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Setting the Stage Episode 43 – Dain and No Quest for the Wicked

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I talked with Dain about his 2024 CRIT award nominated, actual play campaign, No Quest for the Wicked. Dain’s campaign uses the Starfinder rules and is loosely based off the Starfinder setting by using the same set of basic aliens for racial options.

Each of the different races experienced some sort of disaster on their homeworld. Before extinction they were saved by the Val’ai, an advanced alien species. The Val’ai uplifted these different races with magic and technology, setting them all on a path towards the Casa-Mal system. Casa-Mal has six terrestrial planets and many other planetoids/asteroids that orbit the sun. Humans have mainly settled on a self-sufficient modular space station known as the Cube. The Cube is constructed of thousands of modular Aeris spaceships that humans used to escape Earth’s solar system. Small settlements spread out through the rest of Casa-Mal receive assistance from traveling TVRN (Tavern) Aeris ships. Taverns trade goods and provide aid however they can with specialized services in a similar manner to adventuring parties in D&D.

The PCs are crew members of a Tavern when they discover a mysterious silver liquid in space. They bring some of the liquid back to the Cube for investigation, but are attacked by the Cube’s administration soon afterward. The PCs are forced to leave their captain behind as they flee the Cube in their Tavern. They must repair their damaged spaceship, figure out what’s going on with the silver liquid, clear their names at the Cube, and rescue their captain in a complex conspiracy that goes deeper than they could’ve ever foreseen.

Dain and I also discussed what its like running podcasts, upcoming work for the No Quest crew, and the importance/responsibility of diversity in media representation.

If you want to learn more about No Quest for the Wicked you can check them out on your podcast app or on their website.
No Quest also has an active Discord if you’d like to talk to Dain, the cast, or other fans of the show.

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I’m Isaac

Welcome to the GoCorral website! I’m Isaac Shaker and this is a place for me to write about D&D and occasionally other topics. I host a podcast called Setting the Stage that interviews different DMs about their campaigns. I’m currently focused on completing the Cimmeria campaign setting and turning it into a book.

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86 – Wuxia Adventures in RPGS (Daniel and Metanoia/Ithasen) – Setting the Stage, Campaigns for D&D and Other RPGs

I interviewed Daniel, my cohost of the Tabletop Community Spotlight! Daniel created his own setting called Ithasen with an in-progress wuxia TTRPG system called Metanoia to go along with it. Ithasen has a spiritual force known as Ren that pervades the world. Ren is a magical manifestation of the user's, or Rennim's, will upon the universe. Rennim that cultivate their will grow stronger and capable of more amazing feats as the concentrate their power and force of personality.Within Ithasen there are seven lineages of people that decide what type of Ren they can use. Anamor use conversion Ren. Elkyr use flux Ren. Janim use elasticity Ren. Nyl use influence Ren. Okoi use recurrence Ren. Haqol use harmony Ren. Finally, Daruner use use coalescent ren. The two races lineages that drive unique politics in Ithasen are the Daruner and the Haqol.Daruner children absorb the Ren talents of both their parents, becoming a perfect blend of Daruner and another lineage parent. Through this mixing, a Daruner family could potentially include all other lineages within itself. This power has placed Daruner as the nobility of Ithasen.Haqol's power of harmony allows them to amplify the Ren powers of others. This puts Haqol in a vulnerable position as unscrupulous people will do anything to incorporate Haqol lineage into their bloodline. Haqol have experienced something akin to a genocide as their lineage has been consistently absorbed by other lineages and diluted over the centuries.There's a whole lot more than that so strap in!Daniel has a fully setup GitHub Wiki for information on Metanoia and Ithasen that you can explore.There's a Metanoid Discord server you can join to discuss the rules and setting with other fans.The occasional musing on TTRPGs can be found on Daniel's blog, Tabletop Discourse.GoCorral YouTube Channel for watching the Tabletop Community Spotlight.Vote in the CRIT Awards! Voting is open until August 23rd.Check out the Setting the Stage website!Want to be on the show? Fill out this survey.Join our Discord!Support Setting the Stage on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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