4 Geeks 4e

Welcome back to the Dungeon Master’s Roundtable!

This episode was recorded on September 13th, 2011

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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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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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Welcome back to the Dungeon Master’s Roundtable!

This episode was recorded on August 23rd, 2011

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Hosts:

Tracy H (@SarahDarkmagic)

Randall W (@Deadorcs)

Sam D (@DMSamuel)

Guests:

n/a

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Topics and Mentions:

• DM Roundtable GenCon panel and the Tome Show T-shirt!
• Burning Wheel and beliefs + The Adventure Burner
• RPG Geek’s Chain of Generosity
• MouseGuard
• TMNT RPG
• Basil of Baker Street
• The Mouse and the Motorcycle
• Pinky and the Brain
• Sarah Darkmagic
• Randall’s Imaginary Hate Mail
• ThadeousC’s Hate Mail Account (ThadsHateMail@table-4-1.com)
• Aisha Tyler and the Girl on Guy podcast
• Sexy Liberals
• DDXP
• DM’s Gone Wild!!!!!
• T1 Village of Hommlet
• U1 The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh
• Erevis Cale Trilogy
• Making 4e less static – i.e. having the decisions made by the PCs and NPCs feed back and become part of the story
• How much do you add in? How do you codify that sort of advice?
• What guidelines need to be written for this?
• Getting Feedback from Your Players
• Killer DMs and DM Fiat (Sam talks about his campaign and a gold dragon)
• Taking the Rules as a Framework
• War! What is it good for? & Randall’s backyard LARP
• Established game groups coming up with rules & established house-rulings
• Robber’s Cave Psychology Study
• Randall’s True Dungeon Token Post
• What Wizard’s of the Coast can learn from Randall
• Faceplant and the Heroes of Neverwinter game
• Tracy’s play-by-play of her Heroes of Neverwinter game
• Sam’s Awesome Radio Sound Effects
• HoN game Rates Tracy
• New Conan movie
• The sound of overemphasized skull crushing
• Does anyone really want to hear mucus?

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Welcome back to the Dungeon Master’s Roundtable!

This episode was recorded on August 6th, 2001 at GenCon 2011.

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Hosts:

Thadeous C (@ThadeousC)

Tracy H (@SarahDarkmagic)

Randall W (@Deadorcs)

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Guests:

Everyone who attended the Panel! – Thank You!

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Topics:

Just listen and find out!

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Welcome back to the Dungeon Master’s Roundtable!

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This episode was recorded on June 28, 2011; sorry for the delay in getting it posted!

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Don’t forget that the Dungeon Master’s Roundtable is hosting a special forum at GenCon this year! You can find us in the Westin Chamber room from 4-5 pm on Saturday!

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Click here to download the episode

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Hosts:

Thadeous C (@ThadeousC)

Tracy H (@SarahDarkmagic)

Randal W (@Deadorcs)

Sam D (@DMSamuel)

Guests:

Mike Shea (@slyflourish)

Sersa V (@SaveVersusDeath)

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Topics:

• The Death of Fourthcore (article HERE)
• Vertical Tokens? Randall has the answer!
• Why we don’t go to internet forums (for the most part)
• Thadeous’ Hate Mail Address: Thadshatemail@table-4-1.com
• RPG Geek Question of the Day: “When you are contemplating an RPG purchase, How much does the deisgner’s name matter?”
• Feedback you get as a game designer or blogger
• Defending your choices
• Why is Twitter nicer than internet forums?
• The new rogue released by WotC
• John Gabriel’s “Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory”
• Sersa V joins us and talks about the real reason for the Death of FourthCore and his decision to end it.
• Technical Difficulties
• Tracy Joins the Call – YAY!
• The Afterlife of FourthCore.

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