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Matt and Rob furrow their brows, wipe blood from their noses, discuss the new playtest of the Psion, and reveal what their powers of precognition has already made known to them!

Psion Playtest

Matt's Psimple Psion

The Mystic

Episode 20: Fixing the Mystic and Artificer

Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice

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It's 1979, TSR is publishing Keep on the Borderlands. It's 1984, TSR is publishing Keep on the Borderlands. It's 2011, WotC is playtesting Keep on the Borderlands. It's 2018, Goodman Games is publishing Keep on the Borderlands. It's 2025, WotC is publishing Keep on the Borderlands.

DMs Rob and Matt are here for the first day of Wizardsmas, to review the new starter set for Dungeons and Dragons 2025, Heroes of the Borderlands Starter Set. Is it the best starter set for new players? Tune in to the review to find out! Plus, if you are running this starter set listen for some tips on how to prepare this adventure!

Links:

Heroes of the Borderlands

Internet Archive, Keep on the Borderlands: https://archive.org/details/tsr09034b2ddadventure013keepontheborderlands

DnDNext Playtest, Caves of Chaos

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It's 1979, TSR is publishing Keep on the Borderlands. It's 1984, TSR is publishing Keep on the Borderlands. It's 2011, WotC is playtesting Keep on the Borderlands. It's 2018, Goodman Games is publishing Keep on the Borderlands. It's 2025, WotC is publishing Keep on the Borderlands.

DMs Rob and Matt are here for the first day of Wizardsmas, to review the new starter set for Dungeons and Dragons 2025, Heroes of the Borderlands Starter Set. Is it the best starter set for new players? Tune in to the review to find out! Plus, if you are running this starter set listen for some tips on how to prepare this adventure!

Links:

Heroes of the Borderlands

Internet Archive, Keep on the Borderlands: https://archive.org/details/tsr09034b2ddadventure013keepontheborderlands

DnDNext Playtest, Caves of Chaos

Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice

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Matt and Rob talk about how to be a fan of your players! Rooting for them and their characters makes for a better table experience (and it's more fun that way).

Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice

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Matt and Rob talk about the most recent playtest of Rob's game-in-progress: Trinity! Listen in to hear about game design, playtesting, and how this can help you work through sticky problems with both your table and your prep!

Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice

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We're unlocking one of our bonus Patreon episodes in anticipation of an upcoming project...

DMs Rob and Matt clock into the Dice Workshop for a long shift working on custom dice mechanics and discuss dice probabilities and mechanics put in practice!

Matt's Dice Mechanics Taxonomy

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DMs Rob and Matt hop back on the disk horse and ride into forest of world-building to find the roots of fantasy racism in Dungeons and Dragons. Guided by Adam Serwer and the late Charles W. Mills, they embark on this quest seeking the answer to the question: "Why is Elon Musk so mad about one paragraph in a D&D archival collection published last year?"

Adam Serwer - Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons & Dragons to Be Racist: The fantastical roots of "scientific racism"

Charles W. Mills - The Wretched of Middle-Earth: An Orkish Manifesto

Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice

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Rob and Matt advance an exciting new theory about who amongst the current crop of TTRPG creators could be considered "auteurs". It's not as pretentious as it sounds, we promise.

Chris McDowall Grant Howitt Meguey and Vincent Baker Monte Cook Jon Harper Tim Hutchings

Episode 35: Numenera Episode 280: Invisible Sun BONUS: Thousand Year Old Vampire

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Here is a final "spooky" episode for everyone! DMs Rob and Matt review Kenneth Hite's Night's Black Agents. It's "Spies vs. Vampires" in a "mystery inside a thriller." While it may not be the perfect system, (or the perfect system for Matt and Rob), it is an endlessly fascinating bit of TTRPG design. It may have some of the most interesting and useful campaign building tools of any rule book. While it's maybe not for slacker DMs, if you like to prep your campaign using flow charts and story maps or if the phrase "dramatic villain response algorithm" fills you with glee, then NBA (Night's Black Agents) is for you! Plus, Rob and Matt finally get to chat about GUMSHOE.

Night's Black Agentshttps://pelgranepress.com/nights-black-agents/

GUMSHOE Systemhttps://pelgranepress.com/2018/02/14/gumshoe/

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Two years late, but Matt has finally finished Baldur's Gate 3, which means we can talk about what you can take away from it as a game master! Here's a few tips and some advice about what to do, what not to do, what worked, and what didn't. Don't get mad at us.

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