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.

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.

4 thoughts on “Shakespeare & Dragons Podcast

  1. Thanks so much for this (and of course Thanks to Paul for his brilliant podcast: I hope all has been going well with his own art and story work: I hope he's able to update us soon). I also hope that Paul gives permission to post the Monster design two-parter: this all really deserves to be preserved and studied!

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