Shad, your first book was really amazing! Thank you for sharing your world building process that made your book great. Daylen's story and tales of Everfall is just beginning, and I look forward to the next one!

@Riftrender

4 жыл бұрын

It has a high rating, I should look at it when it is safe to go outside again.

@Heroesflorian

4 жыл бұрын

@@Riftrender or right now, as an ebook, while you can't go out to do other things anyway ;)

@chouderr1089

4 жыл бұрын

YEAH! What he said.

@redforest9269

4 жыл бұрын

I declare Shad's book to be bad despite having never read it to annoy you four out of boredom.

@chouderr1089

4 жыл бұрын

@@redforest9269 corna really getting to you huh. punk

20:01 Of course Shad would build a world where Gambeson is stronger than steel.

@shadiversity

4 жыл бұрын

Ha ha ha, lol you noticed that did you ¬‿¬

@digivagrant

4 жыл бұрын

@@shadiversity But what about Slime Armor?

@mrdoge9508

4 жыл бұрын

Whole new meaning to steel wool.

@therustedshank9995

4 жыл бұрын

A world where everything is gambeson based

@lillithyukiutacrow2532

4 жыл бұрын

@@digivagrant would certainly make good comedy ^_^

*Me when I started worldbuilding:* Eh, I'm just going to eyeroll it. Throw a couple names here and there and carry on. *Me now:* Now, you may be confused why this style of hair braiding is called "shatou", which is a surprisingly poetic name for the Gamaho subculture. Well, you see, in the year 1622, there was a minor poet named Eto Fue the Second, who was upset over the price of cotton--

@dig8634

4 жыл бұрын

Worldbuilder's disease? What nonsense! I call it a blessing, not a disease XD If I don't know literally what happened to every atom in the multiverse from the minute of creation till today, am I even prepared? Lucky for me that the universe was created the instant the story starts, last-thursdayism style, which means I just need the initial configuration of an entire multiverse. No big deal amirite *nervous laughter*

@depapa701

4 жыл бұрын

I will never start my novel, because the world is not finished. I even started building terrain to make it more visually for me 😂

@lakefoam_blue8855

4 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry but i'm gonna need the full story on Eto Fue II, the price of cotton and the origin of the braiding style.

@haveagoodmourning

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, we need the story, tell us, tell us

@shepard-commander

4 жыл бұрын

Haku infinite Remember that, generally speaking, *people* name things. If it hasn't been discovered yet, it shouldn't have a name yet, and it will be given one when it's discovered. I've had to keep this in mind in my world where unnamed wilderness exists where no man has gone before. There are these rare occasions where not naming something is the right thing to do. Plus, it has the added bonus of you not having to think of another damn name.

And of cause an Australian thinks of a world with deadly animals, making everything outside city's a death-zone for humans.

@markoj.7675

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/pq2rl8Rvm7LFo6g.html .

@maynardshellholeofrandom5069

3 жыл бұрын

@Haku infinite So detroit

@daenor7807

3 жыл бұрын

And of course all his fantasy creatures are rearmed to the teeth like in his series fantasy rearmed

@Nurk0m0rath

3 жыл бұрын

Well, there has to be reason for adventurers to exist. If it weren't for deadly creatures and roving bands of marauding monsters, humanity or whatever other dominant cultures exist would spread everywhere, your fantasy world would basically look like Medieval Europe/Asia/etc, and specialized monster hunters, treasure seekers, and the like would have no reason to exist. Plus, with the kind of continuous nationalities found in most fantasies, external pressure is required to restrict the technological development of more stable cultures. In our own history, new technologies were experimented with and sometimes made to function but then lost due to warfare, natural disasters, or the fall and rebirth of an empire.

@urcitenetom5017

3 жыл бұрын

oh no, true

A fantasy world can be anything, but it can't be everything at once. Good worldbuilding is being selective.

@Hust91

3 жыл бұрын

Warhammer 40k enters the chat?

@christusrex8158

3 жыл бұрын

No! I refuse. I want EVERYTHING!

@crusaderanimation6967

3 жыл бұрын

Ya. That's quite a shame, I kinda want to see world completely different from ours but at the same logical, but sadly our human brains are limitation, who knows Maybe simulation will allow something like that.

@beatthegreat7020

3 жыл бұрын

This is my problem with all the D&D worlds. They want any adventure to be possible, when that's simply impossible.

@_inSight__

3 жыл бұрын

What if the world building is that it includes everything? Y’all having read Sandman

14:34 Shad: "What else could you do? What about..." Everybody: "DRAGONS!" Shad: "...gravity." Everybody: O_o

@thomaslance5428

4 жыл бұрын

buh buh buh buht dragons wouldn't work in normal gravity...

@schw4rztee502

4 жыл бұрын

@@forevern2dust What about Space-Dragons so huge that they have their own atmosphere and people living on them?

@thegrammarcrusader4085

4 жыл бұрын

@@schw4rztee502 I did think a while back that the basic idea of "space dragons" sounds cool but you brought that to idea to a new level.

@huntclanhunt9697

4 жыл бұрын

My disappointment is immense and my day is ruined.

@powerofanime1

4 жыл бұрын

@@thegrammarcrusader4085 How about the resulting space battles, with entire armies firing from the back of their Dragon Worlds at each other? Imagine what sorts of technology that would generate. Would bunker busters be designed to pierce dragon scales? What kind of armor could they harvest straight from the ground? Would the dragon's fire breath be nuclear in nature?

"you dont need to actually write the vast rich history, you just need to hint at it." *Tolkien has left the chat*

@ScottKenny1978

4 жыл бұрын

You don't need to write it in the book, but you probably do need to write it down for yourself.

@mozzy1268

4 жыл бұрын

Scott Kenny yh

@romulorafael5563

4 жыл бұрын

kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkKkk yes

@wesleypatterson2267

4 жыл бұрын

Aaww, leave Uncle T alone, he's trying his best!

@markoj.7675

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/pq2rl8Rvm7LFo6g.html .

Virgin hollywood writer: plot holes everywhere because nothing is really set in stone. Chad Shad: makes constant rules for the magic system.

@blankblank1284

4 жыл бұрын

And I have way too many Rules. I even follow Laws like high speeds needing more amounts of energy. Thus Speed and Strength are directly corrolated. Also most fiction makes powerful hits not have massive destruction that one would expect. Like characters hitting with the force of nuclear bombs, yet deals very little enviromental damage. Mine has characters that need to actively focus energy in one place to not cause damage. Like I have one seen where a character spits forward at high speeds, and the initial takeoff turned the concrete beneath him into plasma. I have a max joule output for characters, and calc every feat to make sure it falls within that Output Range. Like a character that can output 100,000 J and weighs 70kg, he can only move up to 53.4522 m/s at maximum. (Not including air resistance)

@stephenquinn7931

3 жыл бұрын

C H A D I V E R S I T Y

@markoj.7675

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/pq2rl8Rvm7LFo6g.html .

