Go on a worldbuilding journey, and you might end up somewhere totally unexpected.
Creating a world as a group, or by yourself, is a powerfully satisfying creative experience. When a whole bunch of great ideas come together, and you start twisting and mixing them in a unique way, you're gonna come up with something you want to explore more, because it's yours, and it's new. That's what we're doing in this episode with the help of our fantastic guest, Matt Sernett, and the input from our fantastic friends on Discord.
In Tymora's Tavern we go through the creative exercise of actually building a world. We go through the different main components of a world: cosmology, genre/subgenre, culture, politics, religion, magic/technology, era, and theme. We collected suggestion for these from the Hook and Chance discord, and in the episode Matt and the two of us create a world from them. Follow Matt Sernett @Sernett on twitter.
Then we head to Griffon Street Market, where we talk about a new tool that makes your life as a DM much easier! Do you have more campaign ideas than prep time? Of course you do! Does your party have a peculiar knack for going that one place you’d least expect? Of course they do! Want over 1750 box texts, from places, monsters, items and spells to drop into your games? dScryb has seasoned writers creating this for your table. One of our favorite bits is that dScryb is a proud community partner of Safer Spaces, a 2S-LGBTQ+ Workplace Training & Inclusion organization. Safer Spaces played a foundational role in forming dScryb’s writing policy.
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