World Forge

Hello dear listeners and welcome back to another episode of World Forge!  This week we decided to just fully give up on being able to come up with names for characters ourselves and decided to build characters based on random names of prescription drugs, which all sound like made up fantasy words anyway. This weeks rec room is to go and check out the Cuphead Show!  If you liked the game or are just looking for something short and easily digestible on netflix we definitely hope you take a look! As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media!  How are your games going, and do you have any ideas about how to improve or expand upon our creations?  If so we can be found on twitter @worldforgepod and via email at worldforgepod@gmail.com!  We're always excited to hear from our listeners, and if you send us something really interesting we may just share it on air!  If you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts, or your podcasting app of choice! Leaving us a review or sharing our show with a friend are the best ways to support this podcast completely for FREE, and really helps to get our show in front of new listeners! We of course want to thank you all for tuning in, and we also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Talk to you again next week listeners!

Welcome back listeners to another episoede of World Forge!  This week Piper and I are continuing our discussion of the custom world building prompts we cooked up for each other.  We also may have accidentally included the first episode of our Hadestown fancast somewhere in the middle there. This weeks rec room is once again Pipers new podcast Eyre Buds!  Each week Piper and friend of the podcast, Lillian Cotter, dissect a different adaptation of the classic novel Jane Eyre!  Some are great, some are terrifying, but all are fun!  Give them a follow HERE and wherever fine pods are cast! We also have to recommend you go and listen to Hadestown if you haven't yet.  Not only is it one of our favorite pieces of media EVER but it also was clear inspiration for a lot of what we worked on in this episode! As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media!  How are your games going, and do you have any ideas about how to improve or expand upon our creations?  If so we can be found on twitter @worldforgepod and via email at worldforgepod@gmail.com!  We're always excited to hear from our listeners, and if you send us something really interesting we may just share it on air!  If you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts, or your podcasting app of choice! Leaving us a review or sharing our show with a friend are the best ways to support this podcast completely for FREE, and really helps to get our show in front of new listeners! We of course want to thank you all for tuning in, and we also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Talk to you again next week listeners!

Hello listeners and welcome back yet again!  We've taken a bit of an unexpected holiday hiatus but now we are back with a real humdinger of an episode.  This is part one of a 2 part series of episodes where Piper and I created prompts for each other to build upon.  This time Piper lays the foundation for a fascinating world of political intrigue and forbidden magic, next episode it's my turn! We also have to recommend you go and check out Pipers new podcast Eyre Buds!  Each week Piper and friend of the podcast Lillian Cotter dissect a different adaptation of the classic novel Jane Eyre!  Some are great, some are terrifying, but all are fun!  Give them a follow HERE and wherever fine pods are cast! As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media!  How are your games going, and do you have any ideas about how to improve or expand upon our creations?  If so we can be found on twitter @worldforgepod and via email at worldforgepod@gmail.com!  We're always excited to hear from our listeners, and if you send us something really interesting we may just share it on air!  If you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts, or your podcasting app of choice! Leaving us a review or sharing our show with a friend are the best ways to support this podcast completely for FREE, and really helps to get our show in front of new listeners! We of course want to thank you all for tuning in, and we also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Talk to you again next week listeners!

Hello dear listeners and welcome back to another episode of World Forge!  This week we're going international as we are joined by our friends from Pigmavision from way down in Chile!  Please go and check them out, they are wonderful people, podcasters, and supporters of the show!  They can be found on twitter @pigmavision and on all major podcasting platforms! As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media!  How are your games going, and do you have any ideas about how to improve or expand upon our creations?  If so we can be found on twitter @worldforgepod and via email at worldforgepod@gmail.com!  We're always excited to hear from our listeners, and if you send us something really interesting we may just share it on air!  If you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts, or your podcasting app of choice! Leaving us a review or sharing our show with a friend are the best ways to support this podcast completely for FREE, and really helps to get our show in front of new listeners! We of course want to thank you all for tuning in, and we also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Talk to you again next week listeners!

Welcome back listeners to another episode of World Forge!  This week we're taking on TWO topics for the price of one!  First we spend some time talking about our experience creating episodic adventures and finding ways to accommodate players with inconsistent availability.  We also take on a listener topic from our dear friend Angus who asks us to explore the idea of civilizations that predate known history!  We had a lot of fun with these ones and we hope you will as well! We also recommend you go and check out Arcane on Netflix it's...  just so good. As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media!  How are your games going, and do you have any ideas about how to improve or expand upon our creations?  If so we can be found on twitter @worldforgepod and via email at worldforgepod@gmail.com!  We're always excited to hear from our listeners, and if you send us something really interesting we may just share it on air!  If you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts, or your podcasting app of choice! Leaving us a review or sharing our show with a friend are the best ways to support this podcast completely for FREE, and really helps to get our show in front of new listeners! We of course want to thank you all for tuning in, and we also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Talk to you again next week listeners!

