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World Forge

124 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 27 ratings

World Forge is a comedy story-telling podcast for creators and world builders, each episode your hosts Sam and Piper use random prompts to create a hero, a villain, a monster, or who knows what else! We hope our antics inspire you to create and expand your own stories and worlds!

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Did we inspire you to create something? Send us an email at [email protected] and tell us about it! We love fan art, fan fiction, and fan mail! If we really like it maybe we'll give you a shout out!

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Episodes

Combining Our Favorite Properties - Jack Nicholson: Honorary Lost Boy

March 21, 2022 09:00 - 56 minutes - 77.3 MB

Hello listeners and welcome back to World Forge!  This week we're fresh off a wild weekend (finally) catching Hadestown and The Tallest Man on Earth live!  In honor of this lovely weekend, we decided we'd take inspiration from our inspirations by combining things we love into fun new creations! 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 ex...

Creating Characters Based on Prescription Drug Names - A World Forge Overdose

February 28, 2022 10:00 - 56 minutes - 77.2 MB

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 lo...

Home Brewed Writing Prompts Part 2 - Slugs in the Mist

February 07, 2022 10:00 - 57 minutes - 78.6 MB

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,...

Home Brewed Writing Prompts Part 1 - In the Hall of the Shadow King

January 24, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 86.8 MB

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 f...

Building Stories Based on Local Holiday Traditions - Why We Light the Candles with Pigmavision

December 13, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 136 MB

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 you...

Lost Civilizations and Kingdoms, and Creating Episodic Adventures - The Fountain of Salt

November 22, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 84.9 MB

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 recommen...

Creating Bards, Heralds, and Storytellers - The Exchange

November 08, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 129 MB

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...

Curses, Hauntings, and Hexes - Enter the Food Hole

October 18, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 86.3 MB

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...

Bringing Characters (and Podcasts!) Back from the Dead - Suddenly, Lawyers!

October 04, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 84.5 MB

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 thi...

World Forge Revisited - You Don't Mess with the Mer-Mafia

August 16, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 52.4 MB

Welcome back to another (rewind) episode of World Forge!  We're traveling this week and weren't able to get an episode out in time for release so we hope you enjoy this look back into another classic episode of the show.  This time we're talking about creating interesting evil lairs and bad guy hideouts.  The place you conduct your business out of says a lot about you as a supervillain, so we want to help make sure all you villains out there are fully equipped to carry out your dark deeds in...

It's World Forge Revisited - You Don't Mess with the Mer-Mafia

August 16, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 52.4 MB

Welcome back to another (rewind) episode of World Forge!  We're traveling this week and weren't able to get an episode out in time for release so we hope you enjoy this look back into another classic episode of the show.  This time we're talking about creating interesting evil lairs and bad guy hideouts.  The place you conduct your business out of says a lot about you as a supervillain, so we want to help make sure all you villains out there are fully equipped to carry out your dark deeds in...

The Intersection of Roleplay and Cosplay - IDK Con Stuff

August 02, 2021 09:00 - 50 minutes - 68.9 MB

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 reac...

Stories About Skeletons - The Skeleton Key to My Heart

July 19, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 81.4 MB

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 ...

Another World Forge Rerun - The Dream Police 2

July 12, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 182 MB

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 rer...

Creating Eccentric Shopkeepers - There Amongst the Ducks with Zach and Chris from Knights of the Rolled Table

June 28, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 122 MB

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 foun...

The World Forge 100th Episode Variety Hour Special Featuring... YOU!

June 14, 2021 10:46 - 2 hours - 170 MB

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 [email protected]. We love to hear about all the ways you use and improve upon our ideas, and if you show us something really inte...

Creating EVEN MORE Listener Worlds! - False Blood and the Search for Immortality

June 07, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 105 MB

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...

It's World Forge on the Road - Our Trip to the Black Hills

May 24, 2021 15:06 - 1 hour - 121 MB

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 episod...

Creating Barbarian Characters - Welcome to The Hulks Budoir

May 17, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 104 MB

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 ca...

A World Forge Mother's Day Rerun - The Reign of the Iron Witch

May 10, 2021 08:02 - 1 hour - 223 MB

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 ...

Helping Build Even More Listener Worlds - Small Knife, Big Betrayal with Jarred from Monsters & Multiclass

May 03, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 94.6 MB

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...

Creating Pets and Animal Companions - The Adventures of Pig Pen Kenobi

April 26, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 89.7 MB

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 o...

Feasts and Banquets - Beat Bobby Flayed

April 20, 2021 00:33 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MB

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...

