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 Jul 12, 2023
Wednesday Jul 12, 2023
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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