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Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
All the Tabletop are outplaying us.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
For Tabletop RPG.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
It's annoying for those individuals.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
And we won't be talking about that here, but that's probably why it's been a light RPG news week, because there's been stuff going on.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
But yeah. It's the theme of the week, isn't it, TJ? Anyway, yeah, Twitch. Talk about Twitch.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
is I mean it doesn't really sit right when like your existence is political it feels bad yeah yeah no I was looking up on this because I do every week as everyone knows again this is Mike she's talking about Baldur's Gate 3 this week so I do a weekly Baldur's Gate 3 live stream with a group of other women who work in the games industry and amongst us we're a group of queer some of us are trans and so when this came up we normally stream on Twitch and we're like oh because sometimes we talk about these things because it's the Baldur's
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
gate three cocktail hour with a bunch of girls having a drink so sometimes and i was like are we going to have to label our content as political now because it's generally not like but in terms of the service it counted but they have done an update on it like maybe a backtrack or clarification whatever you want to call it and they have said you don't actually now require a label if you're speaking about your own lived experience on topics
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
such as gender, race, sexuality, or religion. They've clarified in terms of politics, you can have informational educational content that shares knowledge in a neutral manner. So for example, they've given the US political situation.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
They said, so you could share the history of how votes in the US works, how the election works, how they're counted, or encourage the concept of people to vote or register and vote. Those things are all okay. But if you're making a post supporting a specific candidate, that would need to be tagged as political content. And the same with sensitive social issues.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
If you were making like if you were like, I'm going to have a political show talking about this particular group's rights and advocacy for them and things, then that would need to be tagged as that content. But if you are just a person existing in any minority group, you don't have to tag it as such is what they've clarified. And there is an article on.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
So they've kind of clarified on it because before it was unclear. But it's important. Yeah. So that's kind of my understanding of the situation currently. So if you, like myself, are a queer Twitch streamer, you don't need to tag yourself as such constantly on every stream you do. It's my understanding.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
I mean, possibly. We were streaming on Wednesday, because that's Wednesday when we streamed. So, yeah, this all kind of came about on Tuesday, and we're like, oh, what are we doing tomorrow, ladies? What's happening here? But yeah, everything's fine, and our streams are still up, so clearly everything's okay. You know? Anyway.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
That's what's going on. That was what the hoo-ha was with Twitch. But Twitch have some support articles going into more detail if you want to read it and check and clarify for yourself.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
No one I know, but PJ, I don't know if you've heard different...
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
They can't really say anything.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Yeah, they're doing late pledges on Kickstarter because Kickstarter has that feature now.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Quite a few people.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Nice. In the top 10.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
I imagine it'll do well at retail as well because it feels almost, like you said before, a coffee table pretty good. So if you know a friend really likes Terry Pratchett, and even if you're not a gamer, you might see that and be like, oh, this is a thing my friend might like, you know, or something like that. It feels like a good retail product in that sense.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
They wouldn't need an entire book giving you advice on how to play the game, for example, like other systems might need.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
And today in the Tabletop RPG.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
I haven't picked it up because I know enough people around me are picking it up that I'll get a chance to play.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
I was counting on you were going to run it sometime and I was going to get it to play.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
There you go.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Apart from the fact that the Monster Smasher 2 is going to be launching next week.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Maybe we have Paul Hughes on next week to talk about that.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
I think.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Yeah. I didn't know about a cape.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
So we'll talk about that then, but that is happening.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
No, I can do a better one than that, but I'll save that for another one. That was pretty good. Thank you.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
It depends when they're listening to it.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
It could be tomorrow or in the past from the listener's perspective.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
It is, yes. It's all in the Jeremy Beremy of it all.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Should we talk about the Dungeon Master's Guide? Yes, yeah. It's a bit of a dry segue, but it's efficient.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
I met David Attenborough.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Listen to the last episode Mike was on if you'd like to hear more about that.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
I ran an event for him and not just for him. It wasn't like his, but anyway, it was for the Wildlife Trust and he came in and saw me and it went very good. And either he was hitting on me or he was happy with the event. Either way, I'm delighted. So that's my, and that's one of my claim to fame.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Do they have to be my friends? Can they not just be acquaintances?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Oh.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
No, I don't know. I haven't vetted them.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Oh, no, no. Wrong way around. Anyway.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
I don't know if you guys know what it's like to be a woman in the world, but that is not the right attitude to strangers. Anyway, so let's actually talk about the Dungeon Masters, guys. We've been talking about it a lot because we've seen so many previews and so much stuff, but I've not actually read through the book and had a copy.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
So what are your thoughts as somebody who actually has got their copy?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
What more do you want, Russ? Have you got better than a very good friend?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
This was like 15 years ago.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
This was about 15 years ago.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Do you know what? Still spry.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
