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Candela Obscura, the Glossary

Candela Obscura is the name of both an American actual play web series and a tabletop role-playing game system.^[1]

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Aabria Iyengar

Aabria Iyengar is an American web series actress known primarily for tabletop role-playing game anthologies, streams and podcasts.

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Actual play

Actual play, also called live play, is a genre of podcast or web show in which people play tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) for an audience.

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Aimee Carrero

Aimee Carrero (born July 15, 1988) is a Dominican-American actress.

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Anjali Bhimani

Anjali Bhimani (born August 30, 1974 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American actress.

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In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs, or related fiction/non-fiction excerpts by different authors.

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Anthology series

An anthology series is a written series, radio, television, film, or video game series that presents a different story and a different set of characters in each different episode, season, segment, or short.

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Ashley Johnson

Ashley Suzanne Johnson (born August 9, 1983) is an American actress.

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Ashly Burch

Ashly Burch (born June 19, 1990) is an American Emmy-winning writer, television actress, director, voice actress, and singer.

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Blades in the Dark

Blades in the Dark is a tabletop fantasy role-playing game by John Harper, set in a fictional city of Doskvol, inspired by Victorian London and Gothic fiction. Candela Obscura and Blades in the Dark are tabletop games.

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Brennan Lee Mulligan

Brennan Lee Mulligan (born January 4, 1988) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and gamemaster.

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Campaign (gaming)

A campaign is a continuing storyline in a game.

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Cinemark Theatres

Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (stylized as CineMark from 1998 to 2022 and in all caps since 2022) is an American movie theater chain that started operations in 1984 and since then it has operated theaters with hundreds of locations throughout the Americas.

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Comic Book Resources

CBR, formerly Comic Book Resources, is a news website covering movies, television, anime, video games and comic book–related news and discussion.

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COVID-19 lockdowns

During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of non-pharmaceutical interventions, particularly lockdowns (encompassing stay-at-home orders, curfews, quarantines, cordons sanitaires and similar societal restrictions), were implemented in numerous countries and territories around the world.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Critical Role

Critical Role is an American web series in which a group of professional voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons. Candela Obscura and Critical Role are 2020s YouTube series and actual play web series.

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Critical Role Productions

Critical Role Productions, LLC is a multimedia production company incorporated in 2015 by the members of the creator-owned streaming show Critical Role. Candela Obscura and Critical Role Productions are Critical Role and Twitch (service).

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Darrington Press

Darrington Press is the tabletop game imprint for Critical Role Productions which launched in October 2020. Candela Obscura and Darrington Press are Critical Role.

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Demiplane (company)

Demiplane is a company that creates digital toolsets for playing tabletop role-playing games which can be used as an aid to playing in person or remotely online.

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Dice

Dice (die or dice) are small, throwable objects with marked sides that can rest in multiple positions.

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Dimension 20

Dimension 20 is a tabletop role-playing game show produced by and broadcast on Dropout, and generally hosted by Brennan Lee Mulligan as the show's regular Dungeon Master. Candela Obscura and Dimension 20 are actual play podcasts and actual play web series.

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Dungeon Master

In the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) role-playing game, the Dungeon Master (DM) is the game organizer and participant in charge of creating the details and challenges of a given adventure, while maintaining a realistic continuity of events.

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ENNIE Awards

The ENNIE Awards (previously stylized as ENnie Awards) are awards for role-playing game (RPG) products (including game-related accessories, publications, and art) and their creators.

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Exandria Unlimited

Exandria Unlimited (ExU) is an American actual play anthology web series where the cast plays Dungeons & Dragons using the fifth edition ruleset. Candela Obscura and Exandria Unlimited are 2020s YouTube series, actual play web series and Critical Role.

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Fictional universe

A fictional universe (also called an imagined universe or a constructed universe) is the internally consistent fictional setting used in a narrative work or work of art, most commonly associated with works of fantasy and science fiction.

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Gamemaster

A gamemaster (GM; also known as game master, game manager, game moderator, referee, or storyteller) is a person who acts as an organizer, officiant for regarding rules, arbitrator, and moderator for a multiplayer role-playing game.

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Gamer Network

Gamer Network Limited (formerly Eurogamer Network Limited) is a British digital media company based in Brighton.

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Gen Con

Gen Con is the largest tabletop game convention in North America by both attendance and number of events.

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Hiatus (television)

In United States network television programming, a hiatus is a break of several weeks, months or years in the normal broadcast programming of a television series.

