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
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Episode 114 of Mastering Dungeons!
This week's main topic: 5E Revisited - Chapter 6 Customization Options! We look back at the 2014 5E Player's Handbook. What have we learned, what would we change, and what might the next edition of D&D hold? In our News segment we look at WotC's new Inclusion Review, Neverwinter's Drow, Kobold Press Hiring, Hasbro Overproducing, and more! Listeners ask us about Art and Subversion, Concise Adventures, and 6E's Audience.
News Segment and Listener Questions
00:00 Grace and Dignity
01:03 Paranoia Gear?
02:58 Concise Adventures?
10:34 Art and Cooperation?
20:31 6E’s Audience?
26:03 WotC inclusion Review
33:16 Dragonlance on Guild
34:16 Neverwinter Drow
36:24 Monty Python RPG
38:47 Game Master’s Books
41:29 Innsmouth Garden Society
42:28 Kobold Press Hiring
43:06 Hasbro Overproducing?
46:17 Collville on Equipment
Main Segment:
5E Revisited - Chapter 6: Customization Options!
We look back at the 2014 5E's Feats and Multiclassing.
50:11 Is Customization Optional?
53:59 Multiclassing’s Past
56:03 6E Goals?
58:00 5E Multiclassing
1:02:54 Proficiency Bonus
1:04:23 Spellcasting
1:08:22 Feats in 5E
1:12:54 Shout-Outs
Thank you for listening! Get the full show notes with links on Patreon.
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Episode 113 of Mastering Dungeons!
This week's main topic: 5E Revisited - Equipment! We look back at the 2014 5E Player's Handbook. What have we learned, what would we change, and what might the next edition of D&D hold? In our News segment we look at the D&D Movie rescheduling, the first FR map, NFL player on the DMs Guild, and more! Listeners ask us about non-D&D RPGs and fulfilling campaigns.
News Segment and Listener Questions
00:00 Thank you
02:00 Other RPGs?
09:00 Alex Kammer on Campaigns
12:23 Movie Rescheduled
13:40 Original FR Map
16:18 Roll20 Looks Back
19:20 Johnny Stanton
22:52 Sandy Pug School
24:21 Eternal Night
Main Segment:
5E Revisited - Chapter 5: Equipment!
We look back at the 2014 5E Player's Handbook. What have we learned, what would we change, and what might the next edition of D&D hold?
27:57 Why Equipment?
38:25 Starting Equipment
43:09 6E Options
47:38 Living Accounting
49:40 Wealth
53:41 Armor and Weapons
01:06:10 Adventuring Gear
01:10:50 Lifestyle
01:12:41 Shout-Outs
Thank you for listening! Get the full show notes with links on Patreon.
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Episode 112 of Mastering Dungeons!
This week's main topic: 5E Revisited - Inspiration and Backgrounds! We look back at the 2014 5E Player's Handbook. What have we learned, what would we change, and what might the next edition of D&D hold? In our News segment we look at new D&D movie toys, D&D digital bundles, Flumph shirts, Dragonlance sneak peak, and more! Listeners ask us about Inspiration and One D&D's design audience.
News Segment and Listener Questions
00:00 MD Goes Indy!
03:53 Inspiration Problem?
07:18 Design for Players?
14:06 Expert Survey Live
17:25 New Digital Bundles
22:50 Flumph Shirt!
24:22 Dragonlance Preview
25:50 Movie Toys
28:37 Tabletop in Iran
29:47 Dicebreaker Awards
Main Segment:
5E Revisited - Inspiration and Backgrounds!
We look back at the 2014 5E Player's Handbook. What have we learned, what would we change, and what might the next edition of D&D hold?
31:52 Intro
33:09 Inspiration
57:10 Backgrounds
1:10:40 Where to Find Us
Thank you for listening! Get the full show notes with links on Patreon.
Thursday Oct 27, 2022
Thursday Oct 27, 2022
Shawn and Teos’ live Mastering Dungeons seminar from GameHoleCon! News! Questions! Clapping! Smells! This one has it all! Breaking News Links Wes Schneider Reveals Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen […]
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Moving through the Unearthed Arcana that is OneD&D, Shawn and Teos talk about the future of Feats, while it occurs to the editor that he has twice made the joke […]
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Taking a look at the Expert Classes from the upcoming One D&D, Shawn and Teos break down the new options for these classes. Are they better? Are they worse? Are […]
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
With more and more information around OneD&D coming out by the week, Shawn and Teos take a look at the concept of Expert Classes and determine what, if anything, it […]
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
With a very special guest to open the show, Teos and Shawn follow up with breaking down the Backgrounds and Personality aspects of Fifth Edition; all the stuff under Character […]
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