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!
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Wednesday Sep 25, 2024
Wednesday Sep 25, 2024
Episode 208 of Mastering Dungeons!
Main topic: 2024 5E’s Gods and Multiverse! Final Greyhawk!
2024 5E PH banishes all the gods and reduces the multiverse to one page and one image! We look at how this changes 5E for new players. Our final look at Greyhawk reimagines the setting format and looks at how gods and powerful organizations create interesting play.
News: MtG Netflix Revivified, the D&D Bologna Scale, Knowing Vecna, and more!
Contents
00:00 Emptying Nests
02:53 Boss Battle Origins?
06:23 Codified vs Loose Rules?
15:40 Sage Advice Fixes?
19:37 Rest of World Healing?
29:18 MtG Netflix Show Revivified
31:32 What Do We Know About Vecna
35:24 D&D Bologna Scale Tested
39:17 Daggerheart Preorders
41:10 Enter the Labyrinth
43:07 2014 vs 2024 Gods and Multiverse
44:45 Design Goals
47:35 Planes and Gods in Older Editions
52:30 2014 and 2024's Gods and Planes
56:48 Is Less Information Good?
01:05:07 Wrapping Up Greyhawk
01:06:32 Encyclopedic Approach is Dated
01:08:03 Why Greyhawk is Different
01:14:32 Geography of the Flanaess
01:15:45 Greyhawk's Powerful Organizations
01:19:49 Greyhawk's Gods
01:21:03 The Living Greyhawk Campaign
01:22:26 Shout-Outs
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