Celebrating 400 episodes! This is an intro to the original Beacon of Creation project, Castmire, a spooky Magic set in a world before Duskmourn and Murders at Karlov Manor. The coolest part of the ep is the second half, where we give into sweet ideas from all of you to do with Castmire. We’ve got the two original creators of Beacon here, Brad and Adam, and lots of their stories and perspectives!
Frog Legs Rag by Kevin Macleod
Castmire’s last updates (2022): https://www.planesculptors.net/set/castmire
Topics discussed:
- like duskmourn and MKM, but not exactly
- green vine villain trying to break containment
- white architect villain keeping people from The Exit
- visit – door/rooms as morph lands
- startle – cheaper/flash if a creature is attacking alone
- inhabit – mutate/disturb to animate artifacts
- really tried to make haunt work
- inhabit not as much about making creatures, more about spreading abilities
- cluedo equipment (also done by MKM!)
- warped pipe
- clue notes
- making investigate novel and fun
- ghostbusters and scooby doo
- hard to have a murder mystery if everyone’s getting murdered
- focus channels
- pushing members from reader->participant->leader
- printing cards
- playtest energy
- editing your trophy card out of existence
- a success all around
- living set with rotating chunks
- rotating sheets on arena drafts
- harder to make an impact on a set nearing maturity
- bullet hell
- cooperative draft with scoring at the end
- distributing loot
- quarterbacking
- competing parties
- no cards go drafted?
- happy house instead of evil house
- what about starting from beauty and the beast?
- christmas magic
- muppet babies
- intermission music recs
- meld rooms
- grand visit
- walking kitchen appliances
- legendary actions
- roomchase
- katching the mustard
- living in a dollhouse
- every window a different plane
- castmire time travel, doctor who style
- episode 200 adventure
- can’t talk, downloading podcasts
- ten mana sarkhan
- talk to brad on the discord about ogre battle