323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea

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Special Guest 0:01
All the Tabletop are outplaying us.
Mike Shea 0:15
Ha!
Russ “Morrus” Morrissey 0:18
Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to Morris' unofficial tabletop RPG talk. I am Russ, a.k.a. Morris, or Morris, a.k.a. Russ, and with me this week is... PJ Coffey from the Southampton Guild Roleplayers.
PJ Coffey 0:34
Russ, as ever, I am delighted to be here. Joining us, as ever, we have the wonderful and erudite, and indeed, extremely talented, it's the one, it's the only, it's...
Special Guest 0:49
me jessica from em publishing that was that was quite a nice intro thank you very much but i am not alone pj you have someone else to introduce very true and in the words of the late great benny mays
PJ Coffey 1:00
more we have some people know him as Slifer others know him as Mike Shea I just know him as this cool guy who lives in a little box on my phone apparently now in my computer it's the one it's Mike Shea fantastic nose hey hello it's always a great back again back again I don't know how we keep getting you on because I love to talk and every invitation I get
Russ “Morrus” Morrissey 1:26
Fair enough.
Mike Shea 1:26
Relatable, relatable.
Special Guest 1:29
Everyone else in the podcast now is like, oh, really? Okay, let's do that.
Mike Shea 1:33
Yeah, it's a big surprise, I'm sure.
Russ “Morrus” Morrissey 1:35
Well, luckily you're on a podcast which is explicitly designed for exactly that one thing.
Jessica Hancock 1:40
Marvelous, marvelous.
Russ “Morrus” Morrissey 1:42
Amazing. Right, so this is a really, really, really, really quiet week for news this week. So we'll cover the news in about seven seconds.
Special Guest 1:50
For Tabletop RPG.
Russ “Morrus” Morrissey 1:52
Tabletop RPG, yes, obviously, in the world.
Mike Shea 1:54
I think we're just past all the other news going on here.
Special Guest 1:58
And we won't be talking about that here, but that's probably why it's been a light RPG news week, because there's been stuff going on.
PJ Coffey 2:03
Absolutely. If you're listening to this, years in the future, this podcast was made in the week of the 5th, 6th of November, 2024. So maybe Google that if you're wondering why we're talking about this. Anyway, moving on.
Russ “Morrus” Morrissey 2:21
yeah so yeah so the majority of this show we're going to be talking about dnd 2024 and in particular the dungeon master's guide the 2024 dungeon master's guide so we'll be talking about that a lot but before we do that let's quickly get the seven seconds of news out of the way shall we i might be able to do a little bit more than seven seconds i picked up some bits and pieces you know maybe you just talk really slowly that will spin it out a little bit
Special Guest 2:44
And today in the Tabletop RPG.
Russ “Morrus” Morrissey 2:50
Yes, what was that, your David Attenborough impression?
Special Guest 2:54
No, I can do a better one than that, but I'll save that for another one. That was pretty good. Thank you.
Jessica Hancock 2:58
Here we are.
Special Guest 2:59
I met David Attenborough.
Jessica Hancock 3:01
Did you? Yeah. Oh, cool.
Special Guest 3:03
I ran an event for him and not just for him. It wasn't like his, but anyway, it was for the Wildlife Trust and he came in and saw me and it went very good. And either he was hitting on me or he was happy with the event. Either way, I'm delighted. So that's my, and that's one of my claim to fame.
Russ “Morrus” Morrissey 3:20
Was that just very good?
Special Guest 3:22
What more do you want, Russ? Have you got better than a very good friend?
Mike Shea 3:27
It's like 130.
Special Guest 3:29
This was like 15 years ago.
Mike Shea 3:31
Not put too much stress on him.
Special Guest 3:33
This was about 15 years ago.
Mike Shea 3:35
Only 115 back then.
Special Guest 3:36
Do you know what? Still spry.
PJ Coffey 3:38
Still spry. I have a wild idea. What? Why don't we talk about some TTRPG news? Go on then.
Special Guest 3:46
I'm fine, DJ. What do you got for us?
PJ Coffey 3:48
Why don't you start?
Special Guest 3:49
I thought my anecdote was great, but yeah, fine.
PJ Coffey 3:52
It's a great anecdote, and I very much appreciate it. I like it, Jessica. Thank you. It was a good anecdote. There you go. You can add more things like that. Anyway, so, yeah, so exciting news. One of the more interesting sci-fi settings that isn't a massive IP license, Eroda Consortium is enjoying its 10th anniversary. There is a large number of reasons why you might be excited about this setting, from its taken colonialism, its disability rep, But Edge Hour and Shades of Vengeance are doing a 10th anniversary Kickstarter. It's 16 days ago, and they've done 2,400 of, it's about $3,800 goals. So, you know, looks like they'll be getting through. I'm definitely looking forward to backing it. You'll get the rulebook and up to three...

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