Welcome back listeners to another episode of World Forge!  This week we've got another episode about creating characters of a VERY PARTICULAR CLASS!  We're talking about bards, probably for the first time, but honestly we're not sure. We also recommend you go and check out two of our favorite youtube channels: Sideways and Breadsword! As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media!  How are your games going, and do you have any ideas about how to improve or expand upon our creations?  If so we can be found on twitter @worldforgepod and via email at worldforgepod@gmail.com!  We're always excited to hear from our listeners, and if you send us something really interesting we may just share it on air!  If you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts, or your podcasting app of choice! Leaving us a review or sharing our show with a friend are the best ways to support this podcast completely for FREE, and really helps to get our show in front of new listeners! We of course want to thank you all for tuning in, and we also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Talk to you again next week listeners!

Welcome back listeners to another episode of World Forge!  This week we're talking about the power of curses and haunted places.  We explore the various forms a curse or hex can take, and how to build interesting stories and adventures around them. As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media!  How are your games going, and do you have any ideas about how to improve or expand upon our creations?  If so we can be found on twitter @worldforgepod and via email at worldforgepod@gmail.com!  We're always excited to hear from our listeners, and if you send us something really interesting we may just share it on air!  If you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts, or your podcasting app of choice! Leaving us a review or sharing our show with a friend are the best ways to support this podcast completely for FREE, and really helps to get our show in front of new listeners! We of course want to thank you all for tuning in, and we also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Talk to you again next week listeners!

Welcome back listeners to WORLD FORGE SEASON 2!  Yes finally we return from the dead to bring you a very exciting episode about...  returning from the dead!  That's right we're talking zombies, ghouls, vampires, and some rather unorthodox examples of creatures and characters that have been given a second chance at life. We're so glad to be back, and we have some really fun plans for new segments and topics this season, but mostly we really just missed you all! As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media!  Where is your Big Bad Evil Guy currently living?  Do you have any ideas about how to improve or expand upon our creations?  If so we can be found on twitter @worldforgepod and via email at worldforgepod@gmail.com!  We're always excited to hear from our listeners, and if you send us something really interesting we may just share it on air!  If you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts, or your podcasting app of choice! Leaving us a review or sharing our show with a friend are the best ways to support this podcast completely for FREE, and really helps to get our show in front of new listeners! We of course want to thank you all for tuning in, and we also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Talk to you again next week listeners!

Welcome back listeners to another episode of World Forge!  This week we're talking about how we translate our characters into real world...  stuff.  Are cons real world?  Idk they're real to us. We also appeared recently/are about to appear on our dear friend Ben from We Speak Common's podcast...  We Speak Common!  Go and check them out on all major podcasting platforms or on twitter at @wespeakcommon As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media! We can be found on twitter @worldforgepod. We're also available via email at worldforgepod@gmail.com. We love to hear about all the ways you use and improve upon our ideas, and if you show us something really interesting we may just share it on air! And if you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts, or your podcasting app of choice! Leaving us a review is the best way to support this podcast for FREE, because it helps get our show in front of new listeners! We also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Thanks again listeners, we'll be back again next week!"

Welcome back listeners to another episode of World Forge!  This week we're telling stories based on a real life drunken purchase we made on the 4th of July.  Yep the limits of our inspiration know no bounds. We also appeared recently/are about to appear on our dear friend Ben from We Speak Common's podcast...  We Speak Common!  Go and check them out on all major podcasting platforms or on twitter at @wespeakcommon As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media! We can be found on twitter @worldforgepod. We're also available via email at worldforgepod@gmail.com. We love to hear about all the ways you use and improve upon our ideas, and if you show us something really interesting we may just share it on air! And if you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts, or your podcasting app of choice! Leaving us a review is the best way to support this podcast for FREE, because it helps get our show in front of new listeners! We also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Thanks again listeners, we'll be back again next week!"

Hello Listeners!  As you may have noticed we've been on a bit of an extended hiatus these last few weeks.  Life has gotten the better of us and unfortunately we've had to push our upcoming episode back a bit.  Don't you worry, more World Forge is coming soon, we just needed some time to rest and recharge, next week we'll be back with a full update on the state of the show as well as a fantastic guest episode with our friends from All My Fantasy Children! In the meantime please enjoy the rerun of a favorite episode of ours, based on our own and listener submitted dreams! As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media! We can be found on twitter @worldforgepod. We're also available via email at worldforgepod@gmail.com. We love to hear about all the ways you use and improve upon our ideas, and if you show us something really interesting we may just share it on air! And if you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts, or your podcasting app of choice! Leaving us a review is the best way to support this podcast for FREE, because it helps get our show in front of new listeners! We also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Thanks again listeners, we'll be back again next week!

Welcome back listeners to another episode of World Forge!  We're on the right side of episode 100 this week and we're quite pleased to be joined by our friends Zach and Chris from the Knights of the Rolled Table Podcast! This week we're plying our patented random prompt technology to building eccentric shopkeepers, and talking about the kinds of quests and adventures they can help provide us with.  We hope you find some of these useful, fun, and informative :) Our lovely guests can be found on twitter at @rolledtable and @dungeonheads, please consider reaching out to them and supporting their work if you enjoyed their insight here! As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media! We can be found on twitter @worldforgepod. We're also available via email at worldforgepod@gmail.com. We love to hear about all the ways you use and improve upon our ideas, and if you show us something really interesting we may just share it on air! And if you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts, or your podcasting app of choice! Leaving us a review is the best way to support this podcast for FREE, because it helps get our show in front of new listeners! We also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Thanks again listeners, we'll be back again next week!"

It's Episode 100, what more is there to say!  Thank you so much to all of you for your support and friendship these past 2 years, it truly means the world to us. As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media! We can be found on twitter @worldforgepod. We're also available via email at worldforgepod@gmail.com. We love to hear about all the ways you use and improve upon our ideas, and if you show us something really interesting we may just share it on air! And if you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts, or your podcasting app of choice! Leaving us a review is the best way to support this podcast for FREE, because it helps get our show in front of new listeners! We also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Thanks again listeners, we'll be back again next week!"

Hello again dear listeners and welcome back to another episode of World Forge!  This week we are yet again taking a swing at helping one of our dear listeners add some spice to their world! Thanks so much to @kerfliggle on twitter for honoring us with the privilege of mucking about in your world for ~an hour and a half! Mostly we talk about dwarves, the blood of elves, and fountains of youth this week, but I think in general there's a lot here that could be fun to incorporate into ANY world in need of a few good adventures, so please let us know if you find ways to use any of our nonsense in your games! And not to keep going on about it or anything but we've got episode 100 coming up holy cats!  We have a lot of exciting plans for that but mostly we want to be able to include your random prompts and questions live on air!  So if there's anything you've been dying to know about us, or anything you want us to cover, please send in your questions, comments, and prompts to us on twitter @worldforgepod, or via email at worldforgepod@gmail.com!  If you send us a short (~1 minute) clip we'll do our best to listen to it live on air and respond!  We're really excited to see all the awesome prompts you send our way, and can't wait to see what the future holds for World Forge :) As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media! We can be found on twitter @worldforgepod. We're also available via email at worldforgepod@gmail.com. We love to hear about all the ways you use and improve upon our ideas, and if you show us something really interesting we may just share it on air! And if you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts, or your podcasting app of choice! Leaving us a review is the best way to support this podcast for FREE, because it helps get our show in front of new listeners! We also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Thanks again listeners, we'll be back again next week!"

Hello listeners and welcome back to another very exciting episode of World Forge!  This week we're coming to you from...  well all over the place!  We took a road trip over the weekend and decided to try and tell stories from the road, from the top of a mountain, and from a rained out tent.  We had a lot of fun this weekend and we really hope you enjoy the change in format.  If you did please let us know and we can do more like this in the future! Speaking of the future...  we've got episode 100 coming up holy cats!  We have a lot of exciting plans for that but mostly we want to be able to include your random prompts and questions live on air!  So if there's anything you've been dying to know about us, or anything you want us to cover, please send in your questions, comments, and prompts to us on twitter @worldforgepod, or via email at worldforgepod@gmail.com!  If you send us a short (~1 minute) clip we'll do our best to listen to it live on air and respond!  We're really excited to see all the awesome prompts you send our way, and can't wait to see what the future holds for World Forge :) As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media! We can be found on twitter @worldforgepod. We're also available via email at worldforgepod@gmail.com. We love to hear about all the ways you use and improve upon our ideas, and if you show us something really interesting we may just share it on air! And if you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts, or your podcasting app of choice! Leaving us a review is the best way to support this podcast for FREE, because it helps get our show in front of new listeners! We also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Thanks again listeners, we'll be back again next week!"

