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 53.1 - Nova/Lumen with Spencer Campbell ...
Welcome to the first part of our Nova/Lumen series, everyone! This series we have Spencer Campbell joining us to showcase his fast-paced, action heavy RPG, Nova, a rules-lite tabletop RPG in a world where the sun exploded, and humanity struggles to hold onto what little light they have left. In this episode, we learn about the setting and dive into the beginning of character creation!
71 min
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Character Creation Spotlight - E18.2 - I Have t...
Welcome to a special bonus episode of Character Creation Spotlight, everyone. In this bonus series we are thrilled to welcome Jess Levine and satah, designers of I Have the High Ground, a two-player game about banter, posturing and capes! This episode we create our characters and learn more about the design behind the game!
72 min
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Character Creation Spotlight - E18.1 - I Have t...
Welcome to a special bonus episode of Character Creation Spotlight, everyone. In this bonus series we are thrilled to welcome Jess Levine and satah, designers of I Have the High Ground, a two-player game about banter, posturing and capes! This episode we learn about the game and create our scenarios together. Stay tuned for the next episode where we finish our characters and learn more about the design behind the game!
74 min
129
Character Creation Spotlight - E17 - Broken wit...
Welcome to a special bonus episode of Character Creation Spotlight, everyone. This episode we are thrilled to welcome Ben Wallis, designer of Broken, a brilliant and heart-wrenching two-player, tragic romance, RPG about breaking hearts and breaking objects. We’ll be discussing the game, creating a few pairs of characters, and finding out all about the crowdfunding campaign!
89 min
130
Series 52.3 - Under the Neighborhood with Kyle ...
Welcome to the final episode of series 52, everyone! This series, we welcome Kyle Decker to discuss his game, Under the Neighborhood, a game where you play out the curiously ordinary lives of characters in a world like you see in Hilda, Gravity Falls, The Owl House and other similar shows. This episode we discuss the process, discover a new cryptid and figure out more about our characters in the fanfic!
74 min
131
Series 52.2 - Under the Neighborhood with Kyle ...
Welcome to the second episode of series 52, everyone! This series, we welcome Kyle Decker to discuss his game, Under the Neighborhood, a game where you play out the curiously ordinary lives of characters in a world like you see in Hilda, Gravity Falls, The Owl House and other similar shows. This episode we finish creating our characters and learn about Hartford’s favorite pastime!
71 min
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Series 52.1 - Under the Neighborhood with Kyle ...
Welcome to the first episode of series 52, everyone! This series, we welcome Kyle Decker to discuss his game, Under the Neighborhood, a game where you play out the curiously ordinary lives of characters in a world like you see in Hilda, Gravity Falls, The Owl House and other similar shows. This episode we learn about the game, create our world, and begin creating our amazingly mundane characters!
84 min
133
Character Creation Cast Q&A - 4 Year Anniversar...
Welcome to the finale of a special bonus series of episodes! We are excited to be answering your questions! This episode we cover 23 questions from various folks who have submitted questions, and hopefully provide some thoughtful answers to them!
101 min
134
Series 51.3 - Alchemistresses with Allison K. C...
Welcome to the final episode of series 51, everyone! This series, we welcome Allison K. Cole and Dora Dee Rogers to discuss their latest game, Alchemistresses, a magical girl game where you play the reincarnation of powerful magical girl mistresses of the past. This episode we discuss the creation process, get into some excellent fanfic discussion and find out how Ryan’s face is holding up from all the smiling!
91 min
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Series 51.2 - Alchemistresses with Allison K. C...
Welcome to the second episode of series 51, everyone! This series, we welcome Allison K. Cole and Dora Dee Rogers to discuss their latest game, Alchemistresses, a magical girl game where you play the reincarnation of powerful magical girl mistresses of the past. This episode we create the present and past worlds and our past characters along with our signature magical girl spells!
94 min
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Series 51.1 - Alchemistresses with Allison K. C...
Welcome to the first episode of series 51, everyone! This series, we welcome Allison K. Cole and Dora Dee Rogers to discuss their latest game, Alchemistresses, a magical girl game where you play the reincarnation of powerful magical girl mistresses of the past. This episode we learn about the game, start creating characters, and find out why Ryan was beaming while recording this series!
100 min
137
Character Creation Cast Q&A - 4 Year Anniversar...
Welcome to the second of a special bonus series of episodes! This series will be released at the end of May and subsequent months until we are done, and we are excited to be answering your questions! This episode we cover 18 questions from various folks who have submitted questions, and hopefully provide some thoughtful answers to them!
89 min
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Character Creation Cast Q&A - 4 Year Anniversar...
Welcome to the first of a special bonus series of episodes! This series will be released at the end of May and subsequent months until we are done, and we are excited to be answering your questions! This episode we cover 17 questions from various folks who have submitted questions, and hopefully provide some thoughtful answers to them!