@handles_are_a_bit_rubbish

3 жыл бұрын

@@blankblank1284 Air resistance is pretty much the only thing that actually makes top speed a thing, without it it's all just a matter of who can accelerate the fastest. Also in terms of output I'd say it'd be best to think of Watts, or rather Power, (Energy/Time aka Joules/Second) instead of Joules unless by 'total output' you're referring to the amount of energy the characters can store at any one time.

@Aconspiracyofravens1

3 жыл бұрын

virgin using hard magic or soft magic vs chad, having limited hard magic and adding a second magic system that works by making deals with the employees of the pan universal bureaucracy, if someone points out an inconsistency just say "no thats illegal" or "powers beyond your understanding ok"

Actually, I get lost in world-building before even starting the story and realized that,when you have a very expansive world,you can have endless stories.

@briannajohnson5484

2 жыл бұрын

I'm worldbuilding a world where all of my stories can play out without problems due to the way the world is made.

@69Kazeshini

2 жыл бұрын

You can make it a chronicle/anthology series set in the same universe.

@adonisdelapierro

2 жыл бұрын

I've been the same way for my book

@solsystem1342

2 жыл бұрын

I prefer to jump from world to world. Sort of a "fail faster" strategy but with world building. It's helped me to refine my particular type of absurd world design where each world seems less teathered to our own and I really enjoy that. In the stories I consume too. That being said my worlds are obviously less fleshed out because of that but it helps prevent me from getting bogged down in choices I made to try and tell different stories. Depends what you like.

@opalfenwick3953

Жыл бұрын

@xvoidgamer _TRUE_

Shad: "There's a syndrome of worldbuilding too much." - J.R.R. Tolkien enters the chat

@D3epb1u3

4 жыл бұрын

Mr. Sanderson often mention "world builders disease" in his classes he posts on KZread.

@marvalice3455

4 жыл бұрын

@@D3epb1u3 tolkien really suffered from this. he was brilliant, but imagine all we'd have if he used better technique while writing!

@daghostds

4 жыл бұрын

Shad: "There's a syndrome of worldbuilding too much." Me after 18 years of world building : "What do you mean?!" On the plus side you can retcon some stuff easily.. because no one read or almost no one read it yet.

@theh5099

4 жыл бұрын

@@daghostds Yeah, one great thing about publishing nothing is that you can retcon and change at your hearts content.

@TomorrowWeLive

4 жыл бұрын

@@theh5099 that can be a trap though. Tolkien was constantly revising and refining everything and never finishing anything.

Shad Fact: Shad has his own extra dimensional orchard that grows nothing but oranges. Thus Shad will always have a fresh a ready supply of OJ.

@Chordus_Gaius

4 жыл бұрын

I Knew it!!

@chouderr1089

4 жыл бұрын

Lol wat

@annaabrams8738

4 жыл бұрын

This is the best KZread account I think I've ever come across lol. Keep giving us facts of shad!

@wafflingmean4477

4 жыл бұрын

So... Shad is Nakor from the Riftwar Cycle.

@Delta_3

4 жыл бұрын

@Haku infinite I'm wondering who can call dibs on that idea now. You or the OP 😂.

This is why I love the worldbuilding in anime and manga. They usually take one concept and ride it all the way to the bitter end. For example: Clothing is actually an evil space alien parasite.

@lewisroach8723

3 жыл бұрын

I literally watched the finale of Kill La Kill before coming here!

@kombatace7971

2 жыл бұрын

Case in point, that post apacalyptic anime where everything is underwater except these massive ships made out of abandoned tech. Gargantia

@Senpai-hb8yw

Жыл бұрын

attack on titan is the same thing

@cronosmu

Жыл бұрын

FullMetal Alchemist and Hunter X Hunter are great examples.

I love how he’s so confident in what he’s doing without being arrogant

@danimeisner9476

Жыл бұрын

he is arrogant tho

@zachthegleeful

Жыл бұрын

@@danimeisner9476 How so?

@gondor532

Жыл бұрын

@@zachthegleeful he can be sometimes

@Worthesspanda8

Жыл бұрын

@@Phticao He talks abt himself alot cos he is giving u tips that HE used for world building lol. Giving u information HE realised while world building. He is referencing himself, who wouldn't?

@johnathansanford8206

7 ай бұрын

​@@Worthesspanda815min in and he hasnt stopped patting himself on the back. Haven't heard any real conception of world building beside a bullet point between paragraphs about himself.

Shad losing his mind about flat earthers is the funniest thing I've seen today.

@vikingraven4758

4 жыл бұрын

Was looking for this comment.

@bonelessbones5184

4 жыл бұрын

That absolute belly laugh was amazing

@b.heaven9234

4 жыл бұрын

To be fair, Flat Earth model is something I would consider a great reference material for a fictional setting. I mean, how cool is it to develop space travel in a flat earth setting where you explore beyond the frigid edges and beneath the earth? Are we also riding a giant turtle all this time?

@user-ze3tq9hf9i

4 жыл бұрын

@@b.heaven9234 I'm considering a flat Earth for my own setting, but I'm going with a more realistic world and I would give it a more real world astronomy and astrology. Now I'm conflicted.

@devilishjester7718

4 жыл бұрын

In my world the earth is both flat and round, there are 2 existence planes per say, in one there is physics and complex life, in the other there's magic

My universe: flat, floating continents, airships Shad: this video Me: well then this is awkward

@sophiejones7727

4 жыл бұрын

No reason not to stick with it. Just do it differently!

@hiimchrisj

4 жыл бұрын

It's not an entirely new concept, he admits as much himself. But you can go about tackling these concepts in a drastically different way, even think about your own physics concepts to justify them that are entirely different than his. Ultimately the important part is the world itself and the culture of the groups of people living in it that make it unique. And then above that the stories themselves, how interesting and dynamic your protagonist, antagonist, and supporting cast are. A good portion of modern fantasy borrows from Tolkien but that doesn't ruin their merit as their own thing.

@davidpo5517

4 жыл бұрын

Agree with Sophie Jones, if that’s what interests you then do it anyways, just do it different. I’ve always thought it would be funny if there was a mechanic that made these floating continents get earthquakes. Maybe strong air currents under the continental shelf cause them to split apart. Viola! Disaster/survival fantasy novel.

