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This special episode of the It’s A Mimic! podcast explores the items, both magical and mundane, that revolve around having Giants in your Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition campaign.  The focus of this episode also turns to the coolest Giants with horned helmets: Frost Giants! Intro 0:00 Giant Items 1:28 Frost Giant Lore 12:27 Frost Giant Stats 25:44 Famous Frost Giants 34:31 Playing a Frost Giant 41:...

This episode of the It’s A Mimic! podcast is going to return to one of the creatures that the panel of Dungeon Masters did a deep dive on in episode 128:  The Dragon Turtle.  It’s another return to the pages of Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons to see what the probably-stoned wizard has to say about these gargantuan dragons that live in the oceans, and all the havoc they might wreak in your campaigns....

This special episode of the It’s A Mimic! podcast explores the unique language of the Giants in Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition.  The focus of this episode also turns to the Giants most likely to have the best swagger in their armour: Fire Giants!   Intro 0:00 Communication and Language 2:30 Fire Giant Lore 12:58 Fire Giant Stats 26:39 Famous Fire Giants 40:55 Playing a Fire Giant 50:16 Outro 54:45...

In this episode of the It’s A Mimic! podcast, the Panel of Dungeon Masters sits down with a classic type of enemy that used to be a staple foe at D&D tables, but seems to be less common in 5th Edition: Trolls.  Low-level parties dread them, and if you don’t know the trick to keeping them down, you’re in for a bad day.  So arm yourselves appropriately (that’s a Troll pun), and get ready for the nas...

This special episode of the It’s A Mimic! podcast looks waaay up to the big picture to learn about Giants’ civilizations and their relationships with Dragons and magic in Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition.  The focus of this episode is on the noble and powerful Cloud Giants!   Intro 0:00 Giants Overview 1:20 Cloud Giant Lore 9:27 Cloud Giant Stats 22:17 Other Cloud Giants 33:22 Famous Cloud Giants 37...

“The easiest way for me not to die is to make everybody that I don’t like dead.” This episode of the It’s A Mimic! podcast returns with even more Wizards, because Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition has more magical nerds than you can shake an unused wand at.  The panel of Dungeon Masters takes the time today to investigate the ins and outs of the wizard subclasses from Exandria, and get sucked into...

This special episode of the It’s A Mimic! podcast starts us off big, with a quick intro into Giants in Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, as well as a focus on the biggest of them all, Storm Giants! Intro 0:00 The Ordning and Giant Gods 3:15 Storm Giant Lore 17:57 Storm Giant Stats 31:03 Famous Storm Giants 49:15 Playing a Storm Giant 53:07 Outro 56:38 Bloopers 59:21 DON’T FORGET TO LIKE & SUBSCRIBE!...

This episode of the It’s A Mimic! podcast returns with even more Clerics, because Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition has more holy men than you can shake a censer at.  The panel of Dungeon Masters is going to look into the Peace Domain and the Twilight Domain, as well as some of the details that most people might not think about when it comes to roleplaying a Cleric. Cold Open 0:00 Intro 0:52 Cleric...

There is quite a bit of lore about Orcs, and episodes 15, 101, and 102 really dive into the lore and societies that are available in Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition so far.  Episode 82 covered what it means to play Half-Orcs, but what about playing the full blown thing?  Well, this episode of the It’s A Mimic! podcast takes a look at all the different kinds of playable Orcs that you can use to buil...

This episode of the It’s A Mimic! podcast focuses on the five upper-most of the Upper Planes in the Forgotten Realms cosmology, and looks at what you can expect as players in Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition.  This panel of Dungeon Masters starts orderly, and descends rapidly into chaos as they traverse these outer planes!  So buckle up for a whirlwind tour of Mount Celestia, Bytopia, Elysium, The B...

Dave, Megan, and James (with an assist from Jeff) take us to a very vivid place after they actually answer some D&D-related questions.  We, at It's A Mimic! apologize profusely for this episode, and we are launching a full investigation into who put these three lunatics on the same episode...  Ugh.   From Instragram: @andrisnow14 @_itsmiaca @marron.hannah @m.v.willms @spidey_rich @zacherymcconnel...

From American food to DMPC's, from the history of the podcast to comparing bread and potatoes, from sexy beholders to firearms in 5th Edition, this special mailbag episode of the It's A Mimic! podcast runs head first into 20 random questions that you, the listeners, have willed upon us.  This panel of Dungeon Masters thanks you from the bottom of their [whatever has replaced their dead, blackened...

