Hello and welcome to Setting the Stage, a podcast where I talk about different campaign settings for roleplaying games.
If you’re interested in being a guest on the show fill out the Google survey at this link: https://forms.gle/R9y6Y26Fr1DMSheH7
I’ll get back to you on the next round of interviews I set up.
I am your host, Isaac Shaker, and I speak with a different person each week about a different campaign setting for D&D.
Setting the Stage has two types of episodes.
In one type I talk with one of my friends about an established campaign setting for D&D. This could be an official setting like Faerun or Greyhawk, or a popular fantasy world like Tolkien’s Middle-Earth or Martin’s Westeros. These episodes focus on how to use the world as a campaign setting for RPGs and which RPG rule system would work best for running a campaign in that world.
In the second type of episode, I interview different members of the TTRPG community and discuss their campaign world. This is a chance for the guest to show off what they’ve made, explain challenges they’ve overcome, and discuss paths that didn’t work for them when creating their campaign setting. Our homebrew worlds often get no attention outside of our own play groups, so this is a way to present a DM’s hard work to a wider audience.
With guests coming on the show, it’s only fair that they know a bit more about me before agreeing to an interview, so I’m also going to give a short introduction about myself.
I’m Isaac Shaker. I’m a biology scientist and IT project manager for my day job. I’m married and have two young daughters. I started playing D&D in 2000 when I was nine years old with my friend’s dad as our DM. I’ve been DMing since I was 12. My main campaign world is called Cimmeria and is based off of Classic Greek Myths. I’ve designed a few other campaign worlds and have played in a few other groups, but I’ve been lucky to keep the same play group from the beginning. We are currently playing the Pathfinder 2e Season of Ghosts adventure path on Foundry once a week.
If you’d like to be a guest on the podcast, fill out this form. If you’d like to be more connected to the Setting the Stage podcast community, you can join our Discord.
If you’d like to learn more about how I made the podcast I have a few posts on that here:
Hosting and Distribution
Recording Software
Making the Podcast Icon
Comparing Descript and Audacity Editing Software
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