4 Geeks 4e

Welcome back to the Dungeon Master’s Roundtable!

This episode was recorded on December 14th, 2011

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Hosts:

Thadeous C (@ThadeousC)

Randall W (@Deadorcs)

Tracy H (@SarahDarkmagic)

Sam D (@DMSamuel)

Topics and Mentions:

• GenCon Guest of Honor – socialization and networking and women in gaming
• Ryan Macklin – Ask for things
• Legends & Lore column
• The Autocratic DM and the Despot
• Should the rules protect the players from a bad DM?
• Organized play and an exception-based rules system
• The Id DM’s post: Power Options, Status Effects & Mutual Assured Destruction
• Steading of the Hill Giant Chief (Dungeon Mag #197, Dec 2011; active DDi subscription necessary to download)

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Welcome back to the Dungeon Master’s Roundtable!

This episode was recorded on October 4th, 2011

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Hosts:

Thadeous C (@ThadeousC)

Randall W (@Deadorcs)

Tracy H (@SarahDarkmagic)

Sam D (@DMSamuel)

Topics and Mentions:

• Thadeous’ bus goes by!! Shocking!!
• Old what’s his face, a.k.a. Mike Shea, a.k.a. slyfourish (we love you man!)
• Call us on the DMR/4g4e phone line: 347-640-4g4e or 347-640-4443
• Bluehost.com – handled a problem with professionalism and speed – kudos!!
• It’s JEFF GREINER’s birthday, so Randall sings him a song in the style of Marilyn Monroe
• Monte Cook’s newest legends & lore column RE: magic items
• The character builder, its marketing uses, R&D uses, and gaming uses
• Margaret Weis’s comments on the dragonlance forums 
• Jeff Greiner comes online!! We wish him a happy birthday!
• HoNoToGroABeMo 
• What if Apple bought D&D?
• Unanswered Questions from the DMR GenCon Panel!
• Cooperatively adding a new PC to an existing group from RPG Musings
• Ben’s RPG Pile
  

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Welcome back to the Dungeon Master’s Roundtable!

This episode was recorded on September 13th, 2011

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Click here to download the episode

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Hosts:

Thadeous C (@ThadeousC)

Randall W (@Deadorcs)

Tracy H (@SarahDarkmagic)

Sam D (@DMSamuel)

Guests:

James Stowe (@jamesstowe)

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Topics and Mentions:

• James Stowe – Website
• James Stowe page on RPGGeek (lists products in which he is given credit)
• Fiasco
• White Wolf
• Necromancer Games
• D20Monkey (Brian Patterson)
• OnlineDM’s Website
• Adam Page’s Post (@blindgeekuk)
• Tiers in the gaming community – what does it mean?
• The use of twitter in the gaming community

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Twitter Questions:

• @onlineDM: What advice do you have for people who want to submit material to publishers? (here is a great compilation article posted on a WotC community site by @alphastream)
• @Darkpatu: What are your thoughts on buying and training feats and skills outside of level, both in story and role-playing.
• @DnDJester: I’m planning to go to my 1st gencon in 2012. What do I need to know? How much $ do I need? Hotels cost what?
• @triskaljm: when you’re designing, how much testing do you put it through?
• @Hzurr: Setting tailored PC themes in neverwinter; do we want these for all settings, or was it a nice one time thing?

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Welcome back to the Dungeon Master’s Roundtable!

This episode was recorded on August 30th, 2011

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Click here to download the episode

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Hosts:

Thadeous C (@ThadeousC)

Randall W (@Deadorcs)

Sam D (@DMSamuel)

Guests:

Mike S (@SlyFlourish)

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Topics and Mentions:

• The sound of crackling fire on the DMRT
• Mike’s got “topics”
• Hollow Earth Expedition (Exile Games Studios)
• Hollow World – the basic D&D setting (Mystara Inner World)
• SlyFlourish.com
• Sam and Mike tell stories without details
• Dynamite Hack
• NewbieDM
• How to strike a balance between the mathematical hardcore side of D&D and the fluffy side (storytelling and ad lib decision making).
• A bus drives by the Cooper house
• Mike Mearls’ Legend & Lore Article Series
• A bus… again.
• Do standardized rules for public play lead to tied hands and bad stories?
• Why are people still asking “Where is the role-playing in 4e?“
• Mike’s dog howls… but no snoring.
• Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Emporium
• Magic items and treasure -Different strategies for giving out loot
• Should you give your players the items their PCs want?
• Madness at Gardmore Abby
• Girl from Ipanema
• Item cards and coinage in your campaign
• We all say goodbye, wearing smoking jackets while sitting by the fire

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