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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 PsychomortisCalicoVisions 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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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Lizardfolk Part 3Location Lizardfolk live in and around the waterways of Cimmeria. The most popular locations are Danar’s Swamp, Demeter’s Garden, and the Aractrashan Jungle due to the high number of crisscrossing tributaries in those regions. Lizardfolk live around all of the many rivers in Cimmeria, but there are higher concentrations around…
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Continue reading →: Setting the Stage Episode 71 – Aaron Ryan and Dissonance/The EndI talked with Aaron Ryan about two of his book series, Dissonance and The End. Dissonance is a near future world where aliens have attacked, killing most humans and animals on Earth and driving humans into hiding underground. Humans finally develop technology to fight back and the war enters a…
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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Lizardfolk Part 2
History Lizardfolk existed in Cimmeria long before the Conclave races arrived. Goblin oral histories make no mention of when lizardfolk arrived, indicating they were always present. Lizardfolk have no extant written records of their own to indicate their history. It seems as if they were always in Cimmeria since the…
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Continue reading →: Outer Invasion (Chapter 11 Completed)Hey folks! Did a little more writing and finished Chapter 11. I’m still estimating 4 more chapters plus a short epilogue. Chapter 11 – Shrine of Artemis (Continued) Galandir held the strap of his pack and said, “Should we take anymore of those silver swords?” The group had hiked quickly…
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Continue reading →: Races of Cimmeria: Lizardfolk Part 1
Physical Description Lizardfolk are anthropomorphic lizard people. While they have lizard features, their internal metabolism is warm-blooded. Their size and weight vary between different subraces, but all lizardfolk have impressive muscularture. Similarly, the scale colors of lizardfolk vary between subraces. All lizardfolk have head crests that move according to their…
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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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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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