Episode 222 of Mastering Dungeons! Main topic: Looking Back on 2024, Forward to 2025! Shawn and Teos revisit the year’s biggest stories, the show’s main topics and guests, and look forward to what will impact our hobby in 2025. News: Bigger Monster Manual, CNBC on D&D’s Financial Success, Beyond Ranked Skills, and more! Contents 00:00 Happy New Year! 02:37 Vancian Magic Limits Narratives? 12:03 Adjust DCs Based on PC? 23:41 Bigger Monster Manual 25:33 CNBC on D&D Financial Success 30:09 Using Third Places 32:32 How to Do a Character Voice 34:42 Weapons of Lore 36:13 Beyond Ranked Skills 40:00 Clank Acq Inc 2 41:00 Looking Back, Looking Forward 41:16 2024 Highlights 57:25 Our Guests in 2024 59:17 Our Main Topics 01:02:25 Our Fans 01:03:14 Our 2024 Favorites 01:07:58 Our Questions for 2025 01:26:14 Shout-Outs Thank you for listening! Get the full show notes with links on Patreon. Show Search Engine: https://mdsearch.alphastream.org/ Our intro and outro music is Metropolis Fanfare, provided royalty-free by Tabletop Audio (https://tabletopaudio.com) under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). MP3 file metadata populated with Online MP3 Podcast Chapter Editor, built by Dominik Peters. https://mp3chapters.github.io/ and customized for Mastering Dungeons by Vladimir Prenner from Croatia.
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Hello, and welcome to this week's episode of Mastering Dungeons, your favorite tabletop role-playing game, RPG, news reviews, interviews, et cetera, et cetera. We made it through 2024, and I'm Sean Merwin here with Teos Abadie. Hey, Teos.
Happy New Year, almost. Happy New Year to listeners.
Happy New Year, if you're hearing this and your name is not Sean Orteos, then it is probably the new year. Numerologically, I noticed that this is episode 222 of you and I as co-hosts, but episode 111 of Mastering Dungeons. That worked out interestingly. I think that means we're half as good as we once were.
Yeah. As foretold by prophecy, if Mastering Dungeons records its 222nd and 111th episodes simultaneously, car-sized drones will attack New Jersey.
I welcome my Transformer overlords. They are more than meets the eye. That's true. And as are we. And as are our listeners. So thank you, everyone out there, for listening. We hope that your holidays have gone well, and we hope that your 2025 kicks off with, I don't want to say a bang, because bangs could be good, could be bad, depending. So, yeah, it kicks off well. How's that?
I kicked mine off by getting a copy of The Psychology of Dungeons and Dragons, Jamie's book from our host from the last show. A lot of people said they bought the book based on our show, which, wow, that's kind of cool.
Yeah, really interesting stuff. I've been perusing my copy, my multiple copies. Amazing thing. It was great to have Jamie on last week. And it is great to be back with you this week. And it's great to be back with all our listeners who sometimes send us questions. They send us questions via our Patreon Discord.
via YouTube, via Mastodon, via Blue Sky, via email at masteringdnd.gmail.com, sometimes in real life, sometimes, you know, to pass them in the grocery store and say, hey, I had a question. Conventions, wherever. Send us your questions if you have them. And the Welsh DM did, via Blue Sky, asking, does the 5e fancy and magic system actually limit the narratives we can tell?
Is its strict rigidity actually a hindrance to storytelling in tabletop role-playing games? And so my first thought was, well, any system by definition limits what's allowable because that's what systems do. But I think if we get rid of that semantic argument, it's a good question to look at how Mancian magic systems can guide play and therefore guide the stories that come from that play.
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