Mastering Dungeons

So, the Modrons have begun their march, but something is wrong and…

Waitaminnit! There’s no Modrons in this episode! Here there be Giants!

Shawn and Teos break down the big changes in Giant options from Unearthed Arcana that recently dropped and there are some BIG changes! Giant jokes!

• Unearthed Arcana: Giant Options
• Cleveland Browns players played D&D for charity
• D&D Organizes Another Stranger Things D&D Game
  • B Dave Walters Twitter
  • Netflix Geeked
• WizKids Changes Minis Boxes with Fizban’s Set

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Once, the Planes of the Multiverse opened up to all the Prime realms of Dungeons & Dragons. Through the many gateways in the City of Doors, Sigil, adventurers walked the Inner and Outer Planes, finding wealth, destiny, and the opportunities to bother the various denizens, thereof. And in the midst of all this, the modrons of Mechanus did something rather odd: they began to march around the great circle of the Outlands, causing something practically heretofore unknown to the Lawful creatures – chaos. Shawn and Teos tackle the classic Planescape mega-adventure, The Great Modron March!

• Monsters of the Multiverse is out in the wild (solo version)
• D&D Beyond is now officially a part of Wizards of the Coast
• Magic the Gathering prepares to launch 2nd D&D card set
  • Commander Legends Dungeons & Dragons Battle for Baldur’s Gate
  • Card Image Gallery
  • Collecting Guide
• AL: Players must upgrade Volo’s/Mordenkainen’s
• DM David releases “Battle Walker from the Abyss!”
• Arora: Age of Desolation kickstarter continues

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Wildspace gets wilder! Shawn and Teos tackle the classic Spelljammer adventure Wildspace and talk about the good, the bad, and oh so much weird.

• Get Acquisitions Inc and Lost Mine of Phandelver free on D&D Beyond!
  • From ComicBook.com
• Critical Role announces new liveplay mini-season exploring the Calamity
  • From ComicBook.com
• Final Mist Hunters Designer Interview: Ginny Loveday and Jeremy Forbing
• New book: Super Tricky Brain Teasers
• Web DM launches interview show Between Two Turns
  • The first episode features none other than James Introcaso!
• Anthony Joyce Rivera releases two Lessons for Freelancers:
  • Lesson 1, Becoming a Freelancer
  • Lesson 2, Freelancer Experience and Compensation
• Success in RPGs, a new show about how to find your way and prosper in the RPG industry
• Start Playing gains $6.5M in seed funding
• Arora – Age of Desolation – Launches!

Space, the Final Frontier… Again. Once more unto the breach, Shawn and Teos break down the classic Spelljammer Adventure, Wildspace, the first adventure published for the original Spelljammer boxed set! Get ready for a wonky ride!

• Dragonlance – Heroes of Krynn Unearthed Arcana Revisited!
  • Survey
• D&D Onslaught
• Adventurers League will Adapt Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel and Critical Role
• AL Designer Interview – Gabrielle Harbowy
• Border Kingdoms seeks authors for AL adventures
• Free Scarlet Citadel section on Roll20
• Celeste Conowitch joins Kobold Press
• 2C Gaming Launches Cosmic Chronicle – 5E-focused Patreon
• Worker at mask-required PAX dies from Covid, same week Origins announces masks-optional convention

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Big news has come out of Wizards of the Coast, this past weekend, so what does it all mean? Shawn and Teos work through it and break it down as only they can. Plus: Hippo-men, space hamsters, and whatever Scro are?! Well, maybe not yet!

• Spelljammer Confirmed
  • Plus, the unstoppably awesome Wildspace trailer from the 1990s
• Spelljammer Confirmed for AL
• Spelljammer Minis
• Dragonlance – 5E Setting and Board Game
• Dragonlance – Heroes of Krynn Unearthed Arcana Revisited!
• D&D Movie name reveal: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
  • Twitter Account
  • CBC Article
• D&D Third Intro Boxed Set
• D&D Onslaught
  • Official Site
• Video Games
  • Neverwinter MMO
  • Screenrant Talks Neverwinter

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While Shawn is, once again, kidnapped by some ne’er-do-well Astral monsters, Teos sits down with none other than Ajit George, writer on Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft and project lead on Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel but, more importantly, creating opportunities for underprivileged children in India through his work with a school named Shanti Bhavan.

• Shanti Bhavan boarding school in India! A worthy cause!
• Ajit George’s website
• Ajit on Twitter

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Sly Flourish himself stops by to talk the big news about Wizards and D&D Beyond and whatever D&D Direct is! Get the breakdown from the best!

• The News: WotC Purchases D&D Beyond!
  • Business Wire Article
• D&D Direct – Big Announcements Coming April 21
  • ComicBook.com Article

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Shawn and Teos chat about updating Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition adventures, comparing them to the classic adventures they’ve already looked at. This fascinating look into D&D’s most controversial edition helps to break down what there was in 4e, what was lost when 5e was released, and what can be reclaimed.

• Roll20 Gives Out Lost Mine of Phandelver – Free!
  • Teos’ video walkthrough to claim
  • How to start with Roll20 and D&D
• Flee, Mortals: The MCDM Monster Book
• D&D on Blockchain?
• Demiplane adds Marvel

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Concluding the series on updating adventures from prior editions of D&D, Shawn and Teos go over some of the things they’ve learned over the last eight episodes and develop some conclusions on how GMs can better represent the stories they like to their players.

• Dragonlance Unearthed Arcana Survey now available
• Jeremy Crawford on Backgrounds with Feats, but also General Sage Advice
• Dragon+ Issue 41
• Brandon Sanderson crowdfunding ends at $41.7M
• Three-Dragon Ante Expansion
• AL Blog – Marcello Velazquez
• Ghostfire announces Arora – Age of Desolation
  • Fight the Blight!

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One of the greatest D&D adventures of all time; and the first to be published under the D&D “Expert” rules; the Isle of Dread! Sure it’s been updated and supplemented, but Shawn and Teos are tackling the original!

• Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel
  • Wizards official
  • Wargamer
  • ComicBook.com
• Official D&D Halloween Masks
• MCDM and the Horror of Print Errors
• Stephen Colbert will do a Charity One-Shot for Red Nose Day
  • Donations
• Magic the Gathering provides details for Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur’s Gate
• WizKids Announces Either New Minis or That April 1 Came Early
  • Dungeons & Dragons: Teeth of Dahlver-Nar Bite-Sized Artifact
  • Daern’s Instant Fortress… Seriously?!
• Blast from the Past: MT Black on Converting Old Adventures to 5E

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