The Next Session

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Salty_Herring needs help with adding to their Great Tree dungeon with multiple seasons.  Four Season Total Dungeoning! Becherbrook needs an “unusual scenario for an unusual sword.” It *cues the soundtrack from Wicked* Defies Gravity! After the break, Xxqaqxx wants to know how to navigate people wanting to hire him as a DM.  Use that Spell!  Disintegrate! Thanks for listening! As always, you can as...

Andy asks, “How do you make your combats more fun?” In Vonandro’s campaign, he needs to hint at a dead body in a ditch that the player’s keep walking by. After the break, Ottersintuxedos wants to know, “Could Prestidigitation give players more oxygen?” Search the Room!  The Gloves of Missile Snaring! Thanks for listening! As always, you can ask us a question at www.nextsessionpodcast.com Instagram...

Thortron's players are going to the “Clockwork Café” for date night and he needs some ways that the café can mess with them. Gentle_pencil asks about ideas for a sentient dungeon. Will it be a triumph? After the break, DumpingAllTheWay wants to know, “If a town celebrated a ninja parade every year, where the ninjas would sneak past the crowd and leave things behind to find, what would they leave?”...

BoyNamedDong has a pirate campaign and wants to add scurvy into the mix when he doesn’t already make the players track food. Perfect_Event_1229 has a brilliant idea to add some flavor or consequence to Raise Dead. After the break, Rairaijin wants to know, can pixies be familiars? Use That Spell! Prismatic Wall! Thanks for listening! As always, you can ask us a question at www.nextsessionpodcast.co...

TrollundrtehMountain wants to make their players terrified of wasps but still only have them hit for 1 or 2 points of damage.  DM_KD20's players are headed to a Lord's birthday and need to figure out what the enemies' gift should be to kickstart a conflict. After the break, imstillarookie wants to know, is Cutting Words before or after damage roll? Use That Spell! Blade Barrier! Thanks for listeni...

Jfgauch has a Drow Shadowblade that was captured and restrained in an iron maiden  for 100 years and needs to figure out what sort of creature it turned into in all that time.  Mixologist93 has a player with a Genie (Dao) for a patron. What sort of quests should they send the player on? After the break, N7Varren makes Adam rant about Counterspell.  Use That Spell! Gaseous Form! Thanks for listenin...

Booksalot42 feels guilty for not letting their player have a monster mount and wants advice if they should retcon the situation.  Then, FlyingDutch127 wants to know what system we use for critical injuries as healing after 8 hours feels so blah.  After the break, syd_sky11 needs help designing an in game rave. Dazzle Dazzle Witches!  Use That Spell! Moonbeam Thanks for listening! As always, you ca...

CollinsRabbit Has a player that was granted a wish and wants help granting it without breaking his campaign.   Then, Randompeep8 wants to know if it is bad that they only want to run one shots? The answer may shock you...... except it won't. The answer is "no of course not" but we do elaborate on it.  Search the Room! It's the Well of Many Worlds! Use That Spell! Warding Bond. Thanks for listening...

lightguard40 is highlighting his players with special encounters and puzzle and wants to do a "Battle of the Bards" for the Bard but needs help making it awesome. Then, Pending987 wants to know, "What's in the box?" After the break, Bolognagiri wants to give their players a cursed item. Should Bolognagiri tell them it's cursed before hand?  Use That Spell! Blight! Thanks for listening! As always,...

Capsr's players killed a baby black dragon and needs help figuring out how to drive up the threat level when momma dragon figurers out what happened.  Then, Omnipotentdrop wants our thoughts on an adventure based around the show Samurai Jack! Um... Yes. Do it, it sounds awesome!  After the break, LittleGr33nMen wants to know how to accommodate a player that doesn't want to kill anything.   New Seg...

Kaede_miura wants to do a fake total player knockout (TPK) and is asking if it's okay. Yeah sure! Just don't make it suck.  Then, TcFir3 has a player who made a deal with a "potion salesman" who gave away 50% of his wife's lifespan for the opportunity to be resurrected should the need arise. TcFir3 needs help coming up with the consequences of that action.  After the break, Friend135 asks about ho...

No, we didn't travel to Canada. Not only is there a pandemic, Canada doesn't exactly want visitors right now. However, every question on today's episode is from Toronto, Canada. Weird coincidence? Maybe! Enough to break out of my naming convention? Eh... In this episode, TabaxiCab has a game with a team of "Suicide Squad - style Dark Knights" and is wondering how to "balance creating the space for...

