Welcome to the second episode of series 78! In this series, we sat down with Brian Saliba, creator of the game we are covering this series, Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme, the officially licensed role-playing game lovingly ripped off from the complete works of Monty Python! This episode, we start making our characters! Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/charactercreationcast Announcements: Bluesky Starter Pack! https://go.bsky.app/RBJ971x Join our Di...
Dec 09, 2024•55 min•Season 78Ep. 2
Welcome to the first episode of series 78! In this series, we sat down with Brian Saliba, creator of the game we are covering this series, Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme, the officially licensed role-playing game lovingly ripped off from the complete works of Monty Python! This episode, we learn what this game is all about as well as quite a bit of detail about the game development experience with a licensed property. Character Creation Cast Patreon - Promo Code C3TH...
Dec 02, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 78Ep. 1
Welcome to the final episode of series 77, everyone! In this series, we sat down with Mike Macagnone, writer on the game we are covering this series, Crucible of Aether by Living Metal Games, a mystic-industrial TTRPG where you hone your skills, explore the world and forge a life in the tumultuous Odayan Empire! This episode, we finish our discussion with a great look at the necessity of the feedback process when testing out a new game before knocking it out of the park with some remarkable fanf...
Nov 25, 2024•57 min•Season 77Ep. 4
Welcome to the third episode of series 77, everyone! In this series, we sat down with Mike Macagnone, writer on the game we are covering this series, Crucible of Aether by Living Metal Games, a mystic-industrial TTRPG where you hone your skills, explore the world and forge a life in the tumultuous Odayan Empire! This episode, we have a great discussion about character sheets, crunch, and how stories in this sort of world tend to lean towards worker revolutions. Character Creation Cast Patreon ht...
Nov 18, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 77Ep. 3
Welcome to the second episode of series 77, everyone! In this series, we sat down with Mike Macagnone, writer on the game we are covering this series, Crucible of Aether by Living Metal Games, a mystic-industrial TTRPG where you hone your skills, explore the world and forge a life in the tumultuous Odayan Empire! This episode, we finish creating our characters together. Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/charactercreationcast Announcements: Crucible of Aether Kickstarter: https:...
Nov 11, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 77Ep. 2
Welcome to the first episode of series 77, everyone! In this series, we sat down with Mike Macagnone, writer on the game we are covering this series, Crucible of Aether by Living Metal Games, a mystic-industrial TTRPG where you hone your skills, explore the world and forge a life in the tumultuous Odayan Empire! This episode, we learn all about this game and start creating our characters using this lifepath adjacent character creation system. Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/c...
Nov 04, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 77Ep. 1
Welcome to the final episode of series 76, everyone! In this series, we sat down with Tyler Samples, the Keeper from the One Shot Network show, Mystery County Monster Hunters Club, to learn about Monster of the Week, an urban-fantasy horror PbtA game from Evil Hat Productions that lets you play out your favorite monster of the week style shows like Buffy, Supernatural and so much more! This episode, we discuss the process and get into some truly inspired fanfic for our unhinged world we created ...
Oct 28, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Season 76Ep. 4
Welcome to the third episode of series 76, everyone! In this series, we sat down with Tyler Samples, the Keeper from the One Shot Network show, Mystery County Monster Hunters Club, to learn about Monster of the Week, an urban-fantasy horror PbtA game from Evil Hat Productions that lets you play out your favorite monster of the week style shows like Buffy, Supernatural and so much more! This episode, we finish up our characters and try to make sense of the bizarre way that we are all related. Cha...
Oct 21, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 76Ep. 3
Welcome to the second episode of series 76, everyone! In this series, we sat down with Tyler Samples, the Keeper from the One Shot Network show, Mystery County Monster Hunters Club, to learn about Monster of the Week, an urban-fantasy horror PbtA game from Evil Hat Productions that lets you play out your favorite monster of the week style shows like Buffy, Supernatural and so much more! This episode, we finally begin our character creation for the series and Ryan chooses violence with his choice...
Oct 14, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 76Ep. 2
Welcome to the first episode of series 76, everyone! In this series, we sat down with Tyler Samples, the Keeper from the One Shot Network show, Mystery County Monster Hunters Club, to learn about Monster of the Week, an urban-fantasy horror PbtA game from Evil Hat Productions that lets you play out your favorite monster of the week style shows like Buffy, Supernatural and so much more! This episode, Tyler tells us all about the game and his podcast before setting us up for character creation. Ch...
