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Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
On this episode I'm so sorry for the background noise, the other player groups parked almost on top of our table this session.
Welcome to the Circle of Veritas, a Candela Obscura Real Play podcast by the Creative Play and Podcast Network. In the gaslit streets of Newfair, our brave circle of investigators faces ancient horrors, uncovering secrets while battling the supernatural. As they strive to protect the fragile veil of reality, listeners are taken on an atmospheric journey through the shadows that cloak their world.
Join Kelly, a.k.a. Trixie from Ragnarok and Roll, as she thanks listeners for supporting varied adventures and invites support on Patreon for more thrilling podcasts and surprises. Our circle navigates talents, relationships, and the eerie mysteries of a supernatural tome to collect gear and build trust. Can they maintain discretion and unity while facing the darkness that watches in waiting?
As new alliances form and old tensions fade, the investigators are summoned to the Librum Veritas to unravel secrets hidden in the heart of the Briar Green District. With every roll of the dice and strategic alliance, the line between the familiar and the unknown blurs. Stay vigilant, for in the shadows, ancient truths stir.
Our first full episode of The Circle of Veritas, our Candela Obscura campaign, is now live! In Session 1, our newly-formed Circle is summoned to the bookshop Librum Veritas and sent into their first case: mysterious deaths in a graveyard, sigils of ash and bleed etched into flesh, and rumors of war-dead walking again…
The circle must unravel the truth behind the haunted coin, lost soldiers, and a dark cult on the rise.
✨ Candela Obscura is published by Darrington Press, the imprint of Critical Role, and you can find the core book and quickstart rules at https://darringtonpress.com/candela-obscura.
Your support helps us keep the mics on and the mysteries coming—thank you!
🎧 Listen in as the Circle forms, the mystery brews… and the light begins to shine on Session 0 here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/session-0-to-of-131433399?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
Our circle includes:
Louise Etta Bellafonte de Clermont (Our Criminal played by Abby), Role: Slink, Specialty: Criminal.Tourmaline Corvalis (Our Medium played by Kellie), Role: Weird, Specialty: Medium“Bloody” Mary Kerr (Our Occultist played by Sandy) Role: Weird, Specialty Occultist.Sgt Major Victoria “Vic” Stirling (Our Soldier played by Kerrie) Role: Muscle, Specialty: Soldier.
Simon Henry Bennett (Our Journalist played by Emma) Role: Face, Specialty: Journalist.
Pick up a copy of Candela Oscura one of our Affiliate links and help the podcast:
On Amazon: https://amzn.to/3TbYJqR
On DriveThruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/463574/candela-obscura-corebook?src=hottest_filtered&affiliate_id=49631
And the Free QuickStart guide on DriveThruRPG:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/438694/candela-obscura-quickstart-guide?src=hottest_filtered&affiliate_id=49631
Check out our previous Candela Obscura one-shot here:
Candela Obscura RPG One shot The Gloom Beneath | Creative Play and Podcast Network
Please check out Darrington Press's Candela Obscura at their website as well:
https://darringtonpress.com/candela/
If you want to join in the fun and get in on a few games, please comment on the ongoing schedule over at our Patreon page on what you'd like to play we have games happening online and in person all month long:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/13-rpgs-of-polls-113126454?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
Please support our shows at www.patreon.com/cppn and even join us in some games!
Also keep an eye at the new things on our now affiliated Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/creativeplayandpodcast
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Enjoy our older streamed games and other episodes on our Youtube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@creativeplayandpodcastnetwork
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Friday Jun 13, 2025
Friday Jun 13, 2025
Welcome to the Circle of Veritas, a Candela Obscura Real Play podcast by the Creative Play and Podcast Network. In the gaslit streets of Newfair, our brave circle of investigators faces ancient horrors, uncovering secrets while battling the supernatural. As they strive to protect the fragile veil of reality, listeners are taken on an atmospheric journey through the shadows that cloak their world.
Join Kelly, a.k.a. Trixie from Ragnarok and Roll, as she thanks listeners for supporting varied adventures and invites support on Patreon for more thrilling podcasts and surprises. Our circle navigates talents, relationships, and the eerie mysteries of a supernatural tome to collect gear and build trust. Can they maintain discretion and unity while facing the darkness that watches in waiting?
