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 Aug 09, 2023
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Episode 151 of Mastering Dungeons!
This week's main topic: The 2014 DMG Chapter 6 – Treasure!
Shawn and Teos ponder treasure. How much to give out, and how often? What is the role of treasure and its implications? From attunement to sentient items, we dig into the 2014 5E DMG and what we might want to see in 2024.
News: A giant problem for D&D, Free League rocks ENnies, Cthulhu Saved, and more!
Contents
00:00 Gen Con Glow
04:19 Subclass Variance?
10:45 Higher Level Complexity?
17:06 Valiant Playtesting?
20:56 Know Rules to Break Them?
28:54 Psychological Horror?
30:42 Giant Freebies
32:04 Giant AI Debacle
45:07 Free League Rocks ENnies
48:27 Storytelling Collective
49:45 Where Evil Lives
50:29 Cthulhu Saved
52:18 DMG Ch7 Treasure
55:17 Role and Impact of Treasure
59:09 Across Editions
1:02:21 How Much Treasure?
1:08:11 Swingy Results
1:10:05 Xanthar’s
1:11:06 No Magic?
1:14:52 Attunement
1:22:33 Resilience
1:24:25 Special Features
1:30:40 Artifacts and Sentient Magic
1:35:26 Other Rewards
1:37:05 Shout-Outs
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