In this episode,  DocCaesar has a player with a backstory that is coming back to haunt them, but the player doesn't believe it to be true.  Then, stryke360 has a player who has a broken Ring of Spell Storing and wonders what spell they should have preloaded in the ring once it is fixed.  After the break, Anosmiyas' entire party are ranged attackers and they are wondering how to make combats more i...

In this episode,  Diet Toothpaste asks about using the Mirror of the Past to give breadcrumbs to their party members. Then, TolBeardBoi asks what to do about their party unleashing 11 crazy creatures from the Mirror of Life Trapping in a small tavern. After the break, Jajohnja wonders how to present unknown effects to players? Use that Spell: Maelstrom! Thanks for listening! As always, you can ask...

In this episode,  IAmTotallyNotSatan asks about how to get out of a confrontation that is brewing in their sci-fi campaign. Then, yostypants wants to flip a campaign on itself and have the players make a dungeon for some heroes. After the break, daringStumbles wonders how long we let our players metagame for. Use that Spell: Feign Death! Thanks for listening! As always, you can ask us a question a...

In this episode,  Pretender37 asks about using Mage Hand in combat. Then, WereRob0t needs some help figuring out how to save their players from a TPK realistically. After the break, Bite-Sized- Ewan asks how to motivate their party to go after the BBEG, and Adam and Allysa get on a rant about player responsibility at the table.  Use that Spell is quite a doozy! Magic Jar Thanks for listening! As a...

It's the Season 1 Season Finale!  We decided to shake it up and bring you an entire episode on joke magical items. But we couldn't do it alone and welcomed back the ever amazing Greg Barrett to help us on our quest! This episode is literally just us joking around about joke magical items.  Tune in to Season 2 for our regularly scheduled content. ;) Hope you all have a Happy New Year!  Thanks for l...

In this episode,  combatmedic22 needs helping killing all light in their kingdom. Then, realarksendis has an item that the players are salivating over... but it turns out it's a joke item.  After the break, Jaketatoes wonders how much money everybody else gets. Not much!  Use that Spell: Maze Thanks for listening! As always, you can ask us a question at www.nextsessionpodcast.com Instagram: @nexts...

In this episode, A&A tackle pigoman92's question about what projectiles you could use to hurl at a party to slow them down.  Then, LearningFeed wants to follow a Greek myth and asks if it is possible to petrify someone.  Adam later commiserates with LongLing26 about how broken Conjure Animals really is.  Use that Spell: Primal Savagery! Thanks for listening! As always, you can ask us a question at...

A&A are back with special guest Zachary Zelinski! Zach is a good friend with a great talent for story creation and making A&A crack up. In fact, more than 30 mins of laughter was cut from this episode. Together, Adam, Allysa, and Zach answer furac0nas' question about a blacksmith encounter,  and Causticberries' question what would happen if someone lost their shadow.  Later, williamsettler asks, "...

This week A&A tackle the age old question, how do you get a corpse drunk? Then the team ruminates on a dungeon based on different musical genres.  After the break, the question of what should your role-playing game room have in it comes up, and then Allysa tries to stump Adam with the spell Dragon's Breath.  As always, you can ask us a question at www.nextsessionpodcast.com Thanks for listening! I...

Trigger Warning: Talk about death. Two big questions today about what to do when a player is missing from the session.   After the break, A&A talk about the birds and the bees and D&D, and then the ridiculousness of the spell Awaken.  As always, you can ask us a question at www.nextsessionpodcast.com Thanks for listening! Instagram: @nextsessionpodcast Twitter: @thenextsession Facebook: @thenextse...

A player "fun-dipped" some powdered Flameskull and A&A help figure out the consequences.  Then, Novisstatic asks about the best way to dump lore onto players and A&A go over the spell Fabricate. As always, you can ask us a question at www.nextsessionpodcast.com Thanks for listening! Instagram: @nextsessionpodcast Twitter: @thenextsession Facebook: @thenextsession Learn more about your ad choices....

A&A are back with special guest Andy Clodfelter! Andy is a co-host of the podcast 90s Court, a player in the actual play D&D game known as Daring Adventures, and just launched his new podcast, Anomalous Fascination.  Together, Adam, Allysa, and Andy answer Deekester's question about his sister's Shrek themed campaign,  and Lowkileet's question about a very cursed item and the effects it has on the...