Welcome to The Worlds We Weave podcast, an experiment in collective worldbuilding. We provide the "spark" of an idea at the end of each episode, you build on it and send it in. If we talk about it in the next episode, it is entered in one of three genre vaults: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, or Horror. After we publish our roleplaying game system, Trove (currently in development), we will design a game setting from the submissions in one of the vaults.

The First Spark: Barkeep
I feel a good start is not an object or location, but a person. After all, stories usually don’t add up to much without them. And this is a person I think many of you will be familiar with as a character that helps launch many of the stories we tell around our game tables: the barkeep.

They might sling ale at the tavern in the village of a magical realm. They may work the cantina of a space station that orbits a mysterious planet. They could tend bar in a sleepy town riddled with shadowy secrets and just up the road from where you live.

Where did they come from? What do they want? Do they know something amazing, something terrible, something no one should ever know? Do they have the recipe for a drink thought lost long ago?

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