The Tome Show

This episode is a collection of mini-reviews of a slew of 3rd party products (products usable for D&D but not by Wizards of the Coast). Chris Heard from Icosohedraphelia gives us reviews of the Chessex Dice Boot, Sonic Legends Soundscapes, and Paizo GameMastery Flip-Pad Mats, Jeremiah McCoy from the Basics of the Game gives us a look at Tieflings from Goodman Games, Marcelo Dior from Voices of the Third Earth (a Portuegese language show) talks about iPlay4e, and Donny (from my gaming group) brings you a look at In Search of Adventure from Goodman Games. Oh, and I also did some reviewing. Goodman Games products I reviewed includes Scions of Punjar and The Forgotten Portal and I also looked at Q-Workshop Steampunk dice, Fat Dragon Games' Ultimate GM Screen II, DM Tracker, and Precis Intermedia's Disposable Heroes - Fantasy 6 paper miniatures.

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Chessex Dice Boot

Q-Workshop Dice

Tieflings

In Search of Adventure

GameMastery Flip-Mats

Forgotten Portal

Scions of Punjar

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Jeff's Review of Swords of Eveningstar at Fist Full of Comics and Games

At-Will blog, which will have a regular feature from Jeff called Characters with Character

Icosohedraphelia (D&D actual play podcast and more)

Voices of the Third Earth (Portuguese language gaming podcast)

Basics of the Game (reviews of game systems)

Sonic Legends

Goodman Games

Chessex

Q-Workshop

iPlay4e

DM's Tracker

Mike Shea of Sly Flourish joins me for a discussion where we build an encounter at a portal to the Fey Wild based around Foulspawn and then we talk about finding the balance of using collaborative storytelling in your game as a DM and a player.

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Pick of the episode - Paizo's Flip-Mats

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Sly Flourish

Sly Flourish DM Tips on Twitter

4e Blogs

I am joined in this episode by Matt James to talk about what he's doing in the D&D world, as well as building a Shadar-Kai Swordmage and giving advice on how to start a new campaign.

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Pick of the Episode - Plane Below

Character Build (PDFs):

Jeff's Build at Level 1

Jeff's Build at Level 11

Matt's Build at Level 15

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Loremaster

Matt James on Twitter

James' Brothers on Facebook

Dave Chalker and Quinn Murphy join me to talk about Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons. We tend to like the book although think that one chapter (Dragon Lairs) was lacking in creativity.

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Pick of the Episode

1st Edition Draconomicon

Draconomicon (4e) Chromatic Dragons

Draconomicon (4e) Metallic Dragons

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Critical Hits

Quinn Murphy

"Tide of Iron" by Drakkensteed

Drakkensteed on Twitter

To look at the super-adventure Revenge of the Giants I called on Quinn Murphy and Ken Newquist. The short of it, great concepts, great fights, great skill challenges, struggles with pacing and story. Listen up for more.

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Against the Giants (older versions)

Revenge of the Giants (4e)

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Nuketown

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At-Will Blog

This advice episode is turned on it's head. Phil "Chatty DM" Menard joins me from the great state...er, country of Canada this time around. But instead of building a PC and giving some DM advice we build an encounter for my personal campaign and give some advice on building a cohesive party.

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Chatty DM

Jeff's HoNoToGroABeMo Posts

Sponsor Jeff in HoNoToGroABeMo to help support breast cancer research

Primal Power attempts to explain what the primal power source is and provide characters who use it with more options. For this review Jeff is joined by Will Wong, Quinn Murphy, and Marcelo Dior. And they examine if the book successfully accomplishes that goal (here's a quick preview...it does). It was a really fun discussion that no one quite wanted to end, so I hope you enjoy it.

Links:

Jeff on How Not to Grow a Beard Month

HoNoToGroABeMo Day 12 picture (taken during recording)

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At-Will Blog

Voices of the Third Earth (Portuguese)

RPPR (Role-playing Public Radio) New World Campaign

Regular contributor Will Wong reviews and leads an interview about the Abolethic Sovereignty with author Bruce Cordell. All in all, books sound very interesting to me and it's a great way to see how 4e D&D and Forgotten Realms is impacting your novel lines. Enjoy!

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RPGNow Pick of the Episode - Disposable Heroes Fantasy Set 6

To review the DMG2 I called upon the professionals of Quinn Murphy (At-Will) and Dave Chalker (Critical Hits). All in all this book has some faults, but we generally thought it was fantastic. One of us even claimed that it was the best version of any DMG ever released...that's high praise. Listen in for more.

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RPGNow.com

RPGNow.com Pick of the Episode - Missing in Action

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At-Will

Critical Hits

In this episode I talked to Mike Mearls and James Wyatt of Wizards of the Coast about the Dungeon Masters Guide 2. I also went down to my local game store, All Fun and Games, in Apex, NC to talk to the people there about the DMG2 World Wide D&D Game Day event.

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RPGNow.com Pick of the Episode - Streets and Sewers of Himmelveil

Looking for more info about the DMG 2? Check out...

Previews from...

Fist Full of Comics and Games

Icosohedraphelia 1 and 2

Dungeon Mastering

GeekDad

and At-Will

Also check out full reviews from...

Critical Hits

Fist Full of Comics and Games

and Icosohedraphelia Ch1, 2, 3, and 4

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