Setting the Stage

Overview

Setting the Stage is a podcast where the host, Isaac Shaker, talks with guests about different campaign settings for roleplaying games. The show covers established settings, such as those made for
D&D
Dungeons & Dragons 5.5e (2024)Dungeons & Dragons 5.5E (commonly called the "2024 rules" or "D&D 2024") is the revised and updated...Beginner-friendlyHigh-Fantasy
, like Faerun and Greyahwk. The show also discusses settings that are adapted for RPGs, like Middle-Earth and Westeros. Interview episodes bring on members of the RPG community who have created their own campaign worlds. This is a chance for the guest to show off what they’ve made, explain challenges they’ve overcome, and discuss paths that didn’t work for them when creating their campaign setting. Homebrew worlds often get no attention outside of A GM's play group, so this is a way to present a GM’s hard work to a wider audience. Anybody can be a guest on the show as long as they have a campaign setting they want to talk about!

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Latest episodes

  • 1h 06m

    93 Extra - Crit Talkers Feed Drop

    This episode is connect to Episode 93 - D&D Set in the 60s (Jake and Crit Talkers). The new short campaign, Darkspace Mixdown is the subject of this episode which combines the session 0 and first episode of that campaign...

  • 1h 30m

    93 - D&D Set in the 60s (Jake and Crit Talkers)

    Jake runs an actual play podcast called Crit Talkers that features several different campaigns all set within the same universe. The main area of interest is the Kingdom of Legacy, the last surviving place in the world....

  • 1h 17m

    92 Extra - Shrimps and Crits Feed Drop

    This episode is connected to episode 92 - Folk Singing RPG Party (Ian & Shrimps and Crits). The second main campaign of the Shrimp and Crits actual play podcast is Skywaymen. This is the first episode of that campaign. L...

  • 1h 12m

    92 - Folk Singing RPG Party (Ian & Shrimps and Crits)

    Ian from the Shrimps and Crits podcast comes to tell us about the campaigns he runs there! The podcast is in its second season using the Ironsworn system for the world of Dania. The campaign was inspired by folk songs of...

  • 1h 14m

    91 - Turning Your Novel Into An RPG? (Susannah and Thornvale)

    Susannah tells us about her world, the Dragon Knight Universe! She's written books and published two podcasts set in the universe. It's an alternate history of Earth where magic and monsters are real, but hidden from mos...

  • 1h 25m

    90 - Zombies in Iceland (Hem and VARÚÐ! Dead Island)

    Hem returns! Our previous guest from Episode 83 back with another BRP horror game. This time about zombies taking over Iceland. Three brave family members receive a special package that might put an end to the Endtimes....

  • 57m

    89 - Bunnies vs. the Borg D&D (Avery and Traumwald)

    Avery presents her world of Traumwald which means Dream Forest. Traumwald was a peaceful, magical world inhabited by anthropomorphic animals of all kinds. Their peace was shattered by the attack of the Ichal, a biomechan...

  • 1h 57m

    88 - DM & Roleplaying Tips with Balance of Aksio (Jay + Sandra! and 3RPG)

    Our guests today are Jay and Sandra from the 3RPG podcast. Their podcast is a talk show, typically with three hosts. Unfortunately the third host Chris was unable to make it.Jay and Sandra are working on a RPG product du...

  • 54m

    87 - Adapted Azeroth D&D (Flare and Akridon)

    Flare talks with us about his campaign world, Akridon. Three continents dominate the world, Tyros for humanoid races and Dusklands for bestial races. The third continent is known as the Scourge, having being destroyed in...

  • 2h 00m

    86 - Wuxia Adventures in RPGS (Daniel and Metanoia/Ithasen)

    I interviewed Daniel, my cohost of the Tabletop Community Spotlight! Daniel created his own setting called Ithasen with an in-progress wuxia TTRPG system called Metanoia to go along with it. Ithasen has a spiritual force...

  • 1h 31m

    85 - Medical Doctor D&D (Justin and Oops! All Healers!)

    Justin tells us about their new actual play show, Oops! All Healers. Justin is the GM side of the two person YouTube channel, So You Wanna Be A DM? (SYWBADM), that they host with Taylor. SYWBADM is a variety channel abou...

  • 2h 07m

    84 - Horseback Riding D&D Camp (Michael and SaddleSnaps)

    Michael tells us about a D&D horseback riding experience at SaddleSnaps! The Chicago-based stable hosted a weekend camping, horseback riding, and D&D event. About 50 players came from across the country for this new expe...

  • 2h 04m

    83 - Call of Cthulhu's Garden (Hem and The Sprouting)

    Hem tells us about their actual play campaign, The Sprouting. Within the world of The Sprouting, Earth's history diverged during the 1800s when an eldritch horror was summoned into our reality. The horror lay in wait for...

  • 1h 32m

    82 - Tarot Ghosts (George and Fears & Fortunes)

    George tells us about his D&D actual play called Fears and Fortunes. The campaign follows the adventures of Sly, granddaughter of the Seer of Bearuport. Sly accidentally releases a bunch of ghosts from her late grandmoth...

  • 1h 52m

    81 - Biopunk 2287 RPG (Seiya and Synesthesia Synthetica)

    Seiya tells us about his TTRPG system and setting, Synesthesia Synthetica (SNS). SNS is a biopunk game adjacent to the cyberpunk and steampunk genres. After an asteroid induced climate disaster, Earth has rebuilt itself...

  • 1h 24m

    80 - Dynamic RPG Countries (Travis and Tetara)

    Travis tells us about his world of Tetara. Travis runs Tetara as a paid game on StartPlaying. Each group's campaign runs in a different region of Tetara. As the campaign progresses that group gets to shape their region t...

  • 1h 41m

    79 - Dragon Age Degenerates (Zoe from Degenerates with Dice)

    Zoe tells us about her campaign in the world of Thedas from the Dragon Age video games. The campaign is an actual play on the Degenerates with Dice YouTube channel. Zoe uses the Dragon Age TTRPG published by Green Ronin....

  • 56m

    78 - D&D in Suburbia (Ryan and Serenity Springs)

    Ryan tells us about his new adventure, Serenity Springs! It's a cozy little suburb. Or at least it seems like it at first. Until you realize its in a dimension like Ravenloft and evil entities lurk around every corner to...

  • 1h 44m

    77 - KPop DnD Hunters (Dan and Idols of the Neon Dark)

    Dan talked with me about his Kickstarter campaign, Idols of the Neon Dark. It's a D&D 5e supplement that tries to bring the fun and atmosphere of K-pop to Dungeons and Dragons. The media frenzy around KPop Demon Hunters...

  • 1h 21m

    76 - Flying Island Worlds (Alan and Fractus)

    Alan tells us about his Daggerheart campaign setting, Fractus, that launched on Kickstarter recently. Fractus was a normal planet until it exploded and stopped halfway through. Now bunches of asteroids rotate a swirling...

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All the TTRPG reviews I've written were hard to find on my blog as they drifted off the front page. I created a page to make them easier to locate. Hopefully useful for others who are looking for the perfect wuxia game like me! #DnD #RPG #China #wuxia #xianxia

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Setting the Stage episode 93 has Jake on the show from the Crit Talkers actual play. Jake tells us all about the Kingdom of Legacy, a fantasy world with technology at the 1960s level. Quite different than most other D&D settings! #DnD #RPG #actualplay #AP

@gocorral.bsky.social

The next two of the Conclave races for Cimmeria, Halflings and Humans. Halflings in Cimmeria are a combo of gnomes and halflings from standard D&D. Humans? Just a bunch of Origin feats for a Greek myths inspired setting. #DnD #RPG

@gocorral.bsky.social

We've had the fluff for Cimmeria. Now its time for the crunch! Not enough subraces/lineages in 2024 D&D for you? Here's some more for Dwarves and Elves! #DnD #RPG

@gocorral.bsky.social

This episode of Setting the Stage features Ian, the GM for the Shrimps and Crits podcast. His latest campaign is the Skywaymen, where a bunch of animate scarecrows form a folk band to save the world! Listen to learn more! #DnD #RPG

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