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 ...
May 27, 2019•34 min
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 C...
May 20, 2019•1 hr 25 min•Season 16Ep. 3
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...
May 13, 2019•49 min•Season 16Ep. 2
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 leav...
May 06, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Season 16Ep. 1
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:...
Apr 29, 2019•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 12
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 u...
Apr 22, 2019•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 11
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 Creatio...
Apr 15, 2019•1 hr 45 min•Season 15Ep. 3
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 place...
Apr 08, 2019•1 hr 22 min•Season 15Ep. 2
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....
Apr 01, 2019•1 hr 30 min•Season 15Ep. 1
Welcome to a special episode of Character Creation Cast! It’s been almost exactly one year since we released Episode Zero into the world! This episode, we will be tackling your questions with our answers! Announcements: AcadeCon 2019 Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/therpgacademy/acadecon-2019-ours-goes-to-seven 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/...
Mar 25, 2019•2 hr 3 min
Welcome to a special bonus episode of Character Creation Spotlight! In this episode, we’re shining the light onto a D&D 5E supplement called Witch+Craft, currently kickstarting as of the release of this episode, with creators Shannon and Dillon from Astrolago Press. Check it out here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/astrolago/witch-craft-a-5e-supplemental Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us)!...
Mar 21, 2019•38 min•Ep. 4
Welcome to the final episode of the 14th series, everyone! Today we sit back down with the folks from NeoScum and dive into some really interesting discussion around character creation in the extremely complex game that is Shadowrun. Announcements: GoFundMe page for Jef, from System Mastery: https://helpjef.charactercreationcast.com/ https://www.gofundme.com/6zlf50g?member=1842794 Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave...
Mar 18, 2019•1 hr 43 min•Season 14Ep. 3
Welcome to the second episode of the 14th series, everyone! Today we’ll be finishing up our collaborative character creation for Shadowrun with most of the folks from the NeoScum podcast. Buckle up, because this game is complex! Announcements: GoFundMe page for Jef, from System Mastery: https://helpjef.charactercreationcast.com/ https://www.gofundme.com/6zlf50g?member=1842794 Final questions for the Q&A episode! We’ll be recording this a couple days after release! https://docs.google.com/for...
Mar 11, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Season 14Ep. 2
This is the first episode of the 14th series, and today we’re going to be tackling character creation for Shadowrun with most of the folks from the NeoScum podcast! We learn a lot about this complex system and split into teams to begin creating some really interesting people! Announcements: Tell us who your favorite character is and we’ll commission an artist to draw them! https://twitter.com/CreationCast/status/1100242211596312576 Do you have questions for us? We’re gathering them for a Q&A...
Mar 04, 2019•1 hr 43 min•Season 14Ep. 1
In today’s Character Evolution Cast episode, we welcome Ben and Mel from Pod of Love to talk about how to add romance to our games. We have tips on how to handle PC to PC romance, PC to NPC romance, and much more! Announcements: #C3ArtContest (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23C3ArtContest&src=typed_query) on Twitter! 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/characte...
Feb 25, 2019•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 10
Welcome to the final episode of series 13! Devon George joins us once again to discuss the character creation process for her game, Edifice. This episode, we not only dive deep into how this game stacks up to others, but we also do a little bit of fanfic, figuring out how our characters may have fared were we to actually play. 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/c...
Feb 18, 2019•1 hr 43 min•Season 13Ep. 3
Welcome to the second episode of series 13! We welcome back Devon George to finish creating our Edifice, as well as creating our own characters, for the game, Edifice. A game that Devon is creating and is currently in beta! Announcements: Gencon: https://gencon.com/ Devon’s DiM Art: https://twitter.com/DiMRPG/status/1093194196385640449 Acadecon https://twitter.com/acadecon https://acadecon.com #OneShotHearts https://twitter.com/OneShotRPG/status/1092877852775718912 Leave us reviews in any, or al...
Feb 11, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Season 13Ep. 2
Welcome to the first episode of lucky Series 13! Today we are welcoming Devon George into the virtual studio to discuss her own game, Edifice, which is currently in the beta playtesting phase! This episode we’ll be discussing the game and start creating our own Edifice. Announcements: Gencon: https://gencon.com/ Shadow of the Cabal Season 2: https://www.shadowofthecabal.com/song-of-the-crane-l5r-5e/ Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts ...
Feb 04, 2019•1 hr 21 min•Season 13Ep. 1
In today’s Character Evolution Cast episode, we welcome Aaron and Jeff from All My Fantasy Children to talk about how to create characters for any system. We get into a lot of interesting topics this episode and have a ton of fun along the way. Announcements: GenCon https://www.gencon.com/ Shadow of the Cabal https://www.shadowofthecabal.com/ RPG Academy https://therpgacademy.com/ Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us)! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podc...
Jan 28, 2019•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 9
Welcome to the final episode of Series 12! We welcome back Jef and Jon from System Mastery to talk about character creation for Amelia’s new favorite game, Heroes Unlimited 2nd Edition! Also, this is our 50th episode! Buckle up, this episode is tuned to “extra exasperation”! Announcements: GenCon https://www.gencon.com/ 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 Charact...
