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

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

Feb 28th, 2022 56m 11s

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 prescript

Home Brewed Writing Prompts Part 2 - Slugs in the Mist

Feb 7th, 2022 57m 16s

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 H

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

Jan 24th, 2022 1h 3m

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

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

Dec 13th, 2021 1h 38m

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, pod

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

Nov 22nd, 2021 1h 1m

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 wi

Creating Bards, Heralds, and Storytellers - The Exchange

Nov 8th, 2021 1h 33m

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 r

Curses, Hauntings, and Hexes - Enter the Food Hole

Oct 18th, 2021 1h 2m

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 t

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

Oct 4th, 2021 1h 1m

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 examp

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

Aug 16th, 2021 1h 5m

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 talkin

The Intersection of Roleplay and Cosplay - IDK Con Stuff

Aug 2nd, 2021 50m 11s

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

Stories About Skeletons - The Skeleton Key to My Heart

Jul 19th, 2021 1h 9m

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

Another World Forge Rerun - The Dream Police 2

Jul 12th, 2021 1h 19m

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

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

Jun 28th, 2021 1h 28m

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

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

Jun 14th, 2021 2h 3m

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 consid

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

Jun 7th, 2021 1h 16m

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

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

May 24th, 2021 1h 28m

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

Creating Barbarian Characters - Welcome to The Hulks Budoir

May 17th, 2021 1h 16m

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

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

May 10th, 2021 1h 37m

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 mo

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

May 3rd, 2021 1h 8m

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 b

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

Apr 26th, 2021 1h 5m

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 i

Feasts and Banquets - Beat Bobby Flayed

Apr 20th, 2021 58m 2s

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

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

Apr 12th, 2021 51m 45s

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 beco

Telling Stories about Gardens - The Crystal Corpse Conservatory

Apr 5th, 2021 52m 58s

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

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

Mar 29th, 2021 1h 10m

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