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Mastering Dungeons - Wilderness and Settlements!
Mastering Dungeons
06/28/23 • 77 min
Episode 145 of Mastering Dungeons!
This week's main topic: The 2014 DMG Chapter 5 – Wilderness and Settlements!
Shawn and Teos revisit the 2014 5E DMG by following Chapter 5. Do they get lost in creating and traversing a wilderness? Do they find the worst settlement table ever?
News: America is Neutral Good, Blood in Baldur’s Gate, Origins Awards, Diana Jones Finalists, and more!
Contents
00:00 Origins
05:13 Slowing the Game?
22:00 Blood in Baldur’s Gate
25:27 Origins Awards
26:35 Diana Jones Finalists
31:48 NG Americans
34:24 Art Costs
39:29 Congrats Kobolds
40:28 Aetherial Expanse
41:29 DMG Wilderness
43:12 Montage vs Hourly
44:58 Hemingway vs. Faulkner
49:22 Key Questions
56:55 Mapping Wilderness
1:00:55 Wilderness Features
1:04:55 Wilderness Survival
1:07:21 Settlements
1:11:33 Buildings
1:13:52 Shout-Outs
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Mastering Dungeons - Urban, Water, Sky, Traps!
Mastering Dungeons
07/19/23 • 87 min
Episode 148 of Mastering Dungeons!
This week's main topic: The 2014 DMG Chapter 5 – Urban and Unusual Environments!
Shawn and Teos revisit the 2014 5E DMG by following Chapter 5. The rest of the chapter covers Urban and Unusual Environments, plus Traps. What would Shawn and Teos add to the 2024 DMG?
News: Critical Role heads to London, Free HeroQuest, D&D at SDCC, and more!
Contents
00:00 Italian PHB
02:57 Effective Clues?
10:42 Not Enough Coverage?
17:32 Session Highlight?
19:55 Campaign Planning?
24:51 D&D at SDCC
26:26 Critical Role in London!
28:59 Blog Comeback
31:11 Aquatic Campaigns
31:40 Wandering Monsters
32:37 One-Shot Worldbuilding
33:24 Free HeroQuest
35:22 Gloomhaven RPG
40:42 Urban Environments
47:28 Law and Order
53:42 Underwater
1:00:21 The Sea
1:06:05 The Sky
1:08:46 Traps
1:23:23 Shout-Outs
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Mastering Dungeons - 2014 DMG Chapter 3: Creating Adventures!
Mastering Dungeons
05/24/23 • 78 min
Episode 140 of Mastering Dungeons!
This week's main topic: The 2014 DMG Chapter 3 – Creating Adventures!
Shawn and Teos revisit the 2014 5E DMG. We look at Creating Adventures. Does this tell a would-be-author how to craft a great adventure?
News: UA Survey, D&D Producer Job, Russ Nicholson Remembered, Flummox, Dungeon Secrets, and more!
Contents
00:00 Speaking of Geeks
02:19 Automating Complexity?
07:33 Weapon Persona?
14:26 Weapon Templates?
26:04 UA Survey and Videos
37:47 D&D Producer Job
39:34 Russ Nicholson RIP
40:47 Secrets to Dungeon Fun
41:35 Jeff Stevens Flummox Heist
43:26 Crowdfunding Round-Up
45:18 DMG Chapter 3
46:10 Creating Adventures Intro
51:03 Great Elements
54:53 Published Adventures
56:48 Adventure Structure
58:47 What is a Story?
01:03:54 Location-Based
01:14:58 Shout-Outs
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Mastering Dungeons - 2014 DMG: Creating Adventures, Part 2!
Mastering Dungeons
05/31/23 • 93 min
Episode 141 of Mastering Dungeons!
This week's main topic: The 2014 DMG Chapter 3 – Creating Adventures, part 2!
Shawn and Teos revisit the 2014 5E DMG. From event-based adventures to the encounter building rules, does this tell a would-be-author how to craft a great adventure?
News: D&D Marketing Summit, 2023 Product Reveals, Price Increases, Planescape Hopes, and more!
Contents
00:00 Geeky Guardians
01:42 Limit or Oversight?