As new alliances form and old tensions fade, the investigators are summoned to the Librum Veritas to unravel secrets hidden in the heart of the Briar Green District. With every roll of the dice and strategic alliance, the line between the familiar and the unknown blurs. Stay vigilant, for in the shadows, ancient truths stir.
Our first full episode of The Circle of Veritas, our Candela Obscura campaign, is now live! In Session 1, our newly-formed Circle is summoned to the bookshop Librum Veritas and sent into their first case: mysterious deaths in a graveyard, sigils of ash and bleed etched into flesh, and rumors of war-dead walking again…
The circle must unravel the truth behind the haunted coin, lost soldiers, and a dark cult on the rise.
✨ Candela Obscura is published by Darrington Press, the imprint of Critical Role, and you can find the core book and quickstart rules at https://darringtonpress.com/candela-obscura.
Your support helps us keep the mics on and the mysteries coming—thank you!
🎧 Listen in as the Circle forms, the mystery brews… and the light begins to shine on Session 0 here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/session-0-to-of-131433399?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
Our circle includes:
Louise Etta Bellafonte de Clermont (Our Criminal played by Abby), Role: Slink, Specialty: Criminal.Tourmaline Corvalis (Our Medium played by Kellie), Role: Weird, Specialty: Medium“Bloody” Mary Kerr (Our Occultist played by Sandy) Role: Weird, Specialty Occultist.Sgt Major Victoria “Vic” Stirling (Our Soldier played by Kerrie) Role: Muscle, Specialty: Soldier.
Simon Henry Bennett (Our Journalist played by Emma) Role: Face, Specialty: Journalist.
Pick up a copy of Candela Oscura one of our Affiliate links and help the podcast:
On Amazon: https://amzn.to/3TbYJqR
On DriveThruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/463574/candela-obscura-corebook?src=hottest_filtered&affiliate_id=49631
And the Free QuickStart guide on DriveThruRPG:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/438694/candela-obscura-quickstart-guide?src=hottest_filtered&affiliate_id=49631
Check out our previous Candela Obscura one-shot here:
Candela Obscura RPG One shot The Gloom Beneath | Creative Play and Podcast Network
Please check out Darrington Press's Candela Obscura at their website as well:
https://darringtonpress.com/candela/
If you want to join in the fun and get in on a few games, please comment on the ongoing schedule over at our Patreon page on what you'd like to play we have games happening online and in person all month long:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/13-rpgs-of-polls-113126454?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
Please support our shows at www.patreon.com/cppn and even join us in some games!
Also keep an eye at the new things on our now affiliated Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/creativeplayandpodcast
Also follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/CreativePlayandPodcastNetwork
Enjoy our older streamed games and other episodes on our Youtube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@creativeplayandpodcastnetwork
Would you be interested if we hosted D&D and Edge of Empire games on Roll20 for you to join? Email us at Creativeplaypodcastnet@Gmail.com
Friday Apr 18, 2025
Friday Apr 18, 2025
Lazy Dungeon Mastering - Tools and Tricks for Easier Campaign Sessionsand Story Creation
Our Awesome Hosts Nicholas Black and Zach Hoyt
Running a D&D campaign can be intimidating.Storyline, NPCs, plot points, world building, and then it all gets thrown out the window becauseof the players! This panel shows how anyone can start a campaign using modern tools and very littleprep, and to not be intimidated.
Please check out more about Nicholas Black and his great company Goth Geek as well as the Arizona Brown Coats and Zach Hoyt at the links below:
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Arizona Browncoats https://www.facebook.com/groups/1708417686037838
https://www.azbrowncoats.us/
Thank you Wild Wild West Con Guests, Staff, Volunteers and Panelists for an amazing Con and weekend full of new and old friends and Con family! We love you guys! For more on WWWC please check out: https://www.wildwestcon.com/
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Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Here is the next of our 13 RPG's Halloween! Join Talia, Emma, David and Guenter as we try out Candela Obscura in...
Case Title: The Gloom Beneath
Case Summary: In The Sidle, residents are reporting strange occurrences in their homes and shops. Shadows in newly lit alleys seem to shift unnaturally, items vanish without a trace, and at night, people have begun to disappear, leaving no sign of struggle. Though The Sidle has a reputation for safety due to its new electric streetlights, something sinister is lurking just beyond the glow. Candela Obscura dispatches the investigators to uncover the source of these disappearances before more citizens are lost.
We will be posting the full Case/Adventure and more over on our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/c/cppn
Darrington Press's Candela Obscura Core Rulebook Roleplaying Game is a new investigative horror RPG in a gilded world simmering with occult magic, using the Illuminated Worlds System and featured in a new show on Critical Role! In this game of gothic horror, individuals of varied talents are brought together under the organization Candela Obscura, where they pursue strange occurrences and encounter dangerous magick, fighting back against a mysterious source of corruption and bleed. This core rulebook includes everything you need to play, including rules, character options, guidance on running your own campaigns, and expansive setting information both inside and beyond the turn of the century-inspired city of Newfaire.
Candela Obscura (bestowed the hashtag #CandelaObscura) is a new tabletop roleplaying game that places you in the roles of investigators working for an esoteric order. In this game of investigative horror, individuals of varied talents are brought together under the organization Candela Obscura. You’ll pursue strange occurrences and encounter dangerous magicks, fighting back against a mysterious source of corruption and bleed. Candela Obscura is the first to use the Illuminated Worlds System, a newly designed system that uses 6-sided dice and lends itself to narrative, arc-driven play.
If you're interested in getting a coy please consider using our affiliated links at Amazon: https://amzn.to/3AmnZEM
and DriveThruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/463574/candela-obscura-core-rulebook?affiliate_id=49631
And check out the free quickstart guide that has all you need to start playing:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/438694/candela-obscura-quickstart-guide?affiliate_id=49631
Please check out Darrington Press's Candela Obscura at their website as well:
https://darringtonpress.com/candela/
If you want to join in the fun and get in on a few games, please comment on the ongoing schedule over at our Patreon page on what you'd like to play we have games happening online and in person all month long:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/13-rpgs-of-polls-113126454?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
Please support our shows at www.patreon.com/cppn and even join us in some games!
Also keep an eye at the new things on our now affiliated Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/creativeplayandpodcast
Also follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/CreativePlayandPodcastNetwork
Enjoy our older streamed games and other episodes on our Youtube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@creativeplayandpodcastnetwork
Would you be interested if we hosted D&D and Edge of Empire games on Roll20 for you to join? Email us at Creativeplaypodcastnet@Gmail.com
Friday Oct 04, 2024
Friday Oct 04, 2024
Shadows in the Fog, our Urban Shadows 2e one shot: Part two and the conclusion will be posted next week!
For our first game of our 13 RPGs of Halloween were trying out the newest edition of Urben Shadows by Magpie games
Urban Shadows is a political urban fantasy tabletop roleplaying game in which mortals and supernaturals alike vie for power in a modern-day city. Vampires, faeries, hunters, wizards, and more clash in the shadows...or make backroom deals for their piece of the streets and skyscrapers. No one is ever safe, and everything is always at stake.
In Urban Shadows, you play unique and powerful archetypes, protagonists who are attuned to the supernatural world. While the mortal world remains ignorant of the struggles of the city’s supernatural denizens, you are caught in the middle of the physical conflicts and political drama of the city’s past, present, and future.
In this 3 part series we share our one shot game, our group who are the Wizard (David), the Wolf (Golda) and the Vamp (Guenter) get summoned by the elders of the city to address an issue they are suited to deal with...
Check out the Urban Shadows (2nd Ed.) QuickStart at DriveThruRPG at https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/333500/urban-shadows-2nd-ed-quickstart?affiliate_id=49631
Check out Magpie games at:
https://magpiegames.com/
The Kickstarter for the second edition is here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magpiegames/urban-shadows-second-edition
If you want to join in the fun and get in on a few games, please comment on the ongoing schedule over at our Patreon page on what you'd like to play we have games happening online and in person all month long:
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Please support our shows at www.patreon.com/cppn and even join us in some games!
Also keep an eye at the new things on our now affiliated Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/creativeplayandpodcast
Also follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/CreativePlayandPodcastNetwork
Enjoy our older streamed games and other episodes on our Youtube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@creativeplayandpodcastnetwork
Would you be interested if we hosted D&D and Edge of Empire games on Roll20 for you to join? Email us at Creativeplaypodcastnet@Gmail.com
Thursday Sep 19, 2024
Thursday Sep 19, 2024
A scurvy-ridden, rules light, art heavy tabletop RPG.
