Heroic Sacrifice and Campaign Building with Prequel and Ethan Yen (MD 270)

Episode 270 of Mastering Dungeons!

Main topic: Dying and Campaign Building with Prequel and Ethan Yen

Ethan Yen joins Shawn and Teos to discuss Prequel, the amazing game where you know you will die to the big bad… but get to create a campaign defined by the secrets these heroes discover!

News: D&D Beyond’s New Goals, Crack the Sun’s Big Start, Big Staff Changes, and more!

Contents
00:00 Conventional Wisdom
03:34 Teaching with RPGs?
13:00 Easy to Convert?
18:26 D&D Beyond's New Goals
24:52 Warlock Video Game Announced
27:57 Justice Arman Promoted
29:05 Jason Carl Departs World of Darkness
32:25 Perkins and Crawford on Acq Inc
35:47 Crack the Sun's Huge Start
39:59 Ikea D&D Book
42:47 Draw Steel Quick Reference
43:17 Quests from the Keep on the Borderlands
44:06 Ethan Yen and Prequel
45:34 Ethan's RPG Path
49:45 Creative Influences
58:45 All About Prequel
01:06:10 Phases of Play
01:12:39 The Big Fight
01:20:53 Campaign Building Conclusion
01:23:53 Zine Format Tips
01:30:46 Gamehole PoC Programs
01:37:58 Find Ethan
01:38:55 Shout-Outs
01:43:18 What Are We Gonna Do?

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.