Mave Hathaway spent years building her world, then stress-tested it through a D&D campaign before writing.
That’s where things got interesting.
https://rubipod.link/TheBreaking
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Magic with limits. Real consequences. And a society built on belief in the gods.
What happens when that belief breaks?
https://rubipod.link/TheBreaking
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Episodes are on YouTube too, organised into playlists:
Worldbuilding Clinic: https://rubipod.link/worldbuildingclinic
Reader Trust: https://rubipod.link/readerstrust
Worlds That Work: https://rubipod.link/worldsthatwork
Channel: https://rubipod.link/YouTubeChannel
Forum question: If Babbage’s engine worked in an alt-Victorian world, who wins first?
My bet: government, banks, big firms, state security. Everyone else gets the side-effects (incl. being easier to track).
Do you follow the power or keep it as wonder-tech?
https://rubipod.link/whogetspower
Airships are cool, sure. But the real worldbuilding win is the systems: records, surveillance, access, and who gets squeezed.
Tim Standish: https://rubipod.link/sterlingdirective
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Victorian state security built around data. Mechanical computers. Telegraph networks. A world that feels familiar in the wrong way.
Listen: https://rubipod.link/sterlingdirective
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The best hook in this episode: when information is searchable, identity becomes traceable.
Tim Standish on The Sterling Directive: https://rubipod.link/sterlingdirective
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Alt-1896 London where Babbage’s engines work, telegraph networks become an early internet, and “tappers” hack the system.
Tim Standish on worldbuilding with constraints: https://rubipod.link/sterlingdirective
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Happy Easter from Donito Mussolini! 🤣 In good news though, a great episode with author Tim Standish is in post, so if you subscribe quick you'll get to hear it before Tuesday! Sub here, free: https://richardsonsrubicon.com/
On YouTube, episodes are grouped into playlists:
Clinic: https://rubipod.link/worldbuildingclinic
Trust: https://rubipod.link/readerstrust
Worlds: https://rubipod.link/worldsthatwork
Channel: https://rubipod.link/YouTubeChannel
📋 Guest booking's are closed for now for the best reason possible.
The queue is absolutely packed with incredible authors, and I want to give every single one of them the time they deserve.
In the meantime, come hang out in the Forum, catch up on past episodes, or just lurk!
How far can “order” go before it becomes suffocation?
That question sits right under this episode with Macaulay Christian.
https://rubipod.link/apocalis
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Worldbuilding I like: where the consequences show up on an ordinary day.
Eridu looks calm… until you ask what people aren’t allowed to do.
https://rubipod.link/apocalis
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From internal oppression to first-contact scale consequences: Holindrian and The Human Revolution + Children of Eternity.
https://rubipod.link/apocalis
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A sci-fi “peace” built on control: Eridu has no songs, no stories, no open creativity.
Great chat with Macaulay Christian about the Apocalis universe and how rules shape rebellion.
https://rubipod.link/apocalis
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YouTube option, neatly sorted by theme:
Worldbuilding Clinic: https://rubipod.link/worldbuildingclinic
Reader Trust: https://rubipod.link/readerstrust
Worlds That Work: https://rubipod.link/worldsthatwork
Channel: https://rubipod.link/YouTubeChannel
I listened last week. You certainly don't take any prisoners, Lewis!
Forum prompt for fantasy writers: power hierarchies that bite.
What makes your invented hierarchy feel believable and fresh, without just photocopying real-world systems?
Join in: https://rubipod.link/PowerHierarchiesQuestion
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Evan rewrote big chunks because portals made certain “normal” behaviour illogical. “Why commute when you’ve got portals?” Fair. 😂
https://rubipod.link/TimeaousSpark
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Even small rule-breaking has teeth: sit in the wrong place at Mythica High and it can become physically dangerous. That’s hierarchy doing work on the page. 🧩
https://rubipod.link/TimeaousSpark
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A sharp hierarchy detail: powerless kids get better food in school as loyalty training and spying prep. Outside school? Mouldy bread and servitude. 🍞
https://rubipod.link/TimeaousSpark
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In Evan Kidwell’s world, the Trials aren’t self-discovery. They’re torture-by-design to force powers out early so society can classify you and keep control. 🔒✨
https://rubipod.link/TimeaousSpark
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Heads up! There's a new episode of the show out, right now! Visit Richardson's Rubicon to subscribe via your favourite podcatching service. https://richardsonsrubicon.com/#subscribe #amwritingscifi #amwritingfantasy
Episodes are on YouTube too, organised into playlists:
Worldbuilding Clinic: https://rubipod.link/worldbuildingclinic
Reader Trust: https://rubipod.link/readerstrust
Worlds That Work: https://rubipod.link/worldsthatwork
Channel: https://rubipod.link/YouTubeChannel
Censorship matters on the page when it changes what characters can safely do on a normal Tuesday.
Forum prompt: What’s one thing people in your setting can’t say out loud, and what workaround do they use instead?
https://rubipod.link/MultiverseQuestion
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What does censorship look like on a normal Tuesday in a fantasy world? Aurora Winter and I dig into enforcement, workarounds, and consequences. https://rubipod.link/MagicMultiverse
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Portals, dragons, and a villain called the Crimson Censor, but the interesting bit is the mechanics: who can speak safely, who can’t, and what it costs. https://rubipod.link/MagicMultiverse
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