New Year, New Frontiers With Carlos Cisco
Kick off the New Year with a brand new episode of Strange New Pod as Julian and Giraffe sit down with writer and game designer Carlos Cisco for a wide-ranging conversation spanning Star Trek and tabletop RPGs.
Carlos dives into his work as a writer on Star Trek: Discovery, his contributions to Star Trek Adventures, and his role in helping develop the brand new TTRPG Daggerheart. They also take a deep look at his latest release, Pistolheart, a Western-inspired supplement for Daggerheart that brings six-shooters, frontier justice, and genre-bending storytelling to the system.
From Starfleet to the final frontier of the Old West, this episode explores storytelling across mediums, adapting tone and genre, and what it takes to build compelling worlds, whether on screen or at the table.
As Data once said, "Saddle up, lock and load." (and roll some dice).
Writer/Game Designer
Carlos Cisco film/television writer and TTRPG designer. He has a deep love for science fiction, fantasy, and horror. While his personal writing tends to rest comfortably in the horror and action/adventure genres, his interests are as varied as his credits. He cut his teeth on season 3 of East Los High, writing about an East LA highschool dance squad. Most recently he’s written for Star Trek: Discovery, and has a story by credit on the giant shark horror film, The Black Demon. He has tabletop work that appears in Modiphius’s Star Trek Adventures, Haunted Table’s Triangle Agency, MCDM’s Arcadia, Flee, Mortals, and Draw Steel, as well as Critical Role’s Candela Obscura, Daggerheart, and just released his first solo title Pistolheart: a Western supplement for Daggerheart campaigns.