@rataflechera

3 жыл бұрын

One of my settings where these massive floating creatures in a giant gas planet and the sentient creatures just live seasonally over them. I was thinking that the idea might be similar, except that the “continents” are less flat and are alive.

@markoj.7675

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/pq2rl8Rvm7LFo6g.html .

I love how with your world the sky's the limit, then it's the floor.

Actually when you mention the fire thing I remember reading that during the carboniferous period of earths history the quantity of oxygen was so high that combustion was extremely easy and even wet wood could start wildfires (also the extraordinarily high levels of oxygen allowed insects to grow to shockingly large sizes). Now mind you lignens in trees prevented bacteria at the time from being capable of breaking down dead trees so fire was probably the only way to clear ground... Even our world had some really mind bending things going on at different times in history.

@nyalan8385

9 ай бұрын

A more reasonable way to look at that, from a scientific standpoint, is that since trees weren’t capable of being broken down forest fires became more likely because of the increased amount of fuel and with the higher oxygen content they could spread faster and grow larger

Me: *Scribbing notes like a madman*

@dr.spaghetti1973

4 жыл бұрын

Write that down, write that down!

@realberserkpanda

4 жыл бұрын

same here

@jameslewis2635

4 жыл бұрын

There is such a thing as speach to text software. Having said that, KZread subtitles... Better keep scribbing!

@Delta_3

4 жыл бұрын

Same here! 😊😊😊

@_greenrunner_

4 жыл бұрын

James Lewis wow i forgot an L, Big deal

Shad: "Having an atmosphere the size of the universe would cause problems" - Gurren Lagann enters the chat

@TheguyfromJurassicpark3

4 жыл бұрын

Jimmy Neutron: "First time?"

@AlessFD

4 жыл бұрын

sounds familiar

@casualsleepingdragon8501

4 жыл бұрын

🎵I can show you the world, galaxy sized hurrincanes, not so splendid.🎵

@matteste

4 жыл бұрын

Shinza Bansho: New here?

@arenkai

4 жыл бұрын

Do the impossible, See the invisible !

Just checked, Chronicles of Everfall: Shadow of the Conquerer now has a Tv tropes page. Finally.

This really helped me when it came to the "over-worldbuilding" syndrome, I found myself trying to develop every little thing in the world even if it's not important to the story in the slightest, but now I'll hopefully avoid wasting too much time! And the whole universe part really got me too, I gotta figure out my laws of physics too now, especially for a single world that is a floating landmass that's the size of Australia lol

16:10 Shad proposes a world that's just like a normal one but without timber. My inner Minecrafter curls up and weeps at the sheer horror. Thanks, Shad =p

@crusaderanimation6967

3 жыл бұрын

The funny contradyction is that world without timber wouldn't be like our.

You know someone has built a great fantasy world when you start thinking “what if” theories about it. I was thinking about the world in “Shadow of the Conqueror” and wondering what it would be like in a world like that where light could travel through the barrier. You could look up and see the bottom of your own island, and if you had a good enough telescope, you could lean over the edge of the deck of an airship, look down, and not only see the top of your airship, but also your own back as you lean over. Shad is a genius worldbuilder (and castle designer too)!

@PhilBagels

4 жыл бұрын

I was wondering about this. There could effectively be no "top" and "bottom" to the world. You wouldn't necessarily see any "seam". Wherever the inhabitants decide to define the top and bottom is completely arbitrary, like where the prime meridian is in our world.

@brainzpvz2592

4 жыл бұрын

Lol that is actually an incredible idea. But if that was the case it would go on forever as it would be like standing between 2 mirrors, so if you were looking at another island it would look like a stack of the same island. You should write a book or something because that is really cool.

@PvtPuddles

4 жыл бұрын

Having not read the book, I thought that's how it was. If the world was 7 or 8 islands deep, it wouldn't look that abnormal if it repeated.

@neillindgren8992

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, that makes sense. If the light could pass the barrier once, it should be able to pass through multiple times, making it look like you were in between two mirrors with multiple images of the same island in a row. Good thinking! 👍

@DarthBiomech

4 жыл бұрын

What confuses me about that setup is actually air. Wouldn't it begin to fall endlessly, resulting in raging storms near anything that breaks the airflow?

just wanted to say that I love seeing worldanvil sponsoring more channels theyre legit one of the best worldbuilding tools out there I absolutely love it

I don't know if anyone will see this, (with 1,511 comments already, I sort of doubt it), but I wanted to mention The Rivan Codex by David Eddings, may he rest in peace. In his introduction as early as page 7 of the book he describes his world building process and the items necessary for a good and believable story. I thought I would share some of his insights here: 1 ) Theology - What is the religious belief system for this world? Is there only one religion? Do the Gods actually exist? 2 ) The Quest - What is driving your characters to do something instead of just staying at home? 3 ) The Magic Thingamajig - The One Ring, The Holy Grail, The Sword in the Stone, The Book of all Knowledge, etc. 4) The Hero - Who is it and what is his/her backstory and character traits. 5) The Great Wizard/Magician/Sage - Hey every fantasy story has some wise and powerful magic user. 6) Heroine - The love interest for the Hero and the person who may get in trouble and need rescuing 7) The Villain - Got to have one of those. What is his/her motivation? 8) The group of companions - The characters our hero meets along the way who aide him in his/her quest, usually keeping the hero alive until he/she is strong enough to defend themselves. 9) The companions love interest - The guys and gals that motivate the companions and each have their own idiosyncrasies. 10) The Kings, Queens , and other bureaucrats that make up the governments of this world. End of list.

@JH-zs3bs

3 жыл бұрын

Well that seems like a plot building instructions only for Classical fantasy and only for the typical story we already know and (at least me) are bored of: Villain threatens something -> Hero (or Heroes) goes out and try to stop him -> initially fails or seems to fail -> grows through their failure and become stronger -> Defeat villain Along the road there is some romance along the lines of overcome gender stereotypes or such.

@robertabarnhart6240

2 жыл бұрын

@@JH-zs3bs If you take these less literal, you can make other stories. For example, what if the "villain" is a natural disaster? It has absolutely no motivation at all, but can still cause absolute destruction.

@matthiaspridgeon9420

2 жыл бұрын

@@JH-zs3bs this is the basic plot for every book. Even ‘subversive’ plots have their roots in it

Fun fact: we do actually have storms in our universe that are the size of galaxies and reach the speed of light at certain points. That's a pretty spot on description of quasars.

