Mastering Dungeons

Mastering Dungeons

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Mastering Dungeons episodes

  • DwDnD#158 – Challenge Levels

    Challenge levels!?! We’re talking about challenge levels?!? Do they even matter and what is this edition of D&D trying to do with them. All that and more as we get down with some D&D.

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    • Adventures Outlined Coloring Book
    • Update on the Changes to the Adventurers League Rules, Plus Eberron!
    • Moonshae Isles Regional Guide is Electrum Best Seller
      • 42 min
    • DwDnD#157 – D&D Organized Play

      It’s OP. IT’S OP. No, not over powered. It’s organized play. So get O, get O, and get P because the mad wizard Merwin and Chris do on this episode of Down with DnD.

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      • Pudding Faire, a new D&D Guild Adept Adventure
      • Curtain Call: A Sharn Adventure
      • Survey is up for Races of Eberron, and new UA is Races of Ravnica.
        • 55 min
      • DwDnD#155 – Two New Settings: Eberron and Ravnica

        New settings. Alert. We have new settings. Chris and the Mad Wizard Merwin get down with Eberron and Ravnica, the two newest upcoming releases for D&D 5e. Get magically down with some Neo-noir, two fisted magic inspired DnD action.

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        • Dungeons & Dragons is having its best year ever, Hasbro CEO says
        • Jasper’s Game Day
        • Encounters in Sharn
        • Wayfinder’s Guide to Eberron
          • 42 min
        • DwDnD#154 – One-Shots. Design vs. Publication

          Punch up a game for one night only. Chris and the Mad Wizard Merwin get down on One Shots this week. How to structure them, write them up, and the kinds of formats they take when published. If you’re only gonna get down once get down with this.

          Links
          • Exploring the Wilderness: Creating Dynamic Encounter Areas
          • On Brevity, Clarity and Adventure Writing
          • Top 9 D&D Video Games of All Time
            • Eye of the Beholder
              • 54 min
            • DwDnD#153 – Design: Complexity vs. Simplicity

              Is it elegant and does it matter. Chris and the Mad Wizard Merwin get down on the level of depth in D&D, where it is, where it isn’t, and why it matters. Get Simple or get Complex but always get down.

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              • Alternatives to Fighting: Creative Win Conditions in D&D
              • Avoiding the Awkward D&D Moment When a Priest, a Wizard, and a Dwarf Enter a Bar and Nothing Happens
              • The Lost Temple of the Eshowdow
                • 58 min
              • DwDnD#152 – Alex Kammer, GameholeCon, and The Borderlands

                It’s time to get down with the Gamehole, the Borderlands, and the convention the Gamehole is named for. It’s Alex Kammer and he’s here to dish about everything him up to and including True Dungeon which he’s the co-owner of. Can you dig it.

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                • Border Kingdoms: A Forgotten Realms Campaign Supplement
                • GameholeCon
                • True Dungeon
                • 2018 Ennie Awards
                • The Unintended Consequence That Ruined Fourth Edition D&D’s Chance of Success, But Proved Great for Gamers

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                  51 min
                • DwDnD#151 – Social Interactions

                  Let’s get down with talking. Actually we talk a lot about challenges that aren’t about fighting and ways to approach them. Enjoy and we’ll talk to you next week.

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                  • Gen Con Needs DMs
                  • Neverwinter: Ravenloft now available for PCs

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                    52 min
                  • DwD&D#150 – Origins 2018 Wrap Up

                    Let’s get down with Origins 2018. We had a good time. You probably heard the audio from our panel. This week, since Chris did zero D&D at Origins Cindy is on to relate some of her experiences with D&D at the con to go along with Shawns. Get down.

                    46 min
                  • DwDnD at Origins 2018 – The Buisness of D&D panel

                    Lets get down with the buisness of Dungeons and Dragons. Shawn and Chris talk about making money and how it works from the outside as freelancers and small publishing company owners. Enjoy and we’ll catch you again next week. Sorry for any audio mishaps and the missing questions. We forgot to repeat them all.

                    48 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…