Welcome to the final episode of our Cyberpunk Red series, everyone! This series, we invited Phil and Senda, from Panda's Talking Games, back into the studio to walk us through the character creation process for this gritty cyberpunk game by Talsorian Games that takes place in an alternate timeline in the 2040s! This episode we discuss the process, getting into some really great topics and, of course, some fabulous fanfic.

Welcome to the second episode of our Cyberpunk Red series, everyone! This series, we invited Phil and Senda, from Panda's Talking Games, back into the studio to walk us through the character creation process for this gritty cyberpunk game by Talsorian Games that takes place in an alternate timeline in the 2040s! This episode we finish up our characters and rebel against the rules a little bit!

Welcome to a special bonus episode of Character Creation Spotlight! For this episode, we sit down with Andrew Gillis, designer of the game we'll be shining a light on today, Girl by Moonlight, a Magical Girl game about exploring the heartbreak of denying who you really are, fighting for what you believe in, and the transcendent power of building relationships while embracing your true self. This game is funding on Backerkit right now, so check it out after you hear all about it and hear about our amazing group we created this episode!

Welcome to the first episode of our Cyberpunk Red series, everyone! This series, we invited Phil and Senda, from Panda's Talking Games, back into the studio to walk us through the character creation process for this gritty cyberpunk game by Talsorian Games that takes place in an alternate timeline in the 2040s! This episode we learn about the game and experience its lifepath system!

How does a new player get into RPGs in the first place? What resources are out there to help me find the right game? How many other episodes are we able to reference in one episode?! Join us for the long-awaited return of our Character Evolution Cast series!

In this session Amelia and Ryan discuss fusing more necromancy in with the magical girl aesthetics, relationship mechanics, fashion, the names of things, what happens when you die, how you get revived, game balance and much more.

Welcome to the final episode of our GURPS series, everyone! This episode, Jef and Jon from the System Mastery join us again to discuss how this character creation process worked out for us! We also finish our characters in the longest character recap in the show’s history. We even had nice things to say about the system! This episode is an excellent cap on a really fun series, including some great fanfic!

Welcome to the second episode of our GURPS series, everyone! We here at Character Creation Cast Headquarters would like to formally apologize for what we have unleashed upon the world with the second part of this series with Jef and Jon from the System Mastery podcast. Truly, this is... certainly something that happened!

Welcome to the first episode of our GURPS series, everyone! Wait, it’s not April? And we have Jef and Jon from System Mastery on this series to teach us about the game that can do literally anything? This won’t be daunting at all! Join us for this episode as we learn all about this game, why it exists, and why it’s important to learn about it. Whether GURPS is a favorite of yours or not, you won’t want to miss this series!

Welcome to the final episode in a very special series, everyone! This series Amelia and Ryan examine random tables from all sorts of sources, mash them all together, and create some character concepts together! What sort of havoc have they wrought with this process? You’ll have to listen to find out! This episode we put the final touches on the world with some random world building tables, and then we really mix things up with random relationships tables for all of our characters!

Welcome to the second episode in a very special series, everyone! This series Amelia and Ryan examine random tables from all sorts of sources, mash them all together, and create some character concepts together! What sort of havoc have they wrought with this process? You’ll have to listen to find out! This episode we create our final two characters before gearing up for world building and relationships in the next episode!

Welcome to the first episode in a very special series, everyone! This series Amelia and Ryan examine random tables from all sorts of sources, mash them all together, and create some character concepts together! What sort of havoc have they wrought with this process? You’ll have to listen to find out! This first episode we explain the process and create our first two characters!

What do you get when you blend necromancers and magical girls? We're about to find out! Join Amelia and Ryan in this bonus series where they create a whole RPG using the Illuminated by Lumen system. In this episode we explore what we want to get out of this game and give ourselves a direction to move towards.

