Episode 226 of Mastering Dungeons! Main topic: Monster Manual Design! We review the latest monster previews and continue to examine how 2024 has changed monster design. News: ENNies Changes AI Policy, Dimension 20 Rocks Garden, Kickstarter Breakdown, and more! Contents 00:00 Dimension 20 Rocks Garden 03:11 How Restart Campaign? 10:23 Emergency Takeoff Scenario? 20:46 Do You Fudge Dice? 29:50 New MM Previews 37:53 ENnies AI Policy Change 43:33 Kobold Press on Kickstarter Business 50:01 Keith Baker on Fiendish Gnolls 54:33 MM Design Comparisons 55:18 Empyreans 01:11:48 Ancient Gold Dragon 01:19:44 Semi-Alphabetical Actions 01:26:47 Vampire Familiar 01:34:48 Gargoyle 01:37:02 False Appearance Changes 01:39:10 Mimic Shapeshift 01:41:27 Which Mini Wore It Better? 01:42:34 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 news interviews reviews and game design show i'm sean merwin here with teos abadia hey teos what is the happenings
Sean, how are you doing? I had two things that really blew my mind. One was I got my little like catalog in the mail of like what the U.S. post office thinks you should buy stamp wise, the USA philatelic. And D&D is still prominently displayed in there. There's all sorts of like, you know, things and Year of the Dragon. They're, you know, transitioning to Year of the Snake.
But but yeah, you know, it's not on every page like the last issue was, but it's still a number of pages. And they remind you that you can buy the stamps and the journals and the T-shirts and all that is still available, which is awesome. So if you need a gift, you know, if your birthday is coming up, it's amazing.
Yeah, that's one D&D out in the larger world. But we have number two D&D out there in the larger world. This weekend, Dimension 20 did their show at Madison Square Garden. And there is a review of it in Variety magazine. And they filled Madison Square Garden.
Yeah, I saw some videos online and I thought, OK, you know, there's going to be like the like black fabric that they put, you know, at the end of the area to kind of hide a third of this area or, you know, an eighth something. No, no. It's like this tiny area in the center of Madison Square Garden where the players are.
And then they show these videos and it's like the entire place just full of people. And people are cheering and going wild. I mean, it's like total rock star situation. And in fact, the videos I saw, they were like light shows and fireworks going off from around the where the players are seated. It's bizarre.
It is it is a different world than you and I grew up in where people are cheering and watching and celebrating a group playing a role playing game. Not to mention Dungeons and Dragons.
I love it. I mean, this is great. Where can we take it next, right? Like, this is amazing. Like, yeah, it's great. I do not want to be, you know, the geeks in the basement and the, you know, ultra rare hobby that everybody's afraid of. Like, I'll take the mainstream. Like, bring it.
Yeah. Bring it all the way. And you know who brings it to us? Our listeners bring it. Our listeners bring it each and every week, even more than we bring it, I think. Because they are excited. They're talking to us. They send us questions and comments. And we like to grab some of those and talk about them here. And we're going to start this week from our Patreon Discord.
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