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A podcast where we create and discuss homebrew content for tabletop roleplaying games, primarily Dungeons and Dragons 5e. Here, we try to expand on the options presented to us in the published material, to offer some guidance for aspiring storytellers trying to figure out how to make their big ideas become reality. Here, we stir the pot and lick the spoon. Logo art by David Sutherland - find him on Deviant Art: https://rb.gy/hqmjgo
Episodes
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
We conclude our current deep dive into the Dungeon Master's Guide for 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons this week, discussing Chases, Traps, and Poisons and Diseases.
Here is a link to the playlist of trap videos by Master the Dungeon mentioned in the show, including a video released after we recorded this episode, with (appropriately) covers poison and disease traps. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq8fy6QCfLH-d9Orkq7g9IUf8k8hWrlcG
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Our theme is Massacre Anne, written and performed by Mary Crowell, and used with permission. Find Mary on Bandcamp or Patreon.
Wednesday Mar 03, 2021
Wednesday Mar 03, 2021
In our third deep dive episode into the Dungeon Master's Guide for 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons, we discuss planar travel, supernatural gifts, epic boons, and alien tech.
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Our theme is Massacre Anne, written and performed by Mary Crowell, and used with permission. Find Mary on Bandcamp or Patreon.
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
This week's episode is part two of our deep dive into the rules tucked away in the 5th edition Dungeon Master's Guide for D&D. In this episode, we discuss sentient magic items, spell crafting, and using a spell point system in lieu of spell slots.
The Reddit post we reference in the spell crafting segment of the episode was written by u/MothProphet, and can be found here.
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Check out our homebrew content here.
Our theme is Massacre Anne, written and performed by Mary Crowell, and used with permission. Find Mary on Bandcamp or Patreon.
Wednesday Feb 17, 2021
Wednesday Feb 17, 2021
This week, we begin our multi-part series where we dive into the 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide to find lesser known rules to highlight and discuss. This first episode covers the rules for social encounters, honor and sanity, and madness.
Content Warning: We spend most of the last 20 minutes of the episode covering the madness rules, wherein we discuss topics of mental health, specifically different forms of mental illness. We tried to remain as respectful of the topic as possible, but there may be elements of the conversation which could prove problematic to listeners.
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Check out our homebrew content here.
Our theme is Massacre Anne, written and performed by Mary Crowell, and used with permission. Find Mary on Bandcamp or Patreon.
Wednesday Feb 10, 2021
Wednesday Feb 10, 2021
We shift gears this week to talk about two of Ian's homebrewed Monastic Traditions for the monk in 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons:
The Way of the Swallow, a fighting style which focuses on utilizing thrown weapons, and
The Way of the Obsidian Fist, a tradition which draws upon the power of elemental earth to fortify the monk.
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Check out our homebrew content here.
Our theme is Massacre Anne, written and performed by Mary Crowell, and used with permission. Find Mary on Bandcamp or Patreon.
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
Today, we are spending some time discussing downtime activities, as laid out in Xanathar's Guide to Everything, as well as some personal variants.
NOTE: no gnomes were harmed, or covered in chocolate, during the making of this podcast.
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Our theme is Massacre Anne, written and performed by Mary Crowell, and used with permission. Find Mary on Bandcamp or Patreon.
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Today we discuss noncombat encounters, and why they're an important part of a campaign. We also talk at length about the D&D 4e mechanic of skill challenges, and how to utilize them with the bounded accuracy system of D&D 5e.
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Check out our homebrew content here.
Our theme is Massacre Anne, written and performed by Mary Crowell, and used with permission. Find Mary on Bandcamp or Patreon.
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
In this week's episode, we discuss the magic item economy, and how you might be able to create a realistic system for your players to buy magic items. We also discuss at length our work-in-progress magic item crafting system.
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Our theme is Massacre Anne, written and performed by Mary Crowell, and used with permission. Find Mary on Bandcamp or Patreon.
Wednesday Jan 13, 2021
Wednesday Jan 13, 2021
This week, we revisit a concept from "Ashes, Ashes", and build out the small frontier mining town of Verdigris, to give you some ideas on how to build your own settlements in your games.
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Our theme is Massacre Anne, written and performed by Mary Crowell, and used with permission. Find Mary on Bandcamp or Patreon.
Wednesday Jan 06, 2021
Wednesday Jan 06, 2021
The second part of a two-part series, where we go into detail on how to create more immersive and dynamic nonplayer characters (NPCs). We give you some guidelines for making very basic NPCs on the fly, and how to get maximum return for minimal investment in NPC details. Like last week, we end the episode by creating a character from scratch, using the guidelines we lay out.
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Our theme is Massacre Anne, written and performed by Mary Crowell, and used with permission. Find Mary on Bandcamp or Patreon.