
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 Mar 15, 2023
Mastering Dungeons - Fate Campaigns with Mike Olson
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Episode 130 of Mastering Dungeons!
We both have Kickstarters:
Grim Hollow - Vallikan Clans:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/977277590/grim-hollow-valikan-clans
Forge of Foes: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/slyflourish/the-lazy-dms-forge-of-foes-for-5e?ref=e2zf6e
This week's main topic: Fate campaigns with Mike Olson!
Mike has worked on many Fate projects, so he helps us look into Fate’s collaborative character and campaign creation rules, as well as comparisons to D&D and why Fate is such a great game.
News: D&D Community Update, Creator Summit, Movie Reviews, Nebula Awards, and more!
Contents
00:00 Ebullient
01:26 Edition Names?
08:32 Swapping Lineage?
12:41 D&D Community Update
18:32 D&D Movie Reviews
21:50 Movie NPCs
23:55 Nebula Awards
24:36 Creator Summit
39:06 Kickstarters
41:12 Mike Olson and Fate
48:26 Words Instead of Numbers
55:48 Dice and Success
59:59 Conceding
1:02:01 Character Creation
1:04:39 Collaborative Campaign Creation
1:11:11 Storytelling Aspects
1:27:54 Fate into D&D
1:29:37 Find Mike and Fate
1:31:41 Shout-Outs
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