
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 Mar 13, 2024
Shadowdark Finale – GM Tips, Monsters, and Treasure (MD 181)
Wednesday Mar 13, 2024
Wednesday Mar 13, 2024
Episode 181 of Mastering Dungeons!
Main topic: Shadowdark GM Tips, Monsters, and Treasure!
The finale of our Shadowdark series! We take a look the excellent advice, plus how the game provides monsters and treasure.
News: Reviewing The Fallbacks, Adv League to Beyond, NASA RPG and Challenge, and more!
Contents
00:00 Teos Has Seen Things
02:45 Emerald City Comic-Con
06:32 Adventure as User Guide?
15:16 Exhaustion Currency?
22:43 Modes of Play?
28:34 AL Moves to Beyond
31:33 Greasy Snitches
36:41 The Fallbacks review
41:08 NASA RPG
42:13 Steamforged and Kobold
43:33 SRD in Braille
45:00 Surviving Strangehollow
45:45 Shadowdark Finale
46:07 The Role of GM and Players
50:43 For Experienced GMs
54:29 Players not PCs
56:06 Core Ethos
01:00:09 Check DCs
01:05:15 Darkness and Modes of Play
01:08:30 Random Encounters
01:14:56 The Gauntlet
01:19:04 Awarding XP
01:22:35 Lots of Tables!
01:23:25 Monsters
01:25:06 Treasure
01:27:25 Final Thoughts
01:32:06 Shout-Outs
Thank you for listening! Get the full show notes with links on Patreon.
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