This week’s episode is all about taking your hands off the wheel and letting your players take control of the story.

As dungeon masters we invent storylines, plant secrets, and build up anticipation for them to experience our awesome content! But what if the players miss those secrets? Or steer the story in a different direction? It can be difficult to deal with that disappointment, but this episode is all about the joy of letting your players be in charge of the story.

We also dig more into Joe’s history of convention style D&D, talk about the consequences of player actions, and discuss the concept of failing forward.

Jargon Cheat Sheet

• 5e: Short for Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition, the current edition of the game.
• Living Greyhawk (LG): A massive shared campaign played by thousands of people in the 2000s.
• Mod: Short for module, which is an old school term for a written adventure.
• Stat Block: The statistics and abilities of a creature.