Tag: Learn DnD

“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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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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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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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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Dungeon Talk Episode 9.1 – Nights at the Round Table

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:04:52 — 59.4MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSHere is the second half of Dungeon Talk Episode 9. Enjoy! E-mail us at Podcast@TheRpgAcademy Follow us on twitter @TheRpgAcademy Visit our Facebook Page Join our Google+ Community Page at: The RPG Academy Support our show by becoming …

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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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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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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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Running a Successful Campaign: Tips & Tricks for Week 10

Weekly Tip/Trick for Friday, October 26th, 2012 Create a Unique & Captivating Story Dynamic Using Proper Planning – Developing a story that is both unique and that will keep players interested can be a daunting task at times.  With work, family, and our social lives outside of roleplaying, finding time to do this can be …

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