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GM’s Toolbox by Caleb G. Recurring Villains part 1

When planning a campaign, it is important to consider both the ultimate goal and how to get your players to that point.  Every DnD adventure is different, but we can identify certain themes that repeat themselves.  Usually games revolve around getting to a specific location, finding a specific item, or killing a specific person or …

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D&D and MTG: Synergy Part 1

A few days back, I had a half-formed idea. What if I bought a pack of MTG cards and used the cards in that pack as inspiration to design a session or start  a new D&D campaign?   I didn’t think it through very well but threw the idea out on Twitter to see if …

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Dungeon Talk : Bonus Episode 1

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:35 — 12.4MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSHello all, During a recent recording Evan and I found ourselves on about a 15 minute tangent. We decided to start over, but thought it might be funny to hear how easily we drifted off the tracks. So …

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New Podcast coming soon

Hello all, If you’ve been listening to the Dungeon Talk podcasts you may have noticed me mention that I listen to a bunch of podcasts now. Pretty much if I’m in the car, I’m listening to a podcast.  As a self-professed “Movie Guy” I am loving the “HOW DID THIS GET MADE” podcast. It’s one …

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A new home page for actual play podcasts

Hello all, I’ve made a few minor changes to our site’s main page. I added a “The Campaigns” page which you can drop down to the Made Men podcast. I will be compiling all the Made Men episodes here to make it easier to find them and go back to the beginning.   Eventually we’d …

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“My Favorite” part 3. by Caleb

  Hello all, Here is the third and final “MY FAVORITE” articles written by Guest Lecturer @theCalebg. In his first article, Caleb wrote about Conor, a  half elf, Neutral Good, cleric of Pelor, who was his all-time favorite character.  Next he wrote about his favorite DnD setting which was a home-brewed world created by the …

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“My Favorite” part 2. by Caleb

Hello all, Here is the second of 3 articles written by Guest Lecturer @Calebg. In his first article, Caleb wrote about Conor, a  half elf, Neutral Good, cleric of Pelor, who was his all-time favorite character.  Today he’s written about his favorite DnD setting. The article doesn’t give a crazy amount of details, but gives …

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We’re Back!

Hello all, Just wanted to let you know that Evan and I should be recording a new episode of Dungeon Talk this week. We played our regular Made Men campaign last night for the first time in about 7 weeks.  I have all-but recovered from my surgery and was able to run the game with …

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“My Favorite” by Caleb

Hello All, Here is what we hope to be the first in a series of articles by new “Guest Lecturer” Caleb, also known as @TheCalebG on twitter.  On of the main goals Evan and I had for this website was to get more people to play this game we love so much. You do that by …

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The Campaigns: Made Men – Episode 4 – Where things go wrong

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:00:16 — 55.2MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS Hello All, Here is Episode 4 of our D&D Next Playtest campaign. This was an interesting episode to go back and listen too and edit.  By this point we had been playing for several hours and despite …

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