Series 9.1 - Spire with Grant Howitt (Creation)

This episode starts our 9th series! On today’s episode we will be talking with the creator of such games as Honey Heist, One Last Job, and the game we’ll be covering this series, Spire! That’s right, we have Grant Howitt in our virtual studio for some discussion about Spire before we start digging into character creation for this amazing game! Announcements: International Podcast Month Website: https://internationalpodcastmonth.com Podcast Feed: https://iamhear.simplecast.fm/ Ryan’s All Outta Elder Signs episode: https://iamhear.simplecast.fm/84b53f18 Ryan's Side Heroes Audio Drama episode: https://iamhear.simplecast.fm/d63c6d62 Ryan is a guest on Interference: https://iamhear.simplecast.fm/dcc0b4ba Ryan as a player in Victoria Roger’s D&D 5E episode: https://iamhear.simplecast.fm/4c85a8e2 Ryan’s article on why he loves podcasts and podcasting: https://www.internationalpodcastmonth.com/blog/art-of-changing-livees Ryan reviews Fate and the Fablemaidens: Article: https://www.internationalpodcastmonth.com/blog/fatefm-favorite Podcast: https://fatefmcast.com/ Ryan reviews The Far Meridian: Article: https://www.internationalpodcastmonth.com/blog/far-meridian Podcast: https://www.thefarmeridian.com/ Polygon article where we were featured: https://www.polygon.com/podcasts/2018/9/26/17860176/best-dungeons-dragons-dd-podcasts-tabletop-gaming James D’Amato’s The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide: Amazon: https://amzn.to/2OpXvs0 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 Guests and Projects: Grant Howitt: @gshowitt (https://twitter.com/gshowitt) Website: https://rowanrookanddecard.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gshowitt Old Website (Including articles about player advice): http://lookrobot.co.uk/games/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:02:50 - Introductions 00:05:54 - What’s in a Game? - Spire’s Setting 00:07:59 - What did it take to get all of the little details into Spire? 00:12:03 - Amelia inspires Grant - Strata 00:16:17 - Spire SRD 00:17:39 - What materials do we need to play? 00:18:53 - What do your characters do in Spire? 00:20:41 - What is unique about Spire? 00:22:19 - History of the Spire’s development 00:30:02 - What terms and concepts do we need to know for character creation? 00:33:42 - Let’s Makes Some People! - Picking classes 00:37:33 - Filling in some boxes - Advances 00:39:32 - Grant breaks the rules - Durances 00:41:12 - Core Abilities - Grant 00:42:43 - What is Refresh? 00:44:34 - Core Abilities - Amelia 00:45:44 - Ryan’s Weapon Choice 00:46:00 - Grant’s Weapon Choice 00:46:27 - Core Abilities - Ryan 00:47:25 - Episode Closer 00:49:19 - Show Blurbs! Game systems and materials discussed in this episode: Spire by Rowan, Rook and Decard Spire RPG: https://rowanrookanddecard.com/product/spire-rpg/ Other games by Grant: https://rowanrookanddecard.com/shop/ Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Revolution Now (Instrumental) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_Woodward/The_Simple_Life_Part_1/JoshWoodward-TSL-NoVox-105-RevolutionNow) by Josh Woodward (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_Woodward/) Clip 2: Babylon Shall Fall (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Simon_Mathewson/Some_dance_tracks/Babylon_Shall_Fall_1438) by Simon Mathewson (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Simon_Mathewson/) Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices