Today Dugeon Masters discuss: creating quests and NPCs in your homebrew world Topics Include: - Core motivations, needs and values of NPCs - NPC Behaviour - NPC Voices - Creating Quests  - Concluding Quests We'd love to engage with you! Use the #dmsdiscuss and reach out to us on our socials! Email us at: [email protected] or find all our socials on linktree: https://linktr.ee/dmsdiscuss Love the podcast? Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dmsdiscuss for more great content!

Today Dungeon Masters discuss: what goes into establishing or creating a homebrew world in tabletop RPGs. Topics include;  -Established settings vs homebrew -Backstory integration -Creating history -Low magic vs High magic -Taking inspiration form the real world -Populating a world with NPCS -Building exciting villains Video on action oriented monsters: https://youtu.be/y_zl8WWaSyI We'd love to engage with you! Use the #dmsdiscuss and reach out to us on our socials! Email us at: [email protected] or find all our socials on linktree: https://linktr.ee/dmsdiscuss Love the podcast? Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dmsdiscuss for more great content!

The return of Dungeon Master Moments! Dungeon masters Mike, Chris and Scott discuss some of their favorite Dungeons and Dragons moments. Topics include; how to deal with hags, library cards, spell combos, and sociable shifters Spells discussed: Magic Circle - https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/magic-circle Glyph of Warding - https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/glyph-of-warding We'd love to engage with you! Use the #dmsdiscuss and reach out to us on our socials! Email us at: [email protected] or find all our socials on linktree: https://linktr.ee/dmsdiscuss Love the podcast? Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dmsdiscuss for more great content!

In this episode of Dungeon Master's Monster Manual, we discuss some of our favorite monsters. Here are the monsters we highlighted this episode: Goblins: https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/16907-goblin Goblin Boss: https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/17155-goblin-boss Matt Colville's "Action Oriented Monsters": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_zl8WWaSyI Legendary Actions/Lair Actions: https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/mm/introduction#LegendaryCreatures Example of Legendary Actions/Resistances on a Lich: https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/16943-lich Wolves: https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/17062-wolf Bodak: https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/17223-bodak Night Hag: https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/16965-night-hag Battleforce Angel: https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/174974-battleforce-angel Dullahan: https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/1680921-dullahan Nightmare: https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/16964-nightmare Shadow Dragon: https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/mm/monsters-d#DragonShadow We'd love to engage with you! Use the #dmsdiscuss and reach out to us on our socials! Email us at: [email protected] or find all our socials on linktree: https://linktr.ee/dmsdiscuss Love the podcast? Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dmsdiscuss for more great content!

In this episode DMs discuss atmospheres & environments and the role they play in your games. We talk about pre-written vs homebrew environments, terrain, who lives there and other ways to make your environments come to life. Curse of Strahd: https://dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/rpg-products/curse-strahd Sword Coasts Adventurers Guide: https://dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/rpg-products/sc-adventurers-guide Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft: https://dnd.wizards.com/products/van-richtens-guide-ravenloft Subnautica: https://store.steampowered.com/app/264710/Subnautica/ Worms Armageddon: https://store.steampowered.com/app/217200/Worms_Armageddon/ Thank you to the Guild House for supporting us!  https://theguildhouse.ca/  We'd love to engage with you! Use the #dmsdiscuss and reach out to us on our socials! Email us at: [email protected] or find all our socials on linktree: https://linktr.ee/dmsdiscuss Love the podcast? Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dmsdiscuss for more great content!

Today, DMs discuss the various tools we use to run our games, both online and in real life! A lot of links in this one, as we use a lot of stuff to make our games run! We discuss: -Virtual Tabletops -Online Sourcebooks -Small wooden cubes -and more! Resources: https://roll20.com/ https://www.astraltabletop.com/ https://www.fantasygrounds.com/ https://arkenforge.com/ https://foundryvtt.com/ https://www.dndbeyond.com/ https://beyond20.here-for-more.info/ https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/ https://donjon.bin.sh/ https://5emagic.shop/generate https://www.reddit.com/r/d100/ http://pyromancers.com/ (Dungeon Painter) We'd love to engage with you! Use the #dmsdiscuss and reach out to us on our socials! Email us at: [email protected] or find all our socials on linktree: https://linktr.ee/dmsdiscuss Love the podcast? Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dmsdiscuss for more great content!

Special guest Lin joins Mike, Chris and Scott in passing judgement on stories about rules and rulings. Subjects include; why Chris’s uncle is wrong about polymorph, sourcebook nerfing, hidden stats and more We'd love to engage with you! Use the #dmsdiscuss and reach out to us on our socials! Email us at: [email protected] or find all our socials on linktree: https://linktr.ee/dmsdiscuss Love the podcast? Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dmsdiscuss for more great content!

Our very first DM moments. Dungeon masters Mike, Chris and Scott discuss some of their favorite Dungeons and Dragons moments. Misc: Old Fashioned: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018343-old-fashioned Collective Arts: https://collectiveartsbrewing.com/ Toronto DND: https://torontodnd.com/   Templum Maleficus - Robert Russell: https://robertrussellmusic.bandcamp.com/album/templum-maleficus Deadly Forest Dice: https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1023465633/deadly-forest-dice-set-custom-dice-7 Kobolds: https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/kobold Make Love Not Warcraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Love,_Not_Warcraft  We'd love to engage with you! Use the #dmsdiscuss and reach out to us on our socials! Email us at: [email protected] or find all our socials on linktree: https://linktr.ee/dmsdiscuss Love the podcast? Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dmsdiscuss for more great content!

Join Dungeon masters Mike, Chris and Scott as they discuss everything you will need to continue your campaign including: continuity, prepping quests, item economy, downtime activities and adapting to changes. Books/Materials: Curse of Strahd https://dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/rpg-products/curse-strahd Curse of Strahd - Tarokka Deck https://dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/rpg-products/tarokka-deck Misc: Marvelous Pigments: https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Marvelous%20Pigments#content We'd love to engage with you! Use the #dmsdiscuss and reach out to us on our socials! Email us at: [email protected] or find all our socials on linktree: https://linktr.ee/dmsdiscuss Love the podcast? Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dmsdiscuss for more great content!

Today's episode it all about being ready for and running your first session. Topics include: What to prep, what to bring, getting your tabletop ready, dialogue, pulling off your hook ,first combat and game states. Finally it covers first session rewards, leveling and keeping up the momentum to lead into session 2 Resources: Encounter builder https://www.dndbeyond.com/my-encounters Useful random generator https://donjon.bin.sh/5e/random/ Books/Materials: Dungeon Masters Guide (DMG): https://dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/rpg-products/dungeon-masters-guide Monster Manual: https://www.dndbeyond.com/marketplace/sourcebooks/monster-manual Tools: Roll20: https://roll20.net/welcome Astral: https://www.astraltabletop.com/ Fantasy Grounds: http://www.fantasygrounds.com/home/home.php Discord: https://discord.com/ D&D Beyond: https://www.dndbeyond.com/ Beyond 20 Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beyond-20/gnblbpbepfbfmoobegdogkglpbhcjofh?hl=en We'd love to engage with you! Use the #dmsdiscuss and reach out to us on our socials! Email us at: [email protected] or find all our socials on linktree: https://linktr.ee/dmsdiscuss Love the podcast? Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dmsdiscuss for more great content!