This week, we're talking about economies. Join us as we discuss ways to use economy, currency, and wealth as worldbuilding tools. 

The Solo But Not Alone 5 bundle is finally live! You can find it here: https://itch.io/b/2865/solo-but-not-alone-5

Here are a couple of bonus links for this week. First off, here's a link to YouTuber RamsesThePigeon's video about aluminum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob-PiPJBHdc

And here's an article talking about bathtub gin and why it was (potentially) really bad for you. Turns out James was right about the methyl alcohol making you go blind; what I was thinking of was tri-ortho-cresyl phosphate, which can cause partial paralysis or death.

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This week, we're taking a step back to discuss where we see the podcast now, four years in, and what we're planning to do in the future. Join us as we talk about why we're stepping away from making content specifically geared towards D&D, what we're going to do instead, and how we aim to get from Point A to Point B.

The Solo But Not Alone 5 bundle is finally live! We got word from Cat that the bundle went live shortly before this episode released. Here is the new, functional link to find it: https://itch.io/b/2865/solo-but-not-alone-5

Our website is live! Head on over to undercommontaste.com to find links to all of our social media, streaming sites, Patreon, Itch store, and Discord.

Our theme song is Massacre Anne, written and performed by Mary Crowell, and used with permission. You can find Mary's work online at marycrowell.bandcamp.com, or on Patreon at patreon.com/DrMaryCCrowell.

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This week, we welcome back Michael Ross from The RPG Academy and Rob Hilferty from Worldbuild With Us to play Michael's Ennie-nominated game Action 12 Cinema to celebrate our podcast's fourth anniversary. Join us for the second part of our play session, where we complete the Production Phase of the game, engaging in bad B-movie hijinks to discover the identity of the leader of the Vampires gang and the location of the Last Operational Waffle House (which, for some reason, is in Neo New York City). 

This is the second part of a two-part game. Please be sure to go back and listen to last week's episode "Recipe for Disaster" to catch the Pre-Production Phase, where we establish characters, world, and plot, or you might be lost when the game starts.

You can find Michael and his podcast over at therpgacademy.com, and copies of Action 12 Cinema at https://therpgacademy.com/action-12-cinema/. You can also find the portal to order tickets for AcadeCon, which will be November 8-10 in Dayton, Ohio, on the website.

You can find Rob's podcast at worldbuildwithus.com, or on your podcatcher of choice.

We want to thank all of our listeners who tune in biweekly to listen to our show. Without you, we would have closed up shop a long time ago. Merry Tarrasquemas, to one and all.

Our website is *finally* live! Head on over to undercommontaste.com to find links to all of our social media, streaming sites, Patreon, Itch store, and Discord.

Our theme song is Massacre Anne, written and performed by Mary Crowell, and used with permission. You can find Mary's work online at marycrowell.bandcamp.com, or on Patreon at patreon.com/DrMaryCCrowell.

Our logo was illustrated by David Sutherland. You can find David's work online at instagram.com/wilex_73, or on DeviantArt at deviantart.com/davidsutherland.

This week, we welcome Andrew and Thomas from Lords of Gallipae Games, LLC, to discuss their game Trail of Heroes. Join us as we discuss this long-running labor of love, with its widely customizable character creation and d100 combat system.

Our guests' shoutouts were for Ultimate Games Master (@TheUltimateGM on Twitter) and the artist Anton Rizofsky (fiverr.com/warlocklord).

You can check out Lords of Gallipae on Twitter (@LordsLLC) or Patreon (patreon.com/gallipae), or simply by visiting their website, gallipae.com.

This week's episode was sponsored by the podcast Tale of the Manticore. You can check them out on Twitter (@ManticoreTale), or give them a listen on Podbean (taleofthemanticore.podbean.com).

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This week, we went live on Twitch! Following the Thanksgiving holiday, we decided to do something with a little less prep, so we had our inaugural Twitch livestream. Join us as we discuss the State of the Podcast (TM) and upcoming projects, don our foil hats for a bit of D&D lore conspiracy, and do a Monster Mashup with just the two of us, which results in something completely Looney. 

