This episode is a collection of mini-reviews of a slew of 3rd party products (products usable for D&D but not by Wizards of the Coast). Chris Heard from Icosohedraphelia gives us reviews of the Chessex Dice Boot, Sonic Legends Soundscapes, and Paizo GameMastery Flip-Pad Mats, Jeremiah McCoy from the Basics of the Game gives us a look at Tieflings from Goodman Games, Marcelo Dior from Voices of the Third Earth (a Portuegese language show) talks about iPlay4e, and Donny (from my gaming group) brings you a look at In Search of Adventure from Goodman Games. Oh, and I also did some reviewing. Goodman Games products I reviewed includes Scions of Punjar and The Forgotten Portal and I also looked at Q-Workshop Steampunk dice, Fat Dragon Games‘ Ultimate GM Screen II, DM Tracker, and Precis Intermedia’s Disposable Heroes - Fantasy 6 paper miniatures.
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Standard Podcasts [50:14m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (1109)Mike Shea of Sly Flourish joins me for a discussion where we build an encounter at a portal to the Fey Wild based around Foulspawn and then we talk about finding the balance of using collaborative storytelling in your game as a DM and a player.
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Standard Podcasts [1:00:29m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (33)I am joined in this episode by Matt James to talk about what he’s doing in the D&D world, as well as building a Shadar-Kai Swordmage and giving advice on how to start a new campaign.
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Standard Podcasts [ 73:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (1455)Dave Chalker and Quinn Murphy join me to talk about Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons. We tend to like the book although think that one chapter (Dragon Lairs) was lacking in creativity.
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Standard Podcasts [ 56:35m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (1162)To look at the super-adventure Revenge of the Giants I called on Quinn Murphy and Ken Newquist. The short of it, great concepts, great fights, great skill challenges, struggles with pacing and story. Listen up for more.
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Standard Podcasts [ 31:56m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (1095)This advice episode is turned on it’s head. Phil “Chatty DM” Menard joins me from the great state…er, country of Canada this time around. But instead of building a PC and giving some DM advice we build an encounter for my personal campaign and give some advice on building a cohesive party.
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Standard Podcasts [ 67:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (1564)Primal Power attempts to explain what the primal power source is and provide characters who use it with more options. For this review Jeff is joined by Will Wong, Quinn Murphy, and Marcelo Dior. And they examine if the book successfully accomplishes that goal (here’s a quick preview…it does). It was a really fun discussion that no one quite wanted to end, so I hope you enjoy it.
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Regular contributor Will Wong reviews and leads an interview about the Abolethic Sovereignty with author Bruce Cordell. All in all, books sound very interesting to me and it’s a great way to see how 4e D&D and Forgotten Realms is impacting your novel lines. Enjoy!
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Standard Podcasts [ 70:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (1657)To review the DMG2 I called upon the professionals of Quinn Murphy (At-Will) and Dave Chalker (Critical Hits). All in all this book has some faults, but we generally thought it was fantastic. One of us even claimed that it was the best version of any DMG ever released…that’s high praise. Listen in for more.
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Standard Podcasts [ 66:51m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (1823)In this episode I talked to Mike Mearls and James Wyatt of Wizards of the Coast about the Dungeon Masters Guide 2. I also went down to my local game store, All Fun and Games, in Apex, NC to talk to the people there about the DMG2 World Wide D&D Game Day event.
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