What is Characters Without Stories?

09/30/22 • 1 min

Characters without stories is a TTRPG podcast about the roads not yet traveled.
If you play tabletop roleplaying games you probably have some back pocket characters, characters who are just waiting for the right story. Every episode, I’ll bring in a friend to tell me about their character and their approach to creating characters.

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Characters Without Stories - What is Characters Without Stories?

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Characters without stories is a TTRPG podcast about the roads not yet traveled. If you play TTRPG, so you probably have some back pocket characters, characters who haven't had a chance to play yet. Every episode I bring in a friend to tell me about their unplayed character and their approach to creating characters. I've had some fascinating conversations about identity and about how we build characters and what it means to build characters and I hope