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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Lycanthropes Part 1Physical Description Lycanthropes are humanoids of any kind that possess the natural power to turn into an animal. Typically the animal is a mammalian predator such as a wolf, bear, or tiger, but all sorts of lycanthropes have been observed. Sharks, eagles, rats, and boars are frequent. While in animal…
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Continue reading →: Roll20’s Five White Guys ControversyIs attempting to understand an eight year old controversy useful? No! Are we going to do it anyway? Yes! Back in 2018 Cody Lewis of the Taking20 YouTube channel had a meeting with Roll20 executives. Cody had an actual play series called Save or Dice made with other YouTube creators.…
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Continue reading →: Setting the Stage Episode 75 – Masks, Capitalism, and Coming of Age (Joel and Critical Bits)Joel tells us about his actual play podcast, Critical Bits! The campaign was a teen super hero story using the Powered by the Apocalypse system Masks. The Masks system is great for teen drama and coming of age stories for superheroes that still live with their parents, have school, and…
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Continue reading →: Legend of the Five Rings 5th Edition RPG ReviewGame History Legend of the Five Rings (L5R) is a game with an interesting history. The name of the game derives from the philosophy and martial arts guide, The Book of Five Rings, written by the famous swordsman Miyamoto Musashi in the 1640s. The book uses a Buddhist five element…
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Continue reading →: Applying TTRPG Customer Profiles to the Setting the Stage PodcastHow do I use the customer profiles that I wrote? I’ve got three main TTRPG products that I produce. The Setting the Stage podcast is the most prominent one at the moment. I’ve got my video content that I post on YouTube and TikTok. Finally, I have the gocorral.com blog,…
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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Undead Part 2Subraces There are dozens of types of undead, but they fall mainly into three groups. These are corporeal insentient undead with bodies but no minds, corporeal sentient undead with bodies and minds, and incorporeal undead with minds but no bodies. Corporeal Insentient: The most common type of undead have bodies,…
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Continue reading →: TTRPG Customer Profiles – RevisedThese are a set of customer profiles I designed to help with creating marketing material for TTRPGs. The idea is that you pretend you’re talking to one of these profiles instead of a faceless conglomerate audience. They should help you adjust your message based on which profile you’re targeting with…
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Continue reading →: Responses to TTRPG Customer Profiles
I posted the RPG Customer Profiles I wrote in a RPG Discord server to see what people thought of them. I got a few responses that I’ll break down here. New Customer Profile? One person recommended adding an additional profile called Bobby Beer and Pretzels. That would be someone who…
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Continue reading →: Setting the Stage Episode 74 – Kylie and Fallout: Garden of AtomThe 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…
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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Undead Part 1
Physical Description Undead are the animated corpses and spirits of the deceased. Their dead forms move as they did in life, but now as horrid monsters. Most undead are warped to think only of the consumption of living beings from their previous species. This obsession is further twisted by undead…
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Susannah tells us about her world, the Dragon Knight Universe! She's written books and published two podcasts set in the universe. It's an alternate history of Earth where magic and monsters are real, but hidden from most people behind a veil of secrecy. To fight the monsters, witches created the Dragon Knights, a group of people with magical powers similar to those of dragons. The Dragon Knights succeeded and the world is mostly safe now, but new threats are always lurking around the edges of reality.The Thornvale and Felhaven podcasts are available on all your favorite podcasts. You can learn more about them on the Thornvale Podcast website.And the book published for the Dragon Knight Universe, Deep Hollow, is available on Amazon.The Actual Playce Discord Server is a great place to discuss actual plays as a fan and as a creator.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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