In this first episode of series 29, we finally get to cover Amelia’s favorite game, Legend of the Five Rings 5th Edition, with guest David Gordon Buresh! We dive into what this game is all about and start creating our characters using a series of 20 questions every step of the way. Announcements: ENnie Voting! http://www.ennie-awards.com/vote/2020/index.php Legend of the Five Rings (5th Edition): Code of the Way of the Warrior | Asians Read S2E1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRh2icYVrks&fe...
Jul 06, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Season 29Ep. 1
In the final episode of our Numenera series, Darcy Ross, from Cypher Speak and Monte Cook Games, sits down with us to discuss the process of character creation and we make some great fanfic! Announcements: Monte Cook Games $5 Off listener promotion: https://montecookgames.com/store/ Use code “ccc5off” to get $5 off your order! 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/ch...
Jun 15, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 28Ep. 3
In the second episode of our Numenera series, Darcy Ross, from Cypher Speak and Monte Cook Games, returns to finish our characters with us! Announcements: Black Lives Matter Resources Donate: Find And Donate to a Local Bail Fund https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory Support Black Lives Matter https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019 Action: Contact your representatives https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials June Justice- A guide of daily reading and activism https:...
Jun 09, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 28Ep. 2
In this first episode of series 28, we welcome Darcy Ross, who is the co-host of the Cypher Speak podcast from the Misdirected Mark Network as well as the Community Relations Coordinator for Monte Cook Games, as we sit down to discuss Numenera, a Science Fantasy RPG. We’ll start building our characters this episode, too, so get ready to start meeting some amazing people in this amazingly unique setting! Announcements: Monte Cook Games $5 Off listener promotion: https://montecookgames.com/store/ ...
Jun 02, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 28Ep. 1
In the last episode of series 27, we welcome back Alex Flanigan, from the A Horror Borealis and The Cryptid Keeper podcasts, as our special guest co-host, filling in for Amelia due to a family emergency at the time of recording. We also welcome back Ryan’s best friend since the first grade, and current GM for their campaign together using the system we’re covering this series: Beyond the Wall and Other Adventures, a Fantasy RPG by Flatland Games. This episode we’ll be discussing what we thought ...
May 18, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 27Ep. 3
In the second episode of series 27, we welcome back Alex Flanigan, from the A Horror Borealis and The Cryptid Keeper podcasts, as our special guest co-host, filling in for Amelia due to a family emergency at the time of recording. We also welcome back Ryan’s best friend since the first grade, and current GM for their campaign together using the system we’re covering this series: Beyond the Wall and Other Adventures, a Fantasy RPG by Flatland Games. This episode we’ll be finishing our characters ...
May 11, 2020•57 min•Season 27Ep. 2
In this first episode of series 27, we welcome Alex Flanigan, from the A Horror Borealis and The Cryptid Keeper podcasts, as our special guest co-host, filling in for Amelia due to a family emergency at the time of recording. We also welcome Ryan’s best friend since the first grade, and current GM for their campaign together using the system we’re covering this series: Beyond the Wall and Other Adventures, a Fantasy RPG by Flatland Games. Learn about the game and hear about the character archety...
May 04, 2020•54 min•Season 27Ep. 1
Welcome to the final episode of series 26! James D’Amato joins us, once again, to discuss Genesys, a setting neutral RPG by Fantasy Flight Games, as well as learning a bit more about the Campaign Skyjacks world of Speir! Announcements: Courier’s Call Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/oneshotpodcast/skyjacks-couriers-call-season-1 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.appl...
Apr 20, 2020•51 min•Season 26Ep. 3
Welcome to the second episode of series 26! This episode, we welcome back our very own network president, James D’Amato, to finish creating our characters together for Genesys, a setting neutral RPG by Fantasy Flight Games, utilizing the Campaign Skyjacks world of Speir! Announcements: Courier’s Call Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/oneshotpodcast/skyjacks-couriers-call-season-1 Our Podchaser Page: https://podchaser.charactercreationcast.com/ Leave us reviews in any, or all, of ...
Apr 13, 2020•39 min•Season 26Ep. 2
We’re very excited to welcome you to the beginning of series 26! This series we welcome our very own network president, James D’Amato, to learn about Genesys, a setting neutral RPG by Fantasy Flight Games, as well as begin creating characters in the Campaign Skyjacks world of Speir! Announcements: Courier’s Call Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/oneshotpodcast/skyjacks-couriers-call-season-1 Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcas...
Apr 08, 2020•58 min•Season 26Ep. 1
In this Evolution Cast episode Amelia and Ryan talk about how to make the most of your time stuck at home with GAMES! Announcements Home for Wayward OCs Ryan: https://player.fm/series/the-home-for-wayward-ocs/ryan-and-elena Amelia: https://player.fm/series/the-home-for-wayward-ocs/ep-044-amelia-and-isawa 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/i...
Mar 30, 2020•54 min•Ep. 20
On the final episode of our 25th series, Ryan welcomes back David Gunsberg and Morgan Jenkins to talk about Golden Sky Stories, a slice of life RPG where kindness reigns. Amelia wasn’t able to make it for this recording, but we end up with a really great discussion about this very wholesome game. Announcements: Princess World Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1706590045/princess-world Multiverse Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/playmultiverse/multiverse-rpgs-for-...
Mar 23, 2020•1 hr 36 min•Season 25Ep. 3
On the second episode of our 25th series, we welcome back David Gunsberg and Morgan Jenkins to talk about Golden Sky Stories, a slice of life RPG where kindness reigns. Listen as we meet our adorable characters and find out what sort of shenanigans they had gotten up to together in the past! Announcements: Descent into Midnight: https://descentintomidnight.com Princess World Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1706590045/princess-world Pasión de las Pasiones Kickstarter https://www...
Mar 16, 2020•49 min•Season 25Ep. 2
Our 25th series starts here where we welcome friends of the show David Gunsberg and Morgan Jenkins to talk about Golden Sky Stories, a slice of life RPG where kindness reigns. Announcements: Descent into Midnight Kickstarter: https://dimrpg.io/ks Princess World Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1706590045/princess-world Pasión de las Pasiones Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bleongambetta/pasion-de-las-pasiones The Creatensive Character Zine Kickstarter https://ww...
Mar 09, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 25Ep. 1
Welcome to a special bonus episode of Character Creation Spotlight! Today we’re highlighting Izzy, aka Praxis Descends, and her new character building resource, The Creatensive Character Zine, kickstarting right now! Find out about this very cool resource as well as see how one of the exercises works with one of Ryan’s latest characters from the last Series! Announcements: The Creatensive Character Zine Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/isidorerae/the-creatensive-character-zine-wi...
Mar 05, 2020•33 min•Ep. 10
In a bonus Evolution Cast episode (because March has an extra Monday) we tackle how to plot out your characters story using goals and motivations. Announcements Descent into Midnight Kickstarter https://dimrpg.io/ks Princess World Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1706590045/princess-world Pasión de las Pasiones Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bleongambetta/pasion-de-las-pasiones The Creatensive Character Zine Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/isido...
Mar 02, 2020•55 min•Ep. 19
Welcome to a special bonus episode of Character Creation Spotlight! Today we’re highlighting Kevin Petker and his game, Princess World! Find out about the game in this abridged format, including us creating a princess, and get pumped to back this amazing kickstarter happening right now! Announcements: Princess World Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1706590045/princess-world Descent into Midnight Kickstarter: https://dimrpg.io/ks A Horror Borealis/The Cryptid Keeper Year of the M...
Feb 27, 2020•40 min•Ep. 9
This is our 18th episode of Character Evolution Cast, and we’re here to talk about making your gaming experience better by adding MORE GAMES! Announcements Descent into Midnight Kickstarter https://dimrpg.io/ks Princess World Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1706590045/princess-world Decuma Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/goldenlassogirl/decuma Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave rev...
Feb 24, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 18
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 ...
Feb 20, 2020•47 min•Ep. 8
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/TheCr...
Feb 17, 2020•58 min•Season 24Ep. 3
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/T...
Feb 10, 2020•36 min•Season 24Ep. 2
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 th...
Feb 03, 2020•38 min•Season 24Ep. 1
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-cr...
Jan 27, 2020•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 17
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/CharacterCreati...
Jan 20, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 23Ep. 2
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/...
Jan 13, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 23Ep. 2
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/podc...
Jan 06, 2020•55 min•Season 23Ep. 1
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 Cre...
Dec 30, 2019•2 hr 4 min
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 pl...
Dec 23, 2019•1 hr 44 min
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 revie...
Dec 16, 2019•1 hr 41 min
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.a...
Dec 09, 2019•1 hr 12 min
