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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.
