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Ep.29: Ravenloft myths, Homebrew (opens the original)
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We continue our fantasy series with James taking the DM’s chair. This time, we look at one approach to homebrewing: preserving the conventions that give a setting its identity while modifying systems to lean further into them. Our actual play takes place in the Nameless Lands, a new Domain of Dread pulled from a world not altogether unlike our own. The Mists blur its borders, time has become meaningless, and names and histories are slowly wearing away. Two cursed wanderers are on their way back
Ep.28: dragonlance D&D (opens the original)
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We continue our fantasy series with D&D. How could we not? Sean takes the DM's chair first. We play through the beginning of Shadow of the Dragon Queen, the 5e Dragonlance campaign: the road to Vogler, a memorial, and a party still finding its footing. Spoiler warning if you're planning to play it. This is the first of three episodes where each of us takes a turn running D&D,, looking at how we each run the same game differently. Afterward we get into D&D 2024, the ways we've each hacked the gam
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