We also had some technical difficulties at the beginning of our stream, requiring us to re-record the intro. Many thanks to Rob over at Worldbuild With Us (worldbuildwithus.com) for helping us troubleshoot our issues with OBS - he's a friend of the show for certain, and you should totally go check out their podcast!

We have two sponsors for this week's episode - Of Mice and Men and Monsters (@OMAMAMshow) and Tale of the Manticore (@ManticoreTale). I've been enjoying both shows, so you should check them out for something a little bit different.

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This week, we dive back into the Heroic Domains of Ysgard to discuss the details of the individual layers of the Plane. It's a long one this week, as we touch on some of the stories from Norse mythology that influence the mechanics of Ysgard, such as why the petitioners revive each day at dawn, or how Odin got his eight-legged rainbow horse, Sleipnir. We also discuss a couple of the things we would change, from the elves of Alfheim to Merratet, the realm of the Egyptian/Mulhorandi goddess Bast. 

We will be having our channel's inaugural Twitch stream on Sunday, November 28th, starting at 9:00 PM Eastern, where we will just have a live Q&A, and maybe create some homebrewed stuff. Drop by to say hi, and submit any questions you may have, or homebrew you'd like reviewed, to either our email or Twitter.

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This week, we begin our journey into the Heroic Domains of Ysgard, the Plane of neutral-good chaos, where warriors fight, die, and are reborn at dawn in an eternal cycle. Join us as we discuss the home of the Norse pantheon - and the other denizens that come with them - as well as the natural interplanar highway that is Yggdrasil the World Ash, and a pair of gods that seem to have been...misplaced.

We are preparing for a Q&A, and our inaugural appearance on our Twitch channel! If you have questions you would like to ask, including advice or feedback on homebrew, please send them to us as a direct message through our Twitter account, or email them to us at undercommontaste@gmail.com.

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This week, we welcome Lewis from Dead Channel Studios to talk about his recently concluded successful Kickstarter project, Caravans. Join us as we discuss this fun and unique D&D 5e supplement that lets you create and manage a camp in your downtime in a way that doesn't derail the game and provides meaningful boosts to your characters. 

You can find Dead Channel Studios on Twitter at @DCSRPG, or online at deadchannelstudios.com. 

This week's shoutout was for Dungeon Mister, on Twitter at @dungeonmisterty. Check them out, as well as their new venture Adventure Slang Productions, @AdventureSlang. 

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This week, we welcome Pat and Lee from the Twitch channel DieselShot to discuss their new queer feminist sci-fi game, Changed Stars. Join us as we discuss some of the lore of the game, from reimagined races from Alien to space otters flying in massive interstellar superstructures, as well as a primer on the mechanical systems found in the game. 

The audio quality is a little dodgy in parts on this episode; we had some minor recording issues, and I can only fix so much in post.

You can find DieselShot on Twitch at twitch.tv/dieselshot, and you can find Changed Stars at changedstars.com, or on Twitter @StarsChanged. Pat is on Twitter @long_spider, and Lee is @quadkorps. 

You can find their store, Discord, YouTube, and more here: https://allmylinks.com/quadkorps

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This week, we finish our safari through the Wilderness of the Beastlands, traveling through all three layers. Join us as we roam the sunny glades of Krigala, prowl through the shadows of Brux, and stalk the Vile Hunt in the moonlit depths of Karasuthra.

Also, we get to meet Father Bear. Be more like Father Bear.

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This week, we begin our trek into the unknown in the Wilderness of the Beastlands. Join us as we discuss the overarching lore of the plane, its denizens, and how to navigate its uncharted depths. Be sure to return next week, when we do our deep dive into the individual layers of the Beastlands.

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This week, we return to the Windswept Depths of Pandemonium to go through the four layers of the plane and discuss their major landmarks and denizens. Join us as we visit The Madhouse, Windglum, the Unseelie Court, and the Winter Hall of Loki, among others.

Content Warning (sorry, forgot this last week): Discussion of madness and mental disorders.

This week's episode was sponsored by 3 Pillars of D&D Cast. You can find them on Twitter (@OurDorky), and find their podcast at anchor.fm/3pillars-cast. 

