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PJ Coffey

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5299 total appearances

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Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea

Well, it's hard to tell when people have been deplatformed.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea

But I haven't seen any shouting about it lately. But as I say, there is a lot of shouting and screaming.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea

It sounds a bit more reasonable, but the devil's always in the details. So we'll just have to see how it's applied.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea

Oh, yeah.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea

2.96.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea

Absolutely.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea

It's also a sort of guide.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea

He's run it already. I've run it already, yeah.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea

Talked about it on the podcast. Did we actually talk about Blazing the Dark Deep Cuts from John Harper or were we going to talk about that? We did talk about it. The first official expansion. It'll last me $10. There we go. $10 on itch.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea

Exactly. He's a nerd superhero. Yeah.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea

Flanking in base D&D with the full advantage from flanking just from position.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea

It actually works a lot better than I thought it would. Because it's only a bonus D4. Much smaller, yeah. From positional stuff. which is something that isn't like, you have to do it. You're an idiot for not doing it.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea

I mean, it does seem a bit... I'm not convinced of this idea that people are reading books and learning how to run games from them. Like, the concept of games marketing, like, you know, the concept, like the beginning concept, I think a lot of people do it because they've started playing role-playing games and they sort of learn it from other people. Yeah, sure. That's something I learned.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea

A tool for preparation, whereas Player's Handbook, Monster Manual, these are books that you use at the table.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea

What's that? And if you also grabbed your attention and said, yeah, this is a really good part about this book.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea

Was there anything else that you felt was missing from the book?

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea

And both by level. What's that? And wealth by level.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea

How does this... Okay, so it's a bit of an open secret, but XP to gain levels stopped working round about level 10. Has that been fixed?

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea

Well, you can play it. It's preferred getting XP.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea

So it sets sort of, um, false expectations of the amount... I, I, I wonder.