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Continue reading →: Setting the Stage Episode 88 – DM & Roleplaying Tips with Balance of Aksio (Jay + Sandra! and 3RPG)Our guests today are Jay and Sandra from the 3RPG podcast. Their podcast is a talk show, typically with three hosts. Unfortunately the third host Chris was unable to make it. Jay and Sandra are working on a RPG product dubbed The Balance of Aksio. It’s a new narrative fantasy…
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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Water Races Part 3Subraces The water races are varied in visual appearance, but all are able to swim and live anywhere within the waters of Gaia. The different subraces do not typically live in the same communities besides those around Cecilia. Locathah: Locathah have humanoid bodies with webbed limbs and the head of…
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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Water Races Part 2
History The water races were originally native to the Mediterranean Sea and the outer ocean that encircles the earth. When the Olympians came to Cimmeria they did not bring the water races at first. Only after winning the Goblin War did they open a whirlpool in the Caspian Sea. This…
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Continue reading →: Setting the Stage Episode 87 – Adapted Azeroth D&D (Flare and Akridon)Flare talks with us about his campaign world, Akridon. Three continents dominate the world, Tyros for humanoid races and Dusklands for bestial races. The third continent is known as the Scourge, having being destroyed in a cataclysmic war centuries ago. The world draws a lot of inspiration from the World…
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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Water Races Part 1
Physical Description The water races of Cimmeria live within the Caspian and Aral Seas. They are generally humanoid in shape with most subraces having a head, torso, two arms, and two legs. Their bodies are adapted to the water, sporting gills, webbed toes and webbed hands for improved swimming. Many…
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Continue reading →: Post #1000 for the GoCorral Blog!Hurray! I’ve written 1,000 blog posts for this website! Lots of stuff about my own life and science when I started. That’s transitioned to the blog being mostly about Dungeons and Dragons. D&D stuff is more fun for me to write and less invasive into my personal life, especially after…
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Continue reading →: Panic at the Dojo 1st Edition RPG ReviewClosing in on the end of my tour of Chinese RPG systems. Panic at the Dojo (PatD) should be one of the last ones! Panic at the Dojo was launched via a Kickstarter in 2016. The game was developed and successfully put up for sale for anyone to buy in…
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Continue reading →: Setting the Stage Episode 86 – Wuxia Adventures in RPGs (Daniel and Metanoia/Ithasen)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,…
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Continue reading →: Tianxia: Blood, Silk & Jade RPG ReviewTianxia had more going for it than I expected. It’s a FATE Core system similar to the FATE systems Do: Fate of the Flying Temple and Jadepunk which I’ve reviewed on here in the past. I wasn’t a fan of those presentations as they were too simplistic or too far…
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Continue reading →: Wandering Blades RPG ReviewWandering Blades is a Chinese themed RPG that’s in development right now. It had a successful Kickstarter in May 2025 that’s still accepting late pledges if you’d like to check it out. The game’s base rules are released for Kickstart backers, but I wrote this review before those came out.…
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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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88 – DM & Roleplaying Tips with Balance of Aksio (Jay + Sandra! and 3RPG) – Setting the Stage, Campaigns for D&D and Other RPGs
Our guests today are Jay and Sandra from the 3RPG podcast. Their podcast is a talk show, typically with three hosts. Unfortunately the third host Chris was unable to make it.Jay and Sandra are working on a RPG product dubbed The Balance of Aksio. It's a new narrative fantasy TTRPG system with point buy character creation. The world within Balance of Aksio grew out of games that Jay and Sandra have been playing together since high school. Lots of history from important characters over the in-game centuries they have been playing. Balance of Aksio comes with numerous storytelling aids to help with character decision making, generational play, and how to cover long gaps between adventures.Balance of Aksio also introduces a unique idea for running your NPCs. Rather than make all the decisions yourself, Jay and Sandra recommend outsourcing the NPC actions to people you know outside of the campaign. Give those people a profile of the NPC and the decision they are facing. Then let those people decide what the NPC would do without your own biases as a GM entering the equation. Quite a clever way to introduce new developments in your game that even you can't predict!There's a 3RPG Podcast website and the show itself is available on all major podcast platforms.I guested on the 3RPG podcast for episode 61. Check it out!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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