@maynardshellholeofrandom5069

3 жыл бұрын

excuse me w h a t

@chintoast

3 жыл бұрын

i looked it up on google and quasars seem v cool >w

@solsystem1342

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely not the size of a galaxy in volume. More like lighthouse beams that just shine as brightly as an entire galaxy. Still unbelievably powerful but not weather.

@MamaTrixxieAsmr

Жыл бұрын

​@@solsystem1342 space weather >:D

The way shad describes the setting in his books, makes me really want to see some illustrations or concept art.

@markoj.7675

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/pq2rl8Rvm7LFo6g.html .

@anthonyhernandez7799

3 жыл бұрын

@@markoj.7675 thanks that was a nice way to start my morning

@Isaac-hm6ih

3 жыл бұрын

Warning, the above link is some kind of religious preaching video and doesn't look to have anything to-do with Everfall.

I really loved the novel. I did have one rather serious problem with it though. I got to the end and there wasn't another one

Shad. Thank you for making these videos. Also, thank you for mentioning WorldAnvil because I did not know about it and I think it's a useful tool. I am a very visual person so this helps me a lot to flesh out all the details before I start writing. I always find the first page is the hardest part for me so to have something like that to help me get going is very encouraging.

"It's Fantasy, anything is possible." It really is a tragedy that in the genre which has literally only imagination as the limit, we still see the same 3 species repeated ad nauseum: Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs. EVERYWHERE.

@racoonlittle1679

4 жыл бұрын

And humans

@acheron16

4 жыл бұрын

Or pretty humans, ugly and usually evil humans, stunty tough humans that like to drink and eat a lot.

@owendavis3500

4 жыл бұрын

Y'all ever read rangers apprentice?

@EJ_Red

4 жыл бұрын

I don't mind having the typical race(s) being part of Fantasy works, the main issue for me is that they fill in the racial stereotypes instead of the creators adding and mixing in their own flavor for the races' culture

@Shifterwizard

4 жыл бұрын

@@EJ_Red It bothers me because, well, on top of EVERYONE doing it, how on earth does Science Fiction wind up with a greater variety in their cultures and intelligent species compared to Fantasy? So many species in fantasy are just basically "humans but X". "Humans but they act like warmongering cavemen", "humans but they're better at everything and love nature", "humans but they drink a lot and live underground". Science Fiction, meanwhile, plays with concepts such as how a species' natural lifecycle may affect their technology and culture, or other crazy creative stuff. Fantasy lets you have humans made up of smaller 6-inch-tall humans all working together like Voltron, or a person who is a living incarnation of the platonic ideal of cheeze-its, or explore what happens to a species that never needs to eat, etc.

You should have your own class. I'd attend every single lecture if I could.

@MyRickyjoe

4 жыл бұрын

He's in a class by himself.

@noahhildebrandt2412

4 жыл бұрын

He is the class.

@JohnSmith-zl1tr

4 жыл бұрын

What do you think this channel is?

@p7outdoors297

4 жыл бұрын

He and his brother could make vlogs together on "how to's" for art and history in a world

@onionninja7580

4 жыл бұрын

Me too, the reason why I subscribed is because Shad reminds me of a teacher passionate about the subject he teaches

I want to thank you Shad! I really needed to see this video for where I am in my world building and it’s made me realize that I was developing world-builder’s disease. Amazing video as usual and I am looking forward to those what if videos you mentioned!

Well, this is a video I'll return to on multiple occasions...

One thing I personally really appreciate in world building is good, original creature design, where they not only have an interesting design, but the author also has thought of its niche, what it evolved from and how it gets its food.

@themockingdragon135

4 жыл бұрын

@Haku infinite as someone relatively well informed about Subnautica and its soon to be sequel, I'm very much inclined to agree.

@themockingdragon135

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely my favourite part of worldbuilding. Artistry of creatures I made up in a hypothetical novel is my current pastime.

@Ditidos

4 жыл бұрын

Then you may want to look into speculative biology. The branch of science fiction concerned with biology, Alien Planet is a very cool fictional documentary on it, as well as Dragons: a fantasy made real, there is also Life after Man which is a book in the style of a field guide of the creatures that live some millions years in the future, the documentary The Future is Wild also does this (but modifies the rest of the world as well, the last episode is bonkers and around 100 million years in the future with no terrestrial vertebrates remaining).

@occasionalart7597

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ditidos I am already interested in speculative biology, thanks for the recommendations though

@zobblewobble1770

4 жыл бұрын

Ditidos Just to add one more to the list of good spec bio, I would suggest people check out the “Life on Snaiad”. Really well thought out alien animals there.

Man: discovers frying pan Also man: this will be the greatest of weapons!

@bigredwolf6

4 жыл бұрын

Spartan_ 1138 Memes: Allow me to introduce myself

@lucykitsune4619

4 жыл бұрын

I legit have a character with a frying pan as a melee weapon and the ability to just make cakes appear in his enemies face as if they'd been thrown there. He will never loose a single fight despite constantly being up against people that can literally break reality.

@frankbruder3097

4 жыл бұрын

If man merely _discovered_ frying pan, who _invented_ frying pans? I'm not saying it's aliens.

@timmyturner327

4 жыл бұрын

man: makes comment about frying pans being weapons Tangled be like: allow me to introduce myself *shows pictures of Maximus and Flynn and others fighting*

@TrueMentorGuidingMoonlight

4 жыл бұрын

Give me a trench shovel. It’s a melee weapon with reach, a digging tool, and a frying pan ;)

Shad I can’t tell you how amazing it is to see you doing better now I can’t tell you how much you can brighten up my day with your videos I’ve been watching almost since I was in grade 9 or 10 and now I’m in college and I’m only getting older And when watching your videos you always seemed to make my passion for story writing seem reasonable and reachable It hasn’t been easy to keep my faith in myself and it’s been harder keeping myself on a path that I know I love And after your hospitalization and surgery I knew you’d be ok but I still felt scared and with recent issues with the Covid-19 outbreak I don’t know how my own future will turn out But never the Less I’m happy to see you back in your throne And I believe I speak for all of us when I say... welcome back my king!❤️

You are such an inspiration for me to keep writing. I am proud of my world, and character, and you just give me the confidence to be as abstract as I want and not

5:53 "...sky is the limit!" I find that statement particularly hilarious considering the setting in your own novel. I mean... it's a world literally in the middle of sky

In my book the planet was cracked in three during a battle of gods, the pieces are still conected but there is deep chasms as wide as small oceans filled with thorns where most of the monsters live

@Rille922

4 жыл бұрын

Draugre thats interesting as fuck

@scottmantooth8785

4 жыл бұрын

*as the would by logical and accepted world building and fantasy conventions*

@carso1500

4 жыл бұрын

Kind of similar but diferent to my world, basically my planet is just fantasy earth but the entire geography is completly diferent because of a war the gods had on the past that completly changed the entire landmasses of the planet

@blankblank1284

4 жыл бұрын

Are they fully disconnected? Or are the Chasms just very, very deep?

