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Continue reading →: World of Darkness China RPG Review Part 6Continuing our Chinese based review of the World of Darkness book line! Hunter: The Reckoning Hunter: The Reckoning provides rules for playing as humans that fight back against the monsters of World of Darkness. After humans witness magic or monsters, sometimes they become Imbued. A force known as the Heralds…
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Continue reading →: Descript for Setting the Stage?I gave Descript a try for editing Setting the Stage. It worked well, but I think I’ll continue with Audacity for now. The main advantage of Descript for me is transcript editing. The program detects different speakers and what they’re saying with decent accuracy. It’s very easy to edit out…
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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Fey Part 1Physical Description Fey have no unifying physical appearance across the different subraces. All of them are vaguely humanoid. The different subraces have some part of the natural world joined with part of their humanoid form. Leafy dryads, water naiads, horse hybrid centaurs, or goat hybrid satyrs are all examples of…
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Continue reading →: Outer Invasion (Chapter 13)Chapter 13 is done! We’re closing in on the end. I’ve started Chapter 14 as well and 15 and the Epilogue are outlined. I’ve set a goal of writing 1000 words a week that should have me finish by the end of Summer. Chapter 13 – Return to Shalerton Blendegad,…
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Continue reading →: Setting the Stage Episode 81 – Biopunk 2287 RPG (Seiya and Synesthesia Synthetica)Seiya tells us about his TTRPG system and setting, Synesthesia Synthetica (SNS). SNS is a biopunk game adjacent to the cyberpunk and steampunk genres. After an asteroid induced climate disaster, Earth has rebuilt itself using bio-technology instead of the metal based tech that surrounds us in the real world. Genetically…
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Continue reading →: World of Darkness China RPG Review Part 5Continuing our Chinese based review of the World of Darkness book line! Blood and Silk Blood and Silk is the Asian version of Dark Ages: Vampire. All you need to get started running a Medieval Age World of Darkness game in Asia. Blood and Silk is fortunately less repetitive than…
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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Humans Part 4Location Humans live across the plains, hills, and valleys of Cimmeria. Few are found in the forests and mountains. The exceptions are the people of Aractrash that have learned to live with the jungle and the people of Mars’ Oasis who subsist on the magic of the Dythalid Pool. Throughout…
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Continue reading →: Setting the Stage Episode 80 – Dynamic RPG Countries (Travis and Tetara)Travis tells us about his world of Tetara. Travis runs Tetara as a paid game on StartPlaying. Each group’s campaign runs in a different region of Tetara. As the campaign progresses that group gets to shape their region through their actions. After a region has been molded through play, Travis…
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Continue reading →: World of Darkness China RPG Review Part 4Continuing our Chinese based review of the World of Darkness book line! Dark Ages: Vampire Dark Ages: Vampire details the setting and rules for playing Vampire: The Masquerade in the Medieval Age. The book is set in 1230 prior to the institution of the Masquerade by the Camarilla clans. Because…
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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Humans Part 3
Subraces Humans have numerous subraces across the world. There are slight physical differences between the subraces, but they are separated by appearance and culture rather than ability. Only a few subraces are relevant in Cimmeria. The Cimmerians have the most population in the region, obviously. The Cimmerians are followed by…
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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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81 – Biopunk 2287 RPG (Seiya and Synesthesia Synthetica) – Setting the Stage, Campaigns for D&D and Other RPGs
Seiya tells us about his TTRPG system and setting, Synesthesia Synthetica (SNS). SNS is a biopunk game adjacent to the cyberpunk and steampunk genres. After an asteroid induced climate disaster, Earth has rebuilt itself using bio-technology instead of the metal based tech that surrounds us in the real world. Genetically modified humans have split into distinct species and mutant horrors prowl the wastes outside civilization. The rich rule from their space stations up above but resistance is growing in the streets below.During the episode we discussed a piece of art that Seiya had made for the game. A picture of that bio-tank is available for you to look at.At the moment, Synesthesia Synthetica is available for free as an early access game on itch.io and DriveThruRPG.If you want to learn more or find a group to play with, you can do that on the Synesthesia Synthetica Discord.Remember to nominate your favorite TTRPG shows/creators/things for the 2026 CRIT Awards!Check out the Setting the Stage website!Want to be on the show? Fill out this survey.Join our Discord!Support Setting the Stageon Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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