Character Creation Cast

Join Amelia and Ryan on a journey to create characters in many different role playing game systems with guests from across the industry.

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Series 87.2 - Cosmic Century Knights with James...
Welcome to the second episode of series 87, everyone! In this series, we are covering Cosmic Century Knights, a retro anime and JRPG inspired fantasy TTRPG about wielding one of 100 unique swords to save the world, with designer and returning guest, James D’Amato! In today’s episode, we start creating our characters and get into defining a few of our character aspects!
55 min
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Series 87.1 - Cosmic Century Knights with James...
Welcome to the first episode of series 87, everyone! In this series, we are covering Cosmic Century Knights, a retro anime and JRPG inspired fantasy TTRPG about wielding one of 100 unique swords to save the world, with designer and returning guest, James D’Amato! In today’s episode, we learn all about the history of this game, including some interesting history on the origins of the JRPG genre of video games!
53 min
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Series 86.4 - Strangers on the ‘Net with Alliso...
Welcome to the final episode of series 86, everyone! In this series, we are covering our first LARP, Strangers on the ‘Net, an online live action roleplaying game where you play as 90’s teens pretending to be 90’s teens in an online fandom forum to pretend to be characters from a fandom you all know and love, with previous guest of the show and designer of this game, Allison K. Cole! In today’s episode, finish our discussion with Allison and spill the tea about our characters’ possible interactions in our fanfic portion!
57 min
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Series 86.3 - Strangers on the ‘Net with Alliso...
Welcome to the third episode of series 86, everyone! In this series, we are covering our first LARP, Strangers on the ‘Net, an online live action roleplaying game where you play as 90’s teens pretending to be 90’s teens in an online fandom forum to pretend to be characters from a fandom you all know and love, with previous guest of the show and designer of this game, Allison K. Cole! In today’s episode, we talk the business side of TTRPGs with Allison as well as starting to get into our thoughts on how the character creation process went for this game!
58 min
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Series 86.2 - Strangers on the ‘Net with Alliso...
Welcome to the second episode of series 86, everyone! In this series, we are covering our first LARP, Strangers on the ‘Net, an online live action roleplaying game where you play as 90’s teens pretending to be 90’s teens in an online fandom forum to pretend to be characters from a fandom you all know and love, with previous guest of the show and designer of this game, Allison K. Cole! In today’s episode, we finish creating our characters as well as our character’s characters, as well as our character’s character’s made-up fandom series!
79 min
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Series 86.1 - Strangers on the ‘Net with Alliso...
Welcome to the first episode of series 86, everyone! In this series, we are covering our first LARP, Strangers on the ‘Net, an online live action roleplaying game where you play as 90’s teens pretending to be 90’s teens in an online fandom forum to pretend to be characters from a fandom you all know and love, with previous guest of the show and designer of this game, Allison K. Cole! In today’s episode, we learn all about the history of this game and dive into character creation by picking our fandom and naming our teens!
85 min
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Series 85.4 - Mutants in the Now with Julian Ka...
Welcome to the final episode of series 85, everyone! In this series, we are covering the retro-clone, mutant animal RPG Mutants in the Now with designer Julian Kay, and in today’s episode, we discuss the process, character sheet design in general amongst other design topics, as well as some fanfic for our characters!
115 min
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Series 85.3 - Mutants in the Now with Julian Ka...
Welcome to the third episode of series 85, everyone! In this series, we are covering the retro-clone, mutant animal RPG Mutants in the Now with designer Julian Kay, and in today’s episode, we finish up our characters with skills, equipment, contacts and more!
69 min
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Series 85.2 - Mutants in the Now with Julian Ka...
Welcome to the second episode of series 85, everyone! In this series, we are covering the retro-clone, mutant animal RPG Mutants in the Now with designer Julian Kay, and in today’s episode, we mutate our animals and figure out what sort of fighting style they all have!
65 min
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Series 85.1 - Mutants in the Now with Julian Ka...
Welcome to the first episode of series 85, everyone! In this series, we are covering the retro-clone, mutant animal RPG Mutants in the Now with designer Julian Kay, and in today’s episode, we learn all about the history of the game before diving into character creation and find out what sort of animals we are all making!
82 min
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Series 84.5 - Galactic and Going Rogue with sat...
Welcome to the final episode of series 84, everyone! In this series, we are covering two amazing games in one! Galactic, a Star Wars inspired, Belonging Outside Belonging, GMless TTRPG about relationships, rebellion and war among the stars by Riley Rethal. As well as Going Rogue, a game inspired by Star Wars’ Rogue One and Andor utilizing the same system but geared more towards one shots and shorter campaigns by Jess Levine! Our guest for this series is previous guest on the show, satah, who consulted on both of these games, and in this episode, we discuss the character creation process, how relationships and table positioning can matter in some games, as well as showcase a galaxy brain idea for how to utilize both of these games in tandem!
77 min
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Series 84.4 - Galactic and Going Rogue with sat...
Welcome to the fourth episode of series 84, everyone! In this series, we are covering two amazing games in one! Galactic, a Star Wars inspired, Belonging Outside Belonging, GMless TTRPG about relationships, rebellion and war among the stars by Riley Rethal. As well as Going Rogue, a game inspired by Star Wars’ Rogue One and Andor utilizing the same system but geared more towards one shots and shorter campaigns by Jess Levine! Our guest for this series is previous guest on the show, satah, who consulted on both of these games, and in this episode, we learn more about satah, including some big thoughts on solo RPG character creation mechanics, as well as their ideas on the new electronic character sheets that they are creating for the kickstarter!
55 min
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Series 84.3 - Galactic and Going Rogue with sat...
Welcome to the third episode of series 84, everyone! In this series, we are covering two amazing games in one! Galactic, a Star Wars inspired, Belonging Outside Belonging, GMless TTRPG about relationships, rebellion and war among the stars by Riley Rethal. As well as Going Rogue, a game inspired by Star Wars’ Rogue One and Andor utilizing the same system but geared more towards one shots and shorter campaigns by Jess Levine! Our guest for this series is previous guest on the show, satah, who consulted on both of these games, and in this episode, we add to our world a few more characters and pillars as we create characters for Going Rogue!
61 min
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Series 84.2 - Galactic and Going Rogue with sat...
Welcome to the second episode of series 84, everyone! In this series, we are covering two amazing games in one! Galactic, a Star Wars inspired, Belonging Outside Belonging, GMless TTRPG about relationships, rebellion and war among the stars by Riley Rethal. As well as Going Rogue, a game inspired by Star Wars’ Rogue One and Andor utilizing the same system but geared more towards one shots and shorter campaigns by Jess Levine! Our guest for this series is previous guest on the show, satah, who consulted on both of these games, and in this episode, we hyperjump into Galactic character creation and world building!
89 min
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Series 84.1 - Galactic and Going Rogue with sat...
Welcome to the first episode of series 84, everyone! In this series, we are covering two amazing games in one! Galactic, a Star Wars inspired, Belonging Outside Belonging, GMless TTRPG about relationships, rebellion and war among the stars by Riley Rethal. As well as Going Rogue, a game inspired by Star Wars’ Rogue One and Andor utilizing the same system but geared more towards one shots and shorter campaigns by Jess Levine! Our guest for this series is previous guest on the show, satah, who consulted on both of these games, and in this episode, we dive into learning about both Galactic and Going Rogue before we get to character creation in the next episode!
67 min
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Series 83.4 - Wandering Blades with Daniel Kwan...
Welcome to the final episode of series 83, everyone! In this series, we are covering Wandering Blades, an action-packed, wuxia TTRPG, with designer and host of Asians Represent, Daniel Kwan! In today’s episode, we are finishing up our discussion series along with some excellent fanfic!
41 min
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Series 83.3 - Wandering Blades with Daniel Kwan...
Welcome to the third episode of series 83, everyone! In this series, we are covering Wandering Blades, an action-packed, wuxia TTRPG, with designer and host of Asians Represent, Daniel Kwan! In today’s episode, we learn a bit more about Daniel before diving into discussing Wandering Blades character creation!
57 min
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Series 83.2 - Wandering Blades with Daniel Kwan...
Welcome to the second episode of series 83, everyone! In this series, we are covering Wandering Blades, an action-packed, wuxia TTRPG, with designer and host of Asians Represent, Daniel Kwan! In today’s episode, we finish creating our characters, which may make their way into the Wandering Blades official lore!
70 min
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Series 83.1 - Wandering Blades with Daniel Kwan...
Welcome to the first episode of series 83, everyone! In this series, we are covering Wandering Blades, an action-packed, wuxia TTRPG, with designer and host of Asians Represent, Daniel Kwan! In today’s episode, we get into some fantastic discussion about this game and more before diving into character creation with the importance of a name in the wuxia genre!
65 min
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Series 82.4 - Salvage Union with Aled Lawlor an...
Welcome to the final episode of series 82, everyone! In this series, we are covering Salvage Union, a hope-core, giant mech TTRPG, with designers Aled Lawlor and Panny Lines! In today’s episode, we finish up our discussion series with some great talk about playtesting, flaws and strengths in game design in general, and of course our fanfic!
56 min
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Series 82.3 - Salvage Union with Aled Lawlor an...
Welcome to the third episode of series 82, everyone! In this series, we are covering Salvage Union, a hope-core, giant mech TTRPG, with designers Aled Lawlor and Panny Lines! In today’s episode, start our discussion series by getting to know Aled and Panny a bit better and start talking about how this process went!
62 min
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Series 82.2 - Salvage Union with Aled Lawlor an...
Welcome to the second episode of series 82, everyone! In this series, we are covering Salvage Union, a hope-core, giant mech TTRPG, with designers Aled Lawlor and Panny Lines! In today’s episode, we finish our character creation and then create our mobile Crawler community!
112 min
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Series 82.1 - Salvage Union with Aled Lawlor an...
Welcome to the first episode of series 81, everyone! In this series, we are covering Salvage Union, a hope-core, giant mech TTRPG, with designers Aled Lawlor and Panny Lines! In today’s episode, learn all about the game and begin creating our characters together!
83 min
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Series 81.5 - Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne [De...
Welcome to the final episode of series 81, everyone! In this series, we are covering Shadowdark with designer Kelsey Dionne! In today’s episode, we finish our discussion series with getting into some more great discussion about the nuts and bolts of Shadowdark. We even get into some pretty great fanfic for these loveable misfits!
49 min
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Series 81.4 - Shadowdark with Kelsey Dionne [De...
Welcome to the fourth episode of series 81, everyone! In this series, we are covering Shadowdark with designer Kelsey Dionne! In today’s episode, we begin our discussion series with learning more about Kelsey as well as getting into some great discussion about the nuts and bolts of Shadowdark.
56 min