@wendigo1619

4 жыл бұрын

@@blankblank1284 their massive cracks in the crust, slightly connected and the brambles make up the core of that world while the dirt was meant to keep evil at bay

This is a BRILLIANT video! Great ideas here, Shad!

Excellent and useful video, thank you so much for these tips Shad!!!

I love SotC’s pseudo-Star Wars (particularly Jedi) setting in a Fantasy that’s not medieval but a unique mesh between Renaissance & Magical-Powered Industrial Revolution.

@crapwithanopinion2919

4 жыл бұрын

or what about a more ancient setting. There's more to fantasy than just medieval, steampunk, and advanced tech. I wanna see a more ancient greek or Roman setting where there's a parallel universe that can be traveled to and from using some sort of ritual and the parallel universe has trippy rules and have kite shield inhabitants that have highly advanced technology! I wanna read that gosh darn it!

@hopebringer2348

4 жыл бұрын

crap with an opinion Then do it

@TheodoreMinick

4 жыл бұрын

@@crapwithanopinion2919 'If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.' - Toni Morrison

@crapwithanopinion2919

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheodoreMinick I was mostly kidding with the highly advanced kite shields. But yeah I am writing something sorta like what I just said.

@fookinaye8277

4 жыл бұрын

Ff7-punk lol

How about a fantasy world where the powers that be (gods, spirits, etc) are still in the act of creating the world and the mortals just have to sit there and watch.

@RowbotMaster

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the first session of a new d&d campaign

@Jintorax

4 жыл бұрын

You can technically use it as an adventure excuse in fact. What if unbuilt part of the world are like an open wound ? There can be infection and intruder... (Demon ? Something else ?) The heroes might be tasked by the gods themselves to explore and protect the world from the unbuilt part while the creators work somewhere else ! (I think that I would love to play an RPG in this setting in fact x) )

@RowbotMaster

4 жыл бұрын

@@Jintorax better, the adventures are bug testers and the gods patch it on the spot

@ONTOE0

4 жыл бұрын

Sightless_Seeker well I was thinking all of the mortal creatures would be living on the planet, they would just be living in the completed sections of it.

@LeFlamel

4 жыл бұрын

I just imagine humans having to deal with a bunch of new species terrorizing them and their prayers to the gods amount to "pls nerf"

Hi Shad, your book was absolutely amazing, can't wait for the next one :)

I absolutely loved your first book! You did an amazing job, and I can really respect the level of world building and detail in the magic system. I was able to to understand what they were talking about because of what a great job you did, and I can’t wait to see what comes next!

"People "once" believed the world was flat" hahahahahaha... I'm a huge fan of your channel, I'm also an aspiring writer and your videos trully are helping me out with some elements of worldbuilding and creative writing, and I'm much obliged to you, keep this way, you are an incredible person!

A good story draws people in, an interesting world makes them come back.

@Atypical_Typo

4 жыл бұрын

Imma... borrow this...

@HellishSpoon

3 жыл бұрын

People like mystery You keep giving them interisting questions and answer that also create new questions to make them come back to the story

@rfk2298

Жыл бұрын

I feel like it’s the other way around.

This is probably the first video sponsor I've ever actually felt strong interest for. Thanks for snagging this sponsor, Shad. I've been watching your videos for a very long time in helping me with my own worldbuilding attempts, and worldanvil ended up being an incredible resource both for keeping my stuff organized and for inspiration on where to expand. One of the most helpful channels on this site.

Shad. The audiobook version of your book plays like a radio drama, and that is awesome. I immersed myself in the story so much, I can't even properly explain it. The world is cool (and honestly refreshingly "different"), the themes are very well implemented, and the magic system(s) intrigue me. Very well done! I'm expecting a lot from you as a writer now, man.

Paused halfway to say that this new series idea is amazing and I'm going to watch every single one. Hopefully you'll take suggestions too if you ever somehow run out of ideas.

One of your best videos ever! And I really like all your videos 😊

Great video, Shad. I suspect this is your best video so far.

Shad: It’s fantasy, do whatever you want. Me: Lizardmen and Space Elves living on a Dyson sphere ruled by a magocracy.

@scottmantooth8785

4 жыл бұрын

*skunks and possums living together....Mass Hysteria!!!!!*

Donut planet? My mind is overclocking ideas right now.

@niklasmolen4753

4 жыл бұрын

The donut planet can exist but does not form naturally. So there you have a new nut to crack.

@niklasmolen4753

4 жыл бұрын

@Mr. Dank The donut planet is actually possible. It cannot be formed by itself and is so unstable that it is extremely unlikely to exist. It cannot have a moon or continental drift, because it would lead to collapse. There is a lot of preconditions that must be fulfilled for it to work. Like the right rotation speed.

@haveiszalfaroqie1628

4 жыл бұрын

Hungry obese god?

@AtelierGod

4 жыл бұрын

Niklas Molén so as long as it’s created rather than forked which can happen in fantasy and myths due to how they are structured. The Norse believed that Midgard was created from the flesh of Ymir after his passing so wouldn’t such a place be able to hold together with little difficulty.

@huntertaylor4424

4 жыл бұрын

When you first saw Halo were you blinded by its majesty?

I'm really pleased your novel is doing well. If I have to isolate (quite possible), I might finally get the time to sit and read, and I'll buy it. Well done!

Thank you so much for sharing the website, it's really helpful !

Shad, you're a legend. It doesn't matter what you talk about, you always make it incredibly interesting. Keep it up, Sir!

A fantasy writer: _"Magic in my fantasy world has to be plausible and consistent, just like real physics is."_ The double slit experiment: _"Hold my Higgs boson..."_

@SonOfTheNorthe

3 жыл бұрын

I literally just spent three days straight rationalizing the existence and physics of æther particles in relation to String Theory.

