Mastering Dungeons

Shawn and Teos continue their long trek into the cold wilderness of the Icewind Dale, scraping the secrets of the Ten Towns from the unforgiving ice.

• Critical Role Publishing Announcement
• Unearthed Arcana Dragon Subclasses for Monks and Rangers
• Hasbro Q3 Earnings Call
• Moonshaes Trilogy on DMs Guild
• AL Announces Rules Updates – Discord
• Masters Adventure for Tier 3 by MT Black
• Monte Cook Games Releases Beasts of Flesh and Steel
• Justice’s Guide to the DMs Guild

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Shawn and Teos continue their look at the Ten Towns and the quests they have to offer.

• Table Top Babble
• More information about D&D Virtual Play Weekends from Baldman Games and Wizards of the Coast
• “Advanced Designers & Dragons #39: Giants of the Industry: Lenard Lakofka” by Shannon Applecline
• Wave 2 of Liar’s Night 2020
• DMs Guild Halloween Sale
• Chilled Secrets
• Snowy Owlbear
• D&D Beyond survey
• How to get ready for Virtual Gamehole Con 2020
• Dragon+ Issue 34
• “Rime of the Frostmaiden: Horror” by DMSamuel

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Walking the twisting, winding path of all the facets of exploration, once more, Shawn and Teos pull out their verbal machetes* and cut through the brush of why exploration is important to Dungeons & Dragons and how to combine it with other types of encounters to create a cohesive adventure.

Links

• The Great Dalmuti D&D Reprinting
• D&D t-shirt, exclusively through Target
• Arcadia Magazine from MCDM, with James Introcaso as Managing Editor
• New subclasses from Wizards Design Team in Unearthed Arcana
• Matt Colville discusses traps
• Zipperon Disney video on exploration
• Overland Travel Mechanics review
• Tribality and Tomas Gimenez Rioja two-part series on Hex Crawls
• The Down with D&D Forums!
• As always, hit us up on Twitter @downwithdnd!

*No actual machetes were given to the hosts of this program.

One of the pillars of Dungeons & Dragons that doesn’t always get the spotlight, what does exploration mean in D&D? Teos and Shawn really get into the meat of this often-ignored element of the hobby that can be vital to building an engaging story!

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So how do you teach Dungeons & Dragons to a new player? Well, Teos and Shawn break down the challenges and pitfalls of teaching a new player while offering tips, tricks, and advice. Bring new folks to the hobby… and to your table!

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Welcome to Teos, the new on-going co-host to Down with D&D! Shawn and Teos break down traps! What are they used for, how can they be used by a DM, and are they right for every game?

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Feats, don’t fail them now!

Shawn brings in Adventurers League Content Manager, Game Designer, and Writer, Greg Marks to break down some of the concepts found with Feats in Dungeons & Dragons; both in the current, Fifth Edition, and in prior editions!

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• Find Greg on Twitter!
• Check out Greg on Adventurers’ League
• And Greg’s Page on the DM Guild!

Shawn is joined, once again, by Teos Abadia to discuss the recent D&D Live event and the future of live gaming!

• Teos has a website you can check out!
• Teos is also on Twitter!

Lysa joins Shawn, once more, to discuss the process of building a world to run games in and how to make the people in them come to life while DMing Dungeons & Dragons!

• Lysa’s (very prolific!) work, conveniently linked on her Website!
• Lysa on Twitter!

Shawn is joined by James Introcaso, Mike “Sly Flourish” Shea, and Scott Fitzgerald Gray to talk about the trio’s new project Fantastic Lairs: Boss Battles & Final Encounters for 5e D&D, on Kickstarter through July 1st. Check out and back this awesome collection of capstone encounters today!

• Fantastic Lairs on Kickstarter through July 1st
• James Introcaso on Twitter
• World Builder Blog
• Sly Flourish on Twitter
• SlyFlourish.com
• Scott Fitzgerald Gray on Twitter
• Insane Angel Studios