RPG veterans and game designers Teos Abadía and Shawn Merwin look at the game and the hobby of D&D from a variety of viewpoints: reporting the news, understanding the business, reviewing the products, and illuminating the design. Whether you’re a fan, a player, a DM, or a designer, Shawn and Teos cover topics of interest to you!
Episodes
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Mastering Dungeons 154: Running the Game – Adjudicating Rolls, Social, Exploration!
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Episode 154 of Mastering Dungeons!
This week's main topic: The 2014 DMG Chapter 8 – Running the Game, part 2!
Shawn and Teos continue examining Chapter 8 of the 2014 DMG. From optional ways to handle close die rolls, to social interactions, to exploration, we look at fascinating topics.
News: D&D Movie Really Losing Money? Free Gazetteer, BG3 Reviews, Phandelver Sneak Peeks, and more!
Contents
00:00 Working for the Weekend
02:36 Setting Products?
24:23 Phandelver and Below
26:59 Baldur’s Gate 3 Reviews
28:58 Free Gazetteer
29:52 Movie Losing Money?
33:14 Greenwood’s Vampires
35:52 DMG Ch8 Running the Game
36:21 Advantage and Disad
40:02 Resolutions and Consequences
47:34 Do the Rob
54:52 Exploration
59:04 Social Interaction
1:08:06 Objects
1:13:38 Shout-Outs
Thank you for listening! Get the full show notes with links on Patreon.
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
DwDD – Exploring Exploration, Pt. 3
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Successfully navigating their way to the last of the series focusing on exploration in Dungeons & Dragons, the gentlemen of DwDD talk about hexes… not the kind a Warlock uses, […]
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
DwDD – Exploring Exploration, Pt. 2
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
Walking the twisting, winding path of all the facets of exploration, once more, Shawn and Teos pull out their verbal machetes* and cut through the brush of why exploration is […]
Thursday Aug 06, 2020
DwDD – Exploring Exploration, Pt. 1
Thursday Aug 06, 2020
Thursday Aug 06, 2020
One of the pillars of Dungeons & Dragons that doesn’t always get the spotlight, what does exploration mean in D&D? Teos and Shawn really get into the meat of this […]