Sean Merwin

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And so we go from Jeff to Eberron. Frontiers of Eberron Quickstone is up for pre-order on the DMs Guild. Yes, you heard that right. Pre-order on the DMs Guild. Teos, you did a deeper dive into this than I did. So tell me all about it.

And so we go from Jeff to Eberron. Frontiers of Eberron Quickstone is up for pre-order on the DMs Guild. Yes, you heard that right. Pre-order on the DMs Guild. Teos, you did a deeper dive into this than I did. So tell me all about it.

The area of Dro-Am in Eberron was always one that was fascinating to me, because it was sort of the monster run setting. Was it Dargoon? Was the goblins, hobgoblin, goblinoid nation?

The area of Dro-Am in Eberron was always one that was fascinating to me, because it was sort of the monster run setting. Was it Dargoon? Was the goblins, hobgoblin, goblinoid nation?

but drome was the much further away from humanoid sort of uh setting so it's it's a fascinating place and i'm glad that keith gets this opportunity to share his uh his creation with with all of us yeah getting to our main topic here on this extra special episode of mastering dungeons we are going to do our twofer first our 2024 5e mini review

but drome was the much further away from humanoid sort of uh setting so it's it's a fascinating place and i'm glad that keith gets this opportunity to share his uh his creation with with all of us yeah getting to our main topic here on this extra special episode of mastering dungeons we are going to do our twofer first our 2024 5e mini review

And then we will get to Greyhawk and talk about more regions that we may see in the Dungeon Master's Guide of 2024. So, this week we want to talk about conditions. Conditions are something that have creeped more and more, I think, into our D&D game over the editions.

And then we will get to Greyhawk and talk about more regions that we may see in the Dungeon Master's Guide of 2024. So, this week we want to talk about conditions. Conditions are something that have creeped more and more, I think, into our D&D game over the editions.

And so we're gonna talk about why we have them, why designers use them, what were they in 2014, and what have they become in 2024, if anything. So as design goals, Taos, you may disagree, but I'm going to break it down this way. We've said before that if you put role-playing and story aside as a game, D&D is about reducing the enemies to zero hit points before they reduce you to zero hit points.

And so we're gonna talk about why we have them, why designers use them, what were they in 2014, and what have they become in 2024, if anything. So as design goals, Taos, you may disagree, but I'm going to break it down this way. We've said before that if you put role-playing and story aside as a game, D&D is about reducing the enemies to zero hit points before they reduce you to zero hit points.

Obviously an oversimplification, but if you break it down, there is an underlying structure that that's you win. If you can take the monsters down, you lose if they take you down. Okay. So why conditions?

Obviously an oversimplification, but if you break it down, there is an underlying structure that that's you win. If you can take the monsters down, you lose if they take you down. Okay. So why conditions?

Well, conditions are meant to make that goal of knocking the masters to zero before you get to zero a little more interesting, with a little more fun and a little more flavor, because there's also the story elements that need to be involved. Why do we need petrified as a condition in our game of D&D? Because in our mythology, we have basilisks and medusae and things that turn you to stone.

Well, conditions are meant to make that goal of knocking the masters to zero before you get to zero a little more interesting, with a little more fun and a little more flavor, because there's also the story elements that need to be involved. Why do we need petrified as a condition in our game of D&D? Because in our mythology, we have basilisks and medusae and things that turn you to stone.

So the game needs to support that story-wise and therefore mechanically. Why do we need the Charmed condition? Well, because we have stories with succubi and vampires and things that alter your mind and make you serve them or befriend them. So therefore, since it's in our stories, it needs to be in our games.

So the game needs to support that story-wise and therefore mechanically. Why do we need the Charmed condition? Well, because we have stories with succubi and vampires and things that alter your mind and make you serve them or befriend them. So therefore, since it's in our stories, it needs to be in our games.

So it's got that dual purpose of flavor of stories and mechanics to make things more interesting than you take 27 hit points of damage. With that, I'm going to take a break and I'm going to get some thoughts from Teos on this whole what are conditions and why.

So it's got that dual purpose of flavor of stories and mechanics to make things more interesting than you take 27 hit points of damage. With that, I'm going to take a break and I'm going to get some thoughts from Teos on this whole what are conditions and why.

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