In today’s Character Evolution Cast episode, we welcome Aaron and Jeff from All My Fantasy Children to talk about how to create characters for any system. We get into a lot of interesting topics this episode and have a ton of fun along the way.Announcements:GenConhttps://www.gencon.com/Shadow of the Cabalhttps://www.shadowofthecabal.com/RPG Academyhttps://therpgacademy.com/Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us)!https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1Character Creation Cast on Stitcherhttps://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stprCharacter Creation Cast on Facebookhttps://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCastGuests and Projects:All My Fantasy Children

Website: https://www.allmyfantasychildren.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AMFC_Podcast/

Aaron Catano-Saez: @AaronCatanoSaez

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AaronCatanoSaez

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mthollyhero

Jeff Stormer: @dexdynamo

Website: https://www.jeffstormer.com/

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/dexdynamo

Party of One Podcast Website: http://partyofonepodcast.com/

Party of One Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PartyOfOnePod

Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Announcements

00:02:12 - Introductions

00:05:41 - What was your favorite character creation experience?

00:11:08 - What system have you never created a character in that you really want to?

00:14:27 - Designing RPGs is amazing

00:15:52 - Getting into the main discussion

00:17:38 - How do you go about creating characters on All My Fantasy Children?

00:26:47 - What do we need to know from our group before diving into character creation?

00:35:22 - How can character details inform us of who they are as a person?

00:52:35 - How do we go from a background to figuring out what our characters would become?

01:02:59 - How can we collaborate together to make our characters better?

01:19:42 - Creating a shared backstory

01:26:41 - Anything else?

01:28:08 - Episode Closer

01:31:28 - Outtakes

01:32:21 - Show Blurbs

Materials discussed in this episode:James D’Amato’s The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guidehttps://amzn.to/2sJJ85kMadeline Hale’s Table Fableshttps://amzn.to/2WcifECMusic:

Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com)

Clip 1: Children - Our Life (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Nuno_Adelaida/none_given_1662/Nuno_Adelaida_02_Children-Our_Life) by Nuno Adelaida (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Nuno_Adelaida/)

Clip 2: All My Fantasy Children theme music (https://www.allmyfantasychildren.com/)

Clip 3: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/)

Main Theme: Endless Motion (https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/endless-motion-edm-electro) by Ben Sound (https://www.bensound.com/)

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