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Continue reading →: Setting the Stage Episode 73 – Duncan and Extraordinary LocationsDuncan Rhodes comes on the show to talk about his new book, The Creative Game Master’s Guide to Extraordinary Locations: & How to Design Them or just Extraordinary Locations. The book is filled with 30 adventure locations to drop into your campaign, modify, or use as a full adventure path!…
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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Giantkin Part 2Subraces Giantkin come in many varieties. All giants are descended from the first giants and cyclopes birthed from Gaia. While the different subraces have diverged over time, they all maintain the general humanoid shape, large size, and powerful musculature iconic of giants. Elemental Giants: Elemental giants are the most pure…
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Continue reading →: TTRPG Customer ProfilesThe Setting the Stage podcast had a really good year in 2025. My audience went from 6143 downloads to 9743. My listeners on Spotify multiplied by 5 according to the 2025 Wrapped feature so I’m guessing most of my reach came from there. Along with those numbers, I got approved…
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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Giantkin Part 1
Physical Description There are many kind of giants in Cimmeria but they are all huge, strong, and ferocious. The smallest giants stand at about eight feet tall while the largest are more than twenty feet tall. Weights are similarly variable with giants often being heavy for their relative height due…
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Continue reading →: RPG Player Motivation TypesWhy do different people play D&D and other RPGs? You’ll get different answers whenever you ask different people. The combat, the puzzles, the roleplay, the stories, the snacks, the people, and so on. What motivates them to play? The idea of player motivations wasn’t well formulated when RPGs were getting…
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Continue reading →: Setting the Stage Episode 72.5 – CalicoVisions and Psychomortis (Part 2)This is the second of a two part interview with Calico. If you haven’t listened to the first episode with him, you should go do that before listening to this one. The first episode was #72 and this is #72.5. Calico returns with additional info on the world of Psychomortis.…
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Continue reading →: Tabletop Community Spotlight Jan-March 2026I took on a new project a few months ago, but haven’t announced it on my blog yet. I’m one of the two people in charge of the Tabletop Community Spotlight (TCS). TCS History The Tabletop Community Spotlight was originally started by Peter from Tales from Elsewhere and Zarek from…
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Continue reading →: Jadepunk FATE RPG ReviewContinuing on my Chinese RPG reading quest, I got the FATE game, Jadepunk, recommended to me. I already reviewed the more official FATE China game, Do: Fate of the Flying Temple. Jadepunk uses the FATE system as well, so mechanically it is very similar to Do. The main differences are…
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Continue reading →: What’s Next for the GoCorral Blog?I’ve crossed another accomplishment threshold for the GoCorral Blog! The Races of Cimmeria section is complete! As the Cimmeria stuff has migrated and expanded here I’ve added other sections. It started as an online repository for information about the Cities of Cimmeria. That was for the players in my campaign…
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Continue reading →: I went on someone else’s podcast!I went on someone else’s podcast! Not for TTRPG stuff, but still for RPGs as video games. I appeared on the 40 Something Gamer podcast last month to talk about retro games and the changes in various genres over the last few years. You can check it out on YouTube…
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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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73 – Duncan and Extraordinary Locations – Setting the Stage, Campaigns for D&D and Other RPGs
Duncan Rhodes comes on the show to talk about his new book, The Creative Game Master's Guide to Extraordinary Locations: & How to Design Them or just Extraordinary Locations. The book is filled with 30 adventure locations to drop into your campaign, modify, or use as a full adventure path! The locations are loosely stated out for D&D 5e but could easily be adapted for any fantasy system. Additionally, the book has a step-wise guide for crafting your own adventures based around locations just like those in the book.To follow Duncan's blog postings you can check out Hipsters & Dragons: https://www.hipstersanddragons.com/And his book, The Creative Game Master's Guide to Extraordinary Locations: & How to Design Them, is available on Amazon and most likely at your local book or game stores: https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Masters-Guide-Extraordinary-Locations/dp/1965636306Our website: https://gocorral.com/stsWant to be on the show? Fill out this survey: https://forms.gle/U11TbxtAReHFKbiVAJoin our Discord: https://discord.gg/Nngc2pQV6CSupport the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SettingtheStage Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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