What is Roleplay #18.5: Narrative Worldbuilding Actual Play Special with Samuel Poots

What Is Roleplay?

Welcome to Episode 18.5 of ‘What Is Roleplay?! This episode we are joined by Samuel Poots for a special Narrative Worldbuilding Actual Play

• This is a follow up to Episode 18, where Samuel unpacked the idea of Narrative Worldbuilding. Stream here
• Worldbuilding is an important cornerstone of all writing and especially important when writing roleplay games – the process of designing an environment for the story or the game you are creating.
• Samuel & CM Lowry work together to build a sci-fi world in which anthropomorphic badgers have cybernetic arms that are owned by private corporations.
• Samuel uses the following touch points to flesh out this world:
  • Environment – What are the environmental challenges, what is the climate like etc.
  • Culture – How do people respond to this environment? What do they bring to this space and how has this environment shaped them?
  • Friction Points – What are the politics of the people within the culture, how is this not a monoculture
  • Details of Intrigue – The granular details – items, specific NPCs, historical events that have shaped the world
• Listen as Samuel & CM establish the setting, factions and storyline for our renegade lumberjack badger who lives in the air vents of a corporate owned orbiter that travels from planetoid to planetoid, stripping them of all valuable resources. Rebel and fight back against the evil Galactic Union … and don’t forget your data-slate!

Links to things we discussed:

Games:

• Jim Henson’s Labyrinth The Adventure Game
• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
• Mutant: Year Zero – Ad Astra Expansion
• Blades in the Dark
• Wanderhome

Books, Authors, Etc.

• Repo! The Genetic Opera
• The Forest Moon of Endor (Star Wars)
• Deep Space Nine (Star Trek)
• Babylon 5
• Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• This Book I Read Podcast featuring Adrian Tchaikovsky

More about Samuel

• Twitter – @pootsidoodle
• Website – Ulster University

More about Us

• CM Lowry on Twitter – @cmlowryauthor
• CM Lowry’s website – All About Chris
• Website – beyondcataclysm.co.uk
• Patreon – Patreon.com/beyondcataclysm

With music generously provided by: Powerplant & Imploders.

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