This episode of the It’s A Mimic! podcast is going to help flesh out further nuance when it comes to using Metallic Dragons in D&D 5th Edition.  This panel of Dungeon Masters rifles through the pages of Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons to see what else the five main good dragons have to offer, outside of the Monster Manual.  And stay tuned for the end of the episode, where we’re going to look into the...

This episode of the It’s A Mimic! podcast marks the end of Year 3 for the panel of Dungeon Masters, and the beginning of Year 4.  The DM’s all spent some time over the holidays mulling over the idea of the titular monsters, and have now combined their thoughts into a single episode that embraces the idea of the namesake of the podcast.   Cold Open 0:21 Intro 0:28 Mimics 1:34 Creatures with False A...

In this episode of the It’s A Mimic! Podcast, the panel of Dungeon Masters cracks open the DMG, Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide, and the Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica to dig into some more variant rules.  There are tons of them in the published material, and some of common online homebrew rules address issues that there are actually rule options for. This episod...

This episode of the It’s A Mimic! podcast takes a sidestep to finally address the most common kind of enemy in Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: the humanoid NPC.  Sometimes they betray, sometimes they get betrayed.  Sometimes they’re lethal, and some they’re regretful.  Everyone has run into them at one point or another, but the panel of Dungeon Masters is going to try to break down new and interes...

This episode of the It’s A Mimic! podcast returns to Rangers, but the panel of Dungeon Masters has to break the mold for our class-based episodes a little bit and focus on the updates from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything.  There are a lot of new updates and variants for the 5th Edition  Ranger, and the Beastmaster gets some new companions as well.  So, string your bow, whistle for your wolf, and do...

This episode of the It’s A Mimic! podcast heads to the Sword Coast and the distant realm of Exandria to cover the Fighter subclasses listed there, before looking at the pages of Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything to look at new options in Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition.  It’s not all swinging swords and surging action, though, as the panel of Dungeon Masters has discovered.  So grab your heavy armou...

This episode of the It’s A Mimic! podcast digs up something a little more sinister than we’re used to in this conversation, as the panel of Dungeon Masters tries to determine if the Lineages in Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft are all they’re cracked up to be.  It’s vampires, hags, and reincarnations this week, with a focus on roleplaying and flavour, because the mechanics look like they’re a litt...

This episode of this It’s A Mimic podcast is going to bring us back to the Forgotten Realms for the fourth Lore episode, but this time we’re getting spiritual. With everything going on on the ground of Toril, the activities of the gods during the spell plague and second sundering have been the foundational events for Dungeons and Dragons 5e.  So, today, this panel of Dungeon Masters seeks to open...

This episode of the It’s A Mimic! Podcast helps flesh out further nuance when it comes to using Chromatic Dragons in Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition.  The panel of Dungeon Masters rifles through the pages of Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons once more to see what else Tiamat's children have to offer, outside of the Monster Manual.  There are more personality quirks, minions, lairs, and hoard items, but...

In this episode of the It’s A Mimic! Podcast, this panel of Dungeon Masters sits down and cracks open the discussion on variant rules.  There are dozens of options in the published material for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, and some of you might be unnecessarily making homebrew rules without realizing there are already other options out there for you.  This show has already dug into the experien...

In this final Hags episode of the It’s A Mimic! podcast, the panel of Dungeon Masters sits down to look at the worst Hags that Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition has to offer.  With a hard look into the stat blocks of the nastiest coven published so far, the episode is going to see what can be gleaned from the pages of Wild Beyond the Witchlight when it comes to playing Hags in your own campaigns.   C...

This episode of the It’s A Mimic! podcast returns to the pages of Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything to cover the last Artificer subclass listed there, before this glorious and sexy panel of Dungeon Masters crafts together some unique perspectives about the sixteen different Artificer Infusions there are for Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition. Cold Open 0:00 Intro 03:14 Artificer Overview 05:02 Armorer...

In this special April Fools Day special, the It's A Mimic! podcast gets back around the table to have some crazy arcane shenanigans with the one and only ne'er-do-well (as in they never do well) thieves guild: The Black Hand.  That's okay, though, as the guild has sent three of its top agents, Human Bard Inspara Dice (played by Kyle), Copper Dragonborn Fighter Kalope "Kall" (played by Megan), and...