Characters Without Stories
@characterswithoutstories.com
A TTRPG interview podcast talking about characters we haven’t had a chance to play yet.
Star (she/her), socialist, fuck fascists, from the river to the sea
https://www.characterswithoutstories.com
Star (she/her), socialist, fuck fascists, from the river to the sea
https://www.characterswithoutstories.com
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I’ve been starting to come back to TTRPGs, been hiding in a hole for months 😂
Playing a Daggerheart short campaign with @thisisvictor.bsky.social and @dngnclub.itch.io that has been a total blast, love playing with these two!
Also ran No Thank You Evil for my daughter and husband, such a fun game!
Playing a Daggerheart short campaign with @thisisvictor.bsky.social and @dngnclub.itch.io that has been a total blast, love playing with these two!
Also ran No Thank You Evil for my daughter and husband, such a fun game!
Played Daggerheart again last night this time @dngnclub.itch.io running his homebrew setting on a time-traveling train. Highlights:
- Jack’s Owen Wilson impression
- Wes Anderson train car with an angry badger
- NYC subway car full of off-brand mascots in anti gravity…
- Jack’s Owen Wilson impression
- Wes Anderson train car with an angry badger
- NYC subway car full of off-brand mascots in anti gravity…
December 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Played Daggerheart again last night this time @dngnclub.itch.io running his homebrew setting on a time-traveling train. Highlights:
- Jack’s Owen Wilson impression
- Wes Anderson train car with an angry badger
- NYC subway car full of off-brand mascots in anti gravity…
- Jack’s Owen Wilson impression
- Wes Anderson train car with an angry badger
- NYC subway car full of off-brand mascots in anti gravity…
TTRPG killjoys: “you can’t play a version of an established character from TV”
Me: “fuck you I’m playing Guinan as an orchid cactus and there’s nothing you can do about it”
Me: “fuck you I’m playing Guinan as an orchid cactus and there’s nothing you can do about it”
December 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
TTRPG killjoys: “you can’t play a version of an established character from TV”
Me: “fuck you I’m playing Guinan as an orchid cactus and there’s nothing you can do about it”
Me: “fuck you I’m playing Guinan as an orchid cactus and there’s nothing you can do about it”
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Starbucks workers are STILL striking.
Here's some easy ways you can support us, with links in the replies:
Here's some easy ways you can support us, with links in the replies:
December 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Starbucks workers are STILL striking.
Here's some easy ways you can support us, with links in the replies:
Here's some easy ways you can support us, with links in the replies:
Shit me too, I’m bereft.
I played Dispatch and now I have to recover from it like a good book.
December 15, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Shit me too, I’m bereft.
Spent some time browsing YouTube to discover new music and discovered these trends:
Jazz is back?
Almost pop punk
Dance moves inspired by David Byrne
Jazz is back?
Almost pop punk
Dance moves inspired by David Byrne
December 14, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Spent some time browsing YouTube to discover new music and discovered these trends:
Jazz is back?
Almost pop punk
Dance moves inspired by David Byrne
Jazz is back?
Almost pop punk
Dance moves inspired by David Byrne
Lambrini Girls - Cuntology 101 (Official Video)
YouTube video by Lambrini Girls
youtu.be
December 13, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Saw Wake Up Dead Man yesterday, so good. I just want to highlight the scene with Bridget Everett playing Louise over the phone. Phenomenal acting that made me cry but also the scene is a touching and pivotal character moment.
December 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Saw Wake Up Dead Man yesterday, so good. I just want to highlight the scene with Bridget Everett playing Louise over the phone. Phenomenal acting that made me cry but also the scene is a touching and pivotal character moment.
Just finished playing Citizen Sleeper. That last choice I had to make had me sitting and thinking for 10 minutes, no joke. Love it when a game does this.
Also this game is basically a solo Blades in the Dark set on a space station.
Also this game is basically a solo Blades in the Dark set on a space station.
December 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Just finished playing Citizen Sleeper. That last choice I had to make had me sitting and thinking for 10 minutes, no joke. Love it when a game does this.
Also this game is basically a solo Blades in the Dark set on a space station.
Also this game is basically a solo Blades in the Dark set on a space station.
Just to be crystal clear because the socials are constantly lying:
I have not followed you on or joined Lemon8 and I have not joined MetaAI, and I won’t do either of those things in the future.
I have not followed you on or joined Lemon8 and I have not joined MetaAI, and I won’t do either of those things in the future.
December 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Just to be crystal clear because the socials are constantly lying:
I have not followed you on or joined Lemon8 and I have not joined MetaAI, and I won’t do either of those things in the future.
I have not followed you on or joined Lemon8 and I have not joined MetaAI, and I won’t do either of those things in the future.
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“There is a risk that the focus on the second strike and specifically the talk of ‘war crimes’ feeds into the administration’s false wartime framing and veils the fact that the entire boat-strikes campaign is murder, full stop.”
December 5, 2025 at 5:56 AM
“There is a risk that the focus on the second strike and specifically the talk of ‘war crimes’ feeds into the administration’s false wartime framing and veils the fact that the entire boat-strikes campaign is murder, full stop.”
Ok hear me out: Moana but when they find the coconuts that are black inside it becomes cosmic horror.
December 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Ok hear me out: Moana but when they find the coconuts that are black inside it becomes cosmic horror.
Did anyone else play Dredge and think “I need to do a Call of Cthulhu game set on a fishing boat?
December 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Did anyone else play Dredge and think “I need to do a Call of Cthulhu game set on a fishing boat?
Just saw Twinless. Fucking amazing. Dylan O’Brien and James Sweeney do incredible work. Especially after seeing Friendship, this film is so much sharper, deeper, and funnier.
December 3, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Just saw Twinless. Fucking amazing. Dylan O’Brien and James Sweeney do incredible work. Especially after seeing Friendship, this film is so much sharper, deeper, and funnier.
If you liked the movie FRIENDSHIP we need to have words.
November 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
If you liked the movie FRIENDSHIP we need to have words.
My new obsession: soapbox races. The creative racers, the color commentary, the nail biting drama. It’s amazing
youtu.be/ZS0nP2IAs44?...
youtu.be/ZS0nP2IAs44?...
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
My new obsession: soapbox races. The creative racers, the color commentary, the nail biting drama. It’s amazing
youtu.be/ZS0nP2IAs44?...
youtu.be/ZS0nP2IAs44?...
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I love the genre mashup. Give me all the Golden Girls/Cthulhus and WWII/Draculas you've got.
But I'm also looking for non-mashups. Sometimes it feels like the industry has an allergy. Westerns without magic. Drama without aliens. Detectives without Cthulhu.
www.explorersdesign.com/one-genre-ga...
But I'm also looking for non-mashups. Sometimes it feels like the industry has an allergy. Westerns without magic. Drama without aliens. Detectives without Cthulhu.
www.explorersdesign.com/one-genre-ga...
Dare to Play it Straight
The rarest tabletop genre is the simplest one. A call for more anti-mashups.
www.explorersdesign.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I love the genre mashup. Give me all the Golden Girls/Cthulhus and WWII/Draculas you've got.
But I'm also looking for non-mashups. Sometimes it feels like the industry has an allergy. Westerns without magic. Drama without aliens. Detectives without Cthulhu.
www.explorersdesign.com/one-genre-ga...
But I'm also looking for non-mashups. Sometimes it feels like the industry has an allergy. Westerns without magic. Drama without aliens. Detectives without Cthulhu.
www.explorersdesign.com/one-genre-ga...
I’ve been starting to come back to TTRPGs, been hiding in a hole for months 😂
Playing a Daggerheart short campaign with @thisisvictor.bsky.social and @dngnclub.itch.io that has been a total blast, love playing with these two!
Also ran No Thank You Evil for my daughter and husband, such a fun game!
Playing a Daggerheart short campaign with @thisisvictor.bsky.social and @dngnclub.itch.io that has been a total blast, love playing with these two!
Also ran No Thank You Evil for my daughter and husband, such a fun game!
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I’ve been starting to come back to TTRPGs, been hiding in a hole for months 😂
Playing a Daggerheart short campaign with @thisisvictor.bsky.social and @dngnclub.itch.io that has been a total blast, love playing with these two!
Also ran No Thank You Evil for my daughter and husband, such a fun game!
Playing a Daggerheart short campaign with @thisisvictor.bsky.social and @dngnclub.itch.io that has been a total blast, love playing with these two!
Also ran No Thank You Evil for my daughter and husband, such a fun game!
Playing I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, which I thought was a cute little game about being a kid and making friends in space but actually it’s one of the most profound experiences I’ve had gaming. 1/3
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Playing I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, which I thought was a cute little game about being a kid and making friends in space but actually it’s one of the most profound experiences I’ve had gaming. 1/3
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I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
October 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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There’s a melancholy that comes from finishing a book for the first time. I just finished a 9 book series, over 5000 pages. It’s overwhelming. I wonder why that is.
September 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
There’s a melancholy that comes from finishing a book for the first time. I just finished a 9 book series, over 5000 pages. It’s overwhelming. I wonder why that is.