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This week, we begin our descent into the Windswept Depths of Pandemonium. It was a long recording session (happens when you keep buying old books and incorporating the information), so we divided it into two parts. This first episode covers the overarching themes of Pandemonium, while the next episode will cover each of the individual layers in depth. 

This week's episode was sponsored by 3 Pillars of D&D Cast. You can find them on Twitter (@OurDorky), and find their podcast at anchor.fm/3pillars-cast. 

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This week, we welcome back Michael Ross from The RPG Academy and Rob Hilferty from Worldbuild With Us to play Michael's Ennie-nominated game Action 12 Cinema to celebrate our podcast's fourth anniversary. Join us for this, the first part of our play session, where we complete the Pre-Production Phase of the game, establishing the details of the crazy B-budget action film we will be playing through in part 2. 

Our next session, where we play through the Production Phase, will be released next Wednesday (September 11th, 2024).

You can find Michael and his podcast over at therpgacademy.com, and copies of Action 12 Cinema at https://therpgacademy.com/action-12-cinema/. You can also find the portal to order tickets for AcadeCon, which will be November 8-10 in Dayton, Ohio, on the website.

You can find Rob's podcast at worldbuildwithus.com, or on your podcatcher of choice.

We want to thank all of our listeners who tune in biweekly to listen to our show. Without you, we would have closed up shop a long time ago. Merry Tarrasquemas, to one and all.

Our website is *finally* live! Head on over to undercommontaste.com to find links to all of our social media, streaming sites, Patreon, Itch store, and Discord.

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Our logo was illustrated by David Sutherland. You can find David's work online at instagram.com/wilex_73, or on DeviantArt at deviantart.com/davidsutherland.

This week, we are joined by Matthew Ross and Fernando Dominguez, the creative and artistic minds behind the D&D 5e homebrew website Abyssal Brews. We have invited them on to discuss Campfire, their new 5e supplement which finds the elegant middle ground between montage and random encounter tables for narrating and resolving travel. 

You can find Campfire, and all of their other content, on their Ko-Fi shop, https://ko-fi.com/abyssalbrews. You can also visit their website, abyssalbrews.com, or follow them on Twitter (@abyssalbrews) or Instagram (instagram.com/abyssalbrews).

Matthew's shoutout was for the actual play podcast Mayday Roleplay (@MaydayRoleplay), and Fernando's was for Cartographer's Cantrip (@c_cantrip). 

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This week, we welcome Ethan H. Reynolds, the writer behind the new dystopian cyberpunk game Neon Nights, which has just released v1.4. Join us as we discuss his inspirations for the game and its simple yet immersive mechanics, the future of Neon Nights, and how Star Wars is totally a cyberpunk setting. We also have way too much fun in the creature creation portion of the show, ending up with a terrifying AI called The Siren.

Find Ethan on Twitter (@ethanhreynolds), or through his Linktree, linktr.ee/EthanRey12. 

Ethan's shoutout this week was for Bogus Cheesecake; you can find them on Twitter at @bogus_cheese.

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Merry Tarrasquemas! It's been one full year of podcast episodes, and we're here to celebrate with a one-shot adventure - specifically, Zikran's Zephyrean Tome from Candlekeep Mysteries.

Today's cast has James as the Dungeon Master; Ian as Ereshki, the orc champion fighter; Mary Crowell as Lawbringer Trebin, the hobgoblin war cleric; Mitch Wallace as Gimble Shadowscale, the kobold thief rogue; and C.R. Rowenson as Lady Serissa, the yuan-ti pureblood enchantment wizard. 

We want to thank all of you who listen to our podcast for helping us make it to one year. We're just so glad that, though we're talking into the void, there's someone in the void who listens. Here's to another year of interviews, homebrew, and lore!

Disclaimer: No PCs were harmed in the making of this episode.

