Character Evolution Cast E09: Character Creation with All My Fantasy Children

In today’s Character Evolution Cast episode, we welcome Aaron and Jeff from All My Fantasy Children to talk about how to create characters for any system. We get into a lot of interesting topics this episode and have a ton of fun along the way. Announcements: GenCon https://www.gencon.com/ Shadow of the Cabal https://www.shadowofthecabal.com/ RPG Academy https://therpgacademy.com/ Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us)! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: All My Fantasy Children Website: https://www.allmyfantasychildren.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AMFC_Podcast/ Aaron Catano-Saez: @AaronCatanoSaez Twitter: https://twitter.com/AaronCatanoSaez Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mthollyhero Jeff Stormer: @dexdynamo Website: https://www.jeffstormer.com/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/dexdynamo Party of One Podcast Website: http://partyofonepodcast.com/ Party of One Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PartyOfOnePod Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:02:12 - Introductions 00:05:41 - What was your favorite character creation experience? 00:11:08 - What system have you never created a character in that you really want to? 00:14:27 - Designing RPGs is amazing 00:15:52 - Getting into the main discussion 00:17:38 - How do you go about creating characters on All My Fantasy Children? 00:26:47 - What do we need to know from our group before diving into character creation? 00:35:22 - How can character details inform us of who they are as a person? 00:52:35 - How do we go from a background to figuring out what our characters would become? 01:02:59 - How can we collaborate together to make our characters better? 01:19:42 - Creating a shared backstory 01:26:41 - Anything else? 01:28:08 - Episode Closer 01:31:28 - Outtakes 01:32:21 - Show Blurbs Materials discussed in this episode: James D’Amato’s The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide https://amzn.to/2sJJ85k Madeline Hale’s Table Fables https://amzn.to/2WcifEC Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Children - Our Life (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Nuno_Adelaida/none_given_1662/Nuno_Adelaida_02_Children-Our_Life) by Nuno Adelaida (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Nuno_Adelaida/) Clip 2: All My Fantasy Children theme music (https://www.allmyfantasychildren.com/) Clip 3: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Main Theme: Endless Motion (https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/endless-motion-edm-electro) by Ben Sound (https://www.bensound.com/) Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Amelia Antrim: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Ryan Boelter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices