

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
Mentioned books

Oct 21, 2019 • 47min
DwDD – Unearthed Arcana: Twilight, Name, Fire
Shawn and Chris dissect the UA on the Cleric, Druid, and Wizard. Links Unearthed Arcana: Twilight, Name, Fire

Oct 14, 2019 • 50min
DwDD – Descent into Avernus Walk through and Review. Part 1
Shawn and Chris start their discussion about Descent into Avernus and cover a few news items. Links Let’s Design an Adventure Encounters in Avernus

Oct 7, 2019 • 37min
DwDD – AI Part 5
Shawn and Chris finish their discussion about Acquisitions incorporated and also talk about the Bard and the Paladin from Unearthed Arcana. Links Bard & Paladin: Eloquent Heroics

Sep 30, 2019 • 50min
DwDD – Unearthed Arcana: Sorcerer and Warlock
Shawn and Chris get into the Unearthed Arcana about the Aberrant mind Sorcerer and the Lurker in the Deep Warlock. Enjoy and thank you for listening. Links Unearthed Arcana – […]

Sep 23, 2019 • 51min
DwDD – Acquisitions Inc Part 4
Shawn and Chris keep going on AI, they’re talking about growing the rest of the Players Options in this edition of Down with D&D. Links Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus […]

Sep 13, 2019 • 1h 1min
DwDD – Acquisitions Inc Part 3
Shawn and Chris keep going on AI, they’re talking about growing the franchise today. Links Eberron: Rising from the Last War announced Core 3-3 Tom Lommel The Spirited Investigation

Sep 6, 2019 • 54min
DwDnD – From Green Flame to Lasers. Creating in another’s world panel from PAX West
Take a listen to a panel from PAX West about creating in another’s world from PAX West that Shawn was on with Teos Abadia (Alphastream), Liz Spain (Lone Shark Games), Kat […]

Aug 30, 2019 • 56min
DwDD – Acquisitions Inc Part 2
Shawn and Chris keep going on AI, breaking down the company positions and franchise tasks! Also, support the Commandroids Kickstarter! Not D & D, but super cool!

Aug 23, 2019 • 59min
DwDnD – Acquisitions Inc Part 1 & Unearthed Arcana
Money, Money, Money, Moooooooney…MOOOONEY!!! We’re gonna take some time to talk about the Acquisitions Inc book that our own Mad Wizard helped put together. We also get magical and mystical […]

Aug 19, 2019 • 1h 1min
DwDnD – Designing Adventure (Part 10) Challenges, Resolutions, Consequences cont’
Do you want a challenge? I’ll give you a challenge and then for dealing with the challenge we will resolve the situation with some type of consequence. No, it’s not […]