Here are the social links for all of our guests: 

Mitchell Wallace * Twitter: @mitchsbustillos * Website: pennyforatale.com

C.R. Rowenson * Twitter: @ClarkRRowenson * Website: crrowenson.com * https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw4TcDjakQUUFyGXTm7ZF1Q

Dr. Mary Crowell * Twitter: @DrMaryCCrowell * Website: marycrowell.bandcamp.com * patreon.com/DrMaryCCrowell

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This week, we climb to the pinnacle of the Seven Heavens of Mount Celestia. Come see all of the ways that law and good are conspiring to save the multiverse, and the tools they plan to use to do it.

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This week, we jump into the Pit and visit the varied layers of the Nine Hells of Baator. We talk contracts, the Fifth Element, and how everything is actually just Dante's Inferno, as we go through each layer in succession. 

We've restructured the pledge values for our Patreon, and have opened up our Discord to everyone! Come on over and talk nerd stuff with us! 

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This week, we continue our trek through the planes as we visit the Infinite Layers of the Abyss. Join us as we discuss soul-eating transdimensional ships, the super cool demon that isn't so super cool anymore, and why the phrase "river of liquid salt crystals" makes absolutely no sense.

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This week, we return to our planar travels as we visit the Olympian Glades of Arborea, the Plane of Chaotic Good. Join us as we discuss the elven afterlife, full of massive trees, killer parties, and literal D&D Las Vegas. Plus celestial eladrin, titan ruins, and a sea-lion god that hunts sharks, just because.

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This week, we welcome the Magic Engineer, C.R. Rowenson, to discuss his love for magic systems and the Indiegogo campaign for his newest book, The Magic System Blueprint. You can find Clark online at https://crrowenson.com/, and his YouTube channel, The Magic Engineer, here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw4TcDjakQUUFyGXTm7ZF1Q. You can also find his workbook, Restrictions May Apply, here: https://www.amazon.com/Restrictions-May-Apply-Building-Limits-ebook/dp/B08GLHNWMZ/ 

And, most importantly, here is the link to the Undercommon Taste exclusive secret backer tier for The Magic System Blueprint: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/2687694/x/27024158?secret_perk_token=834f8fb6

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This week, we welcome Mitchell Wallace from Penny for a Tale to discuss his new game Necrobiotic, which was recently successfully funded on Kickstarter. Necrobiotic is a melancholy dystopian game set in Florence, Italy in the year 2100, where humanity is clawing back from the brink of collapse by creating constructs from the bodies of the dead to perform menial labor. 

You can find Mitchell on Twitter at the handle @PennyforaTale, and you can visit Penny for a Tale online at pennyforatale.com. Links to the Necrobiotic landing page on Kickstarter can be found in both locations.

CONTENT WARNING: We do discuss aspects and elements of body horror in this episode, as it is an integral part of Necrobiotic.

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This week, we take a break from our planar travels to present another piece of homebrewed content for Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition: the Dragoon class. Based heavily on the archetypical Dragoon, Kain, from Final Fantasy IV, this highly mobile spear-wielding warrior will rock your table with its high-risk, high-reward martial play style. We hope you love it as much as we do.

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This week, we're continuing our look at the rules changes for the D&D 5e 2024 ruleset. Join us as we talk about the changes to spellcasting, weapon properties, and - despite our best efforts - as many classes as we can manage in the time allowed. 

As mentioned in the episode, one of the sources we're using to get our information about the new 2024 ruleset is the YouTube channel Treantmonk's Temple. You can find this channel at youtube.com/treantmonkstemple.

In our next episode, we will be celebrating our 4th podcast anniversary! We will be joined by friends of the show Michael Ross (The RPG Academy) and Rob Hilferty (Worldbuild With Us) to play Michael's Ennie-award nominated game Action 12 Cinema. This game will be split across two episodes over two weeks. It was a blast to play with them, so we hope you'll enjoy the game, too. 

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This week, we travel into Limbo, the Everchanging Chaos. We'll have no need of the Heart of Gold, as the whole plane is an Infinite Improbability Drive of psionic monks, chaos-born toad men, and the infinite flux of creation and destruction. 

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This week, we visit the Gray Wastes of Hades, the Plane of Evil. Join us as we discuss miasma clouds, schools of flying sharks, and the bleak expanses of the Underworld. 

