Welcome to the final episode of Series 66, everyone! In this series, we sat down with three different designers live at the AcadeCon 2023 convention in Dayton, Ohio in the US! In today's episode, Ryan was able to sit down with the head of the AcadeCon convention as well as the RPG Academy, Michael Ross, to learn about Action 12 Cinema, an action movie RPG where you play as characters in a B-style action movie! Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/charactercreationcast Announcements: Star Crossed: Love Letters Backerkit: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/bully-pulpit-games/Star-Crossed-Love-Letters Star Crossed and I Have the High Ground on Party of One: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1dPXHo5a4B6RZ9lYZT2Cqz?si=ZggG5sTqTzym9qRGec-n4w Our social media info: https://contact.charactercreationcast.com Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: 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 Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests Michael Ross Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheRpgAcademy Website: https://therpgacademy.com/ Acadecon: https://acadecon.com/ Games/Tools discussed this episode: Action 12 Cinema: https://therpgacademy.com/action-12-cinema/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:01:24 - Introductions 00:04:01 - What's in a game? - Core concept of Action 12 Cinema 00:07:16 - What setting do we play in? 00:12:33 - What do characters do in this game? 00:15:19 - What materials do we need to play? 00:16:13 - What sort of characters can people make in the game? 00:21:06 - Let's make some people! 00:23:38 - World Building - Setting the rating 00:25:00 - Genre 00:27:20 - Plot 00:32:10 - 6 Obstacles and putting together Acts 00:41:14 - Locations 00:43:12 - Worst possible outcome 00:44:43 - Supporting characters 00:46:35 - Main Characters 00:48:03 - Skills 00:50:55 - Relationships 00:52:05 - Heroic Trait, Achilles Heel and Personal Crisis 00:56:29 - Tropes 01:01:55 - What happens going into the game 01:10:11 - What was the process of developing these character creation mechanics? 01:13:34 - What inspirations were drawn upon for this? 01:14:58 - How long has AcadeCon been going on for? 01:17:15 - How have things been going at AcadeCon 2023 so far? 01:23:09 - Outtakes 01:25:28 - Call to Action 01:31:47 - Credits Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod Clip 1: Insidious by Cody Martin on Soundstripe: https://app.soundstripe.com/songs/14479 Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Website: https://www.charactercreationcast.com Contact Us: https://contact.charactercreationcast.com BlueSky: @CreationCast.bsky.social (https://bsky.app/profile/creationcast.bsky.social) Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Discord: https://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Amelia Antrim: BlueSky: @gingerreckoning.bsky.social (https://bsky.app/profile/gingerreckoning.bsky.social) Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Ryan Boelter: BlueSky: @lordneptune.com (https://bsky.app/profile/lordneptune.com) Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Our Network: https://oneshotpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices