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!
Episodes
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Oct 21, 2021 • 59min
Mastering Dungeons – Starting Strong Part 5: The End?
After a couple weeks apart, Shawn and Teos. the Mad Wizard and AlphaStream, are back together to strongly finish their discussion on starting strong when running your campaigns! So how […]
Oct 14, 2021 • 1h 6min
Mastering Dungeons – Mike Shea on All the News (and The Lazy DM’s Companion)
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 […]
Oct 7, 2021 • 1h 4min
Mastering Dungeons – Stacey Allan and Will Doyle from The Wild Beyond the Witchlight!
The fantastic creative team responsible for creating the terrifying Witchlight Carnival (and bringing the characters from the 1980s action figure line into Fifth Edition!), Stacey and Will sit down with […]
Sep 30, 2021 • 1h 17min
Mastering Dungeons – Starting Strong Part 4
Having broken down the opening tales of various world-saving, monster-stopping, nearby-community-protecting, heroic adventures for use by brand new Dungeon Masters, Shawn and Teos decide to tackle somewhat more… profitable fare. […]
Sep 23, 2021 • 1h 12min
Mastering Dungeons – Starting Strong Part 3
Shawn is back and he and Teos continue to break down the opening sequences of the hard cover D&D Fifth Edition adventures! Which ones hold up as adventures for new […]
Sep 16, 2021 • 1h 14min
Mastering Dungeons – Scott Fitzgerald Gray
With Shawn off wrestling another monster project, the amazing Scott Fitzgerald Gray steps in to join Teos in chatting about how to Master the Dungeons! This Episode’s Links Wild Beyond […]
Sep 9, 2021 • 1h 13min
Mastering Dungeons – Starting Strong Part 2
Shawn and Teos continue their deep dive into what’s good—and what could maybe use some other fixing—in the opening adventures and/or adventure setups of the hardcover adventures from Wizards of […]
Sep 2, 2021 • 1h 18min
Mastering Dungeons – Starting Strong Part 1
How does a new Dungeon Master make sure they’re coming out of the gate running? The Masters of Dungeons take a look at the opening adventures (or adventure setups) of […]
Aug 26, 2021 • 1h 14min
Mastering Dungeons – Running Intro Adventures Part 3
Now that they’ve talked about what you need to do before you even consider running a game, Shawn and Teos break down, in detail, what they would like to see […]
Aug 19, 2021 • 1h 2min
Mastering Dungeons – Running Intro Adventures Part 2
So after listening to the first part, you’ve studiously taken everything into account and prepared as best you can for running your game… now what? Specifically, what, exactly, are you […]
