Mastering Dungeons

Mastering Dungeons

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  • DwDnD – Designing Adventures (Part 7) Adventure Flow

    Flow: the action or fact of moving along in a steady, continuous stream. We’re talking about the concept of creating flow in your adventures today. Enjoy and we’ll catch you next week.

    Links

    1. Baldur’s Gate III announced by Larian Studios
    2. New Kickstarter from Mike “SlyFlourish” Shea
    3. New Guild Adept Product – Xanathar’s Enemies and Allies
      4. Topic – Designing Adventures – Adventure Flow

       

       

      1 hr
    4. DwDnD – Baldur’s Gate. Descent into Avernus

      Descend into a hell of infernal machines from a city that chews up and spits out adventurers. We delve into the newest storyline from Dungeons and Dragons along with DnD Live, since Shawn was there. Enjoy and we’ll catch you next week with more about adventure design.

      Links

      1. Artificer Survey
        2. Topic – Baldur’s Gate. Descent into Avernus and DnD Live

         

         

        58 min
      2. DwDnD – Designing Adventures (Part 6) Box Text

        We’re talking about Box Text. That’s right. Box Text. Think we can’t do a whole episode about Box Text. Well, you’d be wrong. We can and we do. Enjoy and we’ll catch you next week.

        Links

        1. ‘Elder Scrolls’ Tabletop Game Pulled, Facing Plagiarism Accusation
        2. Teos and I talk Acq Inc on Adventure They Wrote
        3. Paizo Jumping on the 5e Bandwagon with Kingmaker Conversion
          4. Topic – Box Text
          1. More Boxed Text and Artifacts of the Guild
          2. Fierce Debate Breaks Out Over ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Boxed Text in Adventures
          3. We Can Do Better Than Boxed Text
          4. The Twitter Thread
          5. https://critical-hits.com/blog/2010/08/27/thinking-outside-the-boxed-text/
          6. https://critical-hits.com/blog/2010/09/02/the-unneccesary-evil/

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            51 min
          7. DwDnD – Interview with Alex Kammer

            The Mad Wizard chats with Alex Kammer, Director of Gamehole Con, on his new Kickstarter for D&D, the Sea King’s Malice!

            Links

            • Alex Kammer’s Twitter
            • The Sea King’s Malice Kickstarter
            54 min
          8. DwDnD – Designing Adventures (Part 5) Hooks and Openings

            Shawn and Chris’ conversation about adventure design moves into hooks and openings but before they get to that Shawn interviews AL Administrator Amy Lynn Dzura. Enjoy and we’ll catch you next week.

            Links

            • Kobold Press Kickstarter – Empire of the Ghouls
            • WotC Opens New Studio in Austin TX

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              1 hr 18 min
            • DwDnD – Designing Adventures (Part 4) Adventure Types Cont’

              Shawn and Chris talk continue to talk about frameworks and how they can help you design adventures. This is the second of two parts where we talk about Frameworks during our adventure designing conversations.

              Links

              • Print Version of Adventure Atlas in now available
              • Boxed Text Discussion Leaks out onto Social Media and Beyond
              • Washington Post article on D&D: How Dungeons & Dragons somehow became more popular than ever
              • Stranger Things Red Box Set
              • Amazon now has its own D&D Market page

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                51 min

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              RPG veterans and game designers Teos Abadia and Shawn Merwin look at the game and the hobby of D&D from a variety of viewpoints: reporting the news, understanding the business, reviewing the…