11:23 Homebrew vs Published?
17:42 D&D Marketing Summit
23:50 Demographics
27:32 5E is 2E
30:23 Staggering for Printers
32:04 Price Increases
37:35 Bigygnome Presents
39:07 Guide to Dragons
40:36 Phandelver
41:49 Planescape
49:52 Deck of Many Things
50:46 DMG Chapter 3
51:22 Event-Based Adventures
59:09 Mysteries
01:05:00 Intrigue
01:08:05 Complications
01:09:51 Creating Encounters
01:21:23 Random Encounters
01:30:20 Shout-Outs
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Mastering Dungeons - Mike Shea on Organized Play vs Home Games!
Mastering Dungeons
07/05/23 • 85 min
Episode 146 of Mastering Dungeons!
This week's main topic: Mike Shea joins Shawn to compare the benefits of Organized Play vs Home Games!
News: D&D Playtest 6, Baldur’s Gate Date, Final ORC License, and more!
Contents
00:00 Swimming
01:07 5E Splinter?
10:24 Adventure Design?
27:45 Playtest Packet 6
30:26 Final Orcs
39:06 Beadle & Grimm’s
44:16 Baldur’s Gate Date
45:39 Savage Worlds
46:39 Aetherial Expanse
47:30 Forge of Foes!
48:30 Home vs Org Play
49:18 Mike’s Experience
51:01 Comparing the Two
59:21 Skill Differences
1:02:55 Variance
1:05:32 Teachers
1:07:21 Fan of Players
1:09:10 Learn from Home
1:14:50 Writing
1:22:39 Shout-Outs
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Mastering Dungeons - James Introcaso on Custom RPGs vs 5E Content!
Mastering Dungeons
07/12/23 • 104 min
Episode 147 of Mastering Dungeons
This week's main topic: James Introcaso of MCDM joins Shawn to discuss the difference between writing a custom RPG vs creating for 5E!
News: Owlbear Love, ENnies, Gen Con Online, and more!
Contents
00:00 James Introcaso!
01:57 Creating for WotC
06:22 Success Failure Spectrum?
13:29 Character Arcs?
22:26 True Owlbears?
24:41 New Systems?
29:41 Ennies
35:16 Gen Con
37:40 Bear Love in BG3
42:18 Dragonlance Shadow
44:06 Aetherial last call!
44:34 Flee Mortals Comes
48:48 5E Content vs Custom RPGs
51:47 Business Considerations
56:13 Does 5E Fit Bear Romance?
58:04 Audience
1:01:59 Setting and Genre
1:06:28 Conflict Resolution
1:12:11 Character Creation
1:17:07 Story Flow
1:23:41 Game Loop
1:34:10 Pillars
1:38:48 Jim’s Question
1:41:15 Shout-Outs
1:42:49 Find James
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Mastering Dungeons - Reading the 2014 DMG Chapter 1!
Mastering Dungeons
05/10/23 • 78 min
Episode 138 of Mastering Dungeons!
This week's main topic: Looking Back at the 2014 DMG – Chapter 1!
Shawn and Teos revisit the 2014 5E DMG. How well does it help DMs and what would we change for 2024?
News: Weapon Mastery analysis, Keith Baker closes KB Presents, Diana Jones awards, Crowdfunding Spotlight, and more!
Contents
00:00 Kids Am I Right?
01:52 Valiant Resistance?
06:07 Polymorph Woes?
13:20 Weapon Mastery
46:01 D&D Movie in Digital
46:34 Diana Jones Emerging Designers
47:20 Keith Baker Closes KBP
49:17 Crowdfunding Round-Up
52:29 2014 DMG Chapter 1
55:07 Worldbuilding
57:04 Core Assumptions
58:04 Utility?
01:03:53 World vs Encounter
01:10:36 Session Focus
01:15:15 Shout-Outs
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Mastering Dungeons - 2014 DMG Chapter 2: The Multiverse!
Mastering Dungeons
05/17/23 • 79 min
Episode 139 of Mastering Dungeons!
This week's main topic: The 2014 DMG Chapter 2 – The Multiverse!