100 min
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Series 50.3 - Dungeons and Dragons 5E with Aram...
Welcome to the final episode of series 50, everyone! This series, we welcome Aram and Dylan from the Kill Every Monster Podcast, to revisit Dungeons and Dragons 5E by utilizing supplements to enhance your games. This episode we discuss how the process went and try to make sense of whatever this was in our fanfic portion!
137 min
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Series 50.2 - Dungeons and Dragons 5E with Aram...
Welcome to the second episode of series 50, everyone! This series, we welcome Aram and Dylan from the Kill Every Monster Podcast, to revisit Dungeons and Dragons 5E by utilizing supplements to enhance your games. This episode we finish our characters and ask ourselves what we hath wrought!
110 min
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Series 50.1 - Dungeons and Dragons 5E with Aram...
Welcome to the first episode of series 50, everyone! This series, we welcome Aram and Dylan from the Kill Every Monster Podcast, to revisit Dungeons and Dragons 5E by utilizing supplements to enhance your games. This episode we dive into commentary on D&D itself, what makes something D&D, and a lot of other great discussion before we dive into a very interesting character creation session!
120 min
142
Series 49.3 - Marvel Super Heroes with Jef and ...
Welcome to the final episode of series 49, everyone! This series, we welcome Jef and Jon from the System Mastery Podcast, to learn about a really old game, Marvel Super Heroes, a superheroic RPG by TSR that a lot have coined the FASERIP system (not affiliated with the actual FASERIP RPG). This episode we discuss the process and have a little therapy time for… surviving the Marvel Super Heroes character creation process!
128 min
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Series 49.2 - Marvel Super Heroes with Jef and ...
Welcome to the second episode of series 49, everyone! This series, we welcome Jef and Jon from the System Mastery Podcast, to learn about a really old game, Marvel Super Heroes, a superheroic RPG by TSR that a lot have coined the FASERIP system (not affiliated with the actual FASERIP RPG). This episode we finish our characters and break Ryan’s soul… It’s fine!
97 min
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Series 49.1 - Marvel Super Heroes with Jef and ...
Welcome to the first episode of series 49, everyone! This series, we welcome Jef and Jon from the System Mastery Podcast, to learn about a really old game, Marvel Super Heroes, a superheroic RPG by TSR that a lot have coined the FASERIP system (not affiliated with the actual FASERIP RPG). This supersized episode we learn all about the game and start rolling up our characters!
113 min
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Series 48.3 - Kids on Brooms with Jonathan Gilm...
Welcome to the final episode of series 48, everyone! This series, we welcome Jonathan Gilmour and Doug Levandowski, to learn about their game, Kids on Brooms, the latest in the Kids on series that started with Kids on Bikes where you play as students at a magic school! This episode we discuss the character creation process, get into some great fanfic, and go way too long in our announcements and outtakes!
112 min
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Character Creation Spotlight E16 - Yazeba’s Bed...
Welcome to a special bonus episode of Character Creation Spotlight, everyone! This episode, we are shining the light on Yazeba’s Bed and Breakfast, a slice of life RPG about a magical B&B with a whole host of phenomenal characters. Designers Jay Dragon and Lillie J. Harris join us to teach us about the system, run us through setting up a scenario, and have many small Evolution Cast style discussions sprinkled throughout the episode.
82 min
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Series 48.2 - Kids on Brooms with Jonathan Gilm...
Welcome to the second episode of series 48, everyone! This series, we welcome Jonathan Gilmour and Doug Levandowski, to learn about their game, Kids on Brooms, the latest in the Kids on series that started with Kids on Bikes where you play as students at a magic school! This episode we create our characters then dive into the rich relationship system!
72 min
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Series 48.1 - Kids on Brooms with Jonathan Gilm...
Welcome to the first episode of series 48, everyone! This series, we welcome Jonathan Gilmour and Doug Levandowski, to learn about their game, Kids on Brooms, the latest in the Kids on series that started with Kids on Bikes where you play as students at a magic school! This episode we learn about the game, the history of the series, get into some world building and then begin making our people!
76 min
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Character Creation Spotlight E15 - Deimos Acade...
Welcome to a bonus Character Creation Spotlight episode 15, everyone! This episode, we welcome Austin Taylor and Amanda Kahl, to learn about the game they are designing along with Banana Chan, Deimos Academy, a horror RPG set in a spooky boarding school that is played with a coloring book and paper dolls! This episode we learn about the game, figure out some details about our school, and make our supernaturally powered students returning for a mysterious 15 year reunion!
44 min
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Series 47.3 - Thirsty Sword Lesbians with April...
Welcome to the final episode of series 47, everyone! This series, we welcome April Kit Walsh, to learn about her game, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, a Powered by the Apocalypse game where swords cross and hearts race! This episode we discuss the creation process, get into some amazing fanfic, and then stick around for the outtakes!
109 min