Hello listeners and welcome back to another episode of World Forge!  This week has us exploring the wildest of melee classes: the barbarian!  Thanks Kara from twitter for recommending this topic, we LOVE getting to do these class based episodes and we hope that this scratches the barbaric itch you've been suffering from (you might want to see a doctor about that btw) As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media! We can be found on twitter @worldforgepod. We're also available via email at worldforgepod@gmail.com. We love to hear about all the ways you use and improve upon our ideas, and if you show us something really interesting we may just share it on air! And if you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts, or your podcasting app of choice! Leaving us a review is the best way to support this podcast for FREE, because it helps get our show in front of new listeners! We also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Thanks again listeners, we'll be back again next week!"

Hello listeners and welcome back to another World Forge rerun!  This week we were unfortunately unable to record, so we've decided to rerelease our mothers day episode from last year in the mean time.  Enjoy! "This is an episode for all the moms out there listening!  Also everyone else...  ok so it's for everyone really but mostly it's for moms!  This week we take a look at some inspiring leading ladies from reality and fiction, and try to come up with our own fantasy matriarchs!  We cover a lot of cool examples and land on a badass coal momma that wants nothing more than to create a safe life for her daughter, and a spitfire airship captain out for revenge with a faithful squad of soldiers in tow! We also had some really fun recommendations for you this week!  Above all we hope you gave your mom a call on mothers day, but besides that we recommend you go and listen to The Hazards of Love by the Decemberists!  It's an amazing indie rock opera about a baby rescued by a vengeful forest queen, and her struggle to hide him away from the human world.  We also want to thank @great_lawful on twitter this week for giving us a really kind shoutout.  Please go check them out if you're looking for more fun DnD content :) As always, if you enjoyed this episode or want to share any feedback please consider reaching to us on on social media! We can be found on twitter @worldforgepod. We're also available via email at worldforgepod@gmail.com. We love to hear about all the ways you use and improve upon our ideas, and if you show us something really interesting we may just share it on air! And if you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts, or your podcasting app of choice! Leaving us a review is the best way to support this podcast for FREE, because it helps get our show in front of new listeners! We also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Thanks again listeners, we'll be back again next week!"

Hello listeners and welcome back to another episode of World Forge!  This week we are joined by a very dear friend of the podcast... Jarred Bournigal from Monsters & Multiclass!  Jarred comes to us this week with a humble request: to help him build upon the world he's set his players to exploring over the past few years.  Are we up to the task?  Only time will tell dear listeners! We had a lot of fun with this one, and if you want to hear more of Jarred please consider checking out Monsters & Multiclass on twitter @monsters_multi and on all major podcast platforms! If you have any ideas about how to improve or expand upon our creations we want to hear them!  And if there's anything that YOU want us to help build please let us know!  We can be found on twitter @worldforgepod and via email at worldforgepod@gmail.com!  If you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or your podcasting app of choice!  Leaving us a review or sharing our show with a friend are the best ways to support this podcast completely for FREE, and really helps to get our show in front of new listeners! We of course want to thank you all for tuning in, and we also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Talk to you again next week listeners!

Hello listeners and welcome back to another episode of World Forge!  This week we bring you not only a listener requested episode, but a lovely guest to talk about the topic they requested!  We've got AelxBomb here talking about how to create interesting pairings of adventurers and their pets... or pets and their adventurers? Please go and check out Alex on her twitch stream at twitch.tv/aelxbomb and tell her how wonderful she is! If you have any ideas about how to improve or expand upon our creations we want to hear them!  And if there's anything that YOU want us to help build please let us know!  We can be found on twitter @worldforgepod and via email at worldforgepod@gmail.com!  If you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or your podcasting app of choice!  Leaving us a review or sharing our show with a friend are the best ways to support this podcast completely for FREE, and really helps to get our show in front of new listeners! We of course want to thank you all for tuning in, and we also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Talk to you again next week listeners!

Hello listeners and welcome back to another episode of World Forge!  We're back this week talking about how to use feasts, banquets, and fancy dinner parties as a way to help tell better stories!  We share some of our thoughts on how to develop these types of encounters both mechanically and from from a roleplay perspective! We also want to recommend you go and give our good friends at Monsters and Multiclass a listen!  I was recently fortunate enough to record a lovely little guest episode with them where I share some details about one of my DnD worlds, and about my worldbuilding process!  They can be reached on twitter @monsters_multi and are available wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts! If you have any ideas about how to improve or expand upon our creations we want to hear them!  And if there's anything that YOU want us to help build please let us know!  We can be found on twitter @worldforgepod and via email at worldforgepod@gmail.com!  If you're feeling particularly generous, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts or your podcasting app of choice!  Leaving us a review or sharing our show with a friend are the best ways to support this podcast completely for FREE, and really helps to get our show in front of new listeners! We of course want to thank you all for tuning in, and we also want to thank James Duke for our amazing theme music, he can be found at jamesduke.info! Talk to you again next week listeners!