Welcome to What is Roleplay: a podcast from Beyond Cataclysm exploring the very basics of Roleplay, Role Play Games, and what it means to be part of this awesome hobby.
We will be exploring the nuts and bolts of how to play role play, with each episode themed on a particular concept or idea. Even if you know literally nothing about role play games currently, this podcast is at a level that assumes no prior knowledge.
We will have interviews with leading designers from the indie scene, and take a look into games you may have heard of, and others you haven’t heard of, but should.
Each episode ends with some short live-play examples too, to put flesh on the bones we've laid out earlier on.
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Welcome to What is Roleplay: a podcast from Beyond Cataclysm exploring the very basics of Roleplay, Role Play Games, and what it means to be part of this awesome hobby.
We will be exploring the nuts and bolts of how to play role play, with each episode themed on a particular concept or idea. Even if you know literally nothing about role play games currently, this podcast is at a level that assumes no prior knowledge.
We will have interviews with leading designers from the indie scene, and take a look into games you may have heard of, and others you haven’t heard of, but should.
Each episode ends with some short live-play examples too, to put flesh on the bones we've laid out earlier on.
What is Roleplay #18.5: Narrative Worldbuilding Actual Play Special with Samuel Poots
What Is Roleplay?
28 minutes
1 year ago
What is Roleplay #18.5: Narrative Worldbuilding Actual Play Special with Samuel Poots
Welcome to Episode 18.5 of ‘What Is Roleplay?!
This episode we are joined by Samuel Poots for a special Narrative Worldbuilding Actual Play
This is a follow up to Episode 18, where Samuel unpacked the idea of Narrative Worldbuilding. Stream here
Worldbuilding is an important cornerstone of all writing and especially important when writing roleplay games – the process of designing an environment for the story or the game you are creating.
Samuel & CM Lowry work together to build a sci-fi world in which anthropomorphic badgers have cybernetic arms that are owned by private corporations.
Samuel uses the following touch points to flesh out this world:
Environment – What are the environmental challenges, what is the climate like etc.
Culture – How do people respond to this environment? What do they bring to this space and how has this environment shaped them?
Friction Points – What are the politics of the people within the culture, how is this not a monoculture
Details of Intrigue – The granular details – items, specific NPCs, historical events that have shaped the world
Listen as Samuel & CM establish the setting, factions and storyline for our renegade lumberjack badger who lives in the air vents of a corporate owned orbiter that travels from planetoid to planetoid, stripping them of all valuable resources. Rebel and fight back against the evil Galactic Union … and don’t forget your data-slate!
Links to things we discussed:
Games:
Jim Henson’s Labyrinth The Adventure Game
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
Mutant: Year Zero – Ad Astra Expansion
Blades in the Dark
Wanderhome
Books, Authors, Etc.
Repo! The Genetic Opera
The Forest Moon of Endor (Star Wars)
Deep Space Nine (Star Trek)
Babylon 5
Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
This Book I Read Podcast featuring Adrian Tchaikovsky
More about Samuel
Twitter – @pootsidoodle
Website – Ulster University
More about Us
CM Lowry on Twitter – @cmlowryauthor
CM Lowry’s website – All About Chris
Website – beyondcataclysm.co.uk
Patreon – Patreon.com/beyondcataclysm
With music generously provided by:
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What Is Roleplay?
Welcome to What is Roleplay: a podcast from Beyond Cataclysm exploring the very basics of Roleplay, Role Play Games, and what it means to be part of this awesome hobby.
We will be exploring the nuts and bolts of how to play role play, with each episode themed on a particular concept or idea. Even if you know literally nothing about role play games currently, this podcast is at a level that assumes no prior knowledge.
We will have interviews with leading designers from the indie scene, and take a look into games you may have heard of, and others you haven’t heard of, but should.
Each episode ends with some short live-play examples too, to put flesh on the bones we've laid out earlier on.
