

Mastering Dungeons
Mastering Dungeons
RPG veterans and game designers Teos Abadía and Shawn Merwin look at the game and the hobby of D&D from a variety of viewpoints: reporting the news, understanding the business, reviewing the products, and illuminating the design. Whether you’re a fan, a player, a DM, or a designer, Shawn and Teos cover topics of interest to you!
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Oct 13, 2022 • 1h 5min
Mastering Dungeons – Fifth Edition Revisited, Pt. 11
Taking a look at the Expert Classes from the upcoming One D&D, Shawn and Teos break down the new options for these classes. Are they better? Are they worse? Are […]

Oct 6, 2022 • 1h 13min
Mastering Dungeons – Fifth Edition Revisited, Pt. 10
With more and more information around OneD&D coming out by the week, Shawn and Teos take a look at the concept of Expert Classes and determine what, if anything, it […]

Sep 29, 2022 • 1h 12min
Mastering Dungeons – Fifth Edition Revisited, Pt. 9
With a very special guest to open the show, Teos and Shawn follow up with breaking down the Backgrounds and Personality aspects of Fifth Edition; all the stuff under Character […]

Sep 22, 2022 • 1h 13min
Mastering Dungeons – Fifth Edition Revisited, Pt. 8
Once again breaking down the classes of D&D 5e, Shawn and Teos talk Class Satisfaction and balance as they continue the deep dive into the world’s most popular role-playing game. […]

Sep 15, 2022 • 1h 14min
Mastering Dungeons – Conventions and the Growing Latine Presence with Guests Mike Balles and Claudia Sánchez
As Dungeons & Dragons continues to take over the world, Teos speaks with two amazing contributors to the hobby who are at the forefront of the Latine RPG space, Mike […]

Sep 8, 2022 • 1h 21min
Mastering Dungeons – Fifth Edition Revisited, Pt. 7
Never has nor should it ever be said that the Masters of Dungeons, Shawn and Teos, are without class. In this episode, they prove this by breaking down the Classes […]

Sep 1, 2022 • 1h 24min
Mastering Dungeons – Fifth Edition Revisited, Pt. 6
Feats, don’t fail us now… unless they did. Introduced in 3rd Edition and a mainstay for games that have diverged from that system, what is the role of Feats in […]

Aug 25, 2022 • 1h 17min
Mastering Dungeons – Fifth Edition Revisited, Pt. 5 – The Undiscovered One D&D
What is One D&D and how will the concept of Races change as we look at Backgrounds. Shawn and Teos have tackled the present, tussled with the past, and now […]

Aug 18, 2022 • 1h 22min
Mastering Dungeons – Fifth Edition Revisited, Pt. 4
As the exploration of 10 years of Fifth Edition Dungeons & Dragons continues, Shawn and Teos explore character creation: how has it changed, what’s better, and what’s not as good? […]

Aug 11, 2022 • 1h 20min
Mastering Dungeons – Fifth Edition Revisited, Pt. 3
10 years after the release of the Basic Set of Fifth Edition Dungeons & Dragons, one of the biggest conversations fans are having revolves around character Race/Ancestry. This is part […]