Updates every Sunday, and sometimes Wednesday.

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Trinkets, Enchanted Items, and Artifacts

Considerations for making magic artifacts in your world building.

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Middleweight Armor

Dustin continues to nerd out about armor. This week: Middleweight armor!

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Dustin continues to nerd out about armor. This week: Heavy armor!

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Dustin nerds about armor. This week: Fantasy armor!

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Does everyone in your fantasy world really need a sword?

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Magic can make or break your economy.

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Why creating groups your reader can identify with is so important.

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The Old Powers of Galhadria and the history of the Sundering.

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Why you should give as much, or more, consideration to the villains in your story.

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Rooting out all evils and cutting the head off the snake.

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Considering the macro level events in world building.

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Inspiration for Fantasy Foodstuffs.

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Sarmattian coin, a chapter header for Cas the Mercenary.

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Gazean coins.

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Strange kingdoms and and exotic realms on the edges of the continent.

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The motley realms of the Free Kingdoms.