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We talked to Mason Allen about his new game, Ivory Tower! Be a terrible immortal archmage in a fallen world and resolve your disagreements with committee meetings!

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Matt and Rob report back to you, dear listeners, on what we learned from GenCon, the biggest collection of TTRPG enthusiasts/sweaty nerds in the world!

https://playstorypress.org/books/gathering-of-gamers/

Jon Peterson

The Cunning Folk

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DMofNone is back from GenCon and over GenCon sicknesses for another edition of Your Kickstarter Sucks: Tabletop Edition (here are entries one and two). This time, DMs Rob and Matt are talking about Tabletop News, a crowd-funded video news show, that unlike our previous projects, actually delivered what it promised in a timely fashion.

Our discussion gets into the show's weird production, cringe tone, hiring practices, refusal to do "journalism", and strange metrics. Was it awful? Not really. Did they do some shady stuff? Tune in to find out!

Links:

https://www.youtube.com/@watchtabletop

Matt's TtN Metrics Data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14ON2dsDSU2TGb4NGT0GRFA2ZkUO7W8cM1W0jy-8wKhA/edit?usp=sharing

Read some better TTRPG news:

https://www.rascal.news/

https://www.enworld.org/

Matt and Rob talk about writing and presenting good descriptions -- what to do, what not to do, with lots of examples! NOT a writing course! No one wants to hear your gratuitous description of horse fetlocks, Robert Jordan!

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Matt and Rob do some more campaign prep live, expanding on their sandbox, building more points, and then (the fun part) linking the nodes together!

Part 1: 362 - Actual Prep: Sandbox

Related Past Actual Preps:

The Best Starting Adventure (Part 1) The Best Starting Adventure (Part 2)

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Matt and Rob do some campaign prep live, this time with a sandbox. We get a little weird with it and only make it about halfway, so stay tuned for part two!

Past Actual Preps:

The Best Starting Adventure (Part 1) The Best Starting Adventure (Part 2)

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Matt and Rob return to Greyhawk to talk about the setting guide included in the new 2024 DMG, discuss what's there, and what you can use for your games.

Our discussion of the Greyhawk setting: https://dmofnone.libsyn.com/ep-80-greyhawk

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The savage cries of its defenders now silent and still as its ruin was overseen by the architect of its very destruction.

A 16 HP Dragon - Sage LaTorra

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Join Matt and Rob for an episode of actual design, where the GMs try to hash out a framework for encouraging interparty conversation and downtime interactions -- with as little input from you as possible. Want your players to argue? Build something? Make love? Fight? Let's see if we can't make that happen.

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GenCon! Rebel Scum! WotC layoffs! Plus, DMs Rob and Matt give a gaming update. Then, a call to arms and to battle from Founding Father Gary E. Gygax of the upmost importance. Gamers rise up!

Rebel Scum delisted by Roll20 & DriveThruRPG - Chase Carter, Rascal News

Rebel Scum 2nd Edition

Our reading today, comes from Dragon Magazine #65, from September 1982.

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