7:46 And thus began a discussion on my favorite Minecraft server about how such a planet would work in terms of physics and geography. Thanks, Shad.

ahh, the perfect video! I love world building and writing/telling stories, so this was a great inspiration! I have been "working on" my story for years, whenever I try to sit down and write I get overwhelmed and give up, but when making my world, drawing maps and spit-balling ideas, I find myself spending hours at a time just crafting my world. again, this video inspired me! looking forward to reading your book ;)

Your book is now definitely on my to buy list once I can afford to spend money on it. All you said is so true, fantasy doesn't mean that you can just abandon internal consistency and logic. This will help in my own writing for sure. I have found that adding restrictions and limitations improves my writing as it forces more creativity. Having limits on what things that magic can do makes coming up with solutions more creative and therefore more satisfying, rather than just making up some spell that will just solve the problem directly.

@whosaidthat84

3 жыл бұрын

Just make your book doesn't suffer at the cost of worldbuilding

@WK-47

2 жыл бұрын

It's good you learnt that lesson sooner rather than later. Limitation/restriction, even when self-imposed, not only improves the logic and internal consistency of fictional worlds - it's also a great driver of creativity generally.

One of the best anime I've ever watched was Code Geass, which created a world very similar to our own, except it changed one historical event and added one element to the story, which both shaped the way the world operated. The event was the conquest of Britain by the Roman Empire. In Code Geass, Britain united against Rome under the guise of a tribe king, all different tribes joining in order to repel the Romans, eventually succeeding in that. Afterward, they found the kingdom of Britannia, which persisted until the beginning of the story. This had massive repercussions into the world, some the anime didn't address and left for you to figure out. For example, the story keep saying it takes place in 2017, except the point of reference they use isn't the birth of Christ, but rather the foundation of Britannia after the war with Rome, so it would place the story in 1945 in our own world. Once you know that, you realize how advanced that society really is, with technology even we haven't implemented on a large scale, such as completely clean energy production and giant robots (will get to that). Another cool thing is that with Britannia being so massive, countries in this world aren't like ours, they are truly massive, with Europe being pretty much one single country (Europa United) and most of Asia also falling in that category (Chinese Federation), all in order to oppose this massive superpower. In this world the American Revolution never happened, so all of America is part of the Britannian Empire as well. And then there's Sakuradite, the superconductor material that is the basis of the technology of this world in the modern era. With it, they can produce clean energy, create giant mechas for warfare, be used in explosive devices and even led to the creation of their version of the Atomic Bomb. The show focus on their use in the awesome robots and their uses of sakuradite, but extra material explores how much it is a vital resource to the world at large, which explains why Japan is so important in this world geopolitical landscape, since they have 2/3 of the world's known sakuradite deposits.

@connorgolden4

4 жыл бұрын

Britons defeating Rome? Pff.

@markoj.7675

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/pq2rl8Rvm7LFo6g.html .

Glad to see you back Shad!

Okay, that's the first sponsor I have seen that genuinely interests me. Good on you, because considering I am writing my own fantasy novel (have finished book one, just needs refining and am working on book two during writters block.), keeping track of things will be super nice.

Oh, so you're approaching me? Instead of running away, and using the quarantine as a CLICKBAIT just like half of the website, you are coming right at me with quality content? Ohoho! Then come as close as you like!!

@marekysakowski3878

4 жыл бұрын

Someone next line will be: Is this a JOJO reference?

@riverasamuel911

4 жыл бұрын

to be honest, since i watched Jojo i can't find any video without a JOJO reference lol

@AchaOda

4 жыл бұрын

@@riverasamuel911 The Jojo fandom has that effect A lot

@DelusionalDunmer

4 жыл бұрын

@@riverasamuel911 Life is a JoJo reference dude. Think about it. In JoJo things are alive, and in real life things are alive.

@polygon2745

4 жыл бұрын

@Nasser FireLord Arts tbh I don’t get the jojo hype... YOU FELL FOR IT FOOL, THUNDER CROSS SPLIT ATTACK

As a writer and someone who loves the medieval substance-I fucking love this channel!

Congrats Shad for the success of your novel! I'm really happy you achieved that.

"you don't have to write the vast rich history" Malazan fans: *laughs in potsherds*

@TheRezro

4 жыл бұрын

Well, you don't. You need backstory related to specific events with only general timeline, what can be expanded later. He address specifically so called world-builder syndrome where people focus to much on lore to point that they never finish it and if they write book it rarely matter.

I would like to caveat what you said at the end: that you should avoid "worldbuilding disease" by only worldbuild the plot-relevant details instead of spending years building and never getting to writing. I'm not too sure about that. Take Tolkien. The thing that makes the Lord of The Rings so incredibly awesome for me is that throughout the story there are so many references to ages past and history long forgotten and ancient conflicts, the villain himself is a grand mystery, there is this wizard, there are elves and dwarves and none of that is ever explained in the Lord of The Rings. You only know enough to understand what is going on and all that you don't know imbues this world with a tremendous sense of wonder. But then you read the appendices and you realise that, actually, there is a lot to learn here: there is information on those topics. And now you're interested: who is this Sauron? What is his goal? Why is he so evil? What are elves exactly? Where did orcs come from? Who are the Númenóreans exactly? Who the heck is Gandalf? What were those great hosts of the First Age that Elrond is going on about? And you read the Silmarillion and find out that there is this vast, vast history behind LoTR. And you read Unfinished Tales, you read Tolkien's Letters, you read the History of Middle-earth and you discover this amazing amount of worldbuilding that has been done before writing LoTR was even considered. And every little detail fits together. And then you research Tolkien's motivations and his academic background and you discover the central themes and real-world conflicts that inspired elements of the story, and you find out that the siege of Minas Tirith is actually a masterpiece when it comes to tactical believability, and you see how Middle-earth is a huge leap up from classic Arthurian legends - the ultimate Arthurian legend, in fact. Original, English mythology. That makes Tolkien so awesome to me. And I haven't even touched language yet - the very thing that started it all. This world is the most believable and deep fantasy world I have ever read about. And what makes it so great is this path of discovery. Tolkien didn't write a good novel and then reverse-engineer all of the worldbuilding detail when the fans came around to ask for it. No, he just explained to them what already existed. I realise that this is very infeasible for a professional writer - Tolkien was a philology professor and worldbuilding just his hobby until the Hobbit was such a great success that he got down and wrote the Lord of The Rings because his publisher wanted a sequel (that turned out not to be a sequel in spirit but something much greater). However, I think this should be taken into consideration when worldbuilding. Consider that people will want to learn about stuff you tease and that plotholes will be recognised. I find Pottermore, for example, really sad: Rowling had exactly that approach for Harry Potter and is now writing tons of little stories and inventing minor details to stuff holes she left when writing the novels. For me, this takes the magic out of Harry Potter (pun not intended). Previously, I could at least imagine all of those details and explain them away myself. Now, I cannot really enjoy Harry Potter anymore because it feels artificial. By the way, this is also exactly my problem with the Wheel of Time. Jordan teases a lot of interesting worldbuilding but, to my knowledge at least, does not actually have this information. There are no stories of the Age of Legends. He just pretends there are. I find this a bit sad. But absolutely excusable, as long as you don't do the Rowling and reverse-engineer all the stuff that's missing (Han shot first!). Oh and I should probably mention that I have not (yet) read your book. Do not take my comment to mean that I cannot stand this approach to worldbuilding. If you don't want to dedicate your entire life to one world, as Tolkien did, that's absolutely fine but then, please, do not do so in retrospect because that takes the magic and wonder out of your world. It makes it artificial. Really, what I'm trying to say is: try and be the discoverer of your world, not the inventor. That's what Tolkien did. If ever there was a fan who asked something of Tolkien he had not thought about, he would answer that he did not know. He had not discovered that part yet. (Btw this also means that further exploring your world in future novels is not necessarily bad; just stop with that once your novels are complete and don't act like you do know everything about your world when you actually don't).

