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Dec 01

When to say Yes, and when to say No.

Hello All, Recently The AngryDM, one of the people I follow on twitter (and you should too) took a stab at a more thorough look at the oft said rule of “never say no.”  His particular take can be found HERE and I encourage you to read over it. There are a lot of things …

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Nov 23

The Campaigns. Made Men: Episode 3 – Finding Stannis

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 47:43 — 43.7MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSHello All, So, apparently Evan and I messed up. The podcast posted as episode 2 was actually episode 3. I’ve changed the posting title, but the recording is the same. If you are interested in episode 2 you …

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Nov 21

Dungeon Talk: Episode 10 – Is this thing on?

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:05:00 — 59.5MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSHello All, Here is Dungeon Talk: Episode 10.  The title comes from the fact that we started twice before we were actually recording (once for about 45 minutes . . .) and then on take 3 we started …

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Nov 03

The Campaigns: Made Men – Episode 1 – The Beginning

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:59 — 38.4MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSHello All, Here is the inaugural episode of our new The Campaigns series of podcasts. These are actual play sessions of our current D&D Next Games. In this episode we meet the main characters (all except Wang, who …

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Oct 27

The Road So Far . . .

Hello all, As I teased a few weeks ago, we are going to start a secondary series of Podcasts of our Actual Play game sessions.  After several attempts with various recording set ups we finally found one that works well enough to use. Because of that delay, however, if we started posting the episodes it …

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Oct 27

Complete Tips & Tricks by Jared

Hello all, Here is the complete series of articles written by Jared aimed at helping Newbie DM’s run their first D&D campaign successfully. Thanks!! Michael – AKA Mumbles Part 1 When I first started running games, no one really gave me any useful tips or general rules of thumb to go by.  All I had …

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Oct 16

Dungeon Talk: Episode 8.2 – DnD Next Playtest discussion pt 2

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 48:50 — 44.7MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSHello all, Here is the back half of the recap/discussion we had after our DnD Next Playtest. Thanks!! Michael – AKA Mumbles E-mail us at Podcast@TheRpgAcademy Follow us on twitter @TheRpgAcademy Visit our Facebook Page Join our Google+ …

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Oct 16

Dungeon Talk: Episode 8.1 – DnD Next Playtest Encounter

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 40:35 — 37.2MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSHello all, Here is a slightly edited version of the battle I ran during the DnD Next Playtest.  This battle was all Theater of the Mind; no mini’s, no grid. Please look over Evan’s sniffles . . . …

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Oct 16

Dungeon Talk: Episode 8.0 – DnD Next Playtest discussion pt 1

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:46 — 48.3MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSHello all, Last Saturday, I ran a DnD Next Playtest for my regular gaming group. We had been running a 3.5 game and because we had 3 out of 4 PC’s that were non-core classes it would be …

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Oct 08

Dungeon Talk: Episode 7 – Figments of our Conversation

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:06:48 — 61.2MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSHello all, Evan and I decided beforehand that we would devote this entire episode to building a Sand-Box game, which is something I am struggling with right now in my game. Somehow, after talking for nearly 2 hours …

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