I'm fine, DJ. What do you got for us?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
I thought my anecdote was great, but yeah, fine.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Yeah. Or they want new people to have that expectation.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Right.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
I mean, that's definitely how I learned as well. Like I joined a role-playing club and that's when I started playing. But notice I played for about a decade before I even attempted to start running games. But I think actually there's a lot of people that do. If they're not part of an RPG community at all and it's a bunch of like four friends that's like, I want to start trying this.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
I know a lot of people that someone's just been tagged it to run a game and has had to figure it out. So I think there are some people that actually... There you go. Eleven?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
But I do think there are some people that come to it still now, which seems strange because there's so much media and there is like actual plays and you've got references on like Stranger Things where people can like see and like... But I think there are some people that just are a group of friends like, I don't know, we'll figure this out.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
And for some Dungeon Masters, that book will actually be their first introduction and... guide that feels a bit twisted like that, but that'll be their main guide. How do I do this? How do I figure this out?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Yeah, I think that's a really good point. I think maybe all of us have been at a table with a GM who has their world and their story and someone tries to add to it. They're like, oh, well, I want my person to be from here. And let's say that they had this culture where this happened and the GM was like, no, I don't want that. It's like, oh, and that immediately makes the table vibe be like,
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
I had a friend come to that conclusion. They were writing a role-playing game and they're like, oh man, but it's just, I don't, I just want to like control and do this myself. And it's like, I realized I want to write a book.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Right. So not legally, not legally.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Yeah, absolutely. The area games as well, if that setting doesn't suit you, they use the system for a variety of different settings. It's kind of, it reminded me a bit of a toolbox of RPG because they've used it for every setting you can kind of think of where you could easily hack your own with it. And also they were, we've had Ed on the Not D&D show where we talked about the game for 40 minutes.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
So if that brief intro was interesting to you, then there's a whole episode of Not D&D talking about the game specifically. So if you want to hear more about it.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Yes. How about that? How about that? Yeah, that's awesome. But the Kickstarter's live now, did you say?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Excellent.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
I was. What a good segue. So, yes, the piece of news we have this week. So, Blades in the Dark has an official expansion. So, obviously, Blades in the Dark is the RPG, and loads of people have done third-party stuff, so you can find loads of games using this system. But this is an official one by the creator, John Harper. So, it adds new factions. It's got new mechanics.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
It's got background options. So, it's a setting and also system expansion. But, yeah, I think this is the first...
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
one john's done for the setting she says yes oh yes it's the first official one it's the first official one yeah cool i thought so i just felt underconfident for a moment but yeah so so that is going to be coming out and when is that when is that is that out now or is it she says not being clear about that it's not something i know let me look now i think it is out now on itch yes you can just get it you can just get on it yeah it cost me ten dollars i just bought it
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
me jessica from em publishing that was that was quite a nice intro thank you very much but i am not alone pj you have someone else to introduce very true and in the words of the late great benny mays
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Oh, great. There we go. So yeah, I was just checking in with that now.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Yeah, you can also get the complete bundle. But I did get a fine new product. Yeah, you can get up on that. And then I'm sure at some point it'll be available as a physical book as well if you like those sorts of things as well. But yeah, at the moment that is available. And if you like Blazing the Dark, it's more of what you like. And for $10, you can't really complain about that.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
It was a written online thing. We had a look at what was currently there in the 2014 one, I think.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Yeah, and your own system, what's old is new, is in the D6 dice ball system.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Yeah, calm down. All right. Well, let's move on from another piece of news then. If you don't want to talk about D6 dice ball systems, what else do you want to talk about?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Okay.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
I can see us jumping into next week's topic. Shall we save some of these?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Shall I call time on this week's topic? Because we're here talking about the DMG. I feel that we've done that.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
And we know we've got plenty we want to talk about next week.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Thanks a lot, everyone.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Sounds pun-tastic.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
It's Christmas.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Yeah. All right. Well then, Critical Role Christmas then.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Yeah, but this is when it starts, isn't it?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Did you?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
I mean, sometimes we need a budget for these things.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Okay. Do you have any other news, PJ, to maybe move us on?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Yeah, take a look. Is it an RPG?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
full price is seven dollars and it's on sale right now so yeah it's pretty cheap i mean it's like it's like an rpg stocking for that there we go yeah actually that does sound like a nice something to get your gm as a little present or something yeah so it's like a you build a mine and it's almost like a bit of world building stuff and then i guess you could use it in your rpg it's like a solo game
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
All right, let's quickly mention the Monstrous Menagerie 2. Already too late.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
I need them to exist.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Yeah.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
All right, that's a cool little dwarf find. I like that.
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Shall we pitter in some maybe not as exciting news of the Apple Patreon situation?
Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
323 | Diving into the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide: Insights and Analysis With Mike Shea
Everyone else in the podcast now is like, oh, really? Okay, let's do that.