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In this special episode Mark Meredith of Dice Monkey Radio and Jeff Greiner of The Tome Show produced an accidental team-up. They both, individually and independently, conducted an interview with R.A. Salvatore, author of Charon's Claw and the rest of the Drizzt series of novels and more. Rather than give you two Tome Show Production episodes in a row interviewing the same person, we spliced them together into one special combo episode.

Mark talks to Mr. Salvatore about the process of writing Drizzt novels, where he came from, how he got to the adventures of Charon's Claw, and more. Jeff talked about some of the deeper issues of the story, the unreliability and flawed nature of the characters, integrating the stories into the Forgotten Realms, and more.

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Jeff's Temporary Hit Points Review of Charon's Claw

R.A. Salvatore's Website

Tao of Drizzt review

I am a Dark Elf essay

THIS EPISODE IS NOT CLEAN! Here it is...there are now more Tome Show episodes than there are 4e Themes and Classes combined! Tracy was left entirely in charge of this episode and she opted to do something truly revolutionary in this podcast episode about gaming...we played a game. It was a fun surprise to do this episode...although this is a truly adult episode. We've always tried to keep the show clean, but I guess we got a bit blue in our goofy fun when we recorded this.

I'm going to leave it at that and let you enjoy the insane stupid gaming.

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Randall Walker - Twitter | Website

Brian Patterson - Twitter | Webcomic

Fred Hurley - Twitter

Andy Myhr - Twitter | Website

In June we read Spinner of Lies for the Tome Show Book Club, a novel by Bruce Cordell. This is the second book about this character, but each is intended to stand alone. It's also a Forgotten Realms novel about a character who is not natively from the Realms. Joining us for the discussion of this Book Club is Andy Myhr and the author. We are reading chapters 1 through 12 of Marshelia Rockwell's Eberron novel Skein of Shadows in July we'd love to have you join us.

Make sure you stay tuned after the interview for a book review from long time contributor Geoffrey D. Winn.

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Bruce Cordell - Website | Twitter

Andy - Twitter

We discuss what digital tools we use and give some advice on how to use them. Consider this a combo review/advice episode for July 2012. Joining us for this episode is Michael the OnlineDM.

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Michael - Website | Twitter

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Awesome Dice article comparing Google search results for D&D editions

Michael's Tools - MapTool/TokenTool | Power2ool | iPlay4e

Tracy's Tools - Dropbox | Pinterest | Evernote | Obsidian Portal

Jeff's Tools - i4e | Epic Words | DMDJ | Forgotten Realms Wiki | 4e Turn Tracker

Other Mentions - DM/Player Minion | Tabletop Forge | Roll20 | MasterPlan

In this episode our hosts pulled in Jobe Bittman and Robert Adducci to review the D&D Next playtest experience.

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Jobe: Twitter | Website | Lost City |FreeRPG Day module

Robert: Twitter | Website

D&D Next Playtest site

Reddit Q&A with Mike Mearls

The Lurker Fallacy

SlyFlourish post about using Dis/Advantage in 4e

Loremaster post about the D&D Next Online Playtest Agreement

Kickstarter for Dungeon World

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Randall, Jeff, and Mike discuss their campaigns and help each other out in this episode for June 2012.

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The Weem (Caves of Chaos map)

RPG Musings (Sandbox Campaign)

Sly Flourish (Relationships for Caves of Chaos)

In this Book Club we chat about at a bunch of D&D Comics including the end of the current run of Dungeons and Dragons, some Eberron books (D&D Infestation 2, and the 2012 D&D Annual), and we explore the start of the Forgotten Realms comic and interview Ed Greenwood (writer and creator of the Realms) about the difference between writing a comic and writing a novel and more. We are joined in this book club by listeners Eric Paquette and Andy Myhr.

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June 2012 Book Club book (e-book only)

July 2012 Book Club book (e-book only)

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Andy on Twitter

Eric on Twitter

In this episode Mike Mearls (from WotC) and Dave Chalker (from Critical Hits) join us to talk about how to be a good playtester for D&D Next and what the process is likely to look like as it moves forward.

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D&D Next Playtesting Information

Critical Hits article on playtesting

Marvel Heroic Role Playing (which Dave worked on the playtesting for)

Dave: Website | Twitter

Mike, Randall, and Jeff continue talking about their games in this recording from May 2012.

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In this episode we are joined by designers Logan Bonner and Matt James who helped write Into the Unknown: A Dungeon Survival Handbook as well as Michael the “OnlineDM”, Joe Lastowski, our editor Sam Dillon who helped us review the book.

Before we get into it, though, have I mentioned the Tome Show's live podcasts at GenCon this year? Check them out!

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Back to the Dungeon Design and Development article (WotC)

Online DM: Website | Twitter

Joe: Game Store | Twitter

Sam: Website

Sarah Darkmagic (Tracy's blog)