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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Giantkin Part 1Physical 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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Continue reading →: AI Plays PokemonThis is a fascinating video about how AI can be used for more complex tasks. Not the LLM AI like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or Apple’s Siri. The AI used for this project is more like the models used by Boston Dynamics to build walking task-focused robots. Something similar to what…
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Continue reading →: Setting the Stage Episode 72 – CalicoVisions and Psychomortis
CalicoVisions tells us about his game system and setting Psychomortis. The game is constructed to challenge players and characters to look inside themselves to find what’s really important to them. In the far future the Earth has suffered from the arrival of the Iris which caused vast changes across the…
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Continue reading →: Do: Fate of the Flying Temple RPG ReviewChina: the RPG frontier. These are the voyages of the Isaac Shaker. His continuing mission: to explore strange new TTRPGs; to seek out new systems and new supplements; to boldly go where many have gone before! I read through Do: Fate of the Flying Temple while on vacation. It uses…
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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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74 – Kylie and Fallout: Garden of Atom – Setting the Stage, Campaigns for D&D and Other RPGs
The Fallout TV show has ended, but you can still get more Fallout in your life with TTRPGs!Kylie talked with me about her actual play campaign, Fallout: The Garden of Atom. The show follows Pete and Reed as they leave their Vault in Florida. They travel towards Orlando in search of Pete's father who left Vault 71 a few years previously. Along the way they meet the wasteland survivor, Ruthie, and the Mrs. Nurse robot, Hawke. The campaign is played using Modiphius's Fallout 2d20 system, the perfect TTRPG for the Fallout universe.You can listen to the Fallout: The Garden of Atom show on Kylie's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMlGSIdwPJnmOAps3VvZXwjJUWgo_pLAQIf you like more shows like that you can find more about them on the Dicescape website: https://www.dicescape.com/And for everything Kylie, check out her Linktree and various socials: https://linktr.ee/kriticalroseAlso if you want to try out the official Fallout 2d20 system made by Modiphius, check it out on their website: https://modiphius.net/en-us/pages/fallout-the-roleplaying-gameOur 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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