Brewmasters: Tabletop RPG Design

This week we're talking to Izzy, the author behind many homebrew classes such as the Disciple, Incarnate, and Occultist, author of Heroes of Dwarfhome, and contributor to Amarune's Almanac. In the first half of our lengthy discussion we talk about D&D 3.5, the merits of mechanic design, player psychology, and take a look at class design.

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If you're curious to see more of Izzy's work check out the links below, or head over to the Discord of Many Things and ask for him.
Homebrew on Google Drive
reddit.com/user/InfKore
twitter.com/ThrowingAxePRS

►What is Brewmasters?
Brewmasters is the series where we sit down with accomplished home brewers, game designers, and creatives from the table top roleplaying community and talk shop about design, inspirations, methodology, and more, sharing advice for everyone interested in the behind the scenes of tabletop RPG's.

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This week we finish our conversation with The Angry GM, providing the angriest ttrpg advice on the internet from his website and recently via his new book! Angry has produced many amazing articles that encourage you to start hacking D&D, dissecting the game design and putting it back together in new and interesting ways.

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You can find Angry's work here:
https://theangrygm.com

►What is Brewmasters?
Brewmasters is the series where we sit down with accomplished home brewers, game designers, and creatives from the table top roleplaying community and talk shop about design, inspirations, methodology, and more, sharing advice for everyone interested in the behind the scenes of tabletop RPG's.

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This week we continue our conversation with The Angry GM, providing the angriest ttrpg advice on the internet from his website and recently via his new book! Angry has produced many amazing articles that encourage you to start hacking D&D, dissecting the game design and putting it back together in new and interesting ways.

►Follow Our Guest
You can find Angry's work here:
https://theangrygm.com

►What is Brewmasters?
Brewmasters is the series where we sit down with accomplished home brewers, game designers, and creatives from the table top roleplaying community and talk shop about design, inspirations, methodology, and more, sharing advice for everyone interested in the behind the scenes of tabletop RPG's.

►Follow Klaustrix
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twitter.com/KlaustrixTV

This week we're talking to The Angry GM, providing the angriest ttrpg advice on the internet from his website and recently via his new book! Angry has produced many amazing articles that encourage you to start hacking D&D, dissecting the game design and putting it back together in new and interesting ways.

Sit down with us for the first of three episodes where we dive deep into D&D, starting with Wizard of the Coast's design choices and marketing.

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You can find Angry's work here:
https://theangrygm.com

►What is Brewmasters?
Brewmasters is the series where we sit down with accomplished home brewers, game designers, and creatives from the table top roleplaying community and talk shop about design, inspirations, methodology, and more, sharing advice for everyone interested in the behind the scenes of tabletop RPG's.

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This week we're talking to Caim, the mysterious brewer who pro's call in to help balance and critique their work. Taking commissions and using his encyclopedic knowledge of 5e, Caim has the uncanny ability to run combat simulations off the top of his head and he's made a big name for himself amongst the professional brewers. Today we're talking to him about how he works his magic, and what he thinks of 5e class design.

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You can find Caim's work or follow his social media here:
https://www.twitter.com/nimademe
https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...

►What is Brewmasters?
Brewmasters is the series where we sit down with accomplished home brewers, game designers, and creatives from the table top roleplaying community and talk shop about design, inspirations, methodology, and more, sharing advice for everyone interested in the behind the scenes of tabletop RPG's.

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This week we're talking to Mike from Mage Hand Press, the man who built a business out of his love for D&D homebrew. He's gone on to make brews of all shapes and sizes, build a community, and just finished his first kickstarter with tie ins to Wyrmwood and Level Up Dice. We'll be talking about all that and more.

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You can find Mike's work, join his kickstarter, or follow his social media here:
https://mfov.magehandpress.com/
http://iwishiwasinspace.com/
https://www.twitter.com/magehandpress

►What is Brewmasters?
Brewmasters is the series where we sit down with accomplished home brewers, game designers, and creatives from the table top roleplaying community and talk shop about design, inspirations, methodology, and more, sharing advice for everyone interested in the behind the scenes of tabletop RPG's.

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This week we're talking to Damian, Nasa, and Nerdhogg, three of the moderators for the Discord of Many Things, the official discord of the /r/UnearthedArcana subreddit. In this round table discussion, we explore what they have in store for the discord server, the challenges of being a moderator, how the rise in discussion about racism is affecting table top RPG's, and I challenge our guests to come up with magic items on the spot. All that and more in this episode!

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https://www.reddit.com/r/UnearthedArc...
https://discord.gg/0dPVgggGtnyRhIcB

►Nerdhogg's Links
https://nerdhogg.blogspot.com/
https://jojiro.itch.io/crabtastrophe
https://ffirbolg.wordpress.com/

►What is Brewmasters?
Brewmasters is the series where we sit down with accomplished home brewers, game designers, and creatives from the table top roleplaying community and talk shop about design, inspirations, methodology, and more, sharing advice for everyone interested in the behind the scenes of tabletop RPG's.

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This week we're talking to BornToDoStuff, an artisan of artifice who has created almost 300 magic items and built his own website to manage them all. We discuss the intricacies of magic item brewing, how to work around a conservative family's concerns about D&D, if a website is the right place to host your brews and much more.

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To visit Born's item compendium or follow his twitter just head over to:
https://items.borntodostuff.com
https://www.twitter.com/borntodostuff

►What is Brewmasters?
Brewmasters is the series where we sit down with accomplished home brewers, game designers, and creatives from the table top roleplaying community and talk shop about design, inspirations, methodology, and more, sharing advice for everyone interested in the behind the scenes of tabletop RPG's.

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This week we're talking to William King of Genuine Fantasy Press, the mind behind The Compendium of Forgotten Secrets, who went down the road of self publishing and joined us to tell the tale.

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To see William's brew or to join his discord community head over to:
https://www.GenFantasyPress.com

►What is Brewmasters?
Brewmasters is the series where we sit down with accomplished home brewers, game designers, and creatives from the table top roleplaying community and talk shop about design, inspirations, methodology, and more, sharing advice for everyone interested in the behind the scenes of tabletop RPG's.

►Follow Klaustrix
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