DM tips! Learn how to start games good! Practice shutting the hell up! And more! Plus, DMs Matt and Rob answer your letters and get some deserved criticism and critiques!

Tips: playing on the cheap...setting the tone...seeing, hearing, smelling for your players' characters...using your posture...preparing social situations...listening to your players...how to make mistakes...

Letters: steampunk and hopepunk responses and critiques! What's the best way to build dungeons? How do I get started reading fantasy to help me DM? Should I twist the plot?

Recommendations:

Elizabeth Bear

The Magic Goes Away

Music:

Pac Div - Roll the Dice

Tommy James & The Shondells - I'm Alive

Loretta Lynn & Jack White - Portland, Oregon

The Staves - Tired As Fuck

Scenario - A Tribe Called Quest