Jan 21, 2019•1 hr 54 min•Season 12Ep. 3
Welcome to the second episode of Series 12! Jef and Jon from System Mastery are still here creating characters with us for Heroes Unlimited 2nd Edition! Announcements: GenCon https://www.gencon.com/ 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 Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on...
Jan 14, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Season 12Ep. 2
Welcome to the first episode in Series 12! We welcome Jef and Jon from the System Mastery podcast to discuss Ryan’s favorite nostalgic game, Heroes Unlimited 2nd Edition by Palladium Books! We’ll go over the multitude of things you need to know to create characters in this game as well as start creating our own group of superheroes! Announcements: Our Discord: https://discord.charactercreationcast.com Garbage of the Five Rings: Website: http://garbageofthefiverings.com/ Twitter: @G5RPodcast (htt...
Jan 07, 2019•1 hr 41 min•Season 12Ep. 1
On this end-of-the-year episode of Character Evolution Cast we sit down with Dusty and Mike of the RPG Lessons Learned podcast to discuss how we can improve our games the same way we improve our lives: by acknowledging failures, celebrating victories, and giving open and honest feedback. Guests: RPG Lessons Learned Twitter: @rpgllpodcast (https://twitter.com/rpgllpodcast) RPG Lessons Learned Website: https://www.tfradio.net/category/all/rpg-lessons-learned/ RPG Lessons Learned Facebook: https://...
Dec 31, 2018•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 8
Welcome to a special holiday episode of Character Creation Cast! In this episode, Amelia and Ryan share some of their favorite cuts from all of their cold open recording sessions! So, come with us, and take a listen behind the scenes on this wild journey through time! Announcements: Our Discord: https://discord.charactercreationcast.com Midwinter Gaming Convention in Milwaukee, WI: Main Site: http://www.midwintergamingconvention.com/ Chimera Game 1: https://tabletop.events/conventions/midwinter-...
Dec 24, 2018•55 min
Welcome to the final episode of Series 11! In this episode, we will be discussing the character creation process for Blades in the Dark with Rhi, Josie and Minna from the Blades in the Dark actual play podcast, The Magpies! Announcements: Our Discord: https://discord.charactercreationcast.com Midwinter Gaming Convention in Milwaukee, WI: Main Site: http://www.midwintergamingconvention.com/ Chimera Game 1: https://tabletop.events/conventions/midwinter-gaming-convention-2019/schedule/331 Chimera G...
Dec 17, 2018•1 hr 23 min•Season 11Ep. 3
Welcome to the second episode of series 11! In this episode, we will be finishing our characters for Blades in the Dark with Rhi, Josie and Minna from the Blades in the Dark actual play The Magpies! Announcements: Our Discord: https://discord.charactercreationcast.com Midwinter Gaming Convention in Milwaukee, WI: Main Site: http://www.midwintergamingconvention.com/ Chimera Game 1: https://tabletop.events/conventions/midwinter-gaming-convention-2019/schedule/331 Chimera Game 2: https://tabletop.e...
Dec 10, 2018•1 hr 21 min•Season 11Ep. 2
Welcome to the firsts episode of series 11! In this episode, we will be going over the Blades in the Dark system with Rhi, Josie and Minna from the Blades in the Dark actual play, The Magpies, and start creating a crew of amazing people together! Announcements: Our Discord: https://discord.charactercreationcast.com Midwinter Gaming Convention in Milwaukee, WI: Main Site: http://www.midwintergamingconvention.com/ Chimera Game 1: https://tabletop.events/conventions/midwinter-gaming-convention-2019...
Dec 03, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Season 11Ep. 1
On this special bonus episode, we sit down with Aviv Or and Eran Aviram, creators of the Crystal Hearts setting for Savage Worlds, to shine a quick spotlight on the game and get a rundown of what sorts of characters we can expect to create in this system. Announcements: Discord: https://discord.charactercreationcast.com Midwinter Gaming Convention in Milwaukee, WI: Main Site: http://www.midwintergamingconvention.com/ Chimera Game 1: https://tabletop.events/conventions/midwinter-gaming-convention...
Nov 29, 2018•31 min•Ep. 3
This week we're recapping our experience at AcadeCon 2018! We recorded this on the road, in person and together, so you'll be treated to the authentic in-car audio stylings of Amelia and Ryan, so fasten your seat belts, we're about to get going! Announcements: Garbage of the Five Rings: @G5RPodcast (https://twitter.com/G5RPodcast) 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&l...
Nov 26, 2018•1 hr 38 min
On this special bonus episode, we sit down with Brie Sheldon, creator of the Turn slice of life, supernatural RPG, to shine a quick spotlight on the game and get a rundown of what sorts of characters we can expect to create in this system. Announcements: Midwinter Gaming Convention in Milwaukee, WI: Main Site: http://www.midwintergamingconvention.com/ Chimera Game 1: https://tabletop.events/conventions/midwinter-gaming-convention-2019/schedule/331 Chimera Game 2: https://tabletop.events/conventi...
Nov 22, 2018•39 min•Ep. 2
