World Anvil Worldbuilding Podcast
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Welcome to a special Bonus Season! Enjoy these sessions from this year's Worldbuilding Con!
It’s easy to get carried away by the desire to fully flesh out your fictional world. Our panel of industry experts will explain how much worldbuilding is enough - and how to deliver it for maximum impact, while avoiding the dreaded “exposition infodump prologue.”
🎙️Speakers:
John Joseph Adams is the series editor of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and is the editor of more than thirty anthologies, such as Wastelands, Lost Worlds & Mythological Kingdoms, and Epic: Legends of Fantasy. He is also editor (and publisher) of the Hugo Award-winning magazine Lightspeed and is publisher of its sister-magazines Nightmare and Fantasy. Called “the reigning king of the anthology world” by Barnes & Noble, John is a two-time winner of the Hugo Award and an eight-time World Fantasy Award finalist.
C.L. Clark is a BFA award-winning editor and the Nebula-nominated author of The Unbroken, the first of the Magic of the Lost trilogy, several short stories, and a few essays. When she’s not imagining the fall of empires, she’s trying not to throw her kettlebells through the walls.
Chris Fox is the Amazon bestselling author of The Magitech Chronicles, Shattered Gods, and The Dark Lord Bert. He loves RPGs, and is very proud to have one of his own in print, all to impress a girl, now his wife and mother of his son.
Jason Sizemore is the owner and editor-in-chief of Apex Magazine and Apex Books. He's been nominated for multiple Hugo Awards for his editing work. His most recent anthologies include DO NOT GO QUIETLY: STORIES OF RESISTANCE and APEX MAGAZINE: 2021.
Geography in Worldbuilding: from Map to Myth to Magic with Andy Law and Caeora
Dark Worldbuilding: Bringing the Shadows to Your World with Michael Williams
Fantasy Worldbuilding: Inverting the Tropes with Amanda Hamon & Gail Carriger
Magic Systems in Worldbuilding with Keith Baker, Celeste Conowitch & Shane Hensley
Episode 41, part 2: How to design for non-DnD Systems and Settings
Episode 41, part 1: How to design for non-DnD Systems and Settings
Episode 40, part 2: What Makes Epic Fantasy Epic?
Episode 40, part 1: What Makes Epic Fantasy Epic?
Episode 39, part 2: Worldbuilding for Mental Health
Episode 39, part 1: Worldbuilding for Mental Health
Episode 38, part 2: Matriarchies in Worldbuilding
Episode 38, part 1: Matriarchies in Worldbuilding
Episode 37, part 2: Writing Autistic Characters with Jonathan Fesmire
Episode 37, part 1: Writing Autistic Characters with Jonathan Fesmire
Episode 36, part 2: Avoiding GM Burnout with Dead Aussie Gamer
Episode 36, part 1: Avoiding GM Burnout with Dead Aussie Gamer
Episode 35, part 2: Adapting Real World Cultures with Basheer Ghouse
Episode 35, part 1: Adapting Real World Cultures with Basheer Ghouse
Episode 34, part 2: Kitchen Sink Fantasy Worldbuilding
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