Welcome to the final episode of series 21, everyone! Today we welcome back Daniel Kwan and Patrick Keenan from Dundas West Games to discuss the character creation process for their new game, Ross Rifles, a World War 1, Powered by the Apocalypse RPG, kickstarting right now! 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 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: Daniel Kwan @danielhkwan Twitter: https://twitter.com/danielhkwan Level Up Gaming: https://www.levelupgaming.ca/ Patrick Keenan @Keenan_Patrick Twitter: https://twitter.com/Keenan_Patrick Dundas West Games @dundaswestgames Twitter: https://twitter.com/dundaswestgames Website: https://www.dundaswestgames.com/ Asians Represent @aznsrepresent Twitter: https://twitter.com/aznsrepresent Website: http://oneshotpodcast.com/interview-discussion/asians-represent/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:01:17 - Intro 00:04:21 - D20 For Your Thoughts 00:04:30 -How Daniel got started  00:06:17 - How Patrick got started 00:07:11 -Personal process for creating characters  00:08:34 - How does this stack up against other PbtA games?  00:12:34 - How did you decide what character types to include?  00:14:06 - Specific character options 00:17:21 - What does character creation teach us about the game?  00:18:24 -What is a flaw and what are you proud of? 00:24:36 - How did you change the system to tell different stories? 00:28:56 - FANFIC (Antonio time!)  00:34:25 - Take it up a level   00:34:32 - How do characters change as people? 00:37:42 - How do you level up? 00:41:26 - Safety Tools 00:43:00 - Patrick’s Plugs 00:43:17 - Daniel’s Plugs 00:44:15 - Episode Closer 00:45:43 - Show Blurbs (Adventure) 00:46:18 - Outtakes Transcripts https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/series-213-ross-rifles-with-daniel-kwan-and-patrick-keenan-designers-discussion/transcript Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: from https://filmmusic.io "Dark Times" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Clip 2: Good Vibes by DJ Quads https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads 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/) Games discussed this episode: Ross Rifles Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dundaswestgames/ross-rifles 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/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter 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