"Character Creation Cast" Backlog

Character Creation Spotlight – Glitter Hearts with Greg Leatherman

September 23rd, 2019

Welcome to a bonus Spotlight episode where we interview Greg Leatherman to discuss his kickstarter for his new game, Glitter Hearts, a Powered by the Apocalypse game that emulates the magical girl types of genre!


Character Creation Spotlight – CAPERS Covert with Craig Campbell

September 19th, 2019

Welcome to a bonus Spotlight episode where we interview Craig Campbell from Nerdburger Games to discuss his latest kickstarter, CAPERS Covert, a supplement for CAPERS that adds some great super spy action to the CAPERS system.


Series 20.3 – Heart with Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor [Designers] (Discussion)

September 16th, 2019

In the final episode of series 20, and we welcome back Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor, designers of Heart, to talk about the character creation process, their hopes for the game, and the reasons behind the design choices they made. Amelia also gets to talk about jello and sand again.


Series 20.2 – Heart with Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor [Designers] (Creation Continued)

September 9th, 2019

This is the second episode of series 20, and we welcome back Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor, designers of the game we are creating characters for today, Heart! Things get a little weird, but not too horrible, as we figure out what sort of people live for adventure down in this mysterious and horrifying setting.


Series 20.1 – Heart with Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor [Designers] (Creation)

September 2nd, 2019

Welcome to the first part of series 20, everyone! Today we have Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor on to discuss their latest game, Heart, which will be kickstarting soon! This game combines the setting and mechanics of Spire with some good old fashioned dungeon crawling, mixed with some truly horrifying implications, so hold onto your … Read more


GenCon 2019 Recap

August 26th, 2019

On today’s episode, Amelia and Ryan recap their experience at GenCon as well as reveal some more details for our current contest!


Series 19.3 – InSpectres with Chris Foster [Play/Test]

August 19th, 2019

In the third part of our small games series, Amelia and Ryan are again joined by Chris Foster of the Play/Test podcast to talk about InSpectres, a game about a ghost hunting start up.


Character Creation Spotlight – Fiasco with Jason Morningstar

August 16th, 2019

On this special bonus episode, Amelia sits down with game designer Jason Morningstar of Bully Pulpit Games to talk about the new edition of Fiasco, a game about criminal plans gone terribly wrong. Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews … Read more


Series 19.2 – One Last Job with Chris Foster [Play/Test]

August 12th, 2019

On today’s episode, we’re continuing our small games series with Chris Foster, covering character creation for One Last Job, created by former guest of the show, Grant Howitt.


Series 19.1 – Love and Justice with Chris Foster [Play/Test]

August 6th, 2019

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!