On this first episode of the 17th series, we’ll be sitting down with Megan Scharlau and Charlotte Elena from Tabletop Potluck to discuss and create characters for Mouse Guard, a cute as heck RPG from The Burning Wheel, where you play as super adorable mice people in a medieval, semi-fantasy setting. Announcements: GenCon Twitter Thread https://twitter.com/CreationCast/status/1131181309504741377 Character Creation Cast Panel https://www.gencon.com/events/152269 Quiztem Mastery https://www.gencon.com/events/152272 Brewing Strife (Amelia’s L5R Game) https://www.gencon.com/events/152276 World Building through Character Creation https://www.gencon.com/events/152275 Chimera Games TBD Host Updates Garbage of the Five Rings: http://garbageofthefiverings.com/ Game Closet https://riverhousegamespodcast.wordpress.com/ Play/Test episode with Amelia https://playtest.pub/2019/05/16/changelog-amelia-antrim/ Chimera RPG https://chimera.lordneptune.com Side Heroes https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod RPG Unltd. with Ryan https://anchor.fm/rpg-unltd/episodes/RPG-Unltd--Podcast-Ryan-Boelter--Chimera-RPG--Character-Creation-Cast-e45r0r/a-ag6ua9 Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: 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 Podchaser: https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Megan Scharlau @Tabletop_Megan Twitter: https://twitter.com/tabletop_megan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tabletop_megan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tabletop_megan Charlotte Elena @TheCornbreab Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheCornbreab Tumblr: https://cornbreab.tumblr.com/ Tabletop Potluck Twitter: https://twitter.com/TabletopPotluck Website: https://tabletoppotluck.com/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:10:02 - Introductions 00:11:35 - What’s in a game? - Game Setting 00:12:42 - What do we need to play this game? 00:15:16 - What is unique about this game? 00:17:11 - History of the system 00:18:38 - Terms and concepts for character creation 00:19:54 - Let’s make some people! 00:29:45 - Skills and background 00:31:38 - Where were you born? 00:35:10 - Life Experience 00:38:03 - Parents 00:39:34 - How do you convince others you are right? 00:40:25 - Who did you apprentice with? 00:42:36 - What did your mentor stress in training? 00:44:11 - What is your specialty? 00:45:32 - Double check your work 00:46:33 - Mouse Nature 00:51:49 - Wises 00:56:16 - Episode Closer 00:58:11 - Show Blurbs Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Middle of Opening: News at 11 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Glass_Boy/Jenkins/07_NEWS_AT_11) by Glass Boy (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Glass_Boy/) Clip 1: Backyard Adventure (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hans_Hylkema/Backyard_Adventure/Hans_Hylkema_-_Backyard_Adventure) by Hans Hylkema (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hans_Hylkema/) Clip 2: Tabletop Potluck main theme (https://tabletoppotluck.com) 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/) Our characters: Ryan https://www.dropbox.com/s/29w4rzqhznr70l8/Ryan%20-%20Tander.pdf?dl=0 Amelia Unavailable for this release Megan https://www.dropbox.com/s/00qwtroav6v5n4d/Megan%20Scharlau%20-%20Character%20Creation%20Duncan.pdf?dl=0 Charlotte https://www.dropbox.com/s/4b5uvey9xjcebl7/Charlotte%20Elena%20-%20Wilmot%20The%20Patrol%20Leader.pdf?dl=0 Games discussed this episode: Mouse Guard 2nd Edition Box Set https://amzn.to/2I2iBcb Mouse Guard 2nd Edition PDF https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/166655/Mouse-Guard-RPG-2nd-Edition Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices