360 - Gary's Lament

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GenCon! Rebel Scum! WotC layoffs! Plus, DMs Rob and Matt give a gaming update. Then, a call to arms and to battle from Founding Father Gary E. Gygax of the upmost importance. Gamers rise up!

Rebel Scum delisted by Roll20 & DriveThruRPG - Chase Carter, Rascal News

Rebel Scum 2nd Edition

Our reading today, comes from Dragon Magazine #65, from September 1982. 

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358 - Daggerheart GM Advice and Worldbuilding

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It's part 2 of our review of the final release of Daggerheart, covering the Game Master and campaign advice in the new system. DMs Rob and Matt review GM advice, GM moves, adversaries, environments, and the six campaign "frames" published as part of the system: the Witherwild, Five Banners Burning, Beast Feast, Age of Umbra, Motherboard, and Colossus of the Drylands. 

Daggerheart SRD

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357 - What's in a Name?

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356 - Daggerheart

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The full and final release of Daggerheart, a new TTRPG System from Critical Role and Darrington Press, is here. DMs Rob and Matt review it's "fiction first" approach, good math, smooth design, effortless character creation, and still hefty bit of crunch. Is it the fabled 5e dragon slayer? 

Daggerheart SRD

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355 - 5e Heartbreakers (Episode II: Attack of the Clones)

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Matt and Rob continue to talk about the even more of the 5e hacks/clones/heartbreakers published over the last year. This time we review Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition and Tales of the Valiant in Part 2 of 5e Heartbreakers series.

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354 - 5e Heartbreakers

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Matt and Rob talk about the explosion of 5e hacks/clones/heartbreakers, including what's good, what's bad, and what's this all about? We talk about Nimble 5e and DC20 in this episode, but there's more to come!

Fantasy Heartbreakers

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353 - Random Genre Worldbuilding

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Open your Cortex RPG books to page 128, and get ready to rock, roll, and worldbuild. DMs Rob and Matt follow take three random genres and attempt to mash them together into settings and campaigns that are ready to run as TTRPGs. 

The Genre Table:

1 Comedy

2 Dark Fantasy

3 Espionage

4 Giant Robots

5 High Fantasy

6 High School

7 Horror

8 Military

9 Post-Apocalyptic

10 Religious

11 Road Movie

12 Romance

13 Science Fiction

14 Superhero

15 Swashbuckler

16 Western

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TEASER - DM Clinic with Jess Parks

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Jess Parks of the actual play, I Seduce the Dragon, is back with a Dungeon Master pickle. The best way to work through planning an arc is often to talk through the situation with some other DMs. And that's what DMs Rob and Matt are here to do for DM Jess. To listen to full episode, sign up at 

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352 - DM Book Club: the Teixcalaan Series

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Matt and Rob discuss the works of Arkady Martine, particularly her Teixcalaan Duology, A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace. We're big fans, and these are great books to read for inspiration on worldbuilding, politics, intrigue, culture, language, and much more!

Everyone's World is Ending All the Time

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351 - iHunt: Dollars and Draculas

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"The average American spends $10,345 a year on healthcare.
That's two vampires."

DMs Rob and Matt are joined by Olivia Hill of Machine Age Dreams to chat about the new pay-what-you-want quickstart iHunt: Dollars & Draculas. Gather your precariat crew and swipe through the apps because it's time to bring monster hunting in the gig economy to the masses with this 5e D&D port of the best-selling FATE game, iHunt! And don't forget to leave a rating and review for taking out that nest of vampires clean! 

#iHunt Dollars & Draculas
https://machineage.itch.io/ihunt-dollars-draculas

Machine Age Dreams
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Dollars & Draculas: Adventure 02 - Blowback
https://www.patreon.com/posts/another-ihunt-126723867 

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350 - Unbalanced Encounters!

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Matt and Rob talk with Patrick and Emily of Unbalanced Encounters! The DM quartet talks inspiration, running games, choosing your players, the state of actual play, choosing systems, and more!

Unbalanced Encounters
The Cunning Folk

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349 - Springtime for Dungeon Masters

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Letters! DMs Rob and Matt are here to answer your TTRPG questions and provide some wanted and unwanted advice for your game mastering. 

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BONUS - John Wick: Play Dirty (Part 2)

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Matt and Rob delve even deeper into the twisted mind of one John Wick (no, the other one). We invite you to imagine, if you will, a 35 year-old man winking and smirking at his 19 year-old female co-worker in the Neopets office...

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348 - Solo TTRPGs: 1000y Vampire, Ironsworn, Captain's Log, Anamnesis

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DMs Rob and Matt are all by themselves! Get into to your gaming isolation tanks and get ready to play some great solo TTRPGs:

Thousand Year Old Vampire

Ironsworn

Star Trek Adventures: Captain's Log

Anamnesis

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346 - Project Sigil

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Wizards of the Coast finally realized its 3d virtual tabletop for 5.5e Dungeons and Dragons: Project Sigil. While DMs Rob and Matt agree it is technically 3d and virtual and a tabletop...is Project Sigil a good VTT? Also, are you Gleemaxing? 

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