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This week, we continue to construct our month-long setting with districts and features, and flesh out the city's more questionable attractions. Rob brings a beacon of hope(?), Courtney embraces the edgelord factor, and Daniel questions the "land" in "landmark" because of course he does.   Do you have a worldbuilding prompt you want to send to us?  Send us your prompt!   Email us your suggestions a...

New year, new setting...and a new take on an old format. Throughout the month of January, we'll be exploring a world of our own creation from scratch: a city of awe-inspiring angels, linked telepaths, otherworldly commodities, and a very literal end.   Do you have a worldbuilding prompt you want to send to us?  Send us your prompt!   Email us your suggestions at:  WorldbuildWithUs@gmail.com or fol...

It's the end of the year, so join us by the cozy fireplace for a recap and reflection on some of our favorite settings from 2022, now with extra goodies like even-more-grimdark blood sacrifice, ✨Fascism for Dogs✨, and snooty elf bards. Cozy fireplace not included.   Do you have a worldbuilding prompt you want to send to us?  Send us your prompt!   Email us your suggestions at:  WorldbuildWithUs@...

In our final patron-exclusive Aphid Lounge episode of the year, we answer questions from our lovely patrons, covering everything from characters and cocktails to monocultures and mimics. Plus, a sneak peek at what's coming in January! You can unlock this episode by joining our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/worldbuildwithus  

We conclude our dive into this underwater world with lily pad engineering, crab wrangling, treacherous cult-ing, and so much more!   Do you have a worldbuilding prompt you want to send to us?  Send us your prompt!   Email us your suggestions at:  WorldbuildWithUs@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter  @LetsWorldBuild   Or come chat with us  on our Discord server!   Or if you're feeling particularly ge...

Prep your scuba gear and brush aside your thalassophobia, because patron Gluax has us exploring a mysterious glowing sea in our latest series, featuring beefy and/or scholarly cephalopods and giant enemy crabs.   Do you have a worldbuilding prompt you want to send to us?  Send us your prompt!   Email us your suggestions at:  WorldbuildWithUs@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter  @LetsWorldBuild   Or...

In this episode, we're wrapping up our chaotic crossover world by sampling foods of the living and dead, dabbling in spirit magic, and weaving what's been unraveled by that damn cat. Long live Miles the Meek!   Do you have a worldbuilding prompt you want to send to us?  Send us your prompt!   Email us your suggestions at:  WorldbuildWithUs@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter  @LetsWorldBuild   Or co...

This week, worldbuilding gets messy as patron Jay challenges us to combine some of our previous settings into a new one.   Do you have a worldbuilding prompt you want to send to us?  Send us your prompt!   Email us your suggestions at:  WorldbuildWithUs@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter  @LetsWorldBuild   Or come chat with us  on our Discord server!   Or if you're feeling particularly generous,  y...

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.   Do you have a worldbuilding prompt you want to send to us?  Send us your prompt!   Email us your suggestions at:  WorldbuildWithUs@gmail.com or...

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! ✨ You can unlock this episode by joining our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/worldbuildwithus  

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/UCTho...

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!   E...

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...

"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: ...

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! You can unlock this episode by joining our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/worldbuildwithus  

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 se...

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! You can...

In space, no one can hear you scream...except for whatever lurks in the wormholes. This week, we're exploring horror in the form of interstellar travel and psychological crises. Also emissions-enforcing eco-cops. And pirates. It all makes sense, we swear.   Do you have a worldbuilding prompt you want to send to us?  Send us your prompt!   Email us your suggestions at:  WorldbuildWithUs@gmail.com o...

This episode, we give a hearty welcome to Spooktober with an endless conflict fueled by necromancers and their resurrected soldiers, which for some mysterious reason gets pretty dark. Tune in for fun and uplifting topics such as, Can you revive a body that's been turned into pulp? Just how much blood do you need to make a coagulated blood altar? How can you best destroy any sense of hope? And more...

Priest-rebels and anarcho-spiritualists team up to embark on a high-stakes heist as we finish off this Meiji-influenced world with a twisty family tree and seriously excessive amounts of ninja.   Do you have a worldbuilding prompt you want to send to us?  Send us your prompt!   Email us your suggestions at:  WorldbuildWithUs@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter  @LetsWorldBuild   Or come chat with us...

A prompt from patron DiploRaptor has us dealing with roving mecha, spiritual channelers, and a slew of messy worldbuilding disagreements in this Meiji Restoration-inspired setting!   Do you have a worldbuilding prompt you want to send to us?  Send us your prompt!   Email us your suggestions at:  WorldbuildWithUs@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter  @LetsWorldBuild   Or come chat with us  on our Disc...

This week, steampunk, solarpunk, and breadpunk simmer in a love story across time with dollops of cryptids and elves, all served on a bed of clockwork Earth with fresh-baked magic sourdough. Bon appétit!   Check out Courtney's depressing climate-based project that Daniel mentioned at theendis.com !   Do you have a worldbuilding prompt you want to send to us?  Send us your prompt!   Email us your s...

We wrap up this AI-heavy series with everything from body swaps and brain reboots to parkour speedruns and quantum canyons! (All hail Lich King Daniel.)   Do you have a worldbuilding prompt you want to send to us?  Send us your prompt!   Email us your suggestions at:  WorldbuildWithUs@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter  @LetsWorldBuild   Or come chat with us  on our Discord server!   Or if you're f...

We're mostly still on Earth...mostly. New patron Alex inspires us with an otherworldly entity that's using our planet as a development playground. Will humans figure out this new "magic" stuff, or are we doomed to become an obsolete test realm?   Do you have a worldbuilding prompt you want to send to us?  Send us your prompt!   Email us your suggestions at:  WorldbuildWithUs@gmail.com or follow us...

Patron Jay asked us for more media recommendations for this month's patron-exclusive Aphid Lounge episode, and we're more than happy to deliver with TV shows, books, and the exciting copyright implications of AI-generated content. You can unlock this episode by joining our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/worldbuildwithus