Crucible Of Realms

Hosts: Jim, Jon & KentIt is the middle of the 1800's and out in the Oregon Territory, as the British and American invaders continue to defile the lands of the Nez Perce and argue heatedly over which side will claim the area, dark forces from a demonic realm also seek to take the land in fulfillment of their own twisted Manifest Destiny. WARNING: This episode contains Googling. Lots and lots of Googling. Find it in the wiki here.00:00 Tomfoolery00:21 Introduction01:00 Deciding a Genre01:04 Cowboys & Aliens01:20 Weird Western01:28 Deadlands02:51 The Proposition03:39 Quigley Down Under04:00 Deciding a Scale06:10 Washington State06:19 Rain Shadow Effect06:59 Lewis & Clark07:15 Colville Reservation07:35 Eastern Washington Wiki Page08:25 Palouse Hills09:05 Lake Missoula / The Channeled Scablands11:00 Noah's Ark13:38 Oregon Territory14:03 Niagara Falls / Missoula Floods15:40 Salishan / Sahaptin / Shoshone17:21 54-40 or Fight! / Captain George Vancouver17:42 Vancouver, Canada17:52 Chinese Explorers18

Hosts: Jim, Jon & KentIn this episode we create the world of Aurelia, a distant ice planet. There, a mysterious and distant race of religious penitents carry out their holy obligation in repayment of their horrific crime. Find it in the wiki here.Recommendation: Jon recommends "In Blackest Night," a story by Alan Moore from Tales of the Green Lantern Corp Annual Vol 1 # 3 (1987)00:00 Tomfoolery / "Think of a number." / Pi00:20 Introduction01:28 Battlestar Galactica / Star Wars01:56 Writing Prompt / Random Word Generator02:33 Babylon 502:45 Setting the Scale03:22 "Wrong!"03:32 Theocracy04:00 Star Trek04:12 Alderaan04:25 Inhabitants04:33 Kaminoans (not Geonosians - sorry, our mistake!)04:56 AI / Supermecha05:33 UrSkeks / The Dark Crystal06:10 Terraforming12:18 Planetary Conditions / Geography16:45 History17:19 Utopia20:24 Thri-Kreen21:42 Geode27:42 More Inhabitant Details29:27 Younglings29:50 George Lucas31:31 Sects36:53 Flagellant / Zealotry41:00 Population Size (aka Fixing Our Math)43:41 Vatican54:44 Mons

Hosts: Jim, Jon & KentThe focus of this episode is a dystopian future setting called the EarthTech Trials. Want a world with corporations controlling everything, cybernetics running rampant and popularity of web presence deciding government policy? This is it. Find it in the wiki here!00:00 Tomfoolery01:13 Introduction02:00 World Concept02:16 The Running Man03:23 The Hunger Games04:12 Orwellian04:40 Deciding the Era06:55 Dystopia / Media Influence07:12 Max Headroom07:37 Rupert Murdoch07:57 McDonnell Douglas / McDonald's08:13 Taco Bell08:30 World War Corporation / War on the Web08:56 Google / Facebook09:30 Baidu10:31 William Shatner's TekWar11:16 Nike / Squad Combat / Paintball11:39 How Things Changed11:55 One World Government13:40 Factions14:06 Marshal Josip Broz Tito16:27 Alien Threat Conspiracy19:00 Setting the Level of Devastation19:28 Earthborne Devastation19:37 The Day After Tomorrow20:29 48th Parallel21:00 World Dome22:52 Brain-Computer Interface22:57 Transhumanism23:50 Beyond the Fringe / "Civil Wa

Hosts: Jim, Jon & KentIn this first episode we create Aegis, a fantasy world dominated by the element of Air. Find it in the wiki here!00:00 Introduction00:41 World Concept02:13 Google Documents02:33 Google Christ03:00 Air Theme03:28 Bespin03:44 George Lucas03:55 Holo-Cube04:30 World Rules & Geography08:00 Elementals09:00 Balance of the Elements10:13 Winged People11:33 Hawk People / Flash Gordon11:44 Brian Blessed / Prince Vultan12:05 Harpy12:30 Lizard People12:54 Airborne Jellyfish12:55 Arthur C. Clarke / A Meeting with Medusa13:09 The Beatles13:25 Beholder13:55 Bodies of Water14:50 Poles, Temperature, Day & Night16:17 Huge Water Spout16:58 Up is Bad, Down is Good21:00 The Thing at the Center21:43 Government / Parliaments of Birdfolk / Sultanates of Lizardfolk23:53 History, Magic & Technology27:45 The Opener28:29 D&D / Elemental Plane of Air / Demiplane30:50 Present Day Conflict32:17 Clothing, Population and Biology37:00 Naming Things37:44 Ouroboros38:13 Thesaurus.com38:38 Red Dwarf / "Ou