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This week, we have the privilege to interview Jacob Duerksen, the writer of "Heroes of Tara", a new TTRPG built on the framework of the 5th edition Open Gaming License. Join us as we discuss Irish history and mythology, and how Jacob combined everything together to make a truly inspired game.

The Kickstarter for Heroes of Tara goes live on July 1, 2021. You can find it here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1955128460/heroes-of-tara-players-guide

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This week, we continue our tour of the Outer Planes in the Blessed Fields of Elysium, home of the guardinals and Pelor (Praise the Sun!). Join us as we discuss the plane of good, complete with its low-key insidious mind control, the Orcgate Wars, and psionic flying elephants, among other things. 

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This week, join us as we begin our self-guided tour through the Outer Planes, starting in the Clockwork Nirvana of Mechanus. We talk about modrons, Judge Dredd, the sum of all knowledge, and how 2nd edition movement speeds make no sense.

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This week, we interrupt your regularly scheduled planeswalking to welcome Jonathan Pruitt, half of the YouTube dynamic duo of WebDM, here to discuss the Kickstarter for the book Weird Wastelands. Weird Wastelands goes live today (June 9th), and you can check it out here. If you aren't familiar with WebDM, you can (and should) check out their YouTube channel, and follow them on Twitter.

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This week, we take some time to discuss an assortment of low-CR monsters in D&D 5th edition, and how to utilize them in more thematic and dynamic ways. Join us as we discuss the old mainstays of goblins and kobolds, as well as the lesser-used mephits and bullywugs, and how you might be able to kill... err... challenge your players. Yes, challenge.

Our 1000 follower giveaway is still going on, and we will be drawing our winner on Wednesday, June 9th, so make sure you enter! https://twitter.com/UCThomebrew/status/1397572236769378307

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We've decided to take in a live show before we head to the Outer Planes in our planar travels, so this week, we have three new homebrewed bard colleges to share with you: the College of Metal, the College of Sophistry, and the College of Truthweaving. 

This episode started with the Metal Bard, which was inspired by the recent Worldbuild With Us series, The Land of a Thousand Decibels, which you can find here.

We are also celebrating reaching 1000 followers on Twitter, so listen all the way to the end for the special comment instructions that are part of our giveaway, which ends June 9th, 2021! Details for the giveaway can be found on the pinned post of our Twitter account until the giveaway closes.

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This week, we finish up our trek through the Inner Planes, visiting the Paraelemental Planes of Ice, Smoke, Magma, and Ooze, and talking about notable landmarks and denizens there. We also spend too little time talking about the Elemental Chaos (because it doesn't really fit into the Great Wheel cosmology), and give a brief overview of the Quasielemental Planes. 

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This week, we jump into the elemental sandblaster as we continue our tour of the prime Elemental Planes. We discuss the Plane of Air, with its Citadel of Ice and Steel housing an unknown prisoner, as well as the Plane of Earth, and how it would be a really cool place to visit if the Dao weren't such terrible individuals. 

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This week, we start taking a look at some of the new rules changes announced for the latest version of Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition. Join us as we discuss what's new, what's gone, and what's been clarified.

As mentioned in the episode, one of the sources we're using to get our information about the new 2024 ruleset is the YouTube channel Treantmonk's Temple. You can find this channel at youtube.com/treantmonkstemple.

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We begin our tour of the Inner Planes this week, discussing the Elemental Planes of Fire and Water. We look back into 2e Planescape and the 3.5e Manual of the Planes to build on the meager details we have been given in 5e, to give you the tools you need to send your players to deal with the efreeti or the marids. 

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This week, we shift our planar discussion to the transitive planes: the Ethereal and Astral. We discuss how they work, what hazards you might find on them, how you might get to them without 7th-level spells, and some adventure hooks if you want to linger for a while. 

We also geek out over Astral Dreadnaughts for a bit. 

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This week, we invite Reddit creator Elliot (u/MothProphet) on to discuss the topic addressed in the bulk of his Reddit post An Exploration into 5e's Damage Types, in a little under 6000 words. We talk about the differences between devils and demons, why beasts don't like loud noises, and returning to a time when Cold Iron meant something to the fey. Topping it all off, we have the return of the Weird Bug Generator, where the dice help us create an oversized druid grove parasite.

