October 01, 2018

Series 9.1 - Spire with Grant Howitt (Creation)

52 minutes

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/)

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