We start our actual play of the new 5e Essentials Kit. Show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/167.

We talk about the upcoming Essentials Kit for D&D 5, the actual play of which will be our next episode. We also touch on how we created characters, both mechanically and dramatically, and discussed more broadly the issue of suiting PCs to settings, especially when you don't know what kind of themes will be present in the setting or module. 

Show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/166.

Daniel got it into his head to run a Dante's Inferno tactical D&D war/storygame. Unfortunately, Roll20 doesn't let you export entire campaigns; so we're dumping all the assets out there for you to use if you want—or at least for you to get an idea of the kind of assets that would be involved were you to want to do something similar. Be sure to check the show notes page for all the goodies. 

Show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/165.

 The party continues into a labyrinth of the kobold lair, has to navigate using verbal description only, and gets into a dicey fight. Later that night, back in the real world, Saggitarius witnesses something that will have serious implications in the future.

Show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/164.

We rate the 5e races. Make sure to check our youtube for an actual video of the process. Show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/163.

 Actual play proper of our experimental 5e intro campaign, Kirland. Refer to the previous episode for background on how it was created, and see the show notes for all the material Daniel had generated to run the first session of it.

In this episode, the characters explore around the barrow-downs, find hidden treasure, learn a bit about the town, grab some rumors, and head out to the marshes to collect a bounty on a bandit king's head.

Show notes: ggnorecast.com/162.

 Bit of a weird ep this time. Daniel had less than a week's notice to run a game for some youngsters, half of whom hadn't really played an RPG before. Daniel decided to make this a challenge run: create a new campaign and new vanilla D&D 5e setting from scratch in just a few nights. The materials and tools he used to do that are all in the show notes: ggnorecast.com/161. 

Daniel finally gets to run Dogs in the Vineyard, adapted to a familiar D&D setting. It's teenage pseudomormon gunslingers, but with St. Cuthbert instead of Mormonism. Tim and John have rolled up 5e clerics, and Daniel explains the few changes necessary to make D. Vincent Baker's game of hard ethical judgments with potentially explosive consequences work when adapted to **the world's most popular roleplaying game**. In this episode, we get through both initiation conflicts; when we pick back up, the clerics will hit their first town. 

Show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/160.

Pale Rider Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

 Daniel gives a preview of a patron-only 4-in-1 page dungeon that we'll be releasing soon, describing its method for making traps beforehand or at runtime.

And, speaking of traps, there's DM perfectionism. You want everything in your setting to be up to your standards; so you end up producing less than you need. This induces a nasty cycle. Daniel says how he's broken it with the help of old school fundamentalism.

Show notes: ggnorecast.com/159.

Well, what is it? Are you cool yet? Show notes: https://ggnorecast.com/158.