On today's 5-year anniversary special episode, Ryan and Amelia sit down to talk about self-conscious clickies, how great analogy to getting treated for mental health issues, Amelia's latest ECT shenanigans, 24 hour time vs 12 hour time, the nightmare that is grocery shopping with sensory issues, Peggy, our 5-year anniversary celebration, a sub-optimal recording session due to life happening at us too much lately, our game plan going forward for the April series, reminisce about the last 5 years a bit, look forward to the next 5 years, and talk about how grateful we are for all of our listeners and supporters. We truly couldn't do this without all of you. Thank you!

Welcome to the final episode of Series 59, everyone! In this series we are joined by previous guest Spencer Campbell to cover his game, Slayers, an RPG where you play as monster hunters for hire. This episode we dig into some phenomenal discussion surrounding inspiration in game design and world building, how the character creation session went in this series, as well as some spectacular fanfic!

Welcome to the second episode of Series 59, everyone! In this series we are joined by previous guest Spencer Campbell to cover his game, Slayers, an RPG where you play as monster hunters for hire. This episode we finally get to create our characters and find out who gets to actually make the coveted Archanist!

Welcome to the first episode of Series 59, everyone! This series we are joined by previous guest Spencer Campbell to cover his game, Slayers, an RPG where you play as monster hunters for hire. This episode we learn all about the game and start diving into one of the most contentious character creation sessions to date!

Welcome to the final episode of our Pasión de las Pasiones series, everyone! In this series we have the game's designer, Brandon Leon-Gambetta (he/him) joining us with his good friend, and Magpie Games GM Elsbeth Denman (she/her) to look at this phenomenal Powered by the Apocalypse game about playing out your very own Telenovela. In this episode, we talk about how the character creation process went, get into some dramatic fanfic, and give Brandon some well-deserved praise!

Welcome to the second episode of our Pasión de las Pasiones series, everyone! In this series we have the game's designer, Brandon Leon-Gambetta (he/him) joining us with his good friend, and Magpie Games GM Elsbeth Denman (she/her) to look at this phenomenal Powered by the Apocalypse game about playing out your very own Telenovela. In this episode, we finally get to character creation with a little collaborative world building as a treat! Get ready for a spicy episode, everyone!

Welcome to the first episode of our Pasión de las Pasiones series, everyone! In this series we have the game's designer, Brandon Leon-Gambetta (he/him) joining us with his good friend, and Magpie Games GM Elsbeth Denman (she/her) to look at this phenomenal Powered by the Apocalypse game about playing out your very own Telenovela. In this episode, we learn all about the game and get into some really fantastic discussions that, somehow, left us no time to actually start creating our characters yet! But trust us, you'll want to listen to this episode for the discussion, as it leads into some brilliant character creation in the next episode.

Join our hosts, Amelia Antrim and Ryan Boelter, as they take a look back at 2022 in this special bonus series! In this episode we talk about our favorite things as well as what we're looking forward to in this new year!

Enjoy these clips from each of our series this last year. We had a lot of fun listening to these as we prepped for the Retrospective series, so we are presenting them to you so you may enjoy them as well!

Join our hosts, Amelia Antrim and Ryan Boelter, as they take a look back at 2022 in this special bonus series! In this episode, we discuss the games covered in our primary series releases between September and December as well as all of the Character Creation Spotlight episodes we released this year, with a little mention of our Q&A bonus series as well!

Join our hosts, Amelia Antrim and Ryan Boelter, as they take a look back at 2022 in this special bonus series! In this episode, we discuss the games covered in our primary series releases between January and August!

Welcome to the final episode of our Ryuutama series, everyone! This series we have Amber Seger from the Tabletop Babble and Shapeshift podcasts, joining us to discuss and create characters for Ryuutama by Atsuhiro Okada, a cozy game about travel in a fantasy world. This episode we have an excellent discussion with Amber about character sheets and accessibility, talk about how the process went with the character creation, and try to make sense of everything in our fanfic segment!