@steinistein8611

4 жыл бұрын

100% agreed!

@whosaidthat84

4 жыл бұрын

You can worldbuild all you want but just never lose sight of the narrative/story. Sometimes when writers worldbuild too much they plant roadblocks that hinder future ideas.

@romulorafael5563

4 жыл бұрын

this pun was amazing kkk

@valentinacoppola59

4 жыл бұрын

I just want you to know, that this is exactly what I thought when he talked about this in the video, and it actually made me a bit angry because that kind of approach, somewhat devalues, what Tolkien G.R.R. Martin etc did, so thank you for your well thought out comment. I actually copied it in a word doc because I love it so much XD

@ciryatar

4 жыл бұрын

@@valentinacoppola59 Why, thank you!

Shad: You don't have to worldbuild everything! Me(developing an open world video game with a LARP tie in): But is that really true??????

@spiritvdc5109

4 жыл бұрын

Well his point is that you only have to world-build what the audience will interact with, so in an open-world game that's pretty much everything xD

A lot of cool ideas here, the artwork really helped sell the ideas too, especially with the giant animals, I wasn’t really on board with how interesting that could be until the artwork showed up, great editing

Your story ideas sound epic! Really gets me thinking.

Paused again because you're really hitting the nails on the heads with this video. I'm currently working on a dnd setting where the existence of magical items is logically extrapolated (items only require the spell during creation and subsequently the wielder can cast the spell a limited number of times a day) which raises the prevalence on using magic in the world. This of course means they would advance to a "dungeon punk" stage but instead of everything being magitek as it is commonly portrayed the tech would be incredibly limited and magic would likely replace many of our modern conveniences.

@Jeff55369

4 жыл бұрын

The world would be full of cantrip weapons such as firebolt rifles (a rifled barrel could be used in the device to aid in accuracy of the plasma projectile.) Which is something I've thought of a lot. Traditional weapons would be developed in the world only if someone thought they could create a device that would be cheaper to produce or do more damage than the magic weapons with infinite ammunition. Devices would be made to utilize the shield spell as well and the arms race to develop even more powerful shield spells would continue. Many mages would go to magic university with the hopes of getting a job in the magic tech industry. Items that heal, create food and water, clean and mend would all be possible. This in turn would allow for much higher populations in city centers as disease would be much lower and food prices would drop. The average age of death might be able to be raised to 120 for humans with these changes. This also means farm cultivating tech would potentially be forgotten over time depending on what type of food could be created with magic. If only bland food could be created, farmers would focus on planting spices or anything that couldn't be created via magic. If farms exist, they would also likely utilize climate control and growth spells on their fields. Slime creatures, which take care of city sanitation, would eventually multiply via asexual reproduction and leave the city sewers since there wouldn't be enough refuse for all of them. Once that happened, the creatures would need to be dispatched by adventurers, city guard, or mercenary companies. I like the idea that some isekai manga have, where monsters you kill have magical cores in side them, which can then be harvested when they die. So that ecosystem could be a whole industry right there to train new adventures. Fantasy worlds become much more interesting once you extrapolate them.

@wicrosoft8091

4 жыл бұрын

sweatshop wizards!

@darkbringer1440

4 жыл бұрын

@@Jeff55369 Way ahead of you man, the arms race is looking crazy so far. I even have metamagic foci at this point in the most advanced civilizations. "Items that heal, create food and water, clean and mend would all be possible." A lot of that stuff is already there (granted quite a bit is from Eberron which is a traditional dungeon punk setting) but their ramifications aren't being considered. I agree about raising the density limit and lifespan, it'd probably even cause greater density by drawing in rural folk if those items aren't commonplace enough to be in every household (think a movie theater in a settlement vs TVs in every house). "farmers would focus on planting spices or anything that couldn't be created via magic." Items already exist for the spices, they'd be focusing on the latter and it would primarily be for the nobility raising the position of farmers on the "food chain" if you will. "Slime creatures, which take care of city sanitation" Dude, I hadn't even considered using monsters for this stuff, that is a great idea. I'm familiar with the core idea from I can't tell which, because they've all blurred together in my head, manga/anime but rather than having a generic commonality between every single monster, I prefer using parts of the actual monsters which, if logically applicable, could be used to replicate some of the monsters abilities (natural armor from hide, breath weapons from some sort of gland/organ, etc) "Fantasy worlds become much more interesting once you extrapolate them." Yes they do my friend, yes they do.

@darkbringer1440

4 жыл бұрын

@@wicrosoft8091 Wizards running sweatshops or wizards in sweatshops?

@wicrosoft8091

4 жыл бұрын

@@darkbringer1440 both

Shad, author-to-be here, and I gotta say that I love your work. They taught me a great deal about medieval stuff here and there that certainly helped with the worldbuilding of my story. The first draft should be finished within a few weeks, followed by editing, and then publishing once the damn virus stops being a thing. If I wasn't so preoccupied with writing and consuming all sorts of media, I'd definitely be reading your book as well.

Shad really just made a video going over almost all the ideas I've though about for my world settings in the past 2 1/2 years. Sir I will have to charge you rent for all the time you've been living in my head. Great video over all and glad to see you are looking better hope the surgery went alright.

Already subscribed, you're brilliant. I cannot wait to do my research and get started!

"No writer in the word has felt like they've perfected it" *Terry Goodkind has entered the chat*

@robswitzer8334

4 жыл бұрын

Word-building is fun.

