled, and the answer…
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Gripes #1
Dungeons and Dragons has become one of the world's favourite fantasy tabletop games, and with the advent of fifth edition it quickly skyrocketed into the public eye. So what could there be to complain about? LOTS! In this episode, Lachlan and Tully go through some of their gripes from D&D 5e.…
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Sewers (Unreleased Pilot)
This week, we are taking a step back in time! and not just in the history way either. Danaë was out sick, so we dug through an old hard drive we bought off a dark web arms dealer and what would you know? It's our lost sewers ep! So hey, why not give it to you guys? What could possibly go wrong?...
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Divination
For as long as we can remember, people have been obsessed with finding out what lies on the road ahead. From the oracle at Delphi, to that strange lady who told me I was destined to fall under a terrible curse while I walked to recording, the methods and deliveries of these predictions vary…
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Astronomy
This week on Dungeon Deep Dive we search for answers among the stars. We've all heard about the denial of science throughout history, but what would people actually know? Would a medieval world understand the stars, and what would they do if they did? We answer these questions and more as we…
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Libraries
Danae, Lachlan, and Tully get in touch with their scholarly roots once more! Journeying through what makes a library, what comes from censorship, and even a study of the Great Library of Alexandria, we explore the how and why of libraries in your world. How do we categorise the knowledge in our...
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Werewolves
The moon is full, the night is dark, and terrible beasts are on the hunt. Stay a while, safe and secure as we look into werewolves throughout history. Did people ever actually believe in werewolves? Why? and what did wolves ever do to anyone? And 1 in every hundred thousand listeners wi be…
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Vampires
This week the team at Dungeon Deep Dive gets morbid, as they explore all things vampire. Get ready for death, disease, and devils! The vampire has long been a mythological staple around the world, with different interpretations in every corner of the world. This creature has been buried in the...
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Mermaids
This week the Dungeon Deep Drive gang dives on into the aquatic world of mermaids to really find out what they’d be like, look like and… love like. For as long as people have taken to the sea there have been stories about the creatures that live out there, from malevolent behemoths in the deep to...
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Domestication
This week on Dungeon Deep Dive, we explore domestication and the vast impacts it's had on our world. Lachlan and Tully are alone in the studio once again, so we're in for a wild ride. It's raining cats and dogs in the studio as Lachlan and Tully investigate pets and domestication! We go for a…
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Breakfast
What is breakfast? Is it important? What's in it? These are just some of the important questions we'll explore as Lachlan and Tully tackle the studio on their own. It's amazing what you can get into with something as simple as a morning meal. Let the smell of a hot breakfast float you out of bed...
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Tattoos
This week on Dungeon Deep Dive we talk about all things tattoos and fantasy! We want to stress up top that this episode IS permanent, so consider what that would be like in 30 years before you listen. To help ensure that you understand tattoos and how they have been used, Danäe explains some of…
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Alchemy (Potions, Poisons, & Chemicals)
Aaaaaand welcome back! This week on Dungeon Deep Dive we uncover the secrets of all things chemical. From the poison gardens to alchemist's fire, we take a tour through non-magical (or low magic) alchemy. First Danae takes us on a tour or the history of potions and herbal medicine. Then Tully…
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Alchemy (Transmutation)
Behold, listeners, for this week on Dungeon Deep Dive we learn the secrets of matter, magic and even eternal life as we discuss alchemy and transmutation! From chemists through history determined to change the atoms themselves, all the way to some cool ways to include these potent and…
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Temples
Welcome weary traveler! Rest your head and stay a while in this holy place as we talk about temples! No good fantasy setting is complete without them but what makes a good temple? Have any smaller religions managed to set up temples that we can use as a basis for our own creations? What exactly…
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Breweries
This week on Dungeon Deep Dive, we spill the beans (or the froth all over your pants, if you're Danaë) on how to accurately and interestingly include breweries and alcohol of all kinds in your worldbuilding. If you like mead, beer, Bacchus, drunken revelry, drinking horns or blue honey, then…
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Pirates
Yo ho, yo ho and a bottle of rum! Pirates, buccaneers, corsairs and privateers... Everyone likes a bit of swashbuckling action and high seas adventure! Whether you're planning a Dungeons & Dragons tabletop session aboard a pirate ship or writing a scene on a charming captain, here's what you need...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Your fantasy world-building podcast What kind of city has walkable sewers? How does pirate democracy work? Why is there a brewery in every city? For every element of your fantasy world, there are a thousand questions you need answered, and that’s where we come in. Join Lachlan, Danae, and Tully as we over-research, over-think, and over-explain everything from city planning to funerals to the literal nuts and bolts of your world. We do the research, so you don’t have to! We examine real-world history, inner workings, and how to incorporate it into your game, and then we’ll build one ourselves. Tailored to tabletop RPGs, but we can be used for anything from fantasy writing to annoying monologues at parties. We’d love to hear what you’re using us for. Shoot us a message on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram (@dungeondeepdive), or send us an email at [email protected] to tell us what you want us to deep dive next!
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