Characters Without Stories
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Mogmoden, Sheltered Academic - Being Curious with Rene Legault…
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About this podcast
Characters Without Stories is a tabletop role playing game podcast about the roads not yet traveled.
Every episode I bring in a friend to tell me about their unplayed character and their approach to creating characters. I cover all kinds of RPGs - from indies to D&D.
I've had some fascinating conversations about how our characters intersect with and reveal our identities and how play is a gateway to understanding ourselves. I hope you'll give it a listen.
Thank you and may all your characters find their stories.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 55 episodes
- Mogmoden, Sheltered Academic - Being Curious with Rene Legault (Fabula Ultima) · 52 min · Season 4 Episode 4Rene Legault brings Mogmoden to the table. Mog is a teenage academic in the pursuit of practical knowledge and answers to intellectual mysteries in his first time venturing out…
- Petty Dreadful, a Survivor - Breaking the Game with Rowan Zeoli (Deathmatch Island) · 1 h 2 min · Season 4 Episode 3Rowan Zeoli brings Petty Dreadful to the table. Petty is a rage-fueled, attention-seeking drag queen Playing to Win. Rowan and I discuss gender performance, radical imagination…
- Sarge, Norma, and Harmony - Troupe Style Play with Andrew Beauman (Out of Orbit) · 1 h 18 min · Season 4 Episode 2Andrew Beauman brings Sarge and Norma to the table, and we create Harmony together. Sarge, Norma, and Harmony are survivors of a spaceship crash hoping to make it back out of…
- Aria Godey, Pirate Captain - Embodying Your Character with SpunkyTaylor (Thirsty Sword Lesbians) · 59 min · Season 4 Episode 1Taylor brings Captain Aria Godey to the table. Captain Aria is a pirate who touched a gold piece that is slowly consuming her and turning her into gold. Taylor and I discuss…
- Chase Cameron, aka Showtime - Alternate Futures with Will Malkus (Masks: a New Generation) · 1 h 4 min · Season 3 Episode 18WIll Malkus brings Chase Cameron, aka Showtime, to the table. Chase is a teenager who recently became a superhero when he found a watch that can stop time. Will and I nerd out on…
- Jessica Jeroux, Drow Archeologist - Transition and Leveling Up with Justin Gagliani (D&D 5e) · 1 h 18 min · Season 3 Episode 17Justin Gagliani brings Jessica Jeroux to the table. Jessica is a drow trans woman pursuing knowledge of lost civilizations. Justin and I discuss what it means to be a trans woman…
- Chris Strausman, Socially Isolated Streamer - Growing Up and Showing Up with Blerdy Disposition (Call of Cthulhu) · 1 h 0 min · Season 3 Episode 16Blerdy Disposition brings Chris Strausman to the table. Chris is a Twitch streamer with a lot of growing up to do, searching Reddit and relying on his followers to find his…
- Everett Nichols, a Protector Who Defends What Matters - Healing from the Past with DJ BeeZee (Old Gods of Appalachia) · 1 h 18 min · Season 3 Episode 15Content Warning this episode for brief mentions of forced sterilization (49:03-49:53) and death of a child (57:40-57:48). DJ BeeZee brings Everett Nichols to the table. Everett…
- Don Rigals, Communist Clark Kent - Representation and Speaking Out with AC Lawrence (Call of Cthulhu) · 52 min · Season 3 Episode 14Adrian Lawrence brings Don Rigals to the table. Don is a fur-obsessed secret communist delving into New York's underground to find his brother. Adrian and I discuss being…
- Looking Back on Two Years - Diversity Report and Giveaway Announcement · 12 min · Season 3I've been bringing characters without stories and the creators who made them to the table for TWO YEARS! It felt like a good time to get reflective and talk about something I've…
- Reyna the Lion - Being a Woman Online with Alejandra Wilhelm (D&D5e) · 1 h 0 min · Season 3 Episode 13Content warning this episode for discussions of sexual assault and sexual harassment. We don’t go into any detail, but if this topic is a trigger for you, I recommend you skip…
- Grammarye Praise-God Winthrop, Teenage Witch - Acting Out with Juicy Garland (Monsterhearts 2e) · 1 h 1 min · Season 3 Episode 12Juicy Garland brings Grammarye Praise-God Winthrop to the table. Grammarye is a teenage witch and the black sheep of a family with a 400 year vendetta against the Salem Witch…
- Kit, the Sea Witch - Friendship is Magic with Savannah Rayne (D&D5e) · 45 min · Season 3 Episode 11Savannah Rayne brings Kit to the table. Kit is a con woman on the run in disguise as a man, who finds family and the confidence to harness her innate magic on a pirate ship…
- Oba Manu, Family Guy - Parent Tropes and Pastoral Hopes with Navaar Seik-Jackson (Pathfinder 2e) · 48 min · Season 3 Episode 10Navaar Seik-Jackson brings Oba Manu to the table. Oba is a dad who wants nothing more than to live the simple life, but is pulled back into adventuring for "one last job." Navaar…
- Lancelot, Blind Fighter - Testing Your Limits with Stephan Kelly (Coven and Crucible) · 57 min · Season 3 Episode 9Stephan Kelly brings Lancelot to the table. Lance is a blind martial artist in a coven of witches, doing his best to leave the world a little bit better than when he found it…
- Orco the Magnificent, Sh*tty Wizard - Religious Rebellion with Grant Nordine (D&D5e) · 1 h 1 min · Season 3 Episode 8Grant brings Orco the Magnificent to the table. Orco is not a very good wizard, but he gives it his best shot. Grant and I discuss religious trauma, high school theater, and the…
- Tendertwig, Sweet Summer Child - Childlike Wonder with Tori Fica (Pathfinder 2e) · 42 min · Season 3 Episode 7Tori Fica brings Tendertwig to the table. Tendertwig is a Leshy Oracle who moves through life with the confidence of a child - because they are actually only 1 year old. Tori and…
- Rhan Halvard, Paladin of Fate - Death and Destiny with Chriss Knight (D&D 5e) · 47 min · Season 3 Episode 6Chriss brings Rhan Halvard to the table. Rhan was a wizard who became a revenant in the service of Istus when her attempt to change her fate had unexpectedly dire results. Chriss…
- Exit, the Outsider - Character Building is Worldbuilding with Sam Dunnewold (Apocalypse World) · 1 h 0 min · Season 3 Episode 5Sam Dunnewold brings Exit to the table. Exit is a scavenger living on the edges of a dangerous psychic mist and a society that demands they conform. Sam and I discuss building a…
- Riley and Jean-Pierre, a Masked Vampire - Code-Switching and Authenticity with Aetherius Bordeaux (Vampire the Masquerade 5e) · 1 h 36 min · Season 3 Episode 4Aetherius brings Riley Howard/Jean Pierre Baptiste to the table. Riley is a Ministry kindred masquerading as Jean-Pierre, a Toreador in the Camarilla. Aetherius and I discuss…
