Mastering Dungeons

Episode 303 of Mastering Dungeons!

Main topic: Best of Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen!

Dragonlance is Back! Come see why this adventure deserves a second chance.

News: Critical Role Lands Emmy, D&D Drops Oozes and Errata, Pathfinder on DriveThru, and more!

Contents
00:00 Gamehole with Teos and James?
04:21 Announcements vs Playtesting?
10:59 Licensed IPs Exclusive?
16:09 D&D Drops Oozes for August
23:04 New Drops Errata
26:55 Frontiers of Eberron on DDB
27:56 D&D on Szass Tam
30:28 Pathfinder/Starfinder on DriveThru
32:20 Critical Role Lands an Emmy
33:11 Union for Rowan, Rook, and Deckard
34:51 Springfield School of Worldbuilding
38:09 RPGs and Starting Communities
40:44 Not All D&D is for Everyone
43:26 Game Development Resources
45:49 Dragonlance Shadow of the Dragon Queen
47:22 Dragonlance as a Special Setting
01:00:30 5E's Dragonlance and Board Game
01:06:58 Adventure Premise and Approach
01:10:17 War Comes to Krynn
01:11:46 Characters and Pre-War Preludes
01:19:05 Vogler and Dragon Army
01:31:09 Kalaman Missions and Soth
01:38:13 Exploring Northern Wastes
01:40:21 City of Lost Names
01:45:09 Inflitrate Soth's Flying Castle
01:52:09 Shout-Outs
01:56:28 What Are We Gonna Do?

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Episode 303 of Mastering Dungeons!

Main topic: Adam Bradford, from D&D Beyond to Free League Unbound!

Adam Bradford joins us to discuss Free League's amazing Unbound platform and his voyage to and from D&D Beyond, including his design projects like Invincible and Forgotten Odysseys.

News: Diamond Gives Inventory Back, Gamehole PoC Event, PAX West Needs DMs, and more!

Contents
00:00 3E Turns 26
03:32 Audio in Adventure Products?
07:24 Bloated Character Sheets?
17:17 Diamond Gives Back Inventory
19:45 PAX West Call for D&D DMs
20:42 GameHole Con PoC Industry Dinner
23:19 Adam Bradford, Probably
24:30 Adam's Backstory
28:51 The Path to D&D Beyond
32:34 D&D Beyond
39:04 Why D&D Beyond Succeeded
43:27 Digital Reader Surprise
46:10 Demiplane and Fantasy Grounds
52:58 Lessons Carried Forward
57:41 Free League Unbound
01:07:04 Invincible and RPG Design
01:13:52 Forgotten Odysseys
01:19:21 Adam's Future Plans
01:21:32 Find Adam
01:24:54 Shout-Outs
01:28:51 What Are We Gonna Do?

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Episode 302 of Mastering Dungeons!

Main topic: Dark Sun, Star Wars, Warcraft, Greyhawk, and All D&D Gen Con News!

Wizards of the Coast goes all-out with a D&D Tower, Carnival, Drone Show, and tons of peaks at upcoming releases.

News: Wizards President Departs, Free League Unbound, Daggerheart Plans, ENnies, and more!

Contents
00:00 Gen Con Happened!
02:46 Spoiler Descriptions?
06:10 Is Bloat Bad?
18:00 John Hight Departs as WotC Pres
21:25 Starter Set and Big Box Stores?
23:24 Free League Unbound
27:48 Daggerheart 3-Year Plan
34:45 Cosmere and Plotweaver
36:31 Monte Cook Games
36:49 Diana Jones Award
38:13 ENnies Award Recipients
41:33 Tabletop Show is Back?
44:00 Doom-Dust of the Disintegrator
45:01 Leveled Lairs - Aboleths
46:09 D&D's Huge Gen Con Reveals
47:48 Keynote Roadmap
49:13 Season of Magic
50:48 World of Warcraft
58:42 Dark Sun Confirmed!
01:05:25 No DMAP for Dark Sun
01:08:16 Greyhawk Crown of the Witch Queen
01:11:04 Star Wars D&D
01:15:39 D&D Icons
01:21:31 Partnerships
01:27:41 Universes Beyond for D&D
01:31:22 Warlock
01:32:55 D&D Beyond News
01:36:39 D&D Designer Talks
01:38:44 Drone Show
01:41:10 Overall Thoughts
01:45:11 Shout-Outs
01:49:21 What Are We Gonna Do?

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Episode 301 of Mastering Dungeons!

Main topic: The Best of Spelljammer Light of Xaryxis!

An adventure crafted to feel like an old sci-fi TV show? We look at how well it captures the classic Spelljammer setting.

News: World of Warcraft and D&D? Hasbro Q2 Growth? D&D Movie Sequel Script? And more!

Contents
00:00 Apocalypse Now
02:16 Bound by Blood
04:22 Add to Peril in Pinebrook?
12:51 Right Amount of Lore?
19:19 D&D and Warcraft
24:31 Hasbro Q2 Strong Growth
28:51 D&D Beyond Use
33:14 WotC Growth
34:47 How Big is D&D?
39:01 D&D Movie Sequel Script
41:21 Renegade and Anne Rice
43:35 The Guild Ren Faire'd
45:31 Crediting Creators
51:51 D&D Soaps
52:25 Gen Con DMAP Vinyl
53:16 Spelljammer Light of Xaryxis
54:37 Spelljammer History
01:04:10 D&D in 2022
01:08:50 Premise and Approach
01:15:04 Part 1: Seeds of Destruction
01:22:51 Part 2: Terrors of the Void
01:33:29 Part 3: Chaos in Doomspace
01:36:21 The Dark Sun Rumor
01:40:29 Part 4: Saviors of the Multiverse
01:44:00 Astral Elf Goals
01:47:15 Final Choices and Thoughts
01:50:18 Shout-Outs
01:54:42 What Are We Gonna Do?

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Episode 300 of Mastering Dungeons!

Main topic: Sirrangia and Worldbuilding Through Campaign Building!

Now that we are creating an adventure setting for our top Patreon supporters, we look at worldbuilding through the lens of campaign building.

News: Season of Magic Launches, Big D&D Gen Con Plans, Good and Bad Paizo News, and more!

Contents
00:00 300th Episode!
04:23 Balance My Vecna?
16:37 No-Win Situations?
21:33 Season of Magic Releases
22:57 D&D Encounters News
27:06 D&D's Big Gen Con Plans
30:21 DMAP Season 2
33:20 Free Play Along Pack
37:18 Sirius Dice for Daggerheart
39:12 Good and Bad Pathfinder News
41:46 Cosmere is Hiring
43:40 NPC Notes
45:43 Thrones & Bones Bundle
46:11 Scipio's New Blog
46:59 Sirrangia and Worldbuilding
48:02 Every Group is Different
51:59 Worldbuilding Basics
57:32 Worldbuilding in RPGs
01:04:35 Top-Down vs Bottom-Up
01:09:59 Designing Sirrangia
01:14:06 Rules and Worldbuilding
01:18:47 Our Patreon Polls
01:23:53 Surviving Strangehollow
01:25:15 Shout-Outs
01:29:42 What Are We Gonna Do?

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