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 19.1 - Love and Justice with Chris Foste...
On today’s episode, series 19 begins with our first small game, Love and Justice by Senda Linaugh, gets a full series crammed into one episode with guest Chris Foster from the Play/Test podcast! Welcome to the first of three small games we’ll be covering this series!
83 min
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Our GenCon 2019 Schedule
This week is a week off for us as we prepare for GenCon, but if you’d like a reminder of what our schedule is, look no further!
5 min
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Character Evolution Cast E14: Convention Surviv...
In today’s Character Evolution Cast episode, Amelia and Ryan Share their tips for making the most of your convention experience, from putting together your packing list to surviving con drop.
62 min
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Series 18.3 - Descent into Midnight with design...
On today’s episode, Series 18 wraps up with Descent into Midnight, a Powered by the Apocalypse game designed by Richard Kreutz-Landry, Taylor LaBresh and Rich Howard. We welcome back Richard and Taylor this episode and plunge into the deep end to discuss the character creation process and even delve into some fanfic with our own characters.
112 min
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Series 18.2 - Descent into Midnight with design...
On today’s episode, Series 18 continues with the final portion of our character creation for Descent into Midnight, a Powered by the Apocalypse game designed by Richard Kreutz-Landry, Taylor LaBresh and Rich Howard. We welcome back Richard and Taylor this episode and really dive into the abstract with our characters.
55 min
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Series 18.1 - Descent into Midnight with Richar...
On today’s episode, we start to tackle character creation for a game that has been on our list from the beginning of this podcast: Descent into Midnight! Series 18 begins here with Richard Kreutz-Landry and Taylor LaBresh, co-designers for this very game!
67 min
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Character Evolution Cast E13 - Inspiration
In today’s Character Evolution Cast episode, we chat about places to find inspiration for your game. While there are endless sources of ideas, we sit down together to talk about a few of our favorites.
86 min
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Series 17.3 - Mouse Guard 2E with Charlotte and...
On the last episode of the 17th series, Megan Scharlau and Charlotte Elena from Tabletop Potluck join us to discuss the character creation process for Mouse Guard, a cute as heck RPG from The Burning Wheel, where you play as super adorable mice people in a medieval, semi-fantasy setting.
58 min
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Series 17.2 - Mouse Guard 2E with Charlotte and...
On the second episode of the 17th series, we welcome back Megan Scharlau and Charlotte Elena from Tabletop Potluck to finish creating characters for Mouse Guard, a cute as heck RPG from The Burning Wheel, where you play as super adorable mice people in a medieval, semi-fantasy setting.
37 min
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Series 17.1 - Mouse Guard 2E with Charlotte and...
On this first episode of the 17th series, we’ll be sitting down with Megan Scharlau and Charlotte Elena from Tabletop Potluck to discuss and create characters for Mouse Guard, a cute as heck RPG from The Burning Wheel, where you play as super adorable mice people in a medieval, semi-fantasy setting.
58 min
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Special Announcements - Brief Hiatus and More!
In this special announcements episode, we go over a few important announcements for us, GenCon and even get to read a review again!
9 min
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Bonus Episode - No Thank You Evil with Amelia's...
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.
31 min
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Series 16.3 - Hearts of Wulin with Lowell Franc...
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.
82 min
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Series 16.2 - Hearts of Wulin with Lowell Franc...
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.
46 min
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Series 16.1 - Hearts of Wulin with Lowell Franc...
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.
66 min
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Character Evolution Cast E12 - Psychology of AI...
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.
86 min
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Character Evolution Cast E11 - Established Sett...
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.
73 min
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Series 15.3 - Iron Edda Accelerated with Tracy ...
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!
102 min
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Series 15.2 - Iron Edda Accelerated with Tracy ...
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-sevenSubmit your questions to us here:https://questions.charactercreationcast.com
79 min
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Series 15.1 - Iron Edda Accelerated with Tracy ...
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-sevenSubmit your questions to us here:https://questions.charactercreationcast.com
87 min
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Year 1 Anniversary Q&A
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 Kickstarterhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/therpgacademy/acadecon-2019-ours-goes-to-seven
120 min
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Character Creation Spotlight E04 - Witch+Craft ...
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
35 min
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Series 14.3 - Shadowrun with NeoScum (Discussion)
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.
99 min
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Series 14.2 - Shadowrun with NeoScum (Creation ...
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=1842794Final questions for the Q&A episode! We’ll be recording this a couple days after release!https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEB54BK-5mq4XuUgg4fXzn8RMrX34C2jyqvSVrNth9zvxSDg/viewform
65 min
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Series 14.1 - Shadowrun with NeoScum (Creation)
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/1100242211596312576Do you have questions for us? We’re gathering them for a Q&A episode coming soon!https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEB54BK-5mq4XuUgg4fXzn8RMrX34C2jyqvSVrNth9zvxSDg/viewform
100 min