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This week, we dive back into our planar travels with a journey to the Shadowfell, discussing what you might find there and how you can get your players through into the Material Plane's dark echo without resorting to 7th-level spells.

A content warning for this week's episode: the Shadowfell is a gloomy and depressing place. As such, any discussion going in depth in the Shadowfell will inevitably turn to topics that may negatively affect some people, especially those with PTSD or depressive conditions. 

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This week, we are joined by Rob, Chris, and Daniel from the Worldbuild With Us podcast to build a scenario in the world we helped design on their podcast last week. Will you side with the Archdruid of the Kudzu, avatar of the goddess of nature, and its Bloodthorn Basilisk, or will you defend the Springstrider with Captain Marut and the Inevitables?

We highly recommend listening to part 1 on the Worldbuild With Us podcast, here: Mowed Down by the Springwalker

You can follow Worldbuild With Us on Twitter (@LetsWorldbuild), join their public Discord, or support them on Patreon. You can find all of their past episodes at https://worldbuildwithus.com 

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This week, we start our in-depth tour of the planes by visiting the Feywild, talking about prominent locations within, and how to get there. We also spend no small amount of time discussing how to utilize the Feywild in your home game, and which classes we feel would benefit most from having a jaunt into the Feywild.

This episode ran a bit longer than normal, and we apologize for the audio quality dropping out in some spots. This is the last episode we are recording using our old method (using OBS to record over Discord), so hopefully our new method will result in more uniform, clearer audio in the future.

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We return to the drawing board this week as we bring another monster from D&D 3.5e into 5th edition. Join us as we bring the Spell Weaver into its next 600 year life cycle.

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This week, we explore the guidelines in the Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition Dungeon Master's Guide for creating your own monsters and calculating an appropriate Challenge Rating (CR) for them. For our example, we are using the 3.5e Raggamoffyn monster, bringing it into 5e for your gaming pleasure.

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We conclude our current deep dive into the Dungeon Master's Guide for 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons this week, discussing Chases, Traps, and Poisons and Diseases. 

Here is a link to the playlist of trap videos by Master the Dungeon mentioned in the show, including a video released after we recorded this episode, with (appropriately) covers poison and disease traps. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq8fy6QCfLH-d9Orkq7g9IUf8k8hWrlcG

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In our third deep dive episode into the Dungeon Master's Guide for 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons, we discuss planar travel, supernatural gifts, epic boons, and alien tech. 

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This week, we begin our transition away from Fallout and back into our biomes series by talking about wastelands. Join us as we discuss types of wastelands, examples of wastelands from both media and the real world, and some ideas on how to implement different types of wastelands into your games.

Near the end of the episode, I mentioned a product (and then inserted a correction to get the product name right) called Hexcrawl Toolbox. It contains a ton of terrain tiles and accessories, and was nominated for Ennies for Best Non-Digital Accessory, Best Cartography, and Best Production Value. If you're interested, you can check it out on the Games Omnivorous website, here: https://gamesomnivorous.com/collections/hex-omnivorous/products/hexcrawl-toolbox

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This week's episode is part two of our deep dive into the rules tucked away in the 5th edition Dungeon Master's Guide for D&D. In this episode, we discuss sentient magic items, spell crafting, and using a spell point system in lieu of spell slots.

The Reddit post we reference in the spell crafting segment of the episode was written by u/MothProphet, and can be found here.

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This week, we begin our multi-part series where we dive into the 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide to find lesser known rules to highlight and discuss. This first episode covers the rules for social encounters, honor and sanity, and madness. 

Content Warning: We spend most of the last 20 minutes of the episode covering the madness rules, wherein we discuss topics of mental health, specifically different forms of mental illness. We tried to remain as respectful of the topic as possible, but there may be elements of the conversation which could prove problematic to listeners. 

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We shift gears this week to talk about two of Ian's homebrewed Monastic Traditions for the monk in 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons: 

The Way of the Swallow, a fighting style which focuses on utilizing thrown weapons, and

The Way of the Obsidian Fist, a tradition which draws upon the power of elemental earth to fortify the monk. 

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