Dungeon Mastery

Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
In Episode 20 Mitch and Jesse Answer some audience questions and rant about some grievances they have with tabletop rpgs.
-Catch-up
-Audience Questions
-How Much Preparation Should I Do?
-How do I Avoid Railroading?
-Downtime
-Jesse Rants about Legendary Resistance in 5th Ed.
-Mitch Rants about Fan Entitlement
-Jesse Rants about Passive and Active Perception Checks
-Mitch Rants about Dice Goblins

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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
Mitch is finishing up his theatre production season and is not available to record yet. So this episode Jesse and new guest DM Jordan Ryan get down and dirty into the Homebrewing basics.
-Catch-up and Intro
-Why Homebrew?
-A Slight Tangent to Jesse's Custom Classes
-When Is It Appropriate to Homebrew?
-How Do I Homebrew?
-A Simple Guide
-Quickfire Tips and Tricks from Experience
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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
Mitch, is headed into theatre to perform on stage for the first time pre-covid. So this episode Jesse and returning guest DM Campbell Sewell talk Science Fiction! How to run a sci-fi game whats important and what are the different types?
-Catch-up and Intro
-Defining Sci-fi
-Types of Sci-fi
-Running a Sci-fi Game
-Quickfire Tips and Tricks from Experience
-Beta testing our new Outro
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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
In Episode 19 Mitch and Jesse reminisce about their childhood by exploring the use of nostalgia in your games.
-Catch-up
-What is Nostalgia
-Types of Nostalgia in TTRPG's
-What is its Purpose
-Tips on How to Use Nostalgia

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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
In a special bonus episode Mitch and Jesse respond to an audience request for a look at Boss Fights, how to create fun, challenging, memorable and balanced engagements with those pesky BBEG's.
-Catch-up
-Our Tips For Boss Fights
-Brainstorming Session
-Teaser Trailer for Tabletop Unknown https://www.spreaker.com/show/tabletop-unknown

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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
In Episode 18 Mitch and Jesse explain why subverting expectations isn't as easy as it seems, as well as explain the types, how to do the subverting, and what to expect, while doing it!
-Catch-up
-Defining Subverting of Expectations and Types
-What Does it Achieve
-How Do we Subvert Expectations
-What Not to do
-Quickfire Tips
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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
It's a spooky season for a spooky Halloween episode, and Mitch is also moving house. So this episode Jesse and returning guest DM Campbell Sewell talk Horror. What is it? What is fear? How does one spook?
(NOTE TO ARACNAPHOBES SUGGESTED SKIP 29:25 - 30:50)
-Catch-up and Intro
-Defining Horror
-Scientific Examination of Fear
-Consent and Buy-In
-Types of Horror
-Principles and Structure of Horror
-Quickfire Tips - Creating a Horror Setting With Senses
-How to Spook Your Players
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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
In Episode 17 Mitch and Jesse murder the concept of player character death, the different kinds, how to do it, and how to screw it up.
-Catch-up
-Types of Player Character Death
-How to do Player Character Death
-What You Should Avoid
-Quickfire Tips
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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
In Episode 16 Mitch and Jesse joke about placing comedy and humour into your tabletop games, without making a tit of yourself.
-Catch-up
-Function and Types of Comedy
-How to Get it Right
-How to Get it Wrong
-Quickfire Tips
-Jesse Embarrasses Himself
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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
In Episode 15 Mitch and Jesse discuss the subtle art of Foreshadowing, Respond to an audience request about "solo" or Duet sessions, and they also get distracted by Malaphors.
-Catch-up
-Tips for 1 on 1 Games
-What is Foreshadowing
-Why Do We Need it?
-How to Do it
-Malaphors
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