Improving our Current DnD Characters - Philo Rossini and Dr. Rickard Morvo

April 12, 2021 09:00 - 51 minutes - 71.1 MB

Hello listeners and welcome back to another episode of World Forge!  We're back in our brand new (again) studio talking about some of the characters we're currently playing and talking about what our inspirations were, and who we hope they become! 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@gma...

Telling Stories about Gardens - The Crystal Corpse Conservatory

April 05, 2021 09:00 - 52 minutes - 72.8 MB

Hello listeners and welcome back to another episode of World Forge!  It's been a long time since we've been in the studio, and while we're still transitioning to our new permanent recording space, we're very happy to be here with a new episode this week all about gardens! We are very happy to be back with a brand new episode this week but also want to make sure you check out our rec room recommendation for the week: Otro Mundo!  Our friends at the Brothers Pimm Society are such an amazing g...

A World Forge Moving Day Rerun - The Man Who is Just Snakes and Creating Stories Based on Real Places

March 29, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 56.7 MB

Hey listeners!  In the midst of all the chaos in our lives right now we were unfortunately unable to get a new episode recorded this week, and honestly how could we possibly follow up on last weeks amazing guest episode?  Have we peaked?  Who's to say?!  But at the very least for this week that question will remain unanswered as we re-release another favorite past episode of ours about creating stories based on real world places we've traveled!  Thanks again for your patience, and we hope to...

Linguistics and World Building - Good Vibrations with Gretchen and Lauren from Lingthusiasm

March 22, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 117 MB

Hello and welcome back dear listeners to another episode of World Forge!  It feels like a life time since we last recorded, and we certainly appreciate you sticking around while we got our lives and our new home (and studio!) all sorted out! We are so proud to be able to come back from our break with this absolute monster of an episode, and we are honored to have been joined by Lauren and Gretchen of @lingthusiasm!  This week we lean on their expertise in linguistics and worldbuilding, and ...

World Forge Jukebox 1.5 - Something Sus About This Demon v.2

March 08, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 61.4 MB

Hello Listeners and welcome to another episode of World Forge Rewind!  Unfortunately we weren't able to record another new episode this week as we're moving house, but we do have a very exciting episode nonetheless!  This week we're bringing you a special updated version of a past episode!  We are so excited to re-release the first episode of World Forge Jukebox in it's original intended format including all of our musical inspirations uncut and unfiltered! We hope to bring you more of thes...

Creating Trials and Challenges - Escargot Away Please

March 01, 2021 10:00 - 50 minutes - 69.2 MB

This week on World Forge we are taking on another listener requested topic!  We're creating trials, challenges, tests of mettle, and feats of daring for your players to overcome! If you're looking for some interesting obstacles to throw in your party's way, look no further than this episode!  Thank you @roguishtambek for recommending this very fun topic! And thank you Keith and Jess from the Underground Oracle for being such amazing supporters and creators!  We are so happy to recommend yo...

Intelligent Weapons - The Ambassador's Blade

February 22, 2021 10:00 - 53 minutes - 73.6 MB

Hello again to our lovely listeners!  This week we are coming in hot with a topic recommended by ONE OF YOU!  We are talking about intelligent weapons and how to use them as motivating factors in your stories!  A wine soaked rapier, a linguistically leaning longsword, and John Henry's quarterstaff...  all these and more await you in this episode! Thank you Nell Davis for recommending this topic we had a lot of fun with it, and thank you to @8BitTarot for the amazing work you've done lately ...

A World Forge Valentine's Victory Lap - The Great Valentine's Caper

February 15, 2021 10:00 - 2 hours - 168 MB

Hey lovely listeners!  This week due to some pretty serious technical difficulties we were unable to record so we've gone back into the archives and picked out one of our favorite episodes to bring to you as a rerun!  Whether you've heard it or not before we hope you enjoy this extra special episode with one of our favorite people! We'll be back next week with another brand new World Forge for you! As always, if you enjoyed this episode, please consider reaching out to us with any question...

Creating Tournaments, Festivals, and Sporting Events - The Owlympics (Brought to You by Birdwiser)

February 08, 2021 10:00 - 50 minutes - 40.7 MB

Hello listeners!  This week on World Forge we are doing everything we can to make the superbowl relevant to this show.  In the name of sporting events everywhere we create an all encompassing fantasy athletic spectacle for you to use in your DnD games! We also want to recommend your dear friend Alex's charity stream coming up this weekend on the 12th, 13th, and 14th!  She can be found on twitch at twitch.tv/aelxbomb!  Please consider supporting her by showing up to her stream or sharing wit...

Forging Rings of Power - The Council of Elrond Hubbard PLUS a Big Special World Forge Announcement!

February 01, 2021 10:00 - 48 minutes - 39.1 MB

Hello listeners!  This week is an extra EXTRA special week here at World Forge because we have an amazing announcement to make...  we're getting married!  That's right your two favorite worldsmiths are forging the separate metals of their lives into one super alloy that will surely result in way better content than the weak ass stuff we've been doing the last 2 years.  Or nothing will change really for you, it remains to be seen! As such we are talking about rings of power this week!  How t...

Creating Houses and Home Bases for our Characters - Roommates!

January 25, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 50 MB

Hello Listeners!  This week we're taking characters from our various DnD games and pairing them up as roommates to see how they do!  Sometimes we get lucky and have a match made in heaven, and other times we find ourselves in a bit of a mess. We have some lovely recommendations this week in the rec room, including The Tabletop Crafters Guild community, and Black Magic Craft on Youtube! If you enjoyed this episode, please consider reaching out to us with any questions or suggestion you may ...

Analyzing Our Creative Process - Fencing and Other Vices [The Cevinci Chronicles Part 2]

January 18, 2021 10:00 - 46 minutes - 37.4 MB

Welcome back listeners to another episode of World Forge!  Today we are following up on last week's episodes creations and taking a closer look at what the heck it is we're trying to do every week.  We try to explain what's going on in our heads when we bring you creations like a burglarizing art dealer inspired by Lupin III, and how we keep track of all the weird plates we try to balance when running  game. We also want to recommend you go and check out our dear friends who we ran a game w...

Finally Creating Characters for Our Own DnD Games! - Pierre Delecto and the Cevinci Thief [The Cevinci Chronicles Part 1]

January 11, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 52.1 MB

Hello Listeners!  Welcome back to another episode of World Forge 2021!  Few and far between are the episodes where we actually create characters we intend to use in our DnD games but this week we are coming in hot with a character that will be deployed into a game Piper is putting together very soon! Never before has the world seen such an effective and charming burglar of art!  We talk some of our thievious inspirations both real and imagined, as well as how to find ways to fit a thieving ...

Finally Creating Characters for Our Own DnD Games! - Pierre Delecto and the Cevinci Thief

January 11, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 52.1 MB

Hello Listeners!  Welcome back to another episode of World Forge 2021!  Few and far between are the episodes where we actually create characters we intend to use in our DnD games but this week we are coming in hot with a character that will be deployed into a game Piper is putting together very soon! Never before has the world seen such an effective and charming burglar of art!  We talk some of our thievious inspirations both real and imagined, as well as how to find ways to fit a thieving ...

Sailors, Explorers, and Seafaring Adventurers - A Fistful of Claytons

January 04, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 68.5 MB

Dear listeners, we made it.  We survived the stormy seas of 2020 and have made it to the (hopefully) calmer waters of 2021!  In this new year we are looking towards the horizon for new worlds to explore and people to meet!  That's why for this first episode of the brave new year of 2021 we're talking about sailors, explorers, and seafaring adventurers! We've got some great recommendations for you this week from the wide world of pop culture, but most especially in the form of our dear frien...

Boxers, Pugilists, and Prize Fighters - Punching Into the 27th Century!

December 28, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 63.1 MB

Welcome back listeners to the final World Forge of 2020!  It's been a long year and in spite of all the insanity we are so happy to have been on this ride with all of you wonderful listeners.  To round out the year we are doing a special boxing day episode all about boxers and career warriors!  Is that what boxing day is about?  No!  But here's the thing...  we have no idea what the heck this holiday actually is for so...  deal. At any rate we're talking about some of our favorite fighters,...

A Colorful Coterie of Christmas Characters - Building a Party Based on Classic Christmas Tropes

December 21, 2020 10:00 - 49 minutes - 39.7 MB

Welcome back listeners to another episode of World Forge!  This week is our final episode of the 2020 Christmas season and we are going out with a bang! We are taking some classic Christmas tropes and characters and building a DnD party around them!  What happens when you try to make a Krampus Cleric, a Snowman Monk, or a Reindeer Ranger?  All these questions and more are answered on this weeks episode! We have a lot of ideas for upcoming episodes but if YOU have any other thoughts about t...

Holiday Spirits and Morality Lessons - The Spectral Library

December 14, 2020 10:00 - 54 minutes - 43.9 MB

Welcome back listeners to another episode of World Forge!  We are continuing to steamroll our way through this month of holiday treats, and this week we're bringing you tidings of...  all kinds of weird things.  We talk about the time honored tradition of being visited by a spooky ghost on Christmas eve, and the kinds of things these dark specters can teach us! We also want to shout out our friend Jarred from Monsters and Multiclass for putting together a kick ass one shot for us this weeke...

Putting Unique Dragons in Dungeons - I Dream of Dragon

December 08, 2020 01:50 - 1 hour - 89.6 MB

Happy holidays listeners!  We're back again this week with another (vaguely) holiday themed episode!  It's holiday themed in that it's a gift we're giving to you, the gift of a Christmas dragon!  We had a blast with this topic last year so we've decided to make it a bit of a holiday tradition to do an episode where we create unique dragons to shove into your various dungeons! And joining us to help in our quest this week are Mike and Joleen from Dice Tower Theater!  Dice Tower Theater is an...

Creating Characters Based on Christmas Ornaments - The Sisterhood of the Golden Trident!

November 30, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 62.4 MB

Happy holidays listeners!  This week we're kicking off the Christmas time festivities a bit early by building characters and stories based on random Christmas ornaments we've assigned each other! We also talk about some of our favorite holiday traditions and how to translate some of those experiences into fun roleplaying opportunities. Plus we share an awesome listener recommendation bardly.io!  Bardly.io is a service that lets you build custom playlists for your DnD games to help set the ...

Creating Pocket Dimensions and Demi-Planes: A Dynasty of Mimes

November 23, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 70.8 MB

Welcome back once again to another episode of World Forge!  On this week's episode we are talking about pocket dimensions and demi-planes, the secret hideouts of wizards, warlocks, and wannabe gods alike! We are also joined by a very special guest this week: Ben from Lawful Great Adventures!  Lawful Great Adventures is a Dungeons and Dragons actual play about a group of friends on a long journey home.  If you want to give them a listen, they're available on all your favorite podcasting apps...

Rogue AIs and Magical Constructs - The Rise of Robot Downey Jr.

November 16, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 63.4 MB

Welcome back once again to another episode of World Forge!  This week we're creating some artificially intelligent heroes and villains based, as always, around random prompts!  We talk about what kinds of creations can come from science or magic gone too far, and how beings born of mans hubris can impact the world around them! Then we hop into the rec room for a listener shared resource!  fantasynamegenerators.com!  Dale Ivarie thank you so much for sharing this most excellent of creative t...

Creating Unique Monk Characters - Ninja Turtle Hands

November 09, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 57 MB

Welcome back listeners to another episode of World Forge!  This week we're tackling another user suggested topic from our dear friend Jarred over at Monsters and Multiclass!  Jarred recently shared with us that sometimes it can be difficult to create unique monk characters given their narrow definition in game, so we took it upon ourselves to try and explore some alternative approaches to the monk lifestyle! Speaking of Monsters and Multiclass, why don't you go and check them out?!  They're...

World Forge Jukebox I - There's Something Sus About This Demon

November 02, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 59.9 MB

Welcome back listeners!  You've officially made it to the other side of our spooky Halloween month and into the first episode of what we hope will be a recurring series of episodes of the show: the World Forge Jukebox!  The way it works is we open our favorite Spotify playlist, press shuffle, then build a character based off of the song we get!  We've even created a playlist for YOU to listen to all the songs we discuss in the episode here! World Forge Jukebox I Playlist For this week's re...

Building Adventures Based on Thanatophobia - Death and Taxes [Fright Forge 2020 Finale!]

October 26, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MB

Hello dear listeners!  You've made it to the final week of Fright Forge 2020!  We're so proud of you for traversing the abyss with us and helping us to make this most spooky of seasons a little more fun.  This week we finish off our month of fun and frights by building an adventure based around the grand daddy of phobias, the fear of death itself! We talk about our favorite personifications of death and provide some great ideas for how to build an intimidating aspect of the grave for your D...

Creating an Adventure Based on Nosocomephobia: The Beneficial Benefactor [Fright Forge 2020 Part 3]

October 19, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 54.2 MB

Welcome back to your favorite spoooooooky DnD podcast!  This week we're continuing our month of Halloween themed episodes by creating an adventure based on Nosocomephobia: the fear of the hospitals!  Some people hate needles, and some people can't stand the idea of being doctored up for any reason at all, this episode is for the latter.  We spend some time this week talking about spooky doctors and haunted hospitals (in the real world!) and build what we think is a really interesting multi s...

Creating an Adventure Based on Nyctophobia: What a Terrible Night for a Curse... [Fright Forge 2020 Part 2]

October 12, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MB

Welcome back and welcome to your favorite spoooooooky DnD podcast!  This week we're continuing our month of Halloween themed episodes by creating an adventure based on Nyctophobia: the fear of the dark!  Not only do we talk about some interesting shadowy evil doers, but we talk about ways to incorporate actual real life darkness into your players gaming experiences!  So dim the lights and grab a seat for Fright Forge part 2!  Our rec room recommendation this week is for the strategy board g...

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