Mastering Dungeons
Wardens of the Eastern Marches! (MD 210)
Wed, 09 Oct
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Episode 210 of Mastering Dungeons! Main topic: Wardens of the Eastern Marches! Alex Kammer tells us all about Wardens of the Eastern Marches, the new organized play program from Gamehole Publishing. News: 2024 DMG Previews, Commander Rules Committee, Bastion is for Players, and more! Contents 00:00 No Vaccine for Ladders 02:19 Remove Mechanics for Setting? 15:08 D&D Made for Conflict? 31:28 DMG Previews! 41:26 Bastions Preview 42:04 Player Rules in the DMG? 44:04 New D&D Licensed Products 45:19 Commander Rules Committee Disbands 50:31 Gamehole's Organized Play 51:11 Real Castle Floor Plans 51:46 The Best LLM is Your Brain 52:58 Sorcerer's Return 54:00 Grim Hollow Transformed Update 55:56 Alex Kammer and Eastern Marches 58:19 Importance of Organized Play 01:01:35 AL at a Crossroads 01:04:51 The Eastern Marches 01:09:06 Setting and Alliances 01:12:42 Where to Play 01:13:15 3rd Party PC Options 01:19:58 Exploring the Unknown 01:21:08 Saying Yes to Creators 01:22:59 Magic Item Certs 01:26:22 Releasing Adventures 01:29:16 Gamehole and 50th 01:34:57 What Makes Gamehole Special 01:38:39 Shout-Outs Thank you for listening! Get the full show notes with links on Patreon. Show Search Engine: https://mdsearch.alphastream.org/ Our intro and outro music is Metropolis Fanfare, provided royalty-free by Tabletop Audio (https://tabletopaudio.com) under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). MP3 file metadata populated with Online MP3 Podcast Chapter Editor, built by Dominik Peters. https://mp3chapters.github.io/ and customized for Mastering Dungeons by Vladimir Prenner from Croatia.
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Hello and welcome to this week's episode of Mastering Dungeons, your favorite tabletop news and reviews and design podcast. I'm Sean Merwin here with the effervescent Teos Abadie. Hey, Teos, welcome to Monday-ishness.
Thank you. I am effervescent in the way that a kid is after they've had a lot of sugar and they could crash at any moment because I got my shingles vaccine on Saturday. And this was just phase one. Those who know there's a phase two that hits you even harder. Apparently phase one was was no joke. I'm still getting over it, but I hear it's a lot better than getting shingles.
So those of you who are 50 and older plan for your shingles vaccine and just give yourself some time to recover. Yeah, I already had mine, got my flu shot and then fell off a ladder, fell off a ladder this weekend. That was fun. Washing windows. My wife's like, don't do that without me holding there. I'm like, the ladder is fine. And then I and it was a small ladder. So I just landed on my feet.
Didn't Clark Griswold it? Well, she was my wife was watching out the window as I was there. And so she just saw me go over. And I thought either she's had a heart attack or she's really mad. And I didn't know which I looked up and she was just. Giving me the glare.
I know a basketball player who would tell me that whenever he got hurt, he was thinking, my mom's watching and I got to get up as quickly as I can, unless it's such a vital situation where I got a fake being hurt so that, you know, we get a call. But he was like, unless I have to milk it for a call, I will get up as soon as I can, no matter how much it hurts, because my mom will be freaking out.
Yeah, these things are important. These things play into our games even, apparently. Hey, speaking of games, why don't we talk about some games? Taking questions from our listeners. We've got a ton of listeners out there who write in to us, and we thank you for doing that. And so we're going to get to a couple of them this week.
One of them is Tony Robertson coming to us via YouTube, who asks, regarding campaign guides, what are you guys' thoughts on how much a setting should change game mechanics? I'm playing in a homebrew Dark Sun game, and Goodberry was taken out, and Create Water was limited. As a player, I like it because it reinforces how this world is different, but it seems to take more effort to get group buy-in.
Absolutely. And for me, this goes right to the heart of what we talked about last week with the gods. Individual DMs and groups can change their games in any way they want and they can change the quote unquote expected setting that comes with a game. As long as everyone's on the same page in your group and if everyone's happy and they're having fun, change it away.
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