Mike Shea and Shawn Merwin on Mastering Dungeons - 11 October 2021
Mike Shea joins Shawn Merwin on the Mastering Dungeons podcast broadcast live on Twitch on 11 October 2021!
With Teos adventuring through Europe, Shawn sits down with Mike Shea to talk about the massive amount of news over the last several weeks. Among these, of course, is his current Kickstarter, The Lazy DM’s Companion; the third in his Lazy DM series! So what’s the insider scoop on all the Dungeons & Dragons items that have been popping up? The answer might surprise you…
Video Contents:
00:00 Show Intro
01:07 The Lazy DM's Companion Kickstarter
09:32 LevelUp 5e Kickstarter
20:29 Unearthed Arcana: Creatures of the Multiverse
26:47 People overweight WOTC's influence on their D&D games
29:49 WOTC on new monster designs
32:50 Changes to alignment descriptions in monster stat blocks (Shawn's Hot Take!)
42:24 On Counterspell (Mike's smallest violin plays for Counterspell)
47:50 WOTC posting lots of jobs for D&D digital development. Hubris?
57:49 Minsc and Boo’s Journal of Villainy
This Episode’s Links
The Lazy DM’s Companion
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/slyflourish/the-lazy-dms-companion?ref=djzads
Unearthed Arcana: Travelers of the Multiverse
https://media.wizards.com/2021/dnd/downloads/UA2021_TravelersoftheMultiverse.pdf
EnWorld’s LevelUp 5e Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/enworld/level-up-advanced-5th-edition-a5e
WOTC’s article on stat-block design
https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/sage-advice/creature-evolutions
New Job announcements for the D&D Digital team
https://company.wizards.com/en/careers
New Baldur’s Gate supplement: Minsc and Boo’s Journal of Villainy
https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/dungeons-dragons-minsc-boo-journal-villainy-dms-guild/
Get In Touch
Follow Mike at https://slyflourish.com
Follow Teos at @Alphastream on Twitter and check out his blog at alphastream.org.
Follow Shawn at @shawnmerwin on Twitter.
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