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Episode 156 Streamed Live Tuesday September 12, 2023 Mental Illness as badge of Honor https://dotesports.com/dnd/news/first-canonically-autistic-dnd-character-arrives-in-the-book-of-many-things Main Topic: Planescape Reimagined The Great Wheel Cosmology: https://srd.dndtools.org/srd/environment/planesDescriptionsAndCosmology.html Randy’s Big IDEA: The prime (Prime Plane) is prime real estate throu...

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Episode 153 Streamed Live Tuesday August 22, 2023 Shout out the Geeapaloozapodcast Two of our Cabin Con buddies have started a Twitch podcast on general gaming: https://www.twitch.tv/geekapaloozapodcast Main Topic: Gaming Facts or Fiction? Old DnD Research: https://www.dndresearch.com/blog/2020-survey-result-update-1-demographic-of-ttrpg-players#/ RAW vs RAI vs Homebrew Rules : Is it a big deal at...

Episode 152 Streamed Live Tuesday, August 15, 2023 Special Guests DM Blackwall and DM Nate Horde Wars Basic is available on BGE Campaign Analysis: So, you all meet in a bar. Should Pcs be generated together (“session zero”) or individually/separately? Should the Pcs know each other? Many ways to start a campaign (the first adventure): In a tavern with a mysterious stranger. Hired as Caravan guards...

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Deities of Your Campaign Episode 150 Streamed Live Tuesday August 1, 2023 Main Topic: Deities in Your Campaign Pantheons or Monotheistic settings. Using the real world mythologies in your game. Creating your own. Using a game’s settings deities as written. No deities To what extent should they take front stage in a campaign? Can you call down the gods? What are the eternal consequences of deities...

As you WISH - An analysis of wishes in D&D Episode 149 Streamed Live Tuesday July 25, 2023 Main Topic: As You Wish Inspiration: “Best Wishes: Guidelines for giving and getting” by G. Snyder Best of Dragon Vo. 5 pp.58-59 1.) The Wish Spell/Effect Throughout the Editions https://dumpstatadventures.com/blog/2019/1/5/deep-dive-the-wish-spell 2.) Memories of the use of the Wish Spell, Wish granting...

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Episode 147 Streamed Live Tuesday July 11, 2023 The Main Hobby is Busted Baldur’s Gate 3 video game: https://news.yahoo.com/baldurs-gate-3s-commitment-d-190000993.html Cohors Cthuhlhu Game - https://youtu.be/96Eb7ZFgtVE We need a true alternate hobby culture…fight the power! Main Topic: DnD Weirdness Exploring the weirdness of Dungeons. That they exist at all. Old school dungeons don’t stay empty...

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Episode 144 Streamed Live Tuesday June 20, 2023 Main Topic: Monster Mash #14 - Slimes, Oozes, etc. Over the various editions of Dungeons and Dragons (DnD) there have been a few standard monsters in this category. They are generally amorphous, unintelligent, slow moving and are more like hazards than creatures. What makes them creatures is they grow, likely reproduce, and “attack” by some form of a...

Episode 143 Streamed Live Tuesday June 13, 2023 A short discussion of “fauxSR”, being an online disagreement about the OSR, with guest Ryan David of Nerdcognito Main Topic: Monster Mash #13: Here there be DRAGONS Part 2 We pick up from the discussion on ep142 and begin with “ecology”. How do dragons fit into the world and what considerations should be made. These considerations can be political, t...

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Episode 140 Streamed Live Tuesday May 23, 2023 Main Topic: What is the Player’s job at the game table? Talked about the job of the DM and a few ways it can be approached. Let’s do the same for the folks on the other side of the screen. Don’tbe a jerk. Learn the rules related to your character. Build characters that get along well in a group environment. Try to do things that are not just fun for y...

Episode 139 Streamed Live Tuesday May 16, 2023 Special Note: Big Geek Con 2023 tickets on SALE! https://tabletop.events/conventions/big-geek-con-2023 Main Topic: What’s the DM’s job? Relevant links: https://gnomestew.com/how-different-rpgs-define-the-gms-role/ https://gnomestew.com/game-master-referee-storyteller-whats-in-a-name/ https://www.escapistmagazine.com/judging-the-game/ https://www.escap...

Episode 138 Streamed Live Tuesday May 9, 2023 Special Guest: DM Blackwall & N. Lindy(?) Main Topic: Campaign Analysis: Campaign types - advantages and disadvantages Our first effort: Hyperborea by Jeffrey Talanian of North Wind Adventures: https://www.hyperborea.tv/ Types - Railroad vs Sandbox vs A Mixture Also Procedural and Amusement Parks What type is our Hyperborea game going to be? A Cabi...

Episode 137 Streamed Live Tuesday May 2, 2023 Anvil: Iron Age Magazine #1 https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/anvil-iron-age-magazine-issue-1/x/27459496#/ Pinkertons of the Coast Update: https://news.yahoo.com/magic-raid-wasnt-first-time-162558008.html Main Topic: Monster Mash #11 ORCS & More! Orcs, goblins, bugbears, hobgoblins, kobolds, and gnolls through the editions. Some say they are misun...

Episode 137 Streamed Live Tuesday April 25, 2023 Main Topic: DnD Myths The Game Itself Satanic panic No board non-sense Just playing pretend. Too many esoteric tomes to try to master to learn how to play. Killing things and taking their stuff…that’s all there is to it. White Supremacy RAW is the only way RAI is a thing The Players Nerds no girlfriends, all smart No girls allowed. Plays in their mo...

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Episode 134 of our SHOW, and the date is Tuesday April 11,2023. (J) Main Topic: OSR Glut…time to Move on OneDnd (now just 5th edition revised in 2024) is looking to be leaning to virtual RPGPundit: https://youtu.be/VqL9bi0bdlA?t=603 (time stamped) Dungeon Masterpiece (old one) : https://youtu.be/4wlSCwp_JVA Forget the OSR? Oversaturated? https://retroroleplaying.com/2011/08/long-list-of-old-school...

This week we have special guests DM Blackwall and Nathan Lindy of Horde Wars (upcoming) to discuss using minis and terrain in our tabletop games. We also discuss Advancement and getting older. - Shownotes upcoming

Episode 132 Streamed Live Tuesday March 28,2023 Main TOPIC: Alignment in RPGs Definition: ethical and moral perspective Alignment for role playing games was introduced in Dungeons and Dragons back in the late 1970s and is used in many modern games as well. Players use it as an aid to help in playing their characters consistently. DMs and GMs use it for same purpose NPCs and monsters. https://en.wi...