Today, we are spending some time discussing downtime activities, as laid out in Xanathar's Guide to Everything, as well as some personal variants. 

NOTE: no gnomes were harmed, or covered in chocolate, during the making of this podcast. 

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Today we discuss noncombat encounters, and why they're an important part of a campaign. We also talk at length about the D&D 4e mechanic of skill challenges, and how to utilize them with the bounded accuracy system of D&D 5e.

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In this week's episode, we discuss the magic item economy, and how you might be able to create a realistic system for your players to buy magic items. We also discuss at length our work-in-progress magic item crafting system.

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This week, we revisit a concept from "Ashes, Ashes", and build out the small frontier mining town of Verdigris, to give you some ideas on how to build your own settlements in your games.

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The second part of a two-part series, where we go into detail on how to create more immersive and dynamic nonplayer characters (NPCs). We give you some guidelines for making very basic NPCs on the fly, and how to get maximum return for minimal investment in NPC details. Like last week, we end the episode by creating a character from scratch, using the guidelines we lay out.

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The first part of a two-part series, where we go into detail on how to create more immersive and dynamic player characters. We discuss aspects to focus on, archetypes to avoid, and finish the whole thing off by creating a character from scratch. 

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Wherein we conclude our Homebrew Showcase content episodes, crafting a set of holy relics for our hobgoblin war cleric to carry into battle. 

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Wherein we discuss the war cleric, and how to diversify it with regards to the manifold gods of war.

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Wherein we return to our Homebrew Showcase, discussing our fourth and final character's race: the most cunning and ferocious of goblinoids, the Hobgoblin.

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This week, we bring on our good friend Emily to discuss cultural appropriation - what it is, why it's bad, and how to avoid it when creating characters or cultures at your gaming table.

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