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hello and welcome to this week's episode of mastering dungeons your favorite tabletop role-playing game news and reviews and and game design and all the stuff i am old man merwin here with less old man teos abadia hey teos welcome to the middle of december
yes i have succeeded at being on a ladder and putting up lights i felled a christmas tree uh right after a family member said that uh well i guess we'll wait for you to cut that tree and i was like watch this and i sawed through that thing with dad powered ire in just seconds it was great and uh yeah we held the christmas tree it snowed and we saw a rainbow all while getting a christmas tree if that isn't that's
That's pretty impressive. That's pretty impressive. Last year, I used the Snowblower maybe once. I don't even know if I used it once last year. This year, I used it three times in one day and probably eight times over the last two weeks because the lake effect snow here has been brutal, as it often is. We usually just get the edge of it because the real snow belt is just to the north of us, but it creeped down and we got absolutely hammered by it. Now it's 45 degrees. Everything's melting. But I'm sure we've got another batch just waiting for us.
I hope all the bad holiday movies are making up for that.
Yes. Yes. Speaking of bad holiday movies. Yeah. No, not speaking about Hollywood. So what we are going to do this week is since we got a deluge of questions and comments from our listeners, we're going to do a main segment today of all the back listener questions and comments that we can. So we are going to now just jump right directly into the news this week because there's a there's a fair bit to talk about. Yeah. And we're going to start right away with D&D Beyond adding some stuff, some functionality, if you will, to their Maps tabletop. And the things they've added.
The official D&D Virtual Tabletop, according to one of their recent advertising emails. That was awesome.
It is very strange that the maps team, maybe with blessing, maybe not, keeps talking about it as the official VTT of D&D, of Wizards of the Coast, of Dungeons and Dragons. And Taos and I are sitting there wondering, well, what is the 3D? virtual tabletop then? Is that the unofficial? Is it the secondary? Is it something else completely? We don't know. But we do know that if you use maps, you can now do a few more things. You can track monster hit points and see their stat blocks directly in the virtual tabletop as part of the initiative order list. So what did this say to you, Teos? What did you think when you heard the news?
Yeah, it's cool. I mean, I'm impressed at how much they keep kind of rolling this out, right? We'd heard some rumors that maybe there was something that existed from, you know, before the acquisition of D&D Beyond even that was out there, a virtual tabletop they'd begun work on. But they have you know come out with a solid initial release and then added things and it's easy to say oh man hit point tracking like my other virtual tabletop does that and sure but this started as something you know really light and more like owlboy rodeo and they keep adding to it and integrating which is nice so here when you now add a monster it'll pull its stat block across and it collapses nicely so you can kind of hide all that and just see the name of the monster in the initiative order or you can show more and more of the of the um
the stat block and you actually can click on like the attacks and the um uh you can click on skills you can click on things like that to roll the dice behind it right if it says d10 plus five is the damage roll you can click on that and off it goes and rolls it And that's really cool because before this, you had to do that over on something else, right? Like in through the plug in that allows D&D Beyond to integrate with like Roll20 or you could do it with being in Discord, right? But you had to kind of move it across that way. Now you can do it directly there. And for hit points, you can just kind of subtract how much it's taken or state what the current value is. But you also can customize the max value, which is kind of a nice handy thing.
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