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Horror fiction

Horror is a genre of fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten, or scare.

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Improvisation

Improvisation, often shortened to improv, is the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found.

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Io9

io9 is a sub-blog of the technology blog Gizmodo that focuses on science fiction and fantasy pop culture, with former focuses on science, technology and futurism.

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Khary Payton

Khary Payton (born May 16, 1972) is an American actor and comedian.

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Laura Bailey

Laura Bailey (born May 28, 1981) is an American voice actress.

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Liam O'Brien

Liam Christopher O'Brien (born May 28, 1976) is an American voice actor, writer, and director.

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List of assets owned by Paramount Global

The following is a list of major assets that are owned by Paramount Global, an American multinational media conglomerate headquartered at One Astor Plaza in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Marisha Ray

Marisha Ray Huber is an American voice actress, host, producer, and creative director.

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Matthew Mercer

Matthew Christopher Miller, better known as Matthew Mercer, is an American voice actor and game designer.

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Mediumship

Mediumship is the pseudoscientific practice of purportedly mediating communication between familiar spirits or spirits of the dead and living human beings.

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Miniseries

A miniseries or mini-series is a television show or series that tells a story in a predetermined, limited number of episodes.

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Multiple-camera setup

The multiple-camera setup, multiple-camera mode of production, multi-camera or simply multicam is a method of filmmaking and video production.

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Pacific Time Zone

The Pacific Time Zone (PT) is a time zone encompassing parts of western Canada, the western United States, and western Mexico.

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Polygon (website)

Polygon is an American entertainment website by Vox Media covering video games, movies, television, and other popular culture.

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Post-traumatic stress disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental and behavioral disorder that develops from experiencing a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on a person's life or well-being.

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Robbie Daymond

Robert Daymond Howard (born March 11, 1982) is an American voice actor who is mostly known for his roles in video games, animation, anime and audiobooks.

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Role-playing

Role-playing or roleplaying is the changing of one's behaviour to assume a role, either unconsciously to fill a social role, or consciously to act out an adopted role.

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Role-playing game system

A role-playing game system, is a set of game mechanics rules used in a tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) to determine the outcome of a character's in-game actions.

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Roll20

Roll20 is a website consisting of a set of tools for playing tabletop role-playing games, also referred to as a virtual tabletop, which can be used as an aid to playing in person or remotely online.

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Sam Riegel

Samuel Brent Oscar Riegel (born October 9, 1976) is an American voice actor, director, and writer.

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Simulcast

Simulcast (a portmanteau of simultaneous broadcast) is the broadcasting of programs or events across more than one resolution, bitrate or medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at exactly the same time (that is, simultaneously).

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A spin-off or spinoff is any narrative work derived from an already existing work that focuses on different aspects from the original work.

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Story arc

A story arc (also narrative arc) is the chronological construction of a plot in a novel or story.

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Tabletop role-playing game

A tabletop role-playing game (typically abbreviated as TTRPG or TRPG), also known as a pen-and-paper role-playing game, is a classification for a role-playing game (RPG) in which the participants describe their characters' actions through speech, and sometimes movements. Candela Obscura and tabletop role-playing game are tabletop games.

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Taliesin Jaffe

Taliesin Jaffe is an American voice actor, voice director and screenwriter.

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The Escapist (magazine)

The Escapist (formerly known as Escapist Magazine) is an American video game website and online magazine.

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Title sequence

A title sequence (also called an opening sequence or intro) is the method by which films or television programmes present their title and key production and cast members, utilizing conceptual visuals and sound (often an opening theme song with visuals, akin to a brief music video).

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Travis Willingham

Travis Willingham is an American voice actor known for his character portrayals in video games and English anime dubs.

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Twitch (service)

Twitch is an American video live-streaming service that focuses on video game live streaming, including broadcasts of esports competitions, in addition to offering music broadcasts, creative content, and "in real life" streams.

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Very important person

A very important person (VIP or V.I.P.) or personage is a person who is accorded special privileges due to their high social rank, status, influence, or importance.

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Video on demand

Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos, television shows and films digitally on request.

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Web series

A web series (also known as webseries, short-form series, and web show) is a series of short scripted or non-scripted online videos, generally in episodic form, released on the Internet (i.e. World Wide Web), which first emerged in the late 1990s and became more prominent in the early 2000s.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candela_Obscura

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See also

2023 podcast debuts

Actual play podcasts

Actual play web series

Critical Role

Horror fiction web series

Role-playing games introduced in 2023

Twitch (service)

References