Tag: D&DNext

GM’s Toolbox by Caleb G. DM flubbing Rolls.

Every player of DnD can relate a story of a perfectly planned combat action or skill check that has failed simply due to a bad roll of the dice.  As GMs, you obviously experience this much more frequently as you have to roll for every monster, NPC, and opponent you put into the game.  In …

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The Campaigns: Made Men – Episode 13: Into The Wastelands

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:50 — 53.9MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSHello all, So, here is Episode 13 of our DnDNext Playtest game.  In this Episode the PC’s brave out into the Wastelands in an effort to reach the Old Stone Fort Tower. As I cover in my Intro; …

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Dungeon Talk: Episode 15 – Group discussions

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:06:12 — 60.6MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSHello all, Here is Episode 15 of our Dungeon Talk Podcast. We kept to the segments again, but we added some special guests;  Niko, who you may know as Grexil, and Jared, who played Wang for a few …

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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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The Campaigns: Made Men – Episode 12: The Old Stone Fort has risen

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 50:01 — 45.8MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSHello all, Here is Episode 12 of our Made Men DnDnext actual play podcast. Had a return of a few technical glitches this episode. Lots of background noise and pops and clicks. Also, in two different places there …

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Dungeon Talk: Episode 14 – Here come the Segments

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:05:19 — 59.8MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSHello all, Here is Episode 14 of Dugeon Talk.  Evan and I are still experimenting with the format and in this Episode we tried out a more formalized format with specialized segments. We liked it a lot. Hope you …

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The Campaigns: Made Men – Episode 11: Escape from Mairhaposa

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 47:35 — 43.6MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS      Hello all, Here is Episode 11 of our DnDNext actual play podcast. I recorded a live intro for this one so no text one here. (I would love some feedback if you prefer live one …

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Dungeon Talk: Episode 13 – A change of pace

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 56:18 — 51.5MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSHello all, Here is Episode 13 of Dungeon Talk. In this Episode Evan and I touch on or discuss the following topics.  This is the general order that we go in, but we do jump back and forth …

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The Campaigns: Made Men – Episode 10: Violent Circumcision

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 54:42 — 50.1MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSHello all, Here is Episode 10 of our Made Men Actual Play Podcast.  One more time: sorry about Episode 9. In this Episode we pick up right after Grexil has returned to the group after his secret meeting …

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The Campaigns: Made Men – Episode 9: “Well, this sucks.”

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:30 — 19.7MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSHello all, Well here isn’t Episode 9. This is just me explaining what you would be hearing in Episode 9 if I hadn’t somehow lost it. After the session that we lost, we recorded a long Dungeon Talk …

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