Ryan and Ben take a moment to answer some questions from the mailbag. Then they peek at the open beta of Daggerheart before introducing the updated edition of “Of Dice and Men The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Play It” by David Ewalt. And lastly, we peer through our telescopes at the most recent release by NASA?

Community Pages: Daggerheart; Demiplane’s Daggerheart Nexus; NASA’s The Lost Universe; Lin Codega’s review of “If Dice and Men The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Play It.”

Socials: Discord; Twitter; Bluesky; Ryan’s Bluesky; Ben’s Bluesky

Ryan and Ben discuss the possibilities available when running an evil campaign and then spend some monster fixing time on bandits.

Community Pages: Dev Update Core Rulebooks, Maps, and Third Party Content; Vecna: Eve of Ruin, Everything You Need to Know; Daggerheart.

Socials: Discord; Twitter; Bluesky; Ryan’s Bluesky; Ben’s Bluesky.

Ryan and Ben discuss the plethora of news released in the past 2 weeks and then peek into the lairs of black dragons.

Community Pages: Dungeons and Dragons turns 50; PC Gamer’s D&D coverage; Vecna: Eve of Ruin preorder; Everything you need to know about Humblewood; Bricktastic Dungeons and Dragons article; Mr. Rhexx’s Black Dragon video; Viva La Dirt League’s D&D Logic Playlist.

Socials: Discord; Twitter; Bluesky; Ryan’s Bluesky; Ben’s Bluesky.

Ryan and Ben take a peek at the latest playtest survey results and then discuss the odds and ends of multiclassing.

Community Pages: Playtest Survey Results; Screenrant’s 10 D&D Rule changes; D&D Beyond’s Playtest 8 Summary; Wargamer article for fixing CR; Mike Mearls 5e point encounters; Puffin Forest’s Most Abserd Character; Loke Battlemaps Terrain Set 2 kickstarter; Loke Battlemats.

Socials: Discord; Twitter; Bluesky; Ryan’s Bluesky; Ben’s Bluesky.

Ryan and Ben discuss the best practices for prepping for your first session after a hiatus and then dig into the best way to drop a big pile of lore!

Community Pages: 2023 Unrolled; The Physical Edition of the Deck of Many Things Releases; MCDM Where Evil Lives; Newsletter of M.T. Black Games.

Socials: Discord; Twitter; Bluesky; Ryan’s Bluesky; Ben’s Bluesky.

Ryan and Ben spend some time taking a look at some Wizards of the Coast news, spend some time monster fixing the abominable yeti, and create our holiday one shot!

Community Pages: Hasbro Layoffs; Christian Hoffer’s twitter post; D&D Beyond Dungeons of Drakkenheim; D&D Beyond Lairs of Etharis; Vecna: Eve of Ruin and Quests From the Infinite Staircase announcement; A Peek at the 2024 D&D Player’s Handbook; How the Lich Stole Christmas

Socials: Discord; Twitter; Bluesky; Ryan’s Bluesky; Ben’s Bluesky.

Ryan and Ben discuss the highs and lows of Unearthed Arcana 8 and what it means to be a Warforged.

Community Pages: Unearthed Arcana 8 summary; Playtest 8 PDF; Playtest 8 video; Heroes’ Feast Adventure Book; Heroes’ Feast: The Joys of Running a High Level Adventure; Stonefold Kingdoms Magnetic Dungeons and Foldable RPG Terrain Kickstarter.

Socials: Discord; Twitter; Bluesky; Ryan’s Bluesky; Ben’s Bluesky

Ryan and Ben celebrate episode 100 by discussing giving feedback and then looking into fixing a few golems.

Community Pages: D&D Beyond maps; Deck of Many Things physical book update; DMsGuild; Hero Forge.

Socials: Discord; Twitter; Bluesky; Ryan’s Bluesky; Ben’s Bluesky

Ryan and Ben talk about using passive abilities and then run the Awakened Tree and Corpse Flower through the Monster Fixer.

Community Pages: Deck of Many Things delay; Chains of Asmodeus; One-Shot Wonders.

Socials: Discord; Twitter; Bluesky; Ryan’s BlueSky; Ben’s BlueSky.

Ryan and Ben take a quick look at the newest Planescape release and discuss the use of cursed items.

Episode Links: Playtest 7 survey; Brennan Lee Mulligan and Planescape; The Problem with Cursed Items by Ginny Di; The Talent by MCDM.