The Tome Show

Mike Shea, Tracy Hurley, and Sam Dillon all join me in this episode where we take a look at the second half of the Essentials line including the DM Kit, Monster Vault, Dungeon Tiles Master Set: The City, and Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdom. Also, we had waaaaay too much fun. Oh, and I'm posting on Thanksgiving. Tome listeners and a great game called D&D to make my life more full. That's what I'm thankful for. Hope you enjoy!

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Noble Knight Pick of the Episode - Dungeon Tiles: Harrowing Halls

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4Geeks4e - 4 geeky folk talk about something...4e related (includes Sam and Tracy)

DM Roundtable - a bunch of DMs talk. It's random, it's unedited, it's a wild time.

Sarah Darkmagic - Tracy talks about her game

Sly Flourish - Where Mike dispenses DM advice

RPG Musings - The blog where Sam's contributors all share their gaming thoughts

HoNoToGroABeMo - the beard growing competition raising money for breast cancer research

Jeff's posts on HoNoToGroABeMo

Click here to sponsor Jeff...even a few bucks will help. Remember, as soon as I get to $100 then I get to post a racy picture of Tracy Hurley!

Keith Baker, creator of Eberron and more joins me for this episode where we talk D&D news, find out what he's been up to, and give advice on Worldbuilding, how DMs can do it and how players can be part of it. Tracy Hurley and Mike Shea also tell us a bit about how they go about building worlds.

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Pick of the Episode - The Queen of Stone

The Tome's Amazon Store

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Keith Baker on Twitter

Keith Baker's Website (Have Dice, Will Travel)

Sarah Darkmagic (Tracy's site)

Sly Flourish (Mike's site)

In this episode I am joined by Thadeous Cooper and we build a one shot adventure to show a bit of how such things can be done. What's more, I edited together all our ideas and am providing them for free. It's a short PDF in the post just before this one and I hope you download it, consider running it, and give me feedback on it.

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Picks of the Episode: Ravenloft 2e Module (25th anniversary release), and the new Ravenloft Board Game

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Thadeous on Twitter

4Geeks4e

DM's Roundtable

MyRPGame

The Tome's New Forums

Jeff's Posts on HoNoToGroABeMo

MasterPlan is D&D software with a lot of help for DMs to get their game organized. I've been accused of not paying any attention to this program, so to prove that I have nothing against it I called in Andy Aiken, creator of MasterPlan to tell us all about it.

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Pick of the Episode - Rules Compendium

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MasterPlan

In this episode I interview R.A. Salvatore about his latest Drizzt novel, Gauntlgrym. I also had Chad Sutton from the Lords of Tyr podcast join in for a review of the book. This is Stop One on the official Gauntlgrym blog tour for Mr. Salvatore and it comes with a contest and some really fantastic prizes to boot. See below for your first chance to win.

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Pick of the Episode - Ghost King

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Worldbreaker KickStarter Project

Lords of Tyr

D&D Official Website - It has come to my attention that since recording this episode the novel survey has been removed, sorry guys! :-(

Official Gauntlgrym Blog Tour Contest

The following question relates to the riddle that @Wizards_DnD tweeted earlier today. Solve this question for a prize. And a clue! Because the answer is the first of eight clues that will help you solve the riddle at the end of the week when the online tour wraps up. The first person to comment on this blog post with both the correct answer to the following clue question and his/her Twitter user name wins today's prize. Please note that in order to be eligible you must: 1) Follow @Wizards_DnD on Twitter; 2) Read the official rules and complete the online entry form -- both of which are available at: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/promotions.aspx

FROM WIZARDS OF THE COAST: Visit all the stops during R.A. Salvatore’s week-long Gauntlgrym online tour to find the seven other clues. At the end of the online tour on 10/22/10, put all the clues together, be first to solve the riddle and tweet about it, and win a signed copy of Gauntlgrym and a trip for two to D&D Experience in Fort Wayne, IN. You must include @Wizards_DnD and #gauntlgrym in your tweet. Riddle-solving tweets won’t be accepted until 12:01 a.m. EST on 10/22/10.

UPDATE, 5:00 PM EST:

Congrats to Jonathan Westmoreland, the first eligible participant who correctly answered the clue question! Here's the correct answer, since everybody will need it in order to solve the riddle at the end of R.A. Salvatore's online tour beginning 10/22/10. Remember to visit all the other tour stops to find the next seven clues. Schedule, contest details, and official rules are available here: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/promotions.aspx

Basic Set (Red Box), Heroes of the Fallen Lands, Rules Compendium, and Dungeon Tiles Master Set: Dungeon are the topic of conversation. And joining host, Jeff Greiner, in this episode are Tracy Hurley from Sarah Darkmagic, Jared Glenn from the Power Source, and Samuel Dillon from RPG Musings.

Don't forget to swing by in a couple of days (October 17th, 2010) for a special episode with R.A. Salvatore where you can win all sorts of prizes.

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Pick of the Episode - Dungeon Tiles Halls of the Giant King

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4Geeks4e

DMs Roundtable

Sarah Darkmagic

Power Source

RPG Musings

Geoffrey D. Winn interviews Don Bassingthwaite about his Eberron trilogy, the Legacy of Dhakaan, a series that centers on Eberron's hobgoblin society and involves some pretty massive world-shattering events.

I also mention some news about the October 17th, 2010 episode that I will be releasing about the Gauntlgrym/R.A. Salvatore. There's a prize give-away and exclusive coverage and The Tome Show is a part of the party. Check out the information below and I look forward to seeing you on the 17th!

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Pick of the Episode - Secrets of Sarlona

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Don Bassingthwaite

Forums

I am joined by newcomer Brian Engard and we discuss new campaigns. We build an opening story concept for a campaign to highlight how that process can be done. Then we give advice on how to be an awesome player in a new campaign. Sly Flourish brings us some tips on building an adventure and Sarah Darkmagic tells us about working with your DM to make make things extra sweet.

And hey, check this out!!!

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Pick of the Episode - Monster Manual - Lords of Madness Huge Pack (Case - 8 Packs)

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Gamecrafter's Guild

Sly Flourish

Sarah Darkmagic

Matt James and Logan Bonner interviewed each other about their projects for Wolfgang Baur's Open Design Project/Kobold Quarterly. Logan is writing the current 4e patronage project, Lost City, a sandbox adventure about a flying city that crashed and is buried in the sand, while Matt wrote Soldiers of Fortune, a book about mercenaries.

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Pick of the Episode - Kobold Quarterly #14

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Loremaster

Minor Quests

Kobold Quarterly

SyndCon - DC gaming convention

This episode is dominated by an interview I conducted with Robert J. Schwalb, lead designer of Psionic Power. We delve into the various chapters of the book and explore the choices made when writing it. Enjoy!

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Pick of the Episode - Castle Ravenloft boardgame

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Robert J. Schwalb