On today’s episode, we start to tackle character creation for a game that has been on our list from the beginning of this podcast: Descent into Midnight! Series 18 begins here with Richard Kreutz-Landry and Taylor LaBresh, co-designers for this very game!Announcements:GenConTwitter Threadhttps://twitter.com/CreationCast/status/1131181309504741377Character Creation Cast Panelhttps://www.gencon.com/events/152269Quiztem Masteryhttps://www.gencon.com/events/152272Brewing Strife (Amelia’s L5R Game)https://www.gencon.com/events/152276World Building through Character Creationhttps://www.gencon.com/events/152275Chimera GamesStill TBDLeave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: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 Podchaser:https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCastCharacter Creation Cast on Stitcherhttps://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stprCharacter Creation Cast on Facebookhttps://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCastGuests and Projects:Richard Kreutz-Landry @rkreutzlandry

Twitter: https://twitter.com/rkreutzlandry

Website: http://origamigaming.com/

Taylor LaBresh @LeviathanFiles

Twitter: https://twitter.com/LeviathanFiles

Website: https://riverhousegames.com/

Itch.io: https://riverhousegames.itch.io/

Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Announcements

00:04:01 - Introductions

00:06:25 - What’s in a game?

00:10:14 - PbtA Mechanics Refresher

00:14:05 - What do you need to play this game?

00:16:56 - What does it feel like to have those 'Ah-ha!' moments?

00:22:11 - What's the difference between collaborating and solo designing?

00:44:20 - Basic terms and concepts

00:47:22 - Let’s make some people!

00:56:34 - Looks

01:04:43 - Episode Closer

01:06:38 - Show Blurbs

Music:

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

Clip 1: Ocean Ending (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Soft_and_Furious/Best_Of__Pick_Your_Player/Soft_and_Furious_-Best_Of-Pick_Your_Player-_01_Ocean_Ending) by Soft and Furious (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Soft_and_Furious/)

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

Games discussed this episode:Descent Into Midnight

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DiMRPG

Website: https://descentintomidnight.com

Our Podcast:Character Creation Cast:

Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast)

Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/

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Amelia Antrim:

Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning)

Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/)

G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast)

Ryan Boelter:

Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune)

Website: https://lordneptune.com

Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG)

Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod)

Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter

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