Shakespeare & Dragons Podcast

A few years ago, around the time I first started this blog, Paul Stark created a series of Podcasts dealing with story-centric worldbuilding. Unfortunately Shakespeare & Dragons faded and died, and now even the website is gone. This is a shame because it was a good show. Because I didn’t want the show to be lost to complete obscurity, I decided to link to archived episodes here.

I don’t host any of the files myself. I do not include the two-part episode on monster building, because it was donation-ware.

• Episode 1 – World of the Story
• Episode 2 – Power of Tone and Emotional Effects on the Story World
• Episode 3 – Economy of the World and the Needs of the Characters
• Episode 4 – Objectives of Worldbuilding and an Introduction to the Designer’s Workshop
• Episode 5 – Premise of Your Story World
• Episode 6 – Thematic Subjects of Your Story World
• Episode 7 – Character Design Using Your Thematic Subjects
• Episode 8 – Plot Part One, Shapes and Structure
• Episode 9 – Plot Part Two, Scene Construction and a Look at the Worldbuilding of The Incredibles
• Episode 10 – Plot Part Three, Structuring Plot from Character Desires and Forces of Antagonism
• Episode 11 – Plot Part Three, Structuring Plot from Character Desires and Forces of Antagonism
• Episode 12 – Setting Part One, Geography, Power Structures and Culture
• Episode 13 – Setting Part Two, Creating Cultural Attributes
• Episode 14 – Setting Part Three, Using Image Systems
• Episode 15 – The Party

Thanks to Paul for authorizing this links archive, and for allowing me to post the old show notes. These are PDF exports from the original Shakespeare & Dragons website – they’re not very pretty but they’ll do. I will prettify them eventually.

• SnD 001 – World of the Story (Cleaned-up Version)
• SnD 002 – Power of Tone and Emotional Effects on the Story World (Cleaned-up Version)
• SnD 003 – Economy of the World and the Needs of Characters (Cleaned-up Version)
• Worldbuilding Ep. 003_ Economy of the World and the Needs of Characters
• Worldbuilding Ep. 004_ Objectives of Worldbuilding
• Worldbuilding Ep. 005_ Premise of Your Story World
• Worldbuilding Ep. 006_ Thematic Subjects of Your Story World
• Worldbuilding Ep. 007_ Character Design Using Your Thematic Subjects
• Worldbuilding Ep. 008_ Plot Part One, Shapes and Structure
• Worldbuilding Ep. 009_ Plot Part Two, Scene Construction
• Worldbuilding Ep. 010_ Plot Part Three, Structuring Plot from Character Desires and Forces of Antagonism
• Worldbuilding Ep. 011_ Seven Steps to Thinking, Breathing, Bleeding, Scheming Heroes and Villains
• Worldbuilding Ep. 012_ Setting Part One, Geography, Power Structures and Culture
• Worldbuilding Ep. 013_ Setting Part Two, Creating Cultural Attributes
• Worldbuilding Ep. 014_ Setting Part Three, Using Image Systems
• Worldbuilding Ep. 015_ The Party

These firefly diagrams are for show #15.

I have not posted Paul’s Monster creation workshop, since he used to only give that to people who donated money, but I hope to convince him to give permission to post that as well.