@tnk4me4

4 жыл бұрын

This makes me laugh because I hated the sword of Truth.

@michagruzewski5592

4 жыл бұрын

Terry Goodkind didn't 'felt like' He wos shure. Like all fools before him.

@michagruzewski5592

4 жыл бұрын

@@tnk4me4 many did. Just becouse the truth itself hurts ass XD.

@ArcherWarhound

4 жыл бұрын

I don't understand how he managed to get so many books published, and not just because he's a giant asshole: I never read beyond the first book because it annoyed me SO much that he had so many cool concepts and just utterly wasted them in an exceptionally thoughtless plot!

Re: magical healing. In trying to extrapolate the effects of D&D magic, many people ignore scarcity of casters and spells per day limits. A common example is remove disease. It can't stop a plague because it's a third level spell, requiring at least a fifth level cleric, and even the most powerful cleric can only cast it at most seven times in one day. On the other side, the orison stabilize allows any cleric or even an adept to stabilize someone's condition after injury. They won't get better, but they won't get worse. And being an orison, it's usable at will, so certain causes of death just won't happen, particularly hemorrhage in childbirth. That's the sort of thing that will change society.

@noukan42

4 жыл бұрын

This kinda depend on the edition. In certain older editions the city can just give a bunch of money to an high level cleric to craft many 50 charges wands, but such a thing is not possible anymore in 5e, as wand abusing was rampant in 3.5. Conversately, there were no cantrips at will, so a low level cleric was not able to stabilize more than a few people

@LadyDeirdre

4 жыл бұрын

@@noukan42 In the version I'm working with, that's possible, but each such wand takes 12 days to make and costs 11,250 gp to make, meaning 225 gp per treatment, which is about six year's income for an ordinary worker. Now consider that any plague worth calling a plague will infect hundreds of people in that time, and again it's fairly clear why this solution is impractical at best.

@kodaxmax

4 жыл бұрын

That assumes the priest alone is the only source of remedy, additonally even weaker priests and certain builds of other classes can still treat the symptoms extending their life significantly, not to mention potions or magical equipment.

@LadyDeirdre

4 жыл бұрын

@@kodaxmax There's still the scarcity of casters to consider, and the high cost of potions and other equipment (at least in 3/3.5/Pathfinder). I'm not claiming that D&D magic can't help with epidemics, but it's not enough to prevent them entirely.

@forestwells5820

4 жыл бұрын

That makes me think of the movie "Onward". Magic was abandoned because it was hard to master, so when easier ways to do things were found, the magical way was done far less. If it was also very limited, then society might well find ways to do that job every time, and eventually make people no longer use magic to do it.

Shad, THANK YOU for introducing me to Worldanvil! It has helped me write the book im working on immensely!

Never watched one of your videos before. I'm a fan now. Brilliant. Huge user of WorldAnvil, so I already had confidence in what you had to say... I'll be back!

More than half an hour of Shad, Fantasy, and worldbuilding? That's perfect to listen to while building on my chainmail :D

Greetings from Adelaide! i loved your book and i was hoping you would make a vid on the topic. i loved the world building you created in your book.

Your book makes me want more. It is just so unique and is fantastically done.

I cannot express how awesome it is to see you here again shad back in your throne room and seating us your viewers down to give us a few minutes of wisdom We love you shad and I believe I speak for all of us when I say we’re happy we found you

So in the course of deciding how magic works in your universe, you literally decided what the universe is shaped like... wow.

This got released an hour before my dnd game, thanks shad

@AchaOda

4 жыл бұрын

admiral ackbar 3 hours before mine True culture right there

@ConFlakesStrategy

4 жыл бұрын

Bruh that's literally the same situation as me lol

@HavenBriar

4 жыл бұрын

2 hours before mine lol and also I'm curious, do you guys use roll 20, or are you like me and play in person

@ConFlakesStrategy

4 жыл бұрын

@@HavenBriar kinda both to be honest :> D20 mainly though on Tabletop Sim

@user-wt4fm7gf1f

4 жыл бұрын

@@HavenBriar in person but now we use discord due to the quarantine

Your book was AWESOME!!! I CANNOT wait for another one!!

Thanks a lot for the advice. Being in your school of thought already, you made me realize how a story can get TOO DIFFERENT, and that a reader needs at least something to connect with regading the reality we know. So now I've decided to tone down my world-building during the final redraft. I totally agree with your method of utilising the FANTASY platform to its fullest, but at the same time I appreciate your little warning that it can be taken too far.

To the Shad Level!

Yes Shad, we'd LOVE to listen to you extrapolating the hell out of every possible change in our world! PLS DO IT KIND SIR!

Beautiful explanation and intriguing ideas for hard worldbuilding.

And your video is teaching me a lot of world-building. To think it over and build it up form the other perspective. Thanks for it.

This belongs in every Gamemaster/Dungeonmaster's KZread Playlist. And every Novelist's playlist. And it's just a good video regardless. Great job

Your book is great by the way Shad. I'm about half way through reading it and I love it so far. I just love your characters and especially Cueseg for some reason I can't quite put my finger on. But the best thing by far about your book is the world building. The insane amount of thought you have put into your world is just astonishing. I love how you made your world's different laws of physics have a real and realistic influence on the peoples, cultures, lifestyles, inventions, technology, architecture and pretty much everything else within your world. It's just great! it makes your world so unique. Ok, I'm gonna watch your video now and see how you did it all.

Not even half-way through the video, and you’ve already given me so many ideas to try and implement in the world I’m building for D&D! I quite liked you before, but this struck quite the cord. Subscribed.

Great video, very helpful to hear some of your processes. I love your channel for all of your historical content and now...you convinced me to finally order your book. Well played sir ;)

Fun fact: Floating islands would be possible, if they had natural monopolar magnets in them, interacting with planetary magnetic field, like Floatstone in Civilization: BE.

I usually detest when youtubers start off with some random advertisement for other companies, especially these weird androidgames and when they don"t announce they are getting paid for it. But I really like how you match your sponsoring with the thematics of the video, and that tool really sounds useful! Thank you for making great content! (Okay, now back to the actual video Lol)

@genobreaker1054

4 жыл бұрын

Meh. Whether they say it or not, if a KZreadr is doing an ad for a mobile game or the like, it's because they are getting paid for it. I would hate it more if I didn't know what KZread is doing to their ad revenue. Gotta make ends meet.

Excellent video, very informative and succinct. Very helpful in my worldbuilding.

I discovered Shad by the video with boob armor , and from there , he is my absolutely favorite youtube channel and this video helped me like a lot with my novel, keep the great work!!