Episodes

Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Episode 174: When Worlds Collide (Tower of a Thousand Crossovers Part 1)
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
This week, worldbuilding gets messy as patron Jay challenges us to combine some of our previous settings into a new one.
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Intro theme: "Half Mystery"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Outro Theme: "Study and Relax"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Thursday Nov 24, 2022
Thursday Nov 24, 2022
At long last, we're returning to this setting of omnipresent time beings on fractured worlds! Things go slightly off the rails as we look for love and labor unions in Victorian retrofuturism, Lisa Frank brutalism, and other extremely valid visual styles.
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Intro theme: "Half Mystery"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Outro Theme: "Study and Relax"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
The Aphid Lounge Preview: How to Deal with Food
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
For this month's patron-exclusive episode, we're exploring food and its usefulness in fleshing out worlds and characters, cooking up story hooks, and more! ✨ Featuring bonus Thanksgiving hot takes! ✨
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Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Episode 172: Fall Jam 2: Electric Jamaloo
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
What's this? MORE worldbuilding jams?! That's right, folks—and this time, we're joined by special guest Ian from Undercommon Taste for two new random settings, featuring magic school buses and AI-fueled cyberpunk megacorporations.
Check out the Undercommon Taste podcast at undercommontaste.podbean.com, join in on their Discord at discord.gg/64R7ze3fBV, follow them on Twitter at twitter.com/UCThomebrew, and visit their new Itch.io store at undercommontaste.itch.io for a Liminal Horror adventure module!
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Email us your suggestions at WorldbuildWithUs@gmail.comor follow us on Twitter @LetsWorldBuild
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Intro theme: "Half Mystery"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Outro Theme: "Study and Relax"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Episode 171: A Jam of Fellowship and Romance
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
This week, we're diverting from our current prompt for a casual worldbuilding jam, where we roll dice and wrack our brains to develop two fantastical mini settings on the spot! Listen in for everything from elves, omens, and '80s kids' movies to ghosts, workplace flirtations, and tech startup naming conventions.
Do you have a worldbuilding prompt you want to send to us? Send us your prompt! Email us your suggestions at: WorldbuildWithUs@gmail.comor follow us on Twitter @LetsWorldBuild
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Intro theme: "Half Mystery"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Outro Theme: "Study and Relax"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Episode 170: Remembering the Future (Fragment of a Thousand Lifetimes Part 1)
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
In this series, patron Lord of All Chrises has us attempting to bypass our linear human perceptions in order to create beings that experience time all at once. We review the challenges and implications of dealing with such omnipresent entities, try to wrap our minds around the concept of time, debate the nature of funfetti, and as always, theorize about Daniel's immortal lich status.
Do you have a worldbuilding prompt you want to send to us? Send us your prompt! Email us your suggestions at: WorldbuildWithUs@gmail.comor follow us on Twitter @LetsWorldBuild
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Or if you're feeling particularly generous, you can support us on Patreon!
Intro theme: "Half Mystery"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Outro Theme: "Study and Relax"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Thursday Oct 27, 2022
Episode 169: The Great Eye Opens (Church of a Thousand Blood Rites Part 2)
Thursday Oct 27, 2022
Thursday Oct 27, 2022
"That's horrible. I love it." And so we bid farewell to our last spooky October setting, again joined by Ian from Undercommon Taste for a gruesome, blood-soaked finale. Is all hope lost, or will our heroes prevail?
Check out Ian on Undercommon Taste at undercommontaste.podbean.com!
Do you have a worldbuilding prompt you want to send to us? Send us your prompt! Email us your suggestions at: WorldbuildWithUs@gmail.comor follow us on Twitter @LetsWorldBuild
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Intro theme: "Half Mystery"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Outro Theme: "Study and Relax"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
The Aphid Lounge Preview: Pumpkin Spice Jam
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
Rob breaks out his gothic d12 as we descend into spooky jam chaos for our second patron-exclusive Aphid Lounge episode of October. Join us for two terrifying tales that you can incorporate into your Halloween RPG sessions!
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Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Episode 168: A Contract, Sealed in Flesh (Church of a Thousand Blood Rites Part 1)
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
When the lines are so blurred, how will you know when you've crossed them to the point of no return? This series, we're joined by guest Ian from the Undercommon Taste podcast for a horror-focused prompt communally developed by our patrons, featuring cosmic and body horror, cults and rituals, powerlessness and torture, and so much more. If you thought we couldn't cram more blood into this spooky season, you thought very, very wrong.
Check out Ian on Undercommon Taste at undercommontaste.podbean.com!
Do you have a worldbuilding prompt you want to send to us? Send us your prompt! Email us your suggestions at: WorldbuildWithUs@gmail.comor follow us on Twitter @LetsWorldBuild
Or come chat with us on our Discord server!
Or if you're feeling particularly generous, you can support us on Patreon!
Intro theme: "Half Mystery"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Outro Theme: "Study and Relax"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
The Aphid Lounge Preview: How to Deal with Horror
Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
In an extra-spooky patron-exclusive Aphid Lounge episode, we sit down to discuss horror: What is it, at its roots? What media handles it well? And how can you incorporate it into RPGs without making your players overwhelmingly despondent? Tune in for talk of tension and foreshadowing, violence and gore, subversion and perversion, fragility and powerlessness, and all that good spooky stuff!
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