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DM Matt walks you through prepping for a new campaign using lots of plagiarism and how to prep making new characters and creating handouts to speed through the process with new players. You can support the show on Patreon to gain access to our "Best Starting Adventure" plus the handouts and maps Matt prepared for this new campaign.
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Matt and Rob talk about MÖRK BORG, the greatest metal-inspired, Swedish, grimdark, rules-light TTRPG you've ever seen.
The Unseen Vaults of the Optic Experiment
Music:
Pac Div - Roll the Dice
Putrescence Regnant - The Floating Basilica
Judas Priest - Nostradamus
Gloryhammer - Rise of the Chaos Wizards
Fintroll - Trollhammaren
Electric Wizard - Barbarian
Putrescence Regnant - The Calendar of Nechrubel
DMs Matt and Rob review the megadungeon adventure path for Pathfinder 2e: Abomination Vaults. For the next week, the campaign is available along with the core of the PF2e system and a ton of other goodies on Humble Bundle.
Matt and Rob quantum leap back to the 80s and dive into Dragon Magazine #80 to ponder our orbs, rock out to some tunes, and read about The Five C's of DMing.
Award-winning Special Journalism & NFT Correspondent Linda Codega of i09 returns to the show to talk about how they broke the OGL story, how Wizards/Hasbro has breached the "trust thermocline," and what the TTRPG future may look like now that WotC has taken an "L" and released of the SRD into the Creative Commons.
Cool games that Linda recommends:
Interstitial: Our Hearts Intertwined and Interstitial - Kingdom Hearts Actual Play
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So, you’re thinking about running Pathfinder for the first time? Well, you read a lot about the new classes, cool monsters, and massive adventure catalog, but you don't know much about being a PF Game Master. This episode has you covered! DMs Rob and Matt discuss exactly what a GM switching from old Dungeon and Dragons to PF2e should expect, what to look out for, and what can help make the transition easier for players.
Matt and Rob get together to discuss further developments in the OGL and other things that suck. Also, WotC released a survey, and you should fill it out and tell them what you think! This is the last OGL conversation for a bit, we promise.
The survey link is at the bottom of this post:
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1432-starting-the-ogl-playtest
After the bombshell report by friend-of-the-show Linda Codega on Wizards of the Coast’s disastrous new version of the Open Gaming License, we discuss the controversy with two guests: Justin Alexander and LegalKimchi. We dive into what the Open Gaming License (OGL) is, its history and context, the legal issues raised by the new document, why no company in their right mind will sign the new license, the reasoning that may be guiding WotC’s decision, and where companies and fans can go from here.
Linda Codega’s article on Gizmodo
Justin Alexander’s The Alexandrian blog and his three part series on the history of the OGL
The Original Open Game License 1.0a
Rob takes Matt on a journey through history to talk about when America was great and Satan was real -- the 1980s! We talk about Bothered About Dungeons and Dragons, the Satanic Panic, Andy Rooney, and more! This one's kind of a doozie, hope you enjoy it!
D&D 60 Minutes Clip
The Pulling Report
Role-Playing Games and the Christian Right: Community Formation in Response to a Moral Panic
Dungeons and Dragons: Witchcraft, Suicide, Violence
We answer your DM problems: taking hats off our hats, explaining underdark ecology, damage immunity frustrations, putting the One Ring into Shadowrun, reactions to the "Reaction" series, and more!
Matt and Rob talk about the good, bad, and ugly of prestige classes, and even whip up a couple of examples you could try to integrate into your 5e games.
Join our Patreon for the full episode and three example prestige classes for 5e!
Special Krynn Correspondent Meaghan, returns, as we attempt to fixup the newest D&D 5e adventure, Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen.
Get a copy of Tasslehoff's Pouches of Everything Revised at the DMsGuild!
Listen to the Dragonlance Nexus podcast for more Ansalon goodness.
Matt and Rob interview VJ Harris, GM, game designer, writer and most recently author of An Elf and an Orc Had a Little Baby. We talk about D&D races, DMing, some recent WotC news, and more!
You can find VJ on Twitter, the DM's Guild, TikTok, their website, and on their podcast.
There's even more OneDnD playtest rules. On deck are the rules for everyone's favorite effective yet bland class: the Cleric. Special Freelance Correspondent Alex Clippinger joins us to tell us why we were wrong about the Jump Action rules. Like the Great Bambino calling his shot home run shot, Alex lays down a prediction for the Counterspell mechanics. Last, listen to a thrilling Oxford-style debate on the motion: Are textbook style rules superior to natural language writing?
Check out all of Alex's creations
Part three of our series tracing the roots of reactionary thought in Dungeons and Dragons: the anti-diversity backlash, the never-ending outrage machine, an overwhelming fear of change, common contemporary reactionary arguments, and our final conclusions.
Thank you for listening and a special thank you to all our Patreon supporters!
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Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio and Elynatracks.
Part two of our series tracing the roots of reactionary thought in Dungeons and Dragons: the emergence of the right-wing D&D outrage machine from below and from above.
Stay tuned for part 3 tomorrow!
You can listen to the first episode of the series here.
You can write the hosts with questions, comments, or critiques here.
And support the show on Patreon!
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio and Elynatracks.
Part one of our series tracing the roots of reactionary thought in Dungeons and Dragons: defining our terms, the long consequences of the Satanic Panic, the anti-diversity campaign in speculative fiction, and GamerGate's influence on RPGs.
Stay tuned for parts 2 tomorrow!
You can listen to our episode on the Satanic Panic and D&D here.
You can write the hosts with questions, comments, or critiques here.
And support the show on Patreon!
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio and Envato Tuts.
It's another premium episode of Actual Prep. This time, put your head phones on for a hi-fi episode in which we build an open-ended, all-bard adventure: The Bards Are Back In Town!
Listen to the full episode and get all our rockin' bonus content over at Parteon!
Matt and Rob continue their review/deep read of the Pathfinder Gamemastery guide! This week they get to the really crunchy stuff.
DMs Rob and Matt are back "in the garage" with a discussion of the Dungeon Master advice in Pathfinder 2e's Gamemastery Guide.
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