Character Creation Spotlight E08 - Descent into Midnight with Rich Howard

Welcome to a special bonus episode of Character Creation Spotlight! Today we’re highlighting Rich Howard and his game, Descent into Midnight, that he is co-designing with Richard Kruetz-Landry and Taylor LaBresh, whom we had on previously for a full Descent into Midnight series back in Series 18! Find out what’s changed since that series, or hear about the game for the first time in this abridged format, and get pumped to back this amazing kickstarter happening right now! Announcements: Descent into Midnight Kickstarter: 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:  Rich Howard @umbralwalker Twitter: https://twitter.com/umbralwalker Website: http://www.richhowardauthor.com/ Whelmed Podcast Website: https://crashingthemode.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/theYJfiles Games discussed this episode: Descent into Midnight Website: https://dimrpg.io/game Kickstarter: https://dimrpg.io/ks Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:02:12 - Introductions 00:05:06 - What’s in a game? 00:15:15 - What materials do we need to play? 00:18:41 - What sort of characters can we make in this game? 00:24:31 - Steps of character creation 00:30:04 - Any big changes since we last covered this game? 00:40:08 - Episode Closer 00:43:45 - Show Blurbs (Total Party Kill) Transcripts https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/descent-into-midnight-character-creation-spotlight-with-rich-howard/transcript Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Clear Waters by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3516-clear-waters License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Clip 2: Hero Down by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3868-hero-down License: 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