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 10, 2025
Wednesday Sep 10, 2025
Episode 257 of Mastering Dungeons!
Main topic: Draw Steel Character Generation!
Shawn and Teos discuss character generation approaches, then plunge into Draw Steel’s first character generation steps!
News: Wizards CEO on Franchises, AI, and Video Games. Starter Set Previews, Kobold Press on Multiple RPGs, and more!
Contents
00:00 One of Us is Rested
02:32 Daggerheart Simplicity Redux
10:19 Rules-Lite Spellcasting?
19:19 John Hight on Franchises and Video Games
26:19 Hight on AI
30:38 Hight on MMOs
34:16 Starter Set Previews
39:08 Dark Sun on Tabletop Journeys
39:44 Apocalypse World Burned Over
40:45 Kobold Press Unprecedented Times?
48:04 Aetherial Expanse Drowned God
48:39 Surviving Strangehollow on GameFound
50:53 Draw Steel Character Creation
51:15 CharGen in General
01:05:31 Draw Steel General Guidance
01:09:43 Step 1, Think
01:16:15 Step 2, Ancestry
01:22:27 Shout-Outs
01:27:02 What Are We Gonna Do?
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