

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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May 19, 2022 • 1h 13min
Mastering Dungeons – Spelljammer Adventure Review, Part 2
Wildspace gets wilder! Shawn and Teos tackle the classic Spelljammer adventure Wildspace and talk about the good, the bad, and oh so much weird. Breaking News Links Get Acquisitions Inc […]

May 12, 2022 • 56min
Mastering Dungeons – Spelljammer Adventure Review, Part 1
Space, the Final Frontier… Again. Once more unto the breach, Shawn and Teos break down the classic Spelljammer Adventure, Wildspace, the first adventure published for the original Spelljammer boxed set! […]

May 5, 2022 • 1h 19min
Mastering Dungeons – DnD Direct
Big news has come out of Wizards of the Coast, this past weekend, so what does it all mean? Shawn and Teos work through it and break it down as […]

Apr 28, 2022 • 1h 11min
Mastering Dungeons – Ajit George!
While Shawn is, once again, kidnapped by some ne’er-do-well Astral monsters, Teos sits down with none other than Ajit George, writer on Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft and project lead […]

Apr 21, 2022 • 1h 4min
Mastering Dungeons – Big News with Mike Shea
Sly Flourish himself stops by to talk the big news about Wizards and D&D Beyond and whatever D&D Direct is! Get the breakdown from the best! Big News Links The […]

Apr 14, 2022 • 1h 17min
Mastering Dungeons – Updating Old Adventures: 4e Edition!
Shawn and Teos chat about updating Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition adventures, comparing them to the classic adventures they’ve already looked at. This fascinating look into D&D’s most controversial edition […]

Apr 7, 2022 • 1h 11min
Mastering Dungeons – Updating Old Adventures Part 8
Concluding the series on updating adventures from prior editions of D&D, Shawn and Teos go over some of the things they’ve learned over the last eight episodes and develop some […]

Mar 31, 2022 • 1h 17min
Mastering Dungeons – Updating Old Adventures Part 7
One of the greatest D&D adventures of all time; and the first to be published under the D&D “Expert” rules; the Isle of Dread! Sure it’s been updated and supplemented, […]

Mar 24, 2022 • 1h 22min
Mastering Dungeons – Updating Old Adventures Part 6
Continuing this series, Shawn and Teos tackle the classic 1984 adventure Dragons of Despair; the first of an epic series of Dragonlance adventures! Links Dragonlance? Unearthed Arcana – Heroes of […]

Mar 17, 2022 • 1h 27min
Mastering Dungeons – Updating Old Adventures Part 5
Shawn and Teos tackle the classic adventure N1. Enjoy! (Oh, sorry. Back in the day, we all knew the adventures in the same way you might attack your sibling playing […]