Chromatic Chimera

*"Where the story is made up, and the XP doesn't matter."*

**Chromatic Chimera** is a multimedia production hobby group founded by a group of close friends who shared an enjoyment of using tabletop roleplaying games as a storytelling medium. Chromatic Chimera produces its own webseries, including *WovenRealm* as Independent 13th Age Broadcasters. The channel has hosted webseries by other creators in the past.

## History

Original cast members Alex, Chris, and Lucy met via the online RPG space playing various *Dungeons & Dragons* campaigns. In late 2018/early 2019, Alex and Chris began talking about producing an actual play webseries. Lucy was quickly included in the original cast and future admins AJ and Sam were brought on originally as cast members in the first webseries produced by the channel, *SteamSpell* and *Agora's Bells.* In March 2019, the Chromatic Chimera debuted their self-produced channel of the same name and began live streaming with the premiere of *SteamSpell.*

A close connection was quickly formed between these original cast members with AJ and Sam being added to the administrative team of Chromatic Chimera to help oversee the productions. The channel continued to utilize online production techniques that utilized virtual meeting platforms broadcasted with overlays, music, live captioning, and other audio-visual media to produce their webseries as a live-stream of RPGs on their twitch channel, archiving their content on their YouTube channel.

The Chromatic Chimera hosted the successful Couch-con event during the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020. The channel has ran various other charity events since its founding. It was also during this time that the channel changed its direction to focus on TTRPGs that were not *Dungeons & Dragons.* During their run of *Madam Curio's Bizarre Bazaar,* the channel announced that they were officially recognized by Pelgrane Press as *13th Age Independent Broadcasters*, which quickly led to an announcement of the next flagship show being set to use the *13th Age* RPG ruleset. Chromatic Chimera has hosted other actual play groups and helped produce their shows, most notably the No Initiative group. Since winter 2021, the channel began to focus primarily on their own content, particularly their flagship games.

In early 2021, with *SteamSpell* on an indefinite hiatus and *Agora's Bells* concluded, Chromatic Chimera announced their new, upcoming show *WovenRealm*, which boasted to be a combination of the settings from *SteamSpell* and *Agora's Bells* as well as a spiritual successor to both the series all while using the *13th Age* system. *WovenRealm* premiered in March 2021 with its first season. Season 1 ended in October 2021 with Season 2 transitioning to Season 3 in February 2022.

The show continues to be the channel's primary webseries, premiering Wednesday evening live on Twitch. *WovenRealm* is currently in its third season.

## The Three Pillars

The three pillars of RPGs are often described as:

1. Combat
2. Social Interaction
3. Exploration

Chromatic Chimera places a focus on narrative and character with their productions, thus leading them to adopt a modified, tongue-in-cheek set of pillars that productions such as *WovenRealm* place a focus on:

1. Drama
2. Moral Dilemmas
3. Ships

## External Links

- Watch Chromatic Chimera live on Twitch.tv

- Watch Chromatic Chimera's past broadcasts and clips on YouTube.com