Oct 07, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 76Ep. 1
Welcome to the final episode of series 75, everyone! In this series, we sat down with game designer Cat McDonald about their brand new post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG, Rangers of a Broken World. In today’s episodes, we finish our discussion series with some remarkable fanfic before taking things up a level and learning about the lessons and seasons of advancement in this system! Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/charactercreationcast Announcements: What Am I Rolling? - New show on...
Sep 30, 2024•54 min•Season 75Ep. 4
Welcome to the third episode of series 75, everyone! In this series, we sat down with game designer Cat McDonald about their brand new post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG, Rangers of a Broken World. In today’s episodes, begin our discussion block by learning a bit more about Cat before getting into our thoughts about how character creation went in this series! Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/charactercreationcast Announcements: Roleplay Retcon - New show on the One Shot Network! htt...
Sep 23, 2024•51 min•Season 75Ep. 3
Welcome to the second episode of series 75, everyone! In this series, we sat down with game designer Cat McDonald about their brand new post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG, Rangers of a Broken World. In today’s episodes, we finish up our characters with Cat, including figuring out our signature spells! Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/charactercreationcast Announcements: Gamewoven - New show on the One Shot Network! https://oneshotpodcast.com/actual-play/gamewoven/ Rangers of a Broke...
Sep 16, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 75Ep. 2
Welcome to the first episode of series 75, everyone! In this series, we sat down with game designer Cat McDonald about their brand new post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG, Rangers of a Broken World. In today’s episodes, Cat walks us through what the game is all about before starting to get us into character creation, and we have a lot of fun all along the way! Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/charactercreationcast Announcements: Rangers of a Broken World Playtest Signup https://evilh...
Sep 09, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Season 75Ep. 1
Welcome to the fifth and final episode of series 74! This series welcomed Sam Sleney, one of the three designers behind Orbital Blues, the space western RPG we are covering this month! This episode, we finish up our discussion with more industry chat about the review process and how it’s ok to like things that are objectively bad, we make some fantastic fanfic for our characters, and do a deep dive into inspiration and being true to your games that you design or run! Character Creation Cast Patr...
Sep 02, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 74Ep. 5
Welcome to the fourth episode of series 74! This series welcomed Sam Sleney, one of the three designers behind Orbital Blues, the space western RPG we are covering this month! This episode, we begin the discussion series with learning a bit more about Sam’s RPG origins and continue the industry talk with layout design and issues with the RPG review process in the community! Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/charactercreationcast Announcements: The Ultimate RPG Podcast https://o...
Aug 26, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 74Ep. 4
Welcome to the third episode of series 74! This series welcomed Sam Sleney, one of the three designers behind Orbital Blues, the space western RPG we are covering this month! This episode, we finish our characters by selecting Troubles and Gambits, our inventory, and even create the ship that we have! Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/charactercreationcast Announcements: The Ultimate RPG Podcast https://oneshotpodcast.com/interview-discussion/the-ultimate-rpg-podcast/ Starwhal ...
Aug 19, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Season 74Ep. 3
Welcome to the second episode of series 74! This series welcomed Sam Sleney, one of the three designers behind Orbital Blues, the space western RPG we are covering this month! This episode, learn about the history (and future) of Orbital Blues before diving into the start of character creation! Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/charactercreationcast Announcements: Starwhal Odyssey Public Feed https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/starwhal The Ultimate RPG Podcast https://oneshotpodc...
Aug 12, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 74Ep. 2
Welcome to the first episode of series 74! This series welcomed Sam Sleney, one of the three designers behind Orbital Blues, the space western RPG we are covering this month! This episode, we get introduced to the game by Sam and get into some fantastic discussion about game design and the industry itself! Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/charactercreationcast Announcements: The Ultimate RPG Podcast https://oneshotpodcast.com/interview-discussion/the-ultimate-rpg-podcast/ Join...
Aug 05, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 74Ep. 1
Welcome to the final episode of series 73! This series, Amelia agreed to cover TMNT for Ryan's birthday month! So we invited Jef and Jon from the System Mastery podcast to join us and help us through the experience. Since TMNT is so small, we are also covering Palladium's After the Bomb to give us more options and a more robust setting! This episode, learn about the mechanics of Palladium's system a bit as well as how the experience system works in the game. We also dive into our fanfic section ...
Jul 29, 2024•58 min•Season 73Ep. 5
Welcome to the fourth episode of series 73! This series, Amelia agreed to cover TMNT for Ryan's birthday month! So we invited Jef and Jon from the System Mastery podcast to join us and help us through the experience. Since TMNT is so small, we are also covering Palladium's After the Bomb to give us more options and a more robust setting! This episode, we start to discuss the character creation process after learning a bit more about Jef and Jon! Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.co...
Jul 22, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 73Ep. 4
Welcome to the third episode of series 73! This series, Amelia agreed to cover TMNT for Ryan's birthday month! So we invited Jef and Jon from the System Mastery podcast to join us and help us through the experience. Since TMNT is so small, we are also covering Palladium's After the Bomb to give us more options and a more robust setting! This episode, we finish up our characters and survive the Palladium skill selection process. Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/charactercreatio...
Jul 15, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 73Ep. 3
Welcome to the second episode of series 73! This series, Amelia agreed to cover TMNT for Ryan's birthday month! So we invited Jef and Jon from the System Mastery podcast to join us and help us through the experience. Since TMNT is so small, we are also covering Palladium's After the Bomb to give us more options and a more robust setting! This episode, we begin creating our characters and find out what sort of mutant animals we're all making. Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/ch...
Jul 08, 2024•53 min•Season 73Ep. 2
Welcome to the start of series 73! This series, Amelia agreed to cover TMNT for Ryan's birthday month! So we invited Jef and Jon from the System Mastery podcast to join us and help us through the experience. Since TMNT is so small, we are also covering Palladium's After the Bomb to give us more options and a more robust setting! This episode, we learn all about these two games, including a really interesting history for the TMNT game itself. Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/ch...
Jul 01, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 73Ep. 1
Welcome to the final episode of series 72! In this series, we welcome Pelle Nilsson to discuss his game, Mörk Borg, a pitch-black apocalyptic fantasy RPG about lost souls and fools seeking redemption, forgiveness or the last remaining riches in a bleak and dying world. We also have a guest co-host on this series, Agatha Cheng from the Asians Represent podcast is filling in for Amelia. In today's episode, we get to the phenomenal fanfic about our characters, take a peek at the apocalypse, and lea...
Jun 24, 2024•48 min•Season 72Ep. 4
Welcome to the third episode of series 72! In this series, we welcome Pelle Nilsson to discuss his game, Mörk Borg, a pitch-black apocalyptic fantasy RPG about lost souls and fools seeking redemption, forgiveness or the last remaining riches in a bleak and dying world. We also have a guest co-host on this series, Agatha Cheng from the Asians Represent podcast is filling in for Amelia. In today's episode, we learn more about Pelle as well as discuss how the character creation process went for thi...
Jun 18, 2024•40 min•Season 72Ep. 3
Welcome to the second episode of series 72! In this series, we welcome Pelle Nilsson to discuss his game, Mörk Borg, a pitch-black apocalyptic fantasy RPG about lost souls and fools seeking redemption, forgiveness or the last remaining riches in a bleak and dying world. We also have a guest co-host on this series, Agatha Cheng from the Asians Represent podcast is filling in for Amelia. In today's episode, we finish creating our characters including utilizing the optional random tables for charac...
Jun 10, 2024•40 min•Season 72Ep. 2
Welcome to the first episode of series 72! In this series, we welcome Pelle Nilsson to discuss his game, Mörk Borg, a pitch-black apocalyptic fantasy RPG about lost souls and fools seeking redemption, forgiveness or the last remaining riches in a bleak and dying world. We also have a guest co-host on this series, Agatha Cheng from the Asians Represent podcast is filling in for Amelia so she can recover from being sick. In today's episode, we learn all about Mörk Borg and even start making our pe...
Jun 03, 2024•49 min•Season 72Ep. 1
Welcome to the final episode of series 71! In this series, we are thrilled to welcome Sean Nittner, Director of Projects at Evil Hat Productions and co-designer for the game we are covering in this series, AGON, a game where you play as heroes of myth and legend, prove the glory of your name, and win your way back home! In today's episode, we finish up our discussion and cover some really interesting game design points along the way! Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/characterc...
May 27, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 71Ep. 4
Welcome to the third episode of series 71! In this series, we are thrilled to welcome Sean Nittner, Director of Projects at Evil Hat Productions and co-designer for the game we are covering this series, AGON, a game where you play as heroes of myth and legend, prove the glory of your name, and win your way back home! In today's episode, we learn a bit about Sean before diving into some really great design discussion about AGON! Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/charactercreatio...
May 20, 2024•56 min•Season 71Ep. 3
