Welcome to the final episode of series 70! In this series, we are thrilled to welcome Dillin Apelyan, brand new host of the One Shot Podcast, to talk about their marvelously meta TTRPG, Metalepsis, a game that breaks the 4th wall between a creator and a created character! In today's episode, learn more about Dillin, discuss the character creation p…

Welcome to the second episode of series 70! In this series, we are thrilled to welcome Dillin Apelyan, brand new host of the One Shot Podcast, to talk about their marvelously meta TTRPG, Metalepsis, a game that breaks the 4th wall between a creator and a created character! In today's episode, we create our characters and find out how we first make …

Welcome to the first episode of series 70! In this series, we are thrilled to welcome Dillin Apelyan, brand new host of the One Shot Podcast, to talk about their marvelously meta TTRPG, Metalepsis, a game that breaks the 4th wall between a creator and a created character! In today's episode, learn about the game and just begin diving into the chara…

Welcome to the extra nice final episode of Series 69! In this series, we are delighted to welcome Haley Gordon, one half of the Storybrewers, to talk about their remarkable sports drama RPG, Fight With Spirit, a game where relationships are as important as the intense sports action! In today's episode, we get to discuss the character creation proce…

Welcome to the extra nice second episode of Series 69! In this series, we are delighted to welcome Haley Gordon, one half of the Storybrewers, to talk about their remarkable sports drama RPG, Fight With Spirit, a game where relationships are as important as the intense sports action! In today's episode, we finish up creating our characters as well …

Welcome to the extra nice beginning of Series 69! In this series, we are delighted to welcome Haley Gordon, one half of the Storybrewers, to talk about their remarkable sports drama RPG, Fight With Spirit, a game where relationships are as important as the intense sports action! In today's episode, we will be learning about the game and creating ou…

Welcome to the final episode of our special February series, everyone! February is the month of love, romance and relationships, so we're excited to invite Maso Perez to the studio in order to look at their new game Life on the Edge, the official Boyfriend Dungeon TTRPG from Kitfox Games, that lets you explore your inner psyche, confront your fears…

Welcome to the second episode of our special February series, everyone! February is the month of love, romance and relationships, so we're excited to invite Maso Perez to the studio in order to look at their new game Life on the Edge, the official Boyfriend Dungeon TTRPG from Kitfox Games, that lets you explore your inner psyche, confront your fear…

Welcome to the first episode of our special February series, everyone! February is the month of love, romance and relationships, so we're excited to invite Maso Perez to the studio in order to look at their new game Life on the Edge, the official Boyfriend Dungeon TTRPG from Kitfox Games, that lets you explore your inner psyche, confront your fears…

Welcome to the final episode of Series 67, everyone! This series we're excited to welcome Taylor Curreysmith from Whimsy Machine Media to discuss his holiday themed game, The Santa Corps, a festive holiday TTRPG about dismantling systemic greed. This episode discuss the creation process, learn about Taylor's LARP origins, and get into some truly wo…

Welcome to the second episode of Series 67, everyone! This series we're excited to welcome Taylor Curreysmith from Whimsy Machine Media to discuss his holiday themed game, The Santa Corps, a festive holiday TTRPG about dismantling systemic greed. This episode we finally create our characters and get to discover what sort of scenario this trio find …

Welcome to the first episode of Series 67, everyone! This series we're excited to welcome Taylor Curreysmith from Whimsy Machine Media to discuss his holiday themed game, The Santa Corps, a festive holiday TTRPG about dismantling systemic greed. This episode we learn about the game and start diving into the character creation process, while having …

Welcome to the final episode of Series 66, everyone! In this series, we sat down with three different designers live at the AcadeCon 2023 convention in Dayton, Ohio in the US! In today's episode, Ryan was able to sit down with the head of the AcadeCon convention as well as the RPG Academy, Michael Ross, to learn about Action 12 Cinema, an action mo…

Welcome to the second episode of Series 66, everyone! In this series, we sat down with three different designers live at the AcadeCon 2023 convention in Dayton, Ohio in the US! In today's episode, Ryan was able to sit down with Carlos Salazar to talk about his brand-new game still in development, Under and Above, an isekai RPG where you play as peo…

Welcome to the first episode of Series 66, everyone! In this series, we sat down with three different designers live at the AcadeCon 2023 convention in Dayton, Ohio in the US! In today's episode, Ryan was able to sit down with Shawn, aka Mallo, from the team behind Identeco, a cyberpunk RPG with western genre elements blended in! Character Creation…

Welcome to the final episode of Series 65, everyone! This series we’ve been covering progressively spookier micro RPGs to help you find the perfect game for your own personal Halloween Special! In today’s episode, Amelia and Ryan sit down to talk about and do the setup for Lycantree by Beau Jágr Sheldon and A Green Hour: The Dying Land by Jeeyon S…

Welcome to the second episode of Series 65, everyone! This series will be covering varying degrees of spooky micro RPGs from various sources so that you can have a good heap of options for your own groups if you are hoping to do an RPG one shot this Halloween! In today’s episode, Amelia and Ryan sit down to talk about and do the setup for It Takes …

Welcome to the first episode of Series 65, everyone! This series will be covering varying degrees of spooky micro RPGs from various sources so that you can have a good heap of options for your own groups if you are hoping to do an RPG one shot this Halloween! In today’s episode, Amelia and Ryan sit down to talk about and do the setup for It’s Not U…

Welcome to the final episode of our Flabbergasted series! On this series we are joined by the sister duo behind The Wanderer’s Tome, Fleur and Chelsea Sciortino, joining us all the way from Malta! Flabbergasted is a comedic TTRPG set in the roaring 20’s. In today’s episode, we discuss the character creation process and get into some really good fan…

Welcome to the second episode of our Flabbergasted series! On this series we are joined by the sister duo behind The Wanderer’s Tome, Fleur and Chelsea Sciortino, joining us all the way from Malta! Flabbergasted is a comedic TTRPG set in the roaring 20’s. In today’s episode, we finish making our characters and create a really amazing social club th…

Welcome to our Flabbergasted series! On this series we are joined by the sister duo behind The Wanderer’s Tome, Fleur and Chelsea Sciortino, joining us all the way from Malta! Flabbergasted is a comedic TTRPG set in the roaring 20’s! In today’s episode, we learn about the game, including its interesting history, and dive into the character creation…

Welcome to another bonus episode of Character Evolution Cast everyone! In this episode, Amelia and Ryan sit down to discuss (and teach Ryan about) Intraparty conflict. What forms can it take in our games, how to safely navigate it, and some examples from games in our past to showcase how it can work in our games. Character Creation Cast Patreon htt…

Welcome to the fourth and final episode of our DIE RPG series! Wait, a FOUR episode series?! That’s right, we’re endcapping this series with a special designer spotlight with the creator of DIE the RPG and DIE the comic, Kieron Gillen. We talk a bunch about this meta, dark fantasy TTRPG and even create a new set of characters with Kieron at the hel…

Welcome to the third episode of our DIE RPG series! This series, we have Aram Vartian and Alex V, from the upcoming Replay DIE RPG Actual Play podcast, joining us to teach us about DIE RPG, a meta fantasy TTRPG by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans. In today’s episode, we discuss the creation process, what morality means in RPGs, and dive into some r…

Welcome to the second episode of our DIE RPG series! This series, we have Aram Vartian and Alex V, from the upcoming Replay DIE RPG Actual Play podcast, joining us to teach us about DIE RPG, a meta fantasy TTRPG by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans. In today’s episode, we finish our Personas and have a really unique experience when getting our Parag…

Welcome to the first episode of our DIE RPG series! This series, we have Aram Vartian and Alex V, from the upcoming Replay DIE RPG Actual Play podcast, joining us to teach us about DIE RPG, a meta fantasy TTRPG by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans. In today’s episode, we learn what DIE RPG is all about and start making our personas! Character Creati…

Welcome to a special bonus episode of Character Evolution Cast where we sit down with James D’Amato, author of the Ultimate RPG series of books that we have covered many times on the show before, here to talk with us about utilizing system agnostic tools to help enhance our characters at the table, including a demonstration of his brand-new Campfir…

Welcome to a special bonus episode of Character Evolution Cast where we sit down with Daniel Hand, licensed therapist and author of the book Roleplaying Games in Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide, to talk about how licensed therapists can use RPGs to assist with the therapeutic process. Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/charac…

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, …

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 charac…

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 re…

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 …

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! Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/charactercreationcast Announcements: Pa…

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. Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/charactercreationcast Announcements: Patreon Drive: https://patreon.…

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 excellen…

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! Character Creation Cast Pat…

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. Whet…

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 wor…

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…

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 cr…

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. Character Creation Cast Patreon https:/…

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-opti…

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 …

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! Character Creation Cast Patreon https:…

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! Character Creation Cast Patre…

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, w…

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, …

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, w…

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! Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/charactercreationcast Announcements: Newsletter Signups! https://newsletter.ch…

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! Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/charactercreationcast Announcements: Assist with Mr. Peaches’ final expenses: https://paypal.…