February 17, 2020

Series 24.3 - Visigoths vs Mall Goths with Lucian Kahn [Designer] (Discussion)

57 minutes

This is the final episode of our Visigoths vs Mall Goths series, a game where you play time displaced Visigoths in a 90’s mall where, naturally, you are enemies with the mall goths that inhabit said mall. We welcome back special guest Lucian Kahn, designer of Visigoths vs Mall Goths and much more, to discuss this game with us!

Announcements:

Descent into Midnight Kickstarter Watch:

https://dimrpg.io/ks

A Horror Borealis/The Cryptid Keeper Year of the Moth Patreon Drive:

https://patreon.com/TheCryptidKeeper

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:

Lucian Kahn @oh_theogony

Twitter: https://twitter.com/oh_theogony

Website: https://necromancy.itch.io

Dead Friend: A Game of Necromancy

https://necromancy.itch.io/dead-friend-a-game-of-necromancy

Grandma’s Drinking Song - Doikayt: A Jewish RPG Anthology

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/5527230/doikayt-a-jewish-ttrpg-anthology

Honey and Hot Wax - Pelgrane Press

https://necromancy.itch.io/best-of-lucian-kahn

Games discussed this episode:

Visigoths vs Mall Goths

Backer-Kit Pre Order: https://goths.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Announcements

00:03:22 - Reintroductions

00:06:13 - D20 for your thoughts?

00:13:54 - Lucian’s process for creating characters

00:16:32 - How does character creation in this game stack up against others?

00:22:47 - How was it decided which characters to include?

00:24:42 - Is there anything that absolutely needed to be there for character options?

00:26:08 - What does the process of character creation tell us about playing the game?

00:30:11 - What is one of the biggest flaws of character creation in this game?

00:37:07 - Fanfiction!

00:42:48 - Take it up a level!

00:47:09 - Episode Closer

00:51:10 - Show Blurbs (The Broadswords)

Transcripts

https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/series-243-visigoths-vs-mall-goths-with-lucian-kahn-designer-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: Music from https://filmmusic.io "Gothamlicious" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Clip 2: Music from https://filmmusic.io "Eighties Action" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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/)

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