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Explore how to create magic systems, including a brief look at types of magic (brief), the principles of creating a good systems, creating limits, how to invent spells, and more.Randy Ellefson

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EP 31.1: Magic Systems 33:55

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Explore how to create magic systems, including whether we need to create them, sources of magic, whether spells are needed, a look at the life of wizards, and more.Randy Ellefson

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EP 30: Creating Items 36:46

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Explore how to create items. This includes regular ones, supernatural ones, and technological elements, like an AI, and more.Randy Ellefson

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EP 29: Creating the Supernatural 19:55

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Explore how to create the supernatural. This includes supernatural energy, magic paths, alternate realities, supernatural beings, and moreRandy Ellefson

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EP 28: Creating Languages 28:34

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Explore how to create languages, including whether we should, what’s involved, how to hire someone, and more.Randy Ellefson

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EP 27.4: Creating Culture 33:53

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Explore how to create cultures, including rituals, pastimes, daily life considerations, and more.Randy Ellefson

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EP 27.3: Creating Culture 26:59

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Explore how to create cultures, including greetings, farewells, language issues, and more.Randy Ellefson

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EP 27.2: Creating Culture 32:40

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Explore how to create cultures, including how the body is part of culture, from clothing to hairstyles, body modifications, and more.Randy Ellefson

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EP 27.1: Creating Culture 32:26

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Explore how to create cultures, including defining what culture is and is not, how to develop a cultural vision, and the types of cultural depictions we’ll likely need.Randy Ellefson

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EP 26: Creating Religions 27:00

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Explore how to create religions, including its all important history, beliefs, worship practices, and traits of those who belong to a religion.Randy Ellefson

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EP 25: Creating Armed Forces 33:32

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Explore how to create armed forces like the army, navy, and air force. This includes how to become a member of one, their ranks, and how they’re viewed by society.Randy Ellefson

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EP 24: Creating Organizations 30:12

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Explore how to create organizations. This includes forces for good and evil, what they have in common, and how someone joins or get expelled.Randy Ellefson

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EP 23: Creating Names 28:47

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Explore how to create fantasy and science fiction names using easy techniques that make it fun and uniquely yours.Randy Ellefson

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EP 22: Assign Senses to Your Species 33:33

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Explore how to create your species' senses, from the five basics to other real senses humans and animals have, to sixth senses (second sight).Randy Ellefson

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Introducing the orphanage 10:34

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Chapter 3 of my new book the forest of the dream beast

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A mistake at the depot 6:12

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Chapter 2 of my new book

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A gift for Elsie. 8:58

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This is chapter 1 of my new novel. I hope you like it. There will be more to come.

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EP 21: How to Draw Maps 37:20

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Explore how to create maps like continents, settlements, and dungeon maps, and learn whether you should create any of this and why.Randy Ellefson

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EP 20: Places of Interest 27:50

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Explore how to create places of interest, including catacombs, interstellar sites, ruins, monuments, and more. Learn how easy these are to create and how they can improve interest in your setting and story.Randy Ellefson

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EP 19: Time and History 27:27

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Explore how to create time and history, including why we should usually keep timekeeping like minutes, hours, weeks, and more similar to Earth, and how to create historical events.Randy Ellefson

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EP 18: Travel in Space 27:42

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Learn about travel in space. This includes the different types of engines, what to include inside a ship, and why we have a lot of freedom to decide how long it really takes to get anywhere.Randy Ellefson

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EP 17: Travel By Water 32:58

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Learn how to determine travel times over water when using oars or the wind. This includes ship types like the frigate, galley, ship-of-the-line, and more.Randy Ellefson

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EP 16: Overland Travel 31:47

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Learn how to determine travel times for horses, wagons, people and more through various kinds of terrains and what can slow us down, and how.Randy Ellefson

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EP 15.2: How to Create Settlements 32:57

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Learn how to create a settlement. This includes the differences between an outpost, village, town, city, and even settlements in space.Randy Ellefson

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EP 15.1: How to Create Settlements 36:09

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Learn how to create a settlement. This includes the impact of location, population, zoning, its history, and any secrets it holds.Randy Ellefson

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EP 14.3: How to Create Sovereign Powers 34:45

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Learn how population, location, climate, symbols, and tensions between a sovereign power and others can all enrich your kingdom, republic, dictatorship, and more. Why have them all be the same when little details can bring out the vividness.Randy Ellefson

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EP 14.2: How to Create Sovereign Powers 37:22

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Explore how to create sovereign powers by understanding government types like federations, unitary states, kingdoms, dictatorships, authoritarian states, oligarchies, republics, and more, including how they rise and fall.Randy Ellefson

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EP 14,.1: How to Create Sovereign Powers 31:47

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Explore how to create sovereign powers like kingdoms, dictatorships, republics, and more. This includes what sovereignty is, how it is gained and lost, the divine right of kings, some roles like head of state and what each means, and branches of government.Randy Ellefson

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EP 13,.2: How to Create Land Features 27:05

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Continue exploring how to create land features, including grasslands, deserts, and various kinds of wetlands like bogs, fens, marshes, and swamps.Randy Ellefson

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EP 13,.1: How to Create Land Features 29:34

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Explore how to create land features, including mountains, volcanoes, rivers, lakes, and various kinds of forests, from woodlands to savannahs, jungles, and run-of-the-mill forests.Randy Ellefson

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EP 12: How to Create a Continent 33:54

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Explore how to create a continent, including how hemispheres considerations, understanding plate tectonics, and when to use what term for bodies of water, like oceans, seas, bays, and more.Randy Ellefson

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EP 11 (Part 2): How to Create a Planet 31:18

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Continue exploring how to create a planet, focusing on climates. This includes understanding the role of the equator and oceans, climate zones, prevailing winds, rain shadows, and of course the climates themselvesRandy Ellefson

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EP 11 (Part 1): How to Create Planets 29:18

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Explore how and when to create a planet. This includes talking about its rotation, other planets in the solar system, asteroids, comets, constellations, and the impact of the Sun and moon on tides, hours in the days, and seasons.Randy Ellefson

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EP 10 (Part 2): How to Create Undead 38:58

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Continue exploring how and when to create undead. Learn about their goals, traits, how to kill them, and what uses we can put them to.Randy Ellefson

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EP 10 (Part 1): How to Create Undead 28:37

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Explore how and when to create undead. Decide whether you should create undead at all, what their minds are like and how this will affect them, their origins and how that influences their behavior, and learn to classify them.Randy Ellefson

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EP 9: How to Create Animals 39:14

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Explore how and when to create animals. Consider the purpose your animals will serve for you as a creator or for your characters in their lives, including products, food, decoration, symbols, and medicinal uses. Learn how animals are classified to better organize your inventions, determine what to create, and have a balanced portfolio. Finally, lea…

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EP 8: How to Create Plants 27:54

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Explore how and when to create plants. Consider the purpose your plants will serve for you as a creator or for your characters in their lives, including products, food, decoration, symbols, and medicinal uses. Learn how plants are classified to better organize your inventions, determine what to create, and have a balanced portfolio. Finally, learn …

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EP 7: How to Create Monsters 38:34

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Explore how and when to create monsters. Learn the differences between monsters and animals, and monsters and species. Use habitat to make them more compelling. Figure out how their origins can make them memorable, whether they were created by accident, on purpose, or by evolution. Finally, determine their motivation because even monsters want some…

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EP 6: How to Create World Figures 33:12

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Explore how to create world heroes, villains, martyrs, and more. This includes determining why they're famous, what kinds of weapons, armors, ships, steeds, or other items they have, considerations for when they're dead OR alive, what made them famous, their relationships with family, and how all of this can make them more memorable if done right…

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EP 5 (Part 3): How to Create Species 33:49

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Continue learning how to create species and races, including how gods can influence them, how characteristics like morale, charisma, intelligence, wisdom, dexterity, agility, and more can create more depth, and their relationship with other species and world view. Conclude with where to start!Randy Ellefson

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EP 5 (Part 2): How to Create Species 32:18

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Continue learning how to create species and races, including overall attitude and disposition, what some call "alignment." Is good vs. evil a viable approach or too restrictive? How else can get this across? With their appearance, do we want them able to masquerade as each other or not? What do their physical features say about them? Learn the pros…

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EP 5 (Part 1): How to Create Species 35:10

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Explore how to create species and races, when to use which term, and how to structure your species and races intelligently. We also look at whether world builders need to invent them at all; the answer may be different for science fiction vs. fantasy. Finally, we look at the minimum and maximum that can be done when inventing one and how to balance…

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EP 4 (Part 2): How to Create Gods 28:03

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Explore how to create gods, including whether they are good, evil, or neutral, and different ways to identify them, from symbols to nicknames and patronage. Do your gods interact with the world and under what restrictions? What have they created and has anything unexpected happened with? Finally, we discuss how to get started inventing deities.…

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EP 4 (Part 1): How to Create Gods 26:45

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Explore how to create gods, including whether they are good, evil, or neutral, and different ways to identify them, from symbols to nicknames and patronage. Do your gods interact with the world and under what restrictions? What have they created and has anything unexpected happened with? Finally, we discuss how to get started inventing deities…

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EP 3: How Many Worlds To Build? 24:09

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Explore how many worlds you should create over the course of your career. Is it better to build a world for each project or one world for all stories? You could end up building 20 worlds, which is a lot of work. When is it better to just create one world and keep reusing it? What are the pros and cons of each approach?…

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EP 2: Using Earth Analogues 33:56

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Learn whether you need to build a world or not, and how and when to use Earth analogues as a springboard for your imagination. The Rule of Three will help you avoid getting caught, too! Analogues are a fundamental concept that no listener should skip.Randy Ellefson

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