Shawn and Teos revisit the 2014 5E DMG. We look at Creating a Multiverse and whether it even belongs in Chapter 2. If it does, what should it look like in the 2024 DMG?
News: Unearthed Barbarians, New Hasbro eOne Streaming Channel, Critical Role Launches New Stream and RPG, and more!
Contents
00:00 Hydration
00:57 Rejoin at Level 1?
06:22 Golf Bag?
17:03 2024 Barbarian
29:56 Community Update
39:04 D&D Streaming Channel
45:17 CR New RPG and Stream
47:57 Crowdfunding Round-Up
48:57 DMG Chapter 2 across Editions
51:09 Creating a Useful Multiverse
01:02:23 Planar Travel
01:04:25 Astral and Ethereal
01:06:56 Feywild and Shadowfell
01:09:30 Inner Planes
01:10:47 Outer Planes
01:12:26 Other Planes
01:13:58 Closing Thoughts
01:16:20 Shout-Outs
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Setting Expectations for your TTRPG Projects! (MD 196)
Mastering Dungeons
07/03/24 • 89 min
Episode 196 of Mastering Dungeons!
Main topic: Setting Expectations for your TTRPG Projects!
Wrel (Michael Henderson) joins Shawn Merwin to discuss how to set the right expectations for your TTRPG projects. Topics include setting goals, knowing who you are designing for, finding an audience, and assessing your capabilities.
News: New D&D VP, PH and DMG Previews, Reliable Core Rules, and more!
Contents
00:00 Michael Henderson aka Wrel
02:37 Unnecessary Rules?
07:21 Reliable Core Rules?
12:55 Counterspell Problems?
18:33 Ditch Resource Management?
26:12 New D&D VP Jess Lanzillo
34:32 2024 D&D Previews
38:04 Grim Hollow Player Pack on DDB
43:00 Grim Hollow 2E in October
45:38 How Not to Get Eaten by an Owlbear
46:45 TTRPG Project Expectations
47:28 What's the Goal?
54:20 Who Designing For?
01:07:44 Finding an Audience
01:13:26 What are you Capable of?
01:18:21 Practicing on DDB
01:19:22 Importance of Art
01:27:48 Find Wrel
01:28:25 Shout-Outs
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Mastering Dungeons - Downtime!
Mastering Dungeons
08/02/23 • 102 min
Episode 150 of Mastering Dungeons!
This week's main topic: The 2014 DMG Chapter 6 – Downtime!
Shawn and Teos are huge fans of Downtime, introduced in the 2014 5E DMG. However, the material in Chapter 6 has been changed greatly by Xanathar’s and Acquisitions Incorporated. What would Shawn and Teos want from the 2024 DMG?
News: Translated SRD, Sales Figures for D&D, D&D Movie Sequel, Top Crowdfunders, and more!
Contents
00:00 Head Check
02:33 DMG Strategy?
09:55 DM Focus?
17:57 Tech Writing?
20:56 Agents of X?
22:15 Horror Appeal?
32:12 Translated SRD!
35:06 Movie Sequel
38:46 Gen Con D&D Update
41:05 Guild AI Policy
43:22 Top Crowdfunders
47:41 D&D Big Box Store Sales
55:51 DMG Ch6 Downtime
58:21 Downtime’s Introduction
1:01:32 Downtime’s Potential
1:11:39 Story Aspects
1:16:40 DMG Activities
1:30:59 Running Downtime
1:36:04 On the Clock
1:39:24 Shout-Outs
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How many episodes does Mastering Dungeons have?
Mastering Dungeons currently has 355 episodes available.
What topics does Mastering Dungeons cover?
The podcast is about Leisure, Games and Podcasts.
What is the most popular episode on Mastering Dungeons?
The episode title 'Mastering Dungeons - Mike Shea on Organized Play vs Home Games!' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Mastering Dungeons?
The average episode length on Mastering Dungeons is 66 minutes.
How often are episodes of Mastering Dungeons released?
Episodes of Mastering Dungeons are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Mastering Dungeons?
The first episode of Mastering Dungeons was released on Sep 26, 2017.
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