Inspired by history, fantasy, horror and rum. Your cutlass & flintlock won’t save you from the hordes of skeletons, the Kraken, or even your own crew. PIRATE BORG is a complete game based on and compatible with the award -winning MÖRK BORG RPG. But it’s also a tool kit. Most of the tables can be hacked and used with any tabletop RPG.
We finally get to give this book a read through and discuss the awesome writing and artwork in this awesome RPG!
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Check out more at Limithron site
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Please check out the New Kickstarter for:
PIRATE BORG: Down Among the Dead
A three-adventure anthology book, a starter set, a community content book, and a trove of accessories.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/limithron/downamongthedead
If you're looking to jump right into the game now or just to enjoy the artwork, Download the free 64-page Quickstart preview of Pirate Borg here.
Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Today is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur and Mark Summers of Albany, Oregon, who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate (that is, in English with a stereotypical West Country accent).
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Thursday Sep 12, 2024
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
Tucson Comic Con 2024 Panel Narrative Role-Playing Games - A New Genre? Panelists: Becca Aazlor, Clayton Aazlor, Kirsten AazlorRecorded live at Tucson Comic Con Saturday August 31, 2024 :: 11:20 am to 12:10 pm
There has always been a massive divide between the kind of role one takes on in a video game or table top roleplaying game (TTRPG), and the kind of role one takes on when imagining and playing make-believe with friends as children. While D&D and many other systems try and bridge this divide, the problem is simply that the perspective of TTRPGs has always been mechanic first and narrative second. We don't have to play this way. Come and check out Transcendence. The first of its kind, this narrative RPG system has developed a set of mechanics to support your imagination. It's an entirely new system and approach that will change more than just how you game with friends. Be warned though - this game isn't made for everyone. Transcendence, and this panel, is for those who constantly feel stifled and wish for something truly new. If you find yourself intrigued come and get a free e-copy of the Transcendence Core Rulebook!
TranscendencE RPG Core Rulebook can be found at https://funism.fun/
To contact the Funism crew please reach out to them at cultoffunism@gmail.com
And a HUGE Thank You to the fantastic Staff, Volunteers, Panelists, Fam Groups and Vendors who made Tucson Comic Con one of my favorite conventions!
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The Awesome list of Vendors at Tucson Comic Con this year:
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Thank you Tucson Comic con and RinCon for an awesome weekend!!!!
Saturday Aug 31, 2024
Saturday Aug 31, 2024
(Reposted from D&D Journey of the Fifth Edition)
It is that time again! #RPGADAY2024! We are huge long time fans of RPGaDAY2024 and this is its 11th year!
Its going to be a great month! We will be doing the normal prompt along with the alternate options on both the dnd journey of the fifth edition podcast as well as I'm going to do the Alt list on the creative play and podcast network podcast just to change things up some ;)
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Friday Aug 30, 2024
Friday Aug 30, 2024
(Reposted from D&D Journey of the Fifth Edition)
It is that time again! #RPGADAY2024! We are huge long time fans of RPGaDAY2024 and this is its 11th year!
Its going to be a great month! We will be doing the normal prompt along with the alternate options on both the dnd journey of the fifth edition podcast as well as I'm going to do the Alt list on the creative play and podcast network podcast just to change things up some ;)
Check out where RPGADAY started at https://www.autocratik.com/
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Thursday Aug 29, 2024
Thursday Aug 29, 2024
(Reposted from D&D Journey of the Fifth Edition)
It is that time again! #RPGADAY2024! We are huge long time fans of RPGaDAY2024 and this is its 11th year!
Its going to be a great month! We will be doing the normal prompt along with the alternate options on both the dnd journey of the fifth edition podcast as well as I'm going to do the Alt list on the creative play and podcast network podcast just to change things up some ;)
Check out where RPGADAY started at https://www.autocratik.com/
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Facebook facebook.com/gaming/CreativePlayandPodcastNetworkD&DJourneyoftheFifthedition dndjourneyofthefifthedition.podbean.com
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Please support our shows at www.patreon.com/cppn and even join us in some games!Also keep an eye at the new things on our now affiliated Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/creativeplayandpodcast
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Would you be interested if we hosted D&D and Edge of Empire games on Roll20 for you to join? Email us at Creativeplaypodcastnet@Gmail.com