Character Creation Cast

This is the final episode of our Visigoths vs Mall Goths series, a game where you play time displaced Visigoths in a 90’s mall where, naturally, you are enemies with the mall goths that inhabit said mall. We welcome back special guest Lucian Kahn, designer of Visigoths vs Mall Goths and much more, to discuss this game with us! Announcements: Descent into Midnight Kickstarter Watch: https://dimrpg.io/ks A Horror Borealis/The Cryptid Keeper Year of the Moth Patreon Drive: https://patreon.com/TheCryptidKeeper Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Lucian Kahn @oh_theogony Twitter: https://twitter.com/oh_theogony Website: https://necromancy.itch.io Dead Friend: A Game of Necromancy https://necromancy.itch.io/dead-friend-a-game-of-necromancy Grandma’s Drinking Song - Doikayt: A Jewish RPG Anthology https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/5527230/doikayt-a-jewish-ttrpg-anthology Honey and Hot Wax - Pelgrane Press https://necromancy.itch.io/best-of-lucian-kahn Games discussed this episode: Visigoths vs Mall Goths Backer-Kit Pre Order: https://goths.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:03:22 - Reintroductions 00:06:13 - D20 for your thoughts? 00:13:54 - Lucian’s process for creating characters 00:16:32 - How does character creation in this game stack up against others? 00:22:47 - How was it decided which characters to include? 00:24:42 - Is there anything that absolutely needed to be there for character options? 00:26:08 - What does the process of character creation tell us about playing the game? 00:30:11 - What is one of the biggest flaws of character creation in this game? 00:37:07 - Fanfiction! 00:42:48 - Take it up a level! 00:47:09 - Episode Closer 00:51:10 - Show Blurbs (The Broadswords) Transcripts https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/series-243-visigoths-vs-mall-goths-with-lucian-kahn-designer-discussion/transcript Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Music from https://filmmusic.io "Gothamlicious" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Clip 2: Music from https://filmmusic.io "Eighties Action" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the second episode of our Visigoths vs Mall Goths series, a game where you play time displaced Visigoths in a 90’s mall where, naturally, you are enemies with the mall goths that inhabit said mall. We welcome back a special guest to create characters with us, Lucian Kahn, designer of Visigoths vs Mall Goths, and much more! Announcements: Descent into Midnight Kickstarter Watch: https://dimrpg.io/ks A Horror Borealis/The Cryptid Keeper Year of the Moth Patreon Drive: https://patreon.com/TheCryptidKeeper Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Lucian Kahn @oh_theogony Twitter: https://twitter.com/oh_theogony Website: https://necromancy.itch.io Dead Friend: A Game of Necromancy https://necromancy.itch.io/dead-friend-a-game-of-necromancy Grandma’s Drinking Song - Doikayt: A Jewish RPG Anthology https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/5527230/doikayt-a-jewish-ttrpg-anthology Honey and Hot Wax - Pelgrane Press https://necromancy.itch.io/best-of-lucian-kahn Games discussed this episode: Visigoths vs Mall Goths Backer-Kit Pre Order: https://goths.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:02:30 - Recap 00:02:56 - Names 00:06:12 - Skills and Bonuses 00:07:43 - Choose a goth style 00:10:52 - Religion 00:15:29 - Embarrassing Traits 00:21:47 - Relationships 00:27:55 - Finalized Characters 00:29:35 - Episode Closer 00:32:42 - Show Blurbs (System Mastery) Transcripts https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/series-242-visigoths-vs-mall-goths-with-lucian-kahn-designer-creation-continued/transcript Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Music from https://filmmusic.io "Gothamlicious" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Clip 2: Music from https://filmmusic.io "Eighties Action" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Itch.io: https://lordneptune.itch.io Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the first episode of our Visigoths vs Mall Goths series, a game where you play time displaced Visigoths in a 90’s mall where, naturally, you are enemies with the mall goths that inhabit said mall. We welcome a special guest to cover this game with us, Lucian Kahn, designer of Visigoths vs Mall Goths, and much more, and we had a blast recording this series with him! Announcements: Descent into Midnight Kickstarter Watch: https://dimrpg.io/ks A Horror Borealis/The Cryptid Keeper Year of the Moth Patreon Drive: https://patreon.com/TheCryptidKeeper Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Lucian Kahn @oh_theogony Twitter: https://twitter.com/oh_theogony Website: https://necromancy.itch.io Dead Friend: A Game of Necromancy https://necromancy.itch.io/dead-friend-a-game-of-necromancy Grandma’s Drinking Song - Doikayt: A Jewish RPG Anthology https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/5527230/doikayt-a-jewish-ttrpg-anthology Honey and Hot Wax - Pelgrane Press https://necromancy.itch.io/best-of-lucian-kahn Games discussed this episode: Visigoths vs Mall Goths Backer-Kit Pre Order: https://goths.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:02:39 - Introductions 00:09:10 - What’s in a game? 00:13:00 - What materials do we need to play? 00:14:37 - What stories and themes is this game meant to explore? 00:18:18 - What do characters do in this game? 00:24:18 - History of the game. 00:29:29 - Basic Terms 00:29:49 - Let’s make some people! 00:31:09 - Picking our playbooks 00:32:11 - Episode Closer 00:34:06 - Show Blurbs (NeoScum) Transcripts https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/series-241-visigoths-vs-mall-goths-with-lucian-kahn-designer-creation/transcript Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Music from https://filmmusic.io "Gothamlicious" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Clip 2: Music from https://filmmusic.io "Eighties Action" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Itch.io: https://lordneptune.itch.io Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a follow up to episode 5, we revisit the concepts from actual play podcasts that you can bring to your home table. Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Kristine Chester https://twitter.com/12thknight Marshall Sims https://twitter.com/MrMalicious1 PROJECTS Omen’s Call https://www.omenscall.com/ https://twitter.com/omenscallpod Glass Dagger https://twitter.com/theglassdagger https://completeknight.com Heroes of Hydian Way https://twitter.com/thehydianway https://thehydianway.com/ Sounds like Crowes http://www.soundslikecrowes.com/ https://twitter.com/soundsofcrowes SHOWS MENTIONED Critical Role https://critrole.com/ Clear Skies https://twitter.com/shieldoftmrw The Magpies https://magpiespodcast.net/ Force Majeure https://forcemajeurepod.com/ Court of Swords https://www.youtube.com/user/itmeJP HyperRPG https://www.twitch.tv/hyperrpg Transcripts https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/character-evolution-cast-e17-ap-at-home-part-ii-with-kristine-chester-and-marshall-sims/transcript Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1:Tyrfing by Danheim (https://danheimmusic.com/) - Theme for Omen’s Call Clip 2: Theme from Sounds Like Crowes by Rudy Zuniga (https://www.facebook.com/rudy.zuniga.3576) (https://www.youtube.com/user/Anthropomancist) Main Theme: Endless Motion (https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/endless-motion-edm-electro) by Ben Sound (https://www.bensound.com/) Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Itch.io: https://lordneptune.itch.io/ Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the final episode of our Lancer series, Tom joins us as we learn a little bit about our team, talk about the difficulty of managing a lot of options for customization and learn more about Lancer itself. Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Tom Parkinson Morgan @Orbitaldropkick Twitter: https://twitter.com/Orbitaldropkick Website: https://killsixbilliondemons.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/killsixbilliondemons Miguel Lopez @The_One_Lopez Twitter: https://twitter.com/The_One_Lopez Massif Press @LancerRPG Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lancer_RPG Website: https://massif-press.itch.io Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:04:20 - Intro 00:04:57 - Tom’s Character 00:06:16 - Ryan’s Character 00:07:39 - Amelia’s Character 00:08:38 - D20 For Your Thoughts 00:08:55 - Tom’s intro to RPGs 00:12:18 - Personal character creation process 00:17:55 - Character creation in this system 00:27:05 - How did you decide to make character creation more open-ended here? 00:30:42 - What does character creation tell us about the game? 00:32:37 - Flaws of character creation 00:36:12 - What are you proudest of? 00:36:51 - Specifics of the game 00:39:32 - Fanfic! 00:47:22 - How would our group do? 00:48:39 - Take it up a level 00:48:48 - How do characters change? 00:50:10 - How does leveling up work? 01:01:11 -How do you gain levels? 01:05:32 - Plugs 01:06:58 - Closer 01:08:31 - Show Blurbs: Design Doc 01:09:06 - Outtakes Transcripts https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/series-233-lancer-with-tom-parkinson-morgan-and-miguel-lopez-designers-discussion/transcript Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Music from https://filmmusic.io "Strength Of The Titans" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Clip 2: Music from https://filmmusic.io "Crossing the Chasm" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Games discussed this episode: Lancer Itch.io: https://massif-press.itch.io/corebook-pdf Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Itch.io: https://lordneptune.itch.io Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the second episode of series 23, we’ll be finishing up our opening discussion about Lancer, a tactics based mech combat RPG by Massif Press, with designers Tom Parkinson Morgan and Miguel Lopez! This episode we’ll be creating some amazing characters with Tom and figuring out what sorts of mechs these characters would like to grow in to. Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Tom Parkinson Morgan @Orbitaldropkick Twitter: https://twitter.com/Orbitaldropkick Website: https://killsixbilliondemons.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/killsixbilliondemons Miguel Lopez @The_One_Lopez Twitter: https://twitter.com/The_One_Lopez Massif Press @LancerRPG Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lancer_RPG Website: https://massif-press.itch.io Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:03:48 - Terms 00:04:17 - License Levels 00:06:45 - Triggers 00:09:37 - Backgrounds 00:10:14 - Core Mechanics 00:12:29 - Let’s make some people! 00:13:57 - Making our pilots 00:15:26 - Picking our backgrounds 00:17:09 - Triggers 00:29:43 - Talents 00:37:33 - Creating our mechs 00:50:34 - Picking our pilot gear 01:02:35 - Episode Closer 01:05:49 - Show Blurbs (Backstory) Transcripts https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/series-232-lancer-with-tom-parkinson-morgan-and-miguel-lopez-designers-creation-continued/transcript Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Music from https://filmmusic.io "Strength Of The Titans" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Clip 2: Music from https://filmmusic.io "Crossing the Chasm" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Games discussed this episode: Lancer Itch.io: https://massif-press.itch.io/corebook-pdf Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Itch.io: https://lordneptune.itch.io Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the first episode of 2020 and the first episode of series 23! This series we’ll be covering Lancer, a tactics based mech combat RPG by Massif Press, with designers Tom Parkinson Morgan and Miguel Lopez! This episode we’ll be diving into what the game is about as well as a peek behind the curtain at game design as a whole. Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Tom Parkinson Morgan @Orbitaldropkick Twitter: https://twitter.com/Orbitaldropkick Website: https://killsixbilliondemons.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/killsixbilliondemons Miguel Lopez @The_One_Lopez Twitter: https://twitter.com/The_One_Lopez Massif Press @LancerRPG Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lancer_RPG Website: https://massif-press.itch.io Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:02:43 - Introductions 00:05:49 - What’s in a game? 00:14:30 - What sort of stories and themes does this game explore? 00:31:36 - The history of Lancer - Where did the idea come from? 00:37:12 - How do you maintain momentum? 00:49:19 - Episode Closer 00:51:14 - Show Blurbs (Asians Represent) Transcripts https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/series-231-lancer-with-tom-parkinson-morgan-and-miguel-lopez-designers-creation/transcript Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Music from https://filmmusic.io "Strength Of The Titans" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Clip 2: Music from https://filmmusic.io "Crossing the Chasm" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Games discussed this episode: Lancer Itch.io: https://massif-press.itch.io/corebook-pdf Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Itch.io: https://lordneptune.itch.io Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a special episode of Character Creation ReCast where we spend an extended cold open reminiscing on 2019 and looking forward to 2020. After that, we dive into a bonus ReCast episode where we discuss what makes a good session zero and what sorts of things you need to keep in mind as both a player and a GM to help enhance the experience! We even have our own Session Zero worksheet in the show notes for you to follow along with! Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Announcements: Play/Test Guest Appearance by Amelia and Ryan: https://playtest.pub/2019/08/05/hsh-athenapus-character-creation/ Garbage of the Five Rings Podcast: http://garbageofthefiverings.com/ Chimera RPG Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG Ryan’s Itch.io Page: https://lordneptune.itch.io A Horror Borealis: https://a-horror-borealis.simplecast.com/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:24:39 - Intro 00:25:20 - Ryan’s favorite part of session zero 00:26:45 - Amelia’s favorite part of session zero 00:27:36 - What is a session zero? 00:29:20 - How does it feel different when you create characters together? 00:32:17 - Building relationships between characters 00:34:03 - Never go adventuring with strangers 00:34:57 - The elevator pitch 00:35:44 - Your inner power gamer 00:36:30 - Say what you want 00:38:05 - Your RPG first date 00:40:00 - Why you should have a session zero 00:41:06 - Safety and saying what you do(n’t) want 00:27:27 - Establishing characters and relationships 00:59:59 - A half-hearted apology to Caleb 01:00:47 - Setting expectations 01:05:05 - Our session zero guide 01:09:30 - Meta game discussions 01:11:54 - GM expectations of players 01:26:18 - Player expectations of GMs 01:29:56 - Safety guide 01:32:54 - You don’t have to explain 01:35:16 - NO MEANS NO (the X Card) 01:39:07 - Soft no and checking in 01:48:04 - Out of game logistics 01:52:09 - Creating characters (or GO LISTEN TO OUR SHOW) 01:55:08 - Let us tell people why session zero is great! 01:58:53 - Closer 02:00:11 - Show Blurb - A Horror Borealis Transcripts https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/new-years-2019-special-recast-character-evolution-cast-e06-session-zero/transcript Music: Opening 1: Music from https://filmmusic.io "Relaxing Piano Music" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Opening 2: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Short Mission (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tagirijus/Hard_2018/manuel_senfft_-_short_mission_1889) By Tagirijus (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tagirijus/) Clip 2: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Main Theme: Endless Motion (https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/endless-motion-edm-electro) by Ben Sound (https://www.bensound.com/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this final ReCast episode, we delve into the Character Evolution Cast backlog to pull out our interview with Jim McClure, host of the Talking Tabletop podcast, designer of Reflections and Satanic Panic and owner of Third Act Publishing to learn about how the theory of the 8 kinds of fun can help players hone in on their interests and communicate with their GMs for the best play experience. Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Guest: Jim McClure Twitter: @GMJimMcClure (https://www.twitter.com/GMJimMclure) One Shot Network Twitter: @OneShotNetwork (https://twitter.com/OneShotNetwork) One Shot Network Website: One Shot Website (http://oneshotpodcast.com/) Third Act Publishing: Third Act Publishing Website (https://thirdact.pub) Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:03:26 - Introductions 00:05:58 - The highest art form known to mankind 00:07:06 - Jim’s most satisfying project so far 00:10:24 - Jim’s favorite part of creating 00:12:16 - Did you think we weren’t going to talk about L5R??? 00:18:09 - Jim’s types of fun 00:19:16 - What is “The 8 Kinds of Fun?” 00:23:35 - How can players use this theory to further their own experience? 00:25:31 - “My D&D looks nothing like yours” 00:28:18 - What if your game isn’t engaging your kind of fun? 00:30:54 - A description of each type of fun 00:31:31 - 1 Sensation 00:33:39 - 2 Fantasy 00:35:36 - 3 Narrative 00:42:21 - 4 Challenge 00:45:36 - It’s okay if that type isn’t your favorite! 00:48:05 - 5 Fellowship 00:50:28 - 6 Expression 00:52:28 - 7 Discovery 00:53:58 - Mountain Tuna!!! 00:56:26 - 8 Submission 01:02:57 - Ryan and Amelia speculate about their types of fun 01:06:45 - Player Examples 01:08:39 - Amelia can’t understand playing nice 01:12:33 - Ryan can’t understand why you wouldn’t 01:14:28 - How having these terms can change the conversation 01:16:29 - How to know what your type of fun is 01:18:47 - The 8 kinds of fun in character creation 01:21:57 - HAVE A SESSION ZERO 01:23:24 - Do RPGs do certain kinds of fun better? 01:25:11 - How can players bring in additional types? 01:30:49 - A little more advice... 01:34:33 - Amelia tells Jim what’s what 01:35:35 - Plugs 01:39:15 - Show Closer 01:40:22 - Network Plug: Design Doc Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Short Mission (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tagirijus/Hard_2018/manuel_senfft_-_short_mission_1889) By Tagirijus (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tagirijus/) Clip 2: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Main Theme: Endless Motion (https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/endless-motion-edm-electro) by Ben Sound (https://www.bensound.com/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this special Character Creation ReCast episode, we’re going all the way back to the beginning! This episode was originally released with the launch of our podcast back in April, 2018, and our guests were the GMs from Protean City Comics where we learned about MASKS: A New Generation and learned a lot about PbtA and how important it is to be able to see yourself in a game. Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests: Brandon Leon-Gambetta: @DrCaptainKobold Protean City Comics: Twitter: @ProteanCity Website: http://www.proteancity.com/ Stop, Hack and Roll: Twitter: @StopHackandRoll Website: https://www.stophackandroll.com/ Pasión de las Pasiones James Malloy: @AndTheMeltdowns Protean City Comics: Twitter: @ProteanCity Website: http://www.proteancity.com/ Stop, Hack and Roll: Twitter: @StopHackandRoll Website: https://www.stophackandroll.com/ Two Weeks: A Microgame Collection https://www.rpgnow.com/product/201480/Two-Weeks-A-Microgame-Collection Elsbeth Denman: @TheCatOnTheWall Protean City Comics: Twitter: @ProteanCity Website: http://www.proteancity.com/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:02:37 - Introductions 00:09:50 - D20 For Your Thoughts? 00:10:01 - How do you approach character creation? 00:21:56 - How does MASKS compare to other systems for character creation? 00:30:52 - How does this process set up expectations of play? 00:47:01 - How do the mechanics of the game lead to character immersion? 00:57:05 - What sort of tone will our game have with this group? 01:08:17 - Take It Up A Level! 01:22:08 - Episode Closer 01:26:46 - Outtakes Transcripts https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/recast-series-23-masks-with-brandon-james-and-elsbeth-protean-city-comics-discussion/transcript Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Action Epic by Komiku Clip 2: Stop, Hack and Roll opening theme Clip 3: Night Owl by Broke For Free Clip 4: Protean City Comics opening theme Main Theme: Hero (Remix) by Steve Combs Games discussed this episode: MASKS: A New Generation by Magpie Games PDF: MASKS: A New Generation on DriveThruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/193258/Masks-A-New-Generation Character Inspired Dice Sets: Ryan Chessex Gemini Black and Blue w/Gold: https://amzn.to/2GjkTA5 Swirling vortex of blue and black as a reminder of space, gold like her eyes Amelia Chessex Scarab Scarlet w/Gold: https://amzn.to/2E4nA6W A representation of the fire burning inside her Brandon Chessex Gemini Purple and Teal w/Gold: https://amzn.to/2utft4j Bright colors to match the flashy costume, and a mix of teal and purple to represent the male and female sides James Chessex Opaque Red w/White: https://amzn.to/2IejWcS Cool and classic, just like a Ford Mustang Elsbeth Chessex Frosted clear w/Black: https://amzn.to/2E3dN0X Clear to represent the negation of the power around her, but frosted to show that you don’t know everything about her Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For this special Character Creation ReCast episode, we’re highlighting the third part of our small games series, where Amelia and Ryan were joined by Chris Foster of the Play/Test podcast to talk about InSpectres, a game about a ghost hunting start up. This episode stands well on its own, too, with creation and discussion fit into a single episode! Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests: Chris Foster @Eyolo Twitter: https://twitter.com/Eyolo Itch.io: https://playtest.itch.io/ Play/Test Podcast @playtestpod Twitter: https://twitter.com/playtestpod Website: https://playtest.pub/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:03:07 - Introductions 00:06:20 - What’s in a game? 00:09:48 - Let’s make some people! 00:11:46 - Naming the characters 00:13:31 - John Longfellow 00:14:12 - Ainsley Wright 00:14:54 - Jackie Smith 00:15:23 - Assigning skill dice 00:18:20 - Picking a talent 00:21:52 - Let’s make a franchise! 00:22:23 - How big is the franchise? 00:24:23 - Main office or start-up? 00:25:03 - Where are you located? 00:26:39 - Who runs the show? 00:25:55 - Who funds this? 00:27:03 - Amenities 00:29:43 - Gear 00:36:49 - Transportation 00:39:29 - Specialty 00:46:00 - Franchise dice 00:48:41 - D20 for your thoughts 00:52:44 - Are characters fleshed out? 00:56:21 - Flaws? 00:57:45 - What does character creation tell us about the game? 00:58:30 - Fan Fic Time! 01:02:31 - Plugs 01:03:28 - Episode Closer 01:04:54 - Show Blurbs 01:05:43 - Outtakes Transcripts https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/recast-series-193-inspectres-with-chris-foster/transcript Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Play/Test podcast theme song (https://playtest.pub) by Matt Lee (https://twitter.com/NiceWizardMusic) Clip 2: "Epic Unease" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) from https://filmmusic.io License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Games discussed this episode: InSpectres Memento Mori Theatrics: http://www.memento-mori.com/rpg/inspectres Drive Thru RPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17891/InSpectres Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Itch.io: https://lordneptune.itch.io Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to a special Character Creation ReCast episode! December is a busy month for Amelia and Ryan, so join us on a remastered version of the discussion episode of Star Crossed, one of the four most impactful episodes that we’ve hand-picked to ReCast throughout December. If you enjoy this episode, check out the whole series back at the beginning of our feed! Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests: Alex Roberts: @muscularpikachu Backstory Podcast @backstorycast Bully Pulpit Games www.bullypulpitgames.com Dialect by Thorny Games www.thornygames.com/dialect-rpg/ Threadbear by Stephanie Bryant www.drivethrurpg.com/product/215255/Threadbare-RPG Sig: The City Between by Genesis of Legend www.genesisoflegend.com/products/sig/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:03:45 - Reintroductions 00:07:24 - D20 for your thoughts? 00:07:46 - How did Alex get into RPGs? 00:12:10 - Alex’s personal character creation process 00:14:45 - How does Star Crossed compare to other systems for character creation? 00:22:30 - What did Alex need to have in this game for character creation? 00:26:36 - How does the process lead to immersion? 00:30:58 - How do we think our scenarios for our couples would play out? 00:38:22 - How does this game handle character development? 00:41:56 - Take it up a level! 00:42:16 - Intensity and the concept of bleed 00:48:22 - Decompressing during and after an intense game 00:51:40 - What sorts of things can be learned from this game? 01:01:32 - What did Alex learn from making this game? 01:04:06 - Alex’s advice to get the most from Star Crossed 01:05:31 - Why should people give this game a try? 01:08:57 - Episode Closer 01:12:52 - Outtakes Transcripts https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/recast-series-33-star-crossed-with-alex-roberts-discussion/transcript Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Autumn Day by Kevin MacLeod Clip 2: Backstory podcast opening theme Clip 3: Sovereign Quarter by Kevin MacLeod Clip 4: Delicate Frost by Winter Solstice used in the Star Crossed Kickstarter video created by @banana_chan_vid (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Character Inspired Mix Tapes: Amelia and Ryan’s Couple Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/verovladamir/playlist/7nguieqg9s4h9CqQMNifHp?si=aFX7r4HdTpaLO80McU5kbQ YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIQvSCMCGGkKn12lcNm8I3thhTK2MFvPt Ryan and Alex’s Couple Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/verovladamir/playlist/1fiectTQbuKO4d1gXOhiFd?si=WarEhAgHRUymPn4Cad94AQ YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIQvSCMCGGkLN3LhyGuLoBP9bMyNgJCNi Alex and Amelia’s Couple Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/verovladamir/playlist/5GLObBcZZxfRMjAoH8Tg3n?si=tWr0fDgPRpytAK3yVTfP-A YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIQvSCMCGGkIb1bw9OiDjDpX9ty-l8b7t Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As we get prepped for the holiday season, this special episode takes us to our 2019 Panel at AcadeCon where Amelia and Ryan worked with the audience to create some truly memorable characters. Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:04:28 - Intro 01:20:58 - Closer 01:22:26 - Show blurbs: Asians Represent 01:23:07 - Outtakes Transcripts https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/acadecon-2019-panel-random-characters/transcript Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Music from https://filmmusic.io "The Descent" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Clip 2: Music from https://filmmusic.io "Welcome to the Show" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Our Characters: Drawings by Bex Moss: https://twitter.com/lordneptune/status/1193797740972691456?s=19 Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Itch.io: https://lordneptune.itch.io Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the final part of our Questlandia 2 series, we discuss the process of worldbuilding, talk about designing a game made for campaigns, and chat about how our lives influence our art in our discussion episode with Hannah Shaffer and Evan Rowland, designers of the game and hosts of the Design Doc podcast, also part of the One Shot Podcast Network! Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit Twitter: https://twitter.com/hanbandit Patreon: https://patreon.com/hanbandit Evan Rowland @adrawnnovel Twitter: https://twitter.com/adrawnnovel Website: http://smallflygames.com/ Make Big Things @makebigthings Twitter: https://twitter.com/makebigthings Website: http://makebigthings.com/ Design Doc @designdocpod Twitter: https://twitter.com/designdocpod Website: http://oneshotpodcast.com/interview-discussion/design-doc/ Timestamps: 00:00:21 - Intro 00:00:46 - Hannah’s Character 00:01:30 - Evan’s Character 00:02:18 - Amelia’s Character 00:02:51 - Ryan’s Character 00:03:42 - D20 for your thoughts 00:04:05 - Evan’s start in games 00:05:11 - Hannah’s start in games 00:08:02 - What do you like about collaborative worldbuilding? 00:11:49 - Why make a GMless game? 00:13:31 - Why is randomness still important? 00:16:31 - What does character creation tell us about the game? 00:19:44 - Why do we know so little about our ghosts? 00:26:39 - What are the flaws and what are you proudest of? 00:29:07 - Figuring out how to pitch the game 00:29:57 - The character sheet 00:33:49 - Changes from Questlandia 1 to Questlandia 2 00:36:15 - How real life influences design 00:40:41 - FAN FIC! 00:49:48 - Take it up a level 00:52:10 - How does advancement work? 00:56:08 - Making a campaign vs. a one shot 01:01:42 - Plugs! 01:04:13 - Closer 01:04:40 - Show blurbs: Arms of the Tide 01:06:33 - Outtakes Transcripts https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/series-223-questlandia-2-with-hannah-shaffer-and-evan-rowland-designers-discussion/transcript Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Music from https://filmmusic.io "With a Creation" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Clip 2: Design Doc Intro/outro theme by Pat King (https://www.woodpenny.com) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Games discussed this episode: Questlandia Webpage: http://makebigthings.com/questlandia-rpg/ Questlandia 2 Itch.io: https://makebigthings.itch.io/questlandia-2 at https://makebigthings.itch.io/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the second episode of series 22, everyone! This episode we actually play a little bit of Questlandia 2 and create a world with Hannah Shaffer and Evan Rowland, designers of the game and hosts of the Design Doc podcast, also part of the One Shot Podcast Network! Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit Twitter: https://twitter.com/hanbandit Patreon: https://patreon.com/hanbandit Evan Rowland @adrawnnovel Twitter: https://twitter.com/adrawnnovel Website: http://smallflygames.com/ Make Big Things @makebigthings Twitter: https://twitter.com/makebigthings Website: http://makebigthings.com/ Design Doc @designdocpod Twitter: https://twitter.com/designdocpod Website: http://oneshotpodcast.com/interview-discussion/design-doc/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:01:10 - Recap 00:02:09 - Let’s make a place 00:03:40 - The moon phase 00:05:13 - Introduce an element - NPC 00:10:58 - Introducing a location 00:13:25 - Introducing an aspect of the setting 00:23:11 - Rolling for a trouble 00:43:19 - Phase changes 00:50:18 - Episode Closer 00:54:06 - Show Blurbs (All My Fantasy Children) Transcripts https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/series-222-questlandia-2-with-hannah-shaffer-and-evan-rowland-designers-creation-continued/transcript Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Music from https://filmmusic.io "With a Creation" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Clip 2: Design Doc Intro/outro theme by Pat King (https://www.woodpenny.com) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Games discussed this episode: Questlandia Webpage: http://makebigthings.com/questlandia-rpg/ Questlandia 2 Itch.io: https://makebigthings.itch.io/questlandia-2 at https://makebigthings.itch.io/ Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Itch.io: https://lordneptune.itch.io Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the first episode of series 22, everyone! This episode we cover character creation for Questlandia 2, get into some great discussion about game design and collaboration, and stumble into a really flattering design decision with Hannah Shaffer and Evan Rowland, designers of the game and hosts of the Design Doc podcast, also part of the One Shot Podcast Network! Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit Twitter: https://twitter.com/hanbandit Patreon: https://patreon.com/hanbandit Evan Rowland @adrawnnovel Twitter: https://twitter.com/adrawnnovel Website: http://smallflygames.com/ Make Big Things @makebigthings Twitter: https://twitter.com/makebigthings Website: http://makebigthings.com/ Design Doc @designdocpod Twitter: https://twitter.com/designdocpod Website: http://oneshotpodcast.com/interview-discussion/design-doc/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:02:38 - Introductions 00:05:00 - What’s in a game? 00:07:37 - What do we need to play this game? 00:10:44 - Is there a reason to go with custom materials? 00:15:38 - What sort of stories and themes does this game explore? 00:22:44 - The history of Questlandia 00:28:07 - How is it collaborating vs not? 00:33:31 - Playtesting 00:40:53 - Terms and Concepts 00:43:16 - Let’s make some people! 00:56:41 - Our Choices 01:00:02 - Episode Closer 01:01:57 - Show Blurbs (Session Zero) Transcripts https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/series-221-questlandia-2-with-hannah-shaffer-and-evan-rowland-designers-creation/transcript Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Music from https://filmmusic.io "With a Creation" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Clip 2: Design Doc Intro/outro theme by Pat King (https://www.woodpenny.com) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Games discussed this episode: Questlandia Webpage: http://makebigthings.com/questlandia-rpg/ Questlandia 2 Itch.io: Coming Soon at https://makebigthings.itch.io/ Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Itch.io: https://lordneptune.itch.io Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Character Evolution Cast, we welcome Christine Prevas of the Unexplored Places podcast to discuss bringing spookiness to your game! Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Christine Prevas @cprevas Twitter: https://twitter.com/cprevas Itch.io: https://cprevas.itch.io/ Unexplored Places @unexploredcast Website: http://unexploredcast.libsyn.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/unexploredcast Transcripts: https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/character-evolution-cast-e16-playing-in-spooky-games-with-christine-prevas-unexplored-places-podcast/transcript Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Music from https://filmmusic.io "The House of Leaves" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Clip 2: Music from https://filmmusic.io "Day of Chaos" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Main Theme: Endless Motion (https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/endless-motion-edm-electro) by Ben Sound (https://www.bensound.com/) Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Itch.io: https://lordneptune.itch.io/ Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the final episode of series 21, everyone! Today we welcome back Daniel Kwan and Patrick Keenan from Dundas West Games to discuss the character creation process for their new game, Ross Rifles, a World War 1, Powered by the Apocalypse RPG, kickstarting right now! Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Daniel Kwan @danielhkwan Twitter: https://twitter.com/danielhkwan Level Up Gaming: https://www.levelupgaming.ca/ Patrick Keenan @Keenan_Patrick Twitter: https://twitter.com/Keenan_Patrick Dundas West Games @dundaswestgames Twitter: https://twitter.com/dundaswestgames Website: https://www.dundaswestgames.com/ Asians Represent @aznsrepresent Twitter: https://twitter.com/aznsrepresent Website: http://oneshotpodcast.com/interview-discussion/asians-represent/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:01:17 - Intro 00:04:21 - D20 For Your Thoughts 00:04:30 -How Daniel got started 00:06:17 - How Patrick got started 00:07:11 -Personal process for creating characters 00:08:34 - How does this stack up against other PbtA games? 00:12:34 - How did you decide what character types to include? 00:14:06 - Specific character options 00:17:21 - What does character creation teach us about the game? 00:18:24 -What is a flaw and what are you proud of? 00:24:36 - How did you change the system to tell different stories? 00:28:56 - FANFIC (Antonio time!) 00:34:25 - Take it up a level 00:34:32 - How do characters change as people? 00:37:42 - How do you level up? 00:41:26 - Safety Tools 00:43:00 - Patrick’s Plugs 00:43:17 - Daniel’s Plugs 00:44:15 - Episode Closer 00:45:43 - Show Blurbs (Adventure) 00:46:18 - Outtakes Transcripts https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/series-213-ross-rifles-with-daniel-kwan-and-patrick-keenan-designers-discussion/transcript Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: from https://filmmusic.io "Dark Times" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Clip 2: Good Vibes by DJ Quads https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Games discussed this episode: Ross Rifles Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dundaswestgames/ross-rifles Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the second episode of series 21, everyone! Today we welcome back Daniel Kwan and Patrick Keenan from Dundas West Games to finish creating characters for their new game, Ross Rifles, a World War 1, Powered by the Apocalypse RPG, kickstarting right now! Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Daniel Kwan @danielhkwan Twitter: https://twitter.com/danielhkwan Level Up Gaming: https://www.levelupgaming.ca/ Patrick Keenan @Keenan_Patrick Twitter: https://twitter.com/Keenan_Patrick Dundas West Games @dundaswestgames Twitter: https://twitter.com/dundaswestgames Website: https://www.dundaswestgames.com/ Asians Represent @aznsrepresent Twitter: https://twitter.com/aznsrepresent Website: http://oneshotpodcast.com/interview-discussion/asians-represent/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:02:29 - Recap 00:02:49 - Personal Items 00:07:11 - Assign attributes 00:08:00 - How long have we been stationed on the western front? 00:09:48 - Playbook Questions 00:13:27 - Attributes finalized 00:17:17 - The Playbook moves 00:21:53 - Introductions 00:30:10 - Bonds 00:42:09 - Episode Closer 00:45:09 - Show Blurbs (Campaign) Transcripts https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/series-212-ross-rifles-with-daniel-kwan-and-patrick-keenan-designers-creation-continued/transcript Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: from https://filmmusic.io "Dark Times" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Clip 2: Good Vibes by DJ Quads https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Games discussed this episode: Ross Rifles Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dundaswestgames/ross-rifles Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the first episode of series 21! Today we welcome Daniel Kwan and Patrick Keenan from Dundas West Games to talk about, and start creating characters for, their new game, Ross Rifles, kickstarting right now! Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Daniel Kwan @danielhkwan Twitter: https://twitter.com/danielhkwan Level Up Gaming: https://www.levelupgaming.ca/ Patrick Keenan @Keenan_Patrick Twitter: https://twitter.com/Keenan_Patrick Dundas West Games @dundaswestgames Twitter: https://twitter.com/dundaswestgames Website: https://www.dundaswestgames.com/ Asians Represent @aznsrepresent Twitter: https://twitter.com/aznsrepresent Website: http://oneshotpodcast.com/interview-discussion/asians-represent/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:02:40 - Introductions 00:05:28 - What’s in a game? 00:06:03 - What materials do we need for the game? 00:07:00 - What stories and themes does this game explore? 00:11:06 - What do characters do in Ross Rifles? 00:14:06 - What is unique about Ross Rifles? 00:15:59 - What feelings were the designers trying to evoke? 00:17:33 - Playtesting feedback 00:27:05 - Let’s make some people! 00:32:02 - Picking our playbooks 00:38:20 - Uniforms 00:39:39 - Using real war records for inspiration 00:44:39 - Episode Closer 00:46:34 - Show Blurbs (One Shot Podcast) Transcripts https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/series-211-ross-rifles-with-daniel-kwan-and-patrick-keenan-designers-creation/transcript Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: from https://filmmusic.io "Dark Times" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Clip 2: Good Vibes by DJ Quads https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Games discussed this episode: Ross Rifles Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dundaswestgames/ross-rifles Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Character Evolution Cast, we welcome Aly Grauer and Drew Mierzejewski from the Warda podcast to discuss the joys of building a world together, including some great tips on how to do it well on both sides of the table! Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Aly Grauer @dreamstobecome Twitter: https://twitter.com/dreamstobecome Website: http://www.dreamstobecome.com Instagram: https://instagrame.com/dreamstobecome Sidewalkia (200 Word RPG Winner): https://200wordrpg.github.io/2018/rpg/winner/2018/05/18/Sidewalkia.html Drew Mierzejewski @worldstoforge Twitter: https://twitter.come/wolrdstoforge Warda @WelcomeToWarda Website: https://welcometowarda.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/welcometowarda Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/WhimsyArtifice Podcast Feed: http://warda.simplecast.fm/ Transcripts: https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/character-evolution-cast-e15-collaborative-world-building-with-aly-grauer-and-drew-mierzejewski-warda-podcast/transcript Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: from https://filmmusic.io "Industrial Music Box" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Clip 2: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Main Theme: Endless Motion (https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/endless-motion-edm-electro) by Ben Sound (https://www.bensound.com/) Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to a bonus Spotlight episode where we interview Greg Leatherman to discuss his kickstarter for his new game, Glitter Hearts, a Powered by the Apocalypse game that emulates the magical girl types of genre! Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Greg Leatherman @WhiteWing Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhiteWing Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2053455918/glitter-hearts Very Random Encounters @VRECast Twitter: https://twitter.com/VRECast Website: http://vre.show/ It’s Super Effective @pokemonpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/pokemonpodcast Website: https://www.pkmncast.com/ Dungeons and Dragonites: https://www.pkmncast.com/dungeons-and-dragonites-s1 Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:03:07 - Introductions 00:05:25 - What’s in a game? 00:06:36 - Character Creation - Everyday Identity/Stats 00:10:10 - Archetype Moves 00:15:13 - Settings and what do characters do in this game? 00:18:54 - What materials do we need? 00:20:00 - Kickstarter highlights 00:27:25 - Closer 00:29:59 - Show Blurbs (Total Party Kill) Transcripts: https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/character-creation-spotlight-glitter-hearts-with-greg-leatherman/transcript Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: From https://filmmusic.io "Glitter Blast" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Games discussed this episode: Glitter Hearts Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2053455918/glitter-hearts Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to a bonus Spotlight episode where we interview Craig Campbell from Nerdburger Games to discuss his latest kickstarter, CAPERS Covert, a supplement for CAPERS that adds some great super spy action to the CAPERS system. Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Craig Campbell @NerdburgerCraig Twitter: https://twitter.com/NerdburgerCraig Website: https://www.nerdburgergames.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=17873318 Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:02:29 - Introductions 00:05:16 - What’s in a game? 00:08:36 - What sort of characters can you play in the base game? 00:12:48 - Steps of character Creation 00:18:59 - What does CAPERS Covert add? 00:23:43 - Kickstarter Information 00:26:11 - Anything else? 00:26:55 - Closer 00:29:48 - Show Blurbs (The Broadswords) Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: From https://filmmusic.io "Hitman" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Games discussed this episode: CAPERS Covert Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1582756696/capers-covert-rpg?ref=eo4qzz Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the final episode of series 20, and we welcome back Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor, designers of Heart, to talk about the character creation process, their hopes for the game, and the reasons behind the design choices they made. Amelia also gets to talk about jello and sand again. Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Grant Howitt @gshowitt Twitter: https://twitter.com/gshowitt Patreon: https://patreon.com/gshowitt Chris Taylor @TheMaddigan Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheMaddigan Rowan, Rook and Decard @RowanRookDecard Website: https://rowanrookanddecard.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/RowanRookDecard Hearty Dice Friends @HDFpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/HDFpodcast Website: https://rowanrookanddecard.com/hearty-dice-friends-podcast/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:05:19 - Introductions 00:06:31 - D20 For Your Thoughts 00:06:51 - Chris’s start in games 00:08:33 - How did you decide what kinds of characters to put in Heart? 00:18:37 - The Jello to Sand Continuum 00:24:35 - Specific character options 00:28:51 - Lessons learned from Spire 00:38:47 - What does the process of character creation tell us about the game? 00:46:57 - Potential flaws 00:51:34 - Points of pride 00:53:46 - Changes from Spire 01:00:40 - FAN FIC TIME 01:09:47 - Take It Up A Level 01:10:31 - How do characters change? 01:21:42 - Grant’s plugs 01:22:32 - Chris’s plugs 01:23:51 - Closer 01:25:21 - Show Blurbs (System Mastery) 01:26:11 - Outtakes Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Hearty Dice Friends (old) podcast theme song (https://rowanrookanddecard.com/hearty-dice-friends-podcast/) Clip 2: Hearty Dice Friends (current) podcast theme song (https://rowanrookanddecard.com/hearty-dice-friends-podcast/) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Games discussed this episode: Heart Kickstarter: September 17th! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gshowitt/heart-the-city-beneath Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the second episode of series 20, and we welcome back Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor, designers of the game we are creating characters for today, Heart! Things get a little weird, but not too horrible, as we figure out what sort of people live for adventure down in this mysterious and horrifying setting. Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Grant Howitt @gshowitt Twitter: https://twitter.com/gshowitt Patreon: https://patreon.com/gshowitt Chris Taylor @TheMaddigan Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheMaddigan Rowan, Rook and Decard Website: https://rowanrookanddecard.com Hearty Dice Friends @HDFpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/HDFpodcast Website: https://rowanrookanddecard.com/hearty-dice-friends-podcast/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:02:49 - Recap 00:03:07 - Callings and Classes selection 00:08:28 - Abilities 00:12:12 - Grant’s Abilities Selection 00:15:37 - Chris’s Beats and Abilities Selection 00:19:49 - Amelia’s Beats and Abilities Selection 00:23:05 - Ryan’s Beats and Abilities Selection 00:29:43 - Grant’s Beats Selection 00:31:18 - Naming our characters 00:39:26 - Episode Closer 00:40:31 - Kickstarter Details 00:46:05 - Show Blurbs Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Hearty Dice Friends (old) podcast theme song (https://rowanrookanddecard.com/hearty-dice-friends-podcast/) Clip 2: Hearty Dice Friends (current) podcast theme song (https://rowanrookanddecard.com/hearty-dice-friends-podcast/) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Games discussed this episode: Heart Kickstarter: September 17th! Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the first part of series 20, everyone! Today we have Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor on to discuss their latest game, Heart, which will be kickstarting soon! This game combines the setting and mechanics of Spire with some good old fashioned dungeon crawling, mixed with some truly horrifying implications, so hold onto your hats and get ready for a really interesting series! Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Grant Howitt @gshowitt Twitter: https://twitter.com/gshowitt Patreon: https://patreon.com/gshowitt Chris Taylor @TheMaddigan Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheMaddigan Rowan, Rook and Decard Website: https://rowanrookanddecard.com Hearty Dice Friends @HDFpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/HDFpodcast Website: https://rowanrookanddecard.com/hearty-dice-friends-podcast/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:02:25 - Introductions 00:05:23 - What’s in a game? 00:06:40 - What do we need to play this game? 00:08:06 - What sort of stories and themes is this game exploring? 00:11:53 - Where did the idea for Heart come from? 00:16:16 - How much was the Heart defined before you started on this game? 00:21:46 - Terms and Concepts 00:32:40 - Let’s make some people! 00:35:24 - Callings 00:36:14 - Classes 00:45:57 - Episode Closer 00:47:53 - Show Blurbs Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Hearty Dice Friends (old) podcast theme song (https://rowanrookanddecard.com/hearty-dice-friends-podcast/) Clip 2: Hearty Dice Friends (current) podcast theme song (https://rowanrookanddecard.com/hearty-dice-friends-podcast/) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Games discussed this episode: Heart Kickstarter: September 17th! Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s episode, Amelia and Ryan recap their experience at GenCon as well as reveal some details for our current contest! Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Main Theme: Endless Motion (https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/endless-motion-edm-electro) by Ben Sound (https://www.bensound.com/) Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the third part of our small games series, Amelia and Ryan are again joined by Chris Foster of the Play/Test podcast to talk about InSpectres, a game about a ghost hunting start up. Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Chris Foster @Eyolo Twitter: https://twitter.com/Eyolo Itch.io: https://playtest.itch.io/ Play/Test Podcast @playtestpod Twitter: https://twitter.com/playtestpod Website: https://playtest.pub/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:04:37 - Introductions 00:07:50 - What’s in a game? 00:11:18 - Let’s make some people! 00:13:16 - Naming the characters 00:15:01 - John Longfellow 00:15:42 - Ainsley Wright 00:16:24 - Jackie Smith 00:16:53 - Assigning skill dice 00:19:50 - Picking a talent 00:23:22 - Let’s make a franchise! 00:23:53 - How big is the franchise? 00:25:53 - Main office or start-up? 00:26:33 - Where are you located? 00:27:09 - Who runs the show? 00:27:25 - Who funds this? 00:28:33 - Amenities 00:31:13 - Gear 00:38:19 - Transportation 00:40:59 - Specialty 00:47:29 - Franchise dice 00:50:11 - D20 for your thoughts 00:54:14 - Are characters fleshed out? 00:57:51 - Flaws? 00:59:15 - What does character creation tell us about the game? 01:00:00 - Fan Fic Time! 01:04:01 - Plugs 01:04:58 - Episode Closer 01:06:24 - Show Blurbs 01:07:13 - Outtakes Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Play/Test podcast theme song (https://playtest.pub) by Matt Lee (https://twitter.com/NiceWizardMusic) Clip 2: "Epic Unease" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) from https://filmmusic.io License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Games discussed this episode: InSpectres Memento Mori Theatrics: http://www.memento-mori.com/rpg/inspectres Drive Thru RPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17891/InSpectres Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this special bonus episode, Amelia sits down with game designer Jason Morningstar of Bully Pulpit Games to talk about the new edition of Fiasco, a game about criminal plans gone terribly wrong. Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guest: Jason Morningstar Twitter: @jmstar (https://twitter.com/jmstar) Bully Pulpit Games Twitter: @bullypulpit_hq (https://twitter.com/bullypulpit_hq) Website: https://bullypulpitgames.com/ Fiasco Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bullypulpitgames/fiasco-the-cinematic-game-of-plans-gone-wrong Fiasco (2009) https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Fiasco-Print-PDF.html Music: Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s episode, we’re continuing our small games series with Chris Foster, covering character creation for One Last Job, created by former guest of the show, Grant Howitt. Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Chris Foster @Eyolo Twitter: https://twitter.com/Eyolo Itch.io: https://playtest.itch.io/ Play/Test Podcast @playtestpod Twitter: https://twitter.com/playtestpod Website: https://playtest.pub/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:01:46 - Introductions 00:04:13 - What’s in a game? 00:06:58 - What do you do in One Last Job? 00:08:08 - Collaborative nature of creating characters 00:10:14 - Terms and Concepts 00:12:53 - Let’s make some people! 00:16:35 - Thinking of a job together 00:18:36 - One terrible thing that went wrong last job 00:22:13 - Who is the boss? 00:23:17 - Starting to define someone else’s character 00:24:11 - Wait, we have to actually play this game?! 00:25:50 - What have you been up to and explain why you’d take the job. 00:27:35 - It’s not so simple, we’re going to need... 00:32:49 - Starting the game 00:33:31 - Establishing facts about the characters 00:47:40 - D20 for your thoughts? - How did it feel to not create our own characters? 00:54:41 - Does this process allow for a character that feels fleshed out? 00:59:33 - Does the character creation process give us an idea of how the game plays? 01:02:37 - Episode Closer 01:05:14 - Show Blurbs 01:05:55 - Outtakes Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Play/Test podcast theme song (https://playtest.pub) by Matt Lee (https://twitter.com/NiceWizardMusic) Clip 2: "Epic Unease" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) from https://filmmusic.io License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Games discussed this episode: One Last Job Itch.io: https://gshowitt.itch.io/one-last-job Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s episode, series 19 begins with our first small game, Love and Justice by Senda Linaugh, gets a full series crammed into one episode with guest Chris Foster from the Play/Test podcast! Welcome to the first of three small games we’ll be covering this series! Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Chris Foster @Eyolo Twitter: https://twitter.com/Eyolo Itch.io: https://playtest.itch.io/ Play/Test Podcast @playtestpod Twitter: https://twitter.com/playtestpod Website: https://playtest.pub/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:02:13 - Introductions 00:05:33 - What’s in a game? 00:13:50 - What do you do in Love and Justice? 00:18:08 - Lasers and Feelings 00:20:46 - What makes Love and Justice different? 00:22:54 - Terms and Concepts 00:23:14 - Let’s make some people! 00:25:56 - Naming the Group 00:26:58 - Group Power 00:27:49 - Character Creation 00:31:10 - Choosing your number 00:31:59 - Drawback 00:33:16 - Name your power 00:42:33 - Name your character 00:45:10 - Normal, everyday names 00:51:34 - D20 for your thoughts? 00:53:55 - Chris’s personal character creation process 00:58:09 - How do smaller games differ from bigger games? 01:01:04 - How does the process here streamline gameplay? 01:02:16 - Does this process allow for a more fleshed out character? 01:04:18 - What are the flaws? 01:06:18 - Does this process give us an idea of how to play? 01:11:44 - Episode Closer 01:15:35 - Show Blurbs 01:16:29 - Outtakes Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Play/Test podcast theme song (https://playtest.pub) by Matt Lee (https://twitter.com/NiceWizardMusic) Clip 2: "Epic Unease" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) from https://filmmusic.io License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Games discussed this episode: Love and Justice Itch.io: https://encodeddesigns.itch.io/love-justice Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week is a week off for us as we prepare for GenCon, but if you’d like a reminder of what our schedule is, look no further! Announcements: GenCon Twitter Thread https://twitter.com/CreationCast/status/1131181309504741377 Character Creation Cast Panel https://www.gencon.com/events/152269 Quiztem Mastery https://www.gencon.com/events/152272 Brewing Strife (Amelia’s L5R Game) https://www.gencon.com/events/152276 World Building through Character Creation https://www.gencon.com/events/152275 Chimera Games Friday, 9 AM: https://www.gencon.com/events/164873 Sunday, 9 AM: https://www.gencon.com/events/164878 Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today’s Character Evolution Cast episode, Amelia and Ryan Share their tips for making the most of your convention experience, from putting together your packing list to surviving con drop. Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us)! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:01:34 - Intro 00:03:54 - Getting ready to travel 00:08:26 - Making lists 00:13:05 - Germs 00:14:59 - Bills, pets, kids 00:18:46 - Social time 00:19:32 - Set aside time with friends 00:21:11 - Germs 2 00:21:50 - Respect boundaries 00:23:32 - Gaming at Cons 00:23:50 - Try new things 00:27:47 - Safety tools 00:31:28 - Listen to your needs 00:35:59 - EAT 00:38:59 - Don’t eat granola bars in the bathroom 00:39:21 - DRINK WATER 00:40:11 - GET SLEEP 00:41:44 - TAKE YOUR MEDS 00:45:47 - Con Drop 00:58:29 - Episode Closer 00:59:41 - Show Blurbs 01:00:33 - Outtakes Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Main Theme: Endless Motion (https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/endless-motion-edm-electro) by Ben Sound (https://www.bensound.com/) Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/charactercreationcast/ Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s episode, Series 18 wraps up with Descent into Midnight, a Powered by the Apocalypse game designed by Richard Kreutz-Landry, Taylor LaBresh and Rich Howard. We welcome back Richard and Taylor this episode and plunge into the deep end to discuss the character creation process and even delve into some fanfic with our own characters. Announcements: GenCon Twitter Thread https://twitter.com/CreationCast/status/1131181309504741377 Character Creation Cast Panel https://www.gencon.com/events/152269 Quiztem Mastery https://www.gencon.com/events/152272 Brewing Strife (Amelia’s L5R Game) https://www.gencon.com/events/152276 World Building through Character Creation https://www.gencon.com/events/152275 Chimera Games Still TBD Ennie Awards: Vote for Asians Represent and She’s a Super Geek under the Podcast category here: http://www.ennie-awards.com/vote/2019/ Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Richard Kreutz-Landry @rkreutzlandry Twitter: https://twitter.com/rkreutzlandry Website: http://origamigaming.com/ Taylor LaBresh @LeviathanFiles Twitter: https://twitter.com/LeviathanFiles Website: https://riverhousegames.com/ Itch.io: https://riverhousegames.itch.io/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:04:04 - Intro 00:04:29 - Richard’s Character 00:07:39 - Taylor’s Character 00:08:55 - Amelia’s Character 00:10:57 - Ryan’s Character 00:13:12 - Community 00:46:32 - d20 for your thoughts 01:03:22 - How does it stack up? 01:31:20 - Take it up a level 01:39:29 - Taylor’s Plugs 01:40:41 - Richard’s Plugs 01:42:09 - Episode Closer 01:43:34 - Show Blurbs 01:44:11 - Outtakes Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Ocean Ending (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Soft_and_Furious/Best_Of__Pick_Your_Player/Soft_and_Furious_-Best_Of-Pick_Your_Player-_01_Ocean_Ending) by Soft and Furious (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Soft_and_Furious/) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Games discussed this episode: Descent Into Midnight Twitter: https://twitter.com/DiMRPG Website: https://descentintomidnight.com Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s episode, Series 18 continues with the final portion of our character creation for Descent into Midnight, a Powered by the Apocalypse game designed by Richard Kreutz-Landry, Taylor LaBresh and Rich Howard. We welcome back Richard and Taylor this episode and really dive into the abstract with our characters. Announcements: GenCon Twitter Thread https://twitter.com/CreationCast/status/1131181309504741377 Character Creation Cast Panel https://www.gencon.com/events/152269 Quiztem Mastery https://www.gencon.com/events/152272 Brewing Strife (Amelia’s L5R Game) https://www.gencon.com/events/152276 World Building through Character Creation https://www.gencon.com/events/152275 Chimera Games Still TBD Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Richard Kreutz-Landry @rkreutzlandry Twitter: https://twitter.com/rkreutzlandry Website: http://origamigaming.com/ Taylor LaBresh @LeviathanFiles Twitter: https://twitter.com/LeviathanFiles Website: https://riverhousegames.com/ Itch.io: https://riverhousegames.itch.io/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:04:32 - Recap 00:04:55 - Gifts, Attitude and Home 00:13:03 - Stats and Moves 00:29:51 - Team Moves 00:32:17 - Names 00:38:08 - Links 00:51:04 - Episode Closer 00:54:51 - Show Blurbs Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Ocean Ending (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Soft_and_Furious/Best_Of__Pick_Your_Player/Soft_and_Furious_-Best_Of-Pick_Your_Player-_01_Ocean_Ending) by Soft and Furious (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Soft_and_Furious/) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Games discussed this episode: Descent Into Midnight Twitter: https://twitter.com/DiMRPG Website: https://descentintomidnight.com Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s episode, we start to tackle character creation for a game that has been on our list from the beginning of this podcast: Descent into Midnight! Series 18 begins here with Richard Kreutz-Landry and Taylor LaBresh, co-designers for this very game! Announcements: GenCon Twitter Thread https://twitter.com/CreationCast/status/1131181309504741377 Character Creation Cast Panel https://www.gencon.com/events/152269 Quiztem Mastery https://www.gencon.com/events/152272 Brewing Strife (Amelia’s L5R Game) https://www.gencon.com/events/152276 World Building through Character Creation https://www.gencon.com/events/152275 Chimera Games Still TBD Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Richard Kreutz-Landry @rkreutzlandry Twitter: https://twitter.com/rkreutzlandry Website: http://origamigaming.com/ Taylor LaBresh @LeviathanFiles Twitter: https://twitter.com/LeviathanFiles Website: https://riverhousegames.com/ Itch.io: https://riverhousegames.itch.io/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:04:01 - Introductions 00:06:25 - What’s in a game? 00:10:14 - PbtA Mechanics Refresher 00:14:05 - What do you need to play this game? 00:16:56 - What does it feel like to have those 'Ah-ha!' moments? 00:22:11 - What's the difference between collaborating and solo designing? 00:44:20 - Basic terms and concepts 00:47:22 - Let’s make some people! 00:56:34 - Looks 01:04:43 - Episode Closer 01:06:38 - Show Blurbs Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Ocean Ending (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Soft_and_Furious/Best_Of__Pick_Your_Player/Soft_and_Furious_-Best_Of-Pick_Your_Player-_01_Ocean_Ending) by Soft and Furious (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Soft_and_Furious/) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Games discussed this episode: Descent Into Midnight Twitter: https://twitter.com/DiMRPG Website: https://descentintomidnight.com Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today’s Character Evolution Cast episode, we chat about places to find inspiration for your game. While there are endless sources of ideas, we sit down together to talk about a few of our favorites. Mentioned in the Episode: Pinterest: Character Creation Cast Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/charactercreationcast/ Amelia’s Boards: Sounds Like Crowes:https://pin.it/zn64qabeowj2cx L5R: https://pin.it/egvhmiyny566nb Night’s Black Agents: https://pin.it/edgwmt4csiexbo Descent into Midnight: https://pin.it/m26levvxj3kfqr Our Star Crossed Playlists: Magic School Kids Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7nguieqg9s4h9CqQMNifHp?si=TrMf2NU2T3qza6XpooeaFg Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIQvSCMCGGkKn12lcNm8I3thhTK2MFvPt Magical Girls Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1fiectTQbuKO4d1gXOhiFd?si=sGVUAKwBTn2V6NJozWNFxA Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIQvSCMCGGkLN3LhyGuLoBP9bMyNgJCNi Sexy Spies Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5GLObBcZZxfRMjAoH8Tg3n?si=USSovHJPRzKIwcXON8foHw Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIQvSCMCGGkIb1bw9OiDjDpX9ty-l8b7t Character art by Céli of Iriana Descence from our Edifice series: https://twitter.com/pianta_/status/1132358420856692736 Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide Amazon: https://amzn.to/2X42Khy Amelia and Steve (Session Zero Podcast) do exercises from the book: https://youtu.be/w-zg8dg4CE4 Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us)! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:07:42 - Intro 00:08:24 - Why do we need inspiration? 00:08:41 - Translating mechanics to gameplay 00:11:21 - When character generation isn’t enough 00:13:09 - Feeling connected 00:14:40 - Lightbulb moment 00:20:07 - Pinterest 00:30:17 - Playlists 00:41:42 - Genre media 00:56:21 - Commissioning and artist 01:02:12 - Character building exercises 01:06:48 - Writing a backstory 01:13:14 - Character journals 01:15:02 - Closet cosplay 01:22:49 - Ryan’s Plugs 01:23:37 - Amelia’s Plugs 01:24:17 - Episode Closer 01:25:29 - Show Blurbs Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Twisting by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 2: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Main Theme: Endless Motion (https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/endless-motion-edm-electro) by Ben Sound (https://www.bensound.com/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the last episode of the 17th series, Megan Scharlau and Charlotte Elena from Tabletop Potluck join us to discuss the character creation process for Mouse Guard, a cute as heck RPG from The Burning Wheel, where you play as super adorable mice people in a medieval, semi-fantasy setting. Announcements: The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide by James D’Amato Pre order now on Amazon https://amzn.to/2IijdKN GenCon Twitter Thread https://twitter.com/CreationCast/status/1131181309504741377 Character Creation Cast Panel https://www.gencon.com/events/152269 Quiztem Mastery https://www.gencon.com/events/152272 Brewing Strife (Amelia’s L5R Game) https://www.gencon.com/events/152276 World Building through Character Creation https://www.gencon.com/events/152275 Chimera Games Still TBD Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Megan Scharlau @Tabletop_Megan Twitter: https://twitter.com/tabletop_megan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tabletop_megan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tabletop_megan Charlotte Elena @TheCornbreab Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheCornbreab Tumblr: https://cornbreab.tumblr.com/ Tabletop Potluck Twitter: https://twitter.com/TabletopPotluck Website: https://tabletoppotluck.com/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:03:25 - Episode Intro 00:03:47 - Megan’s Character 00:04:19 - Charlotte’s Character 00:04:46 - Amelia’s Character 00:05:09 - Ryan’s Character 00:05:54 - D20 for your thoughts 00:06:10 - Charlotte’s Gaming Story 00:07:23 - Megan’s Gaming Story 00:08:19 - Megan’s Process 00:09:06 - Charlotte’s Process 00:13:06 - Character Creation in Mouse Guarde 00:18:39 - Mechanics and Character Creation 00:20:20 - Setting Expectations 00:24:56 - Biggest Flaw 00:28:11 - Playing Humans vs. Playing Mice 00:32:19 - Group Cohesion 00:37:23 - Character Growth 00:41:57 - Take It Up A Level 00:46:41 - Advancement 00:50:46 - Plugs 00:51:57 - Episode Closer 00:53:51 - Show Blurbs 00:54:27 - Outtakes Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Backyard Adventure (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hans_Hylkema/Backyard_Adventure/Hans_Hylkema_-_Backyard_Adventure) by Hans Hylkema (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hans_Hylkema/) Clip 2: Tabletop Potluck main theme (https://tabletoppotluck.com) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Our characters: Ryan https://www.dropbox.com/s/29w4rzqhznr70l8/Ryan%20-%20Tander.pdf?dl=0 Amelia Unavailable for this release Megan https://www.dropbox.com/s/00qwtroav6v5n4d/Megan%20Scharlau%20-%20Character%20Creation%20Duncan.pdf?dl=0 Charlotte https://www.dropbox.com/s/4b5uvey9xjcebl7/Charlotte%20Elena%20-%20Wilmot%20The%20Patrol%20Leader.pdf?dl=0 Games discussed this episode: Mouse Guard 2nd Edition Box Set https://amzn.to/2I2iBcb Mouse Guard 2nd Edition PDF https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/166655/Mouse-Guard-RPG-2nd-Edition Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the second episode of the 17th series, we welcome back Megan Scharlau and Charlotte Elena from Tabletop Potluck to finish creating characters for Mouse Guard, a cute as heck RPG from The Burning Wheel, where you play as super adorable mice people in a medieval, semi-fantasy setting. Announcements: GenCon Twitter Thread https://twitter.com/CreationCast/status/1131181309504741377 Character Creation Cast Panel https://www.gencon.com/events/152269 Quiztem Mastery https://www.gencon.com/events/152272 Brewing Strife (Amelia’s L5R Game) https://www.gencon.com/events/152276 World Building through Character Creation https://www.gencon.com/events/152275 Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Megan Scharlau @Tabletop_Megan Twitter: https://twitter.com/tabletop_megan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tabletop_megan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tabletop_megan Charlotte Elena @TheCornbreab Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheCornbreab Tumblr: https://cornbreab.tumblr.com/ Tabletop Potluck @TabletopPotluck Twitter: https://twitter.com/TabletopPotluck Website: https://tabletoppotluck.com/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:02:23 - Recap 00:02:40 - Guard Resources 00:03:23 - Guard Circles 00:03:42 - Mouse Traits 00:15:09 - Friends 00:18:37 - Enemies 00:22:11 - Cloak Color 00:24:24 - First Mission, Beliefs, Goals and Instincts 00:27:22 - Gear 00:34:15 - Episode Closer 00:37:02 - Show Blurbs Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Backyard Adventure (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hans_Hylkema/Backyard_Adventure/Hans_Hylkema_-_Backyard_Adventure) by Hans Hylkema (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hans_Hylkema/) Clip 2: Tabletop Potluck main theme (https://tabletoppotluck.com) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Our characters: Ryan https://www.dropbox.com/s/29w4rzqhznr70l8/Ryan%20-%20Tander.pdf?dl=0 Amelia Unavailable for this release Megan https://www.dropbox.com/s/00qwtroav6v5n4d/Megan%20Scharlau%20-%20Character%20Creation%20Duncan.pdf?dl=0 Charlotte https://www.dropbox.com/s/4b5uvey9xjcebl7/Charlotte%20Elena%20-%20Wilmot%20The%20Patrol%20Leader.pdf?dl=0 Games discussed this episode: Mouse Guard 2nd Edition Box Set https://amzn.to/2I2iBcb Mouse Guard 2nd Edition PDF https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/166655/Mouse-Guard-RPG-2nd-Edition Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this first episode of the 17th series, we’ll be sitting down with Megan Scharlau and Charlotte Elena from Tabletop Potluck to discuss and create characters for Mouse Guard, a cute as heck RPG from The Burning Wheel, where you play as super adorable mice people in a medieval, semi-fantasy setting. Announcements: GenCon Twitter Thread https://twitter.com/CreationCast/status/1131181309504741377 Character Creation Cast Panel https://www.gencon.com/events/152269 Quiztem Mastery https://www.gencon.com/events/152272 Brewing Strife (Amelia’s L5R Game) https://www.gencon.com/events/152276 World Building through Character Creation https://www.gencon.com/events/152275 Chimera Games TBD Host Updates Garbage of the Five Rings: http://garbageofthefiverings.com/ Game Closet https://riverhousegamespodcast.wordpress.com/ Play/Test episode with Amelia https://playtest.pub/2019/05/16/changelog-amelia-antrim/ Chimera RPG https://chimera.lordneptune.com Side Heroes https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod RPG Unltd. with Ryan https://anchor.fm/rpg-unltd/episodes/RPG-Unltd--Podcast-Ryan-Boelter--Chimera-RPG--Character-Creation-Cast-e45r0r/a-ag6ua9 Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Megan Scharlau @Tabletop_Megan Twitter: https://twitter.com/tabletop_megan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tabletop_megan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tabletop_megan Charlotte Elena @TheCornbreab Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheCornbreab Tumblr: https://cornbreab.tumblr.com/ Tabletop Potluck Twitter: https://twitter.com/TabletopPotluck Website: https://tabletoppotluck.com/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:10:02 - Introductions 00:11:35 - What’s in a game? - Game Setting 00:12:42 - What do we need to play this game? 00:15:16 - What is unique about this game? 00:17:11 - History of the system 00:18:38 - Terms and concepts for character creation 00:19:54 - Let’s make some people! 00:29:45 - Skills and background 00:31:38 - Where were you born? 00:35:10 - Life Experience 00:38:03 - Parents 00:39:34 - How do you convince others you are right? 00:40:25 - Who did you apprentice with? 00:42:36 - What did your mentor stress in training? 00:44:11 - What is your specialty? 00:45:32 - Double check your work 00:46:33 - Mouse Nature 00:51:49 - Wises 00:56:16 - Episode Closer 00:58:11 - Show Blurbs Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Middle of Opening: News at 11 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Glass_Boy/Jenkins/07_NEWS_AT_11) by Glass Boy (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Glass_Boy/) Clip 1: Backyard Adventure (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hans_Hylkema/Backyard_Adventure/Hans_Hylkema_-_Backyard_Adventure) by Hans Hylkema (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hans_Hylkema/) Clip 2: Tabletop Potluck main theme (https://tabletoppotluck.com) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Our characters: Ryan https://www.dropbox.com/s/29w4rzqhznr70l8/Ryan%20-%20Tander.pdf?dl=0 Amelia Unavailable for this release Megan https://www.dropbox.com/s/00qwtroav6v5n4d/Megan%20Scharlau%20-%20Character%20Creation%20Duncan.pdf?dl=0 Charlotte https://www.dropbox.com/s/4b5uvey9xjcebl7/Charlotte%20Elena%20-%20Wilmot%20The%20Patrol%20Leader.pdf?dl=0 Games discussed this episode: Mouse Guard 2nd Edition Box Set https://amzn.to/2I2iBcb Mouse Guard 2nd Edition PDF https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/166655/Mouse-Guard-RPG-2nd-Edition Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special announcements episode, we go over a few important announcements for us, GenCon and even get to read a review again! Announcements: GenCon Twitter Thread https://twitter.com/CreationCast/status/1131181309504741377 Character Creation Cast Panel https://www.gencon.com/events/152269 Quiztem Mastery https://www.gencon.com/events/152272 Brewing Strife (Amelia’s L5R Game) https://www.gencon.com/events/152276 World Building through Character Creation https://www.gencon.com/events/152275 Chimera Games TBD Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special bonus episode of Character Creation Cast, Amelia sits down with her favorite people in the world (most of the time), her kids, Nathan and Eleanor. They create characters for their favorite game, “No Thank You, Evil!” by Monte Cook Games. Announcements: GenCon Twitter Thread https://twitter.com/CreationCast/status/1131181309504741377 Character Creation Cast Panel https://www.gencon.com/events/152269 Quiztem Mastery https://www.gencon.com/events/152272 Brewing Strife (Amelia’s L5R Game) https://www.gencon.com/events/152276 World Building through Character Creation https://www.gencon.com/events/152275 Chimera Games TBD Guests and Projects: Nathan and Eleanor Projects Going to school Making messes Frustrating their mother Games discussed in this episode: No Thank You, Evil! Website: http://www.nothankyouevil.com/ Monte Cook Games: https://www.montecookgames.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/montecookgames Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the final of the 16th series, and we’ll be discussing Hearts of Wulin, a Powered by the Apocalypse wuxia RPG with creators Agatha Cheng from the Asians Represent podcast and Lowell Francis from The Gauntlet podcast. We are also joined by a guest co-host, Adira Slattery, fellow One Shot Network individual from the A Woman With Hollow Eyes twitch stream and podcast. Announcements: Hearts of Wulin Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gauntlet/hearts-of-wulin Character Creation Cast GenCon Panel: https://www.gencon.com/events/152269 Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Agatha Cheng Asians Represent Twitter: https://twitter.com/aznsrepresent Website: http://oneshotpodcast.com/interview-discussion/asians-represent/ Lowell Francis The Gauntlet Twitter: https://twitter.com/GauntletRPG Website: https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/ Adira Slattery A Woman With Hollow Eyes Season 2 Website: http://oneshotpodcast.com/actual-play/a-woman-with-hollow-eyes/ Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/oneshotrpg/videos/all Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:03:16 - Introductions 00:14:17 - D20 for your thoughts? 00:22:52 - How does character creation in this game stack up against others? 00:31:03 - How do the mechanics of character creation reinforce the feel of Hearts of Wulin? 00:35:41 - How does character creation set a player’s expectations for playing a session? 00:37:17 - Biggest flaw? 00:44:36 - What was it like designing within the PbtA framework? 00:52:45 - What themes did you want to incorporate in this game? 00:59:02 - How would this group fair in a typical game? / Fanfiction 01:07:27 - How does this game lend to character development? 01:11:54 - Take it up a level! 01:17:24 - Episode Closer 01:21:51 - Show Blurbs Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: The Gauntlet Main theme (https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/) Clip 2: Asians Represent Main theme (http://oneshotpodcast.com/interview-discussion/asians-represent/) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Our characters: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19mZCkNbOwi6ihfO9h0psKVUwTteHUDVJ9cjdxuLvHmw/edit?usp=sharing Games discussed this episode: Hearts of Wulin https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/hearts-of-wulin.html Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the second episode of the 16th series, and we’ll be finishing up character creation for Hearts of Wulin, a Powered by the Apocalypse wuxia RPG with creators Agatha Cheng from the Asians Represent podcast and Lowell Francis from The Gauntlet podcast. We are also joined by a guest co-host, Adira Slattery, fellow One Shot Network individual from the A Woman With Hollow Eyes twitch stream and podcast. Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Agatha Cheng Asians Represent Twitter: https://twitter.com/aznsrepresent Website: http://oneshotpodcast.com/interview-discussion/asians-represent/ Lowell Francis The Gauntlet Twitter: https://twitter.com/GauntletRPG Website: https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/ Adira Slattery A Woman With Hollow Eyes Season 2 Website: http://oneshotpodcast.com/actual-play/a-woman-with-hollow-eyes/ Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/oneshotrpg/videos/all Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:02:01 - Recap 00:02:27 - Elements 00:03:33 - Describing our characters 00:19:59 - Entanglements 00:33:19 - Bonds 00:40:20 - Last backstory links 00:42:32 - Episode Closer 00:45:55 - Show Blurbs Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: The Gauntlet Main theme (https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/) Clip 2: Asians Represent Main theme (http://oneshotpodcast.com/interview-discussion/asians-represent/) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Our characters: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19mZCkNbOwi6ihfO9h0psKVUwTteHUDVJ9cjdxuLvHmw/edit?usp=sharing Games discussed this episode: Hearts of Wulin https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/hearts-of-wulin.html Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the first episode of the 16th series, and we’ll be covering Hearts of Wulin, a Powered by the Apocalypse wuxia RPG with creators Agatha Cheng from the Asians Represent podcast and Lowell Francis from The Gauntlet podcast. We are also joined by a new guest co-host, Adira Slattery, fellow One Shot Network individual from the A Woman With Hollow Eyes twitch stream and podcast. Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Agatha Cheng Asians Represent Twitter: https://twitter.com/aznsrepresent Website: http://oneshotpodcast.com/interview-discussion/asians-represent/ Lowell Francis The Gauntlet Twitter: https://twitter.com/GauntletRPG Website: https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/ Adira Slattery A Woman With Hollow Eyes Season 2 Website: http://oneshotpodcast.com/actual-play/a-woman-with-hollow-eyes/ Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/oneshotrpg/videos/all Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:05:12 - Introductions 00:07:12 - What’s in a game? 00:08:06 - What do we need to play this game? 00:08:42 - What do characters do in this game? 00:11:42 - What else makes this game unique? 00:14:32 - How accessible is this game without prior wuxia genre knowledge? 00:22:32 - How has playtesting been going? 00:24:56 - Terms and Concepts - Elements and Conditions 00:28:59 - Playbooks 00:36:20 - Entanglements 00:40:35 - Scale 00:43:24 - Let’s make some people - Playbook Selection 00:51:14 - Looks 00:54:43 - Factions and Names 00:56:15 - Safety Tools 01:02:31 - Style 01:04:10 - Episode Closer 01:06:02 - Show Blurbs Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: The Gauntlet Main theme (https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/) Clip 2: Asians Represent Main theme (http://oneshotpodcast.com/interview-discussion/asians-represent/) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Games discussed this episode: Hearts of Wulin https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/hearts-of-wulin.html Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today’s Character Evolution Cast episode, Marie-Claire Gould, host of the What The Force? Podcast and creator of the new Fan Girls audio drama podcast, sits down with Ryan to discuss artificial intelligence and how we can better play these types of characters at the table. Announcements: One Shot Podcast Network Patreon https://patreon.com/OneShotPodcast Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Marie-Claire Gould @MarieCGould Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarieCGould Tavern Tales Twitter: https://twitter.com/tavern_tales Website: http://taverntales.ca What The Force? / Fan Girls Twitter: https://twitter.com/wtforceshow Website: http://whattheforce.ca Holonet Radio Twitter: https://twitter.com/theholonetradio Website: https://holonet-radio.com/ Fall For It Twitter: https://twitter.com/fallforit_drama Website: https://www.buzzsprout.com/214415/819529-fall-for-it-an-asian-drama-pod-episode-1 Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:03:37 - Getting to know Marie-Claire Gould 00:38:25 - Examples of AI from Pop Culture Media 00:50:46 - What are some commonalities between all these examples? 00:59:02 - How does an AI grow? 01:05:08 - How do we all of this to our characters at the table? 01:17:44 - Finding your character’s voice 01:21:18 - Final thoughts 01:22:16 - Episode Closer 01:25:26 - Show Blurbs Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: What The Force? Main theme (http://whattheforce.ca) by Christy Carew (https://twitter.com/Christy_Carew) Clip 2: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Main Theme: Endless Motion (https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/endless-motion-edm-electro) by Ben Sound (https://www.bensound.com/) Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today’s Character Evolution Cast episode, Victoria Rogers (The Broadswords DM) joins Ryan and guest co-host Marie-Claire Gould (What The Force? Host and Fan Girls Creator) to talk about the pros and cons of playing in an established setting. Announcements: Questions for us? Submit them here for a future Q&A episode: https://questions.charactercreationcast.com/ Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Victoria Rogers @MimiMerlot Twitter: https://twitter.com/MimiMerlot The Broadswords Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheBroadswords Website: https://thebroadswords.com/ Patreon: https://patreon.com/thebroadswords D&D Live 2019 Website: http://dnd.wizards.com/dndlive2019 Marie-Claire Gould @MarieCGould Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarieCGould Tavern Tales Twitter: https://twitter.com/tavern_tales Website: http://taverntales.ca What The Force? / Fan Girls Twitter: https://twitter.com/wtforceshow Website: http://whattheforce.ca Holonet Radio Twitter: https://twitter.com/theholonetradio Website: https://holonet-radio.com/ Fall For It Twitter: https://twitter.com/fallforit_drama Website: https://www.buzzsprout.com/214415/819529-fall-for-it-an-asian-drama-pod-episode-1 Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:07:44 - Introductions 00:09:52 - Getting to know Victoria Rogers 00:18:00 - What is an established setting? 00:26:50 - What can we expect? 00:38:06 - How does it change the way we play? 00:49:10 - How can we prepare ourselves? 00:54:33 - What are the benefits? 01:06:30 - Final thoughts 01:10:06 - Episode Closer 01:13:13 - Show Blurbs Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: What The Force? Main theme (http://whattheforce.ca) by Christy Carew (https://twitter.com/Christy_Carew) Clip 2: The Broadswords Main theme (https://thebroadswords.com) by Victoria Rogers (https://twitter.com/MimiMerlot) Clip 3: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Main Theme: Endless Motion (https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/endless-motion-edm-electro) by Ben Sound (https://www.bensound.com/) Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the final episode of series 15! In this episode, we discuss our fanfic and talk game design and mechanics with Tracy Barnett, creator of Iron Edda and the newer version, which we covered this series, Iron Edda Accelerated! Announcements: AcadeCon Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/therpgacademy/acadecon-2019-ours-goes-to-seven Submit your questions to us here: https://questions.charactercreationcast.com Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us)! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Tracy Barnett @TheOtherTracy Twitter https://twitter.com/TheOtherTracy Iron Edda Accelerated http://www.encodeddesigns.com/iron-edda-accelerated/ The Other Cast http://www.theothertracy.com/theothercast Patreon https://patreon.com/TracyBarnett Gnome Stew https://gnomestew.com/ Timestamps 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:06:52 - Intro and character recap 00:12:50 - D20 For your thoughts 01:22:42 - Take it up a level 01:26:37 - Episode Closer 01:28:30 - Show Blurbs 01:29:17 - Outtakes Character Sheets Holdfast Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lCF5gaJl5HUBdpx93mjCgydPbRnqMNNHpwGUnZCcvUs/edit?usp=sharing (Life was too busy and too full of being sick to get these done. But most of the details are in the Holdfast Presentation above!) Game systems and materials discussed in this episode: Iron Edda Accelerated: http://www.encodeddesigns.com/iron-edda-accelerated/ Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Góða Nótt by Alexander Nakarada Clip 2: The Other Cast Iron Edda main theme (http://www.theothertracy.com/theothercast) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Ryan Boelter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the second episode of series 15! In this episode, we’ll be finishing our Holdfast and finally start character creation with Tracy Barnett, creator of Iron Edda and the newer version, which we start covering this series, Iron Edda Accelerated! Announcements: AcadeCon Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/therpgacademy/acadecon-2019-ours-goes-to-seven Submit your questions to us here: https://questions.charactercreationcast.com Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us)! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Tracy Barnett @TheOtherTracy Twitter https://twitter.com/TheOtherTracy Iron Edda Accelerated http://www.encodeddesigns.com/iron-edda-accelerated/ The Other Cast http://www.theothertracy.com/theothercast Patreon https://patreon.com/TracyBarnett Gnome Stew https://gnomestew.com/ Timestamps 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:03:38 - Recap 00:03:58 - Finishing up the Holdfast 00:10:36 - Let’s make some people! 00:15:26 - We pick our archetypes 00:16:58 - First steps, learning about our conditions 00:27:25 - Creating our aspects - High Concepts 00:31:36 - Creating our Trouble aspects 00:34:38 - Clan aspects 00:45:27 - Sacred Items 00:49:38 - Rating our approaches 00:53:29 - Stunts 00:58:48 - Additional stunts 01:06:35 - Names 01:11:32 - Group aspects 01:15:59 - Episode Closer 01:18:42 - Show Blurbs Character Sheets Holdfast Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lCF5gaJl5HUBdpx93mjCgydPbRnqMNNHpwGUnZCcvUs/edit?usp=sharing Amelia’s Character: Next week! (Life was busy this week!) Ryan’s Character: Next week! Tracy’s Character: Next week! Game systems and materials discussed in this episode: Iron Edda Accelerated: http://www.encodeddesigns.com/iron-edda-accelerated/ Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Góða Nótt by Alexander Nakarada Clip 2: The Other Cast Iron Edda main theme (http://www.theothertracy.com/theothercast) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Ryan Boelter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the first series of series 15! In this series, we’ll be talking with Tracy Barnett, creator of Iron Edda and the newer version, which we start covering this series, Iron Edda Accelerated! We learn a lot about the Fate Accelerated system along with this game before we start diving into the creation of our Holdfast. Announcements: AcadeCon Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/therpgacademy/acadecon-2019-ours-goes-to-seven Submit your questions to us here: https://questions.charactercreationcast.com Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us)! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Tracy Barnett @TheOtherTracy Twitter https://twitter.com/TheOtherTracy Iron Edda Accelerated http://www.encodeddesigns.com/iron-edda-accelerated/ The Other Cast http://www.theothertracy.com/theothercast Patreon https://patreon.com/TracyBarnett Gnome Stew https://gnomestew.com/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:05:16 - Introductions 00:21:13 - What’s in a game? 00:24:46 - What do we need to play? 00:30:50 - What do characters do in this game? 00:35:06 - What is unique about Iron Edda Accelerated? 00:37:08 - History of the system 00:49:44 - What was the reason to create a Fate Accelerated version? 00:56:05 - Was there a specific feeling Tracy was hoping to evoke with this game? 01:02:13 - Terms to know for character creation 01:07:48 - Anything else we need to know? 01:10:42 - Let’s make...a place! - Holdfast creation 01:24:55 - Episode Closer 01:26:47 - Show Blurbs Character Sheets Holdfast Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zWQVVeYO4gGjq5eLF9GubV69rQLCT0dY2acvkm28Chw/edit?usp=sharing Amelia’s Character: Next week! Ryan’s Character: Next week! Tracy’s Character: Next week! Game systems and materials discussed in this episode: Iron Edda Accelerated: http://www.encodeddesigns.com/iron-edda-accelerated/ Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Góða Nótt by Alexander Nakarada Clip 2: The Other Cast Iron Edda main theme (http://www.theothertracy.com/theothercast) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Ryan Boelter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices