Mastering Dungeons
Mastering Dungeons
RPG veterans and game designers Teos Abadía and Shawn Merwin look at the game and the hobby of D&D from a variety of viewpoints: reporting the news, understanding the business, reviewing the products, and illuminating the design. Whether you’re a fan, a player, a DM, or a designer, Shawn and Teos cover topics of interest to you!
Episodes
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Jun 18, 2020 • 42min
DwDD – World and Character Building with Lysa Penrose
Lysa joins Shawn, once more, to discuss the process of building a world to run games in and how to make the people in them come to life while DMing […]
Jun 5, 2020 • 42min
DwD&D – Fantastic Lairs with James Introcaso, Mike “Sly Flourish” Shea, and Scott Fitzgerald Gray
Shawn is joined by James Introcaso, Mike “Sly Flourish” Shea, and Scott Fitzgerald Gray to talk about the trio’s new project Fantastic Lairs: Boss Battles & Final Encounters for 5e […]
Jun 1, 2020 • 39min
DwDD – The Underdark, but with Ghouls, with Meagan and Wolfgang
[Editor’s Note: Thanks for being patient with this episode. There will be two eps of Down with D&D, this week. Enjoy!] Meagan Maricle and Wolfgang Baur from Kobold Press join […]
May 21, 2020 • 45min
DwDD – Dungeon Mastery for 5e with Greg Marks
Content manager for the Adventurer’s League and super-DM, Greg Marks joins Shawn to dig into what is needed to be a DM for Fifth Edition D&D. Follow Greg on Twitter […]
May 15, 2020 • 48min
DwDD – Rich Lescouflair on 5e for Other Games
Shawn is joined by the creator of Esper Genesis, Rich Lescouflair, and they have a chat about using the rules of 5e to adapt to other settings, games, and concepts! […]
May 7, 2020 • 41min
DwDD – LaTia Bryant on D&D Community
LaTia Bryant joins Shawn to talk about the amazing D&D Community and how it’s expanding and evolving! Follow LaTia on Twitter Follow LaTia on Instagram Keep up with LaTia on […]
Apr 30, 2020 • 44min
DwDD – Writing Adventures with Ashley Warren
Joining the Mad Wizard is the ENie-Award Winning Ashley Warren to talk about what it takes to really get into writing great stories for RPGs! These two powerhouse writers really […]
Apr 23, 2020 • 40min
DwDD – Chris Lindsey of Wizards of the Coast on Community During the Pandemic
Chris joins Shawn to talk about the effects of the Pandemic on gaming currently, and how it may affect the future. This is a powerful and hopeful conversation that we […]
Apr 16, 2020 • 47min
DwDD – Jesse “Doc Palindrome” Edmond on Comedy
It’s finally happened! Doc Palindrome, himself, joins Shawn in chatting about comedy in gaming! Doc on Twitter
Apr 10, 2020 • 46min
DwDD – James Haeck on New Players
D&D Beyond head writer James Haeck joins the Mad Wizard chatting about the experience of adding new players to the group! Given what is happening in the world, this comes […]
