Explore every episode of the podcast The Goblin's Corner
| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
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| Twisted Transmutation for D&D5e | 31 Jan 2025 | 00:33:02 | |
Transmutation magic is more than just casting Polymorph…it’s about reshaping reality itself. In tonight’s episode, we’re unveiling 6 brand-new Twisted Transmutation spells for D&D, designed to bend the laws of nature and give your casters new, powerful tools. Whether you’re looking to alter terrain, enhance allies, or disrupt enemies in unexpected ways, these spells will awaken creativity in your next game! --- | |||
| Everyday Magic in D&D | 17 Jan 2025 | 00:51:10 | |
Magic isn’t just for epic battles - it’s what makes everyday life in the fantasy world of D&D truly amazing. Join us this week as we uncover the practical side of magic with four key types: Utility, Construction & Agriculture, Information Gathering, and Summoning. Whether you’re a player or DM, these spells will transform how you think about the magical world around you! --- | |||
| Dire Beasts | 19 Dec 2024 | 00:43:19 | |
Ready to strike fear into the hearts of your adventurers? Learn how to use dire beasts in your game, or unleash 6 free ones we’ve created. From towering moose to a titanic pigeon, these are more than just oversized animals…they’re forces of nature! --- | |||
| Making Villains Interesting | 17 Oct 2024 | 00:38:19 | |
Your campaign is only as thrilling as the enemies standing in your adventurers’ way, so this week we’re giving you 10 worldbuilding concepts to turn cookie-cutter villains into unforgettable threats. Whether you’re looking to create a master manuipulator, a tragic anti-hero, or an ancient evil, we’ve got what you need to plug great storytelling into your next campaign. --- | |||
| Fantasy Plants | 09 Sep 2024 | 00:25:13 | |
Fantasy worlds need fantasy plants! If you’re looking to grow your world building beyond generic details, learn how to add a touch of magic to your game or use the magical foliage we’ve created. Join us as we harvest some fantastical scenery, side quests and story with these six fantasy plants! --- | |||
| Rethinking Familiars | 08 Aug 2024 | 00:40:40 | |
Looking for fun new options for your familiar? This week, we dive into D&D’s Find Familiar spell, giving practical tips on using them and new creative ideas that maximize their potential in your game. Rethink your connection to these magical companions! --- | |||
| New Monsters For Spelljammer | 15 Jul 2024 | 00:39:21 | |
Do your players thrill for the open void of Wildspace, or the Githyanki infested Shimmering Seas? Test them with 6 new monsters that will challenge even the bravest of spelljamming crews. Grab your dice, chart your course, and set sail for adventure! --- | |||
| Story Seeds | 28 Jun 2024 | 00:32:39 | |
Is your story withering on the vine? It’s time to add a few story seeds! Learn how you can use story seeds to make amazing side quests, awesome NPCs, and use the storytelling concept to further grow your adventure. --- | |||
| Co-DMing A Game | 07 Jun 2024 | 00:42:19 | |
Fancy tag-teaming your world building experience? Learn how to effectively co-DM a D&D game! Join us as we cover practical tips for communication, planning, and managing player dynamics to create a cohesive and immersive gaming environment. --- | |||
| Aquatic Dungeons | 24 May 2024 | 00:36:26 | |
Are you ready to craft immersive, high stakes (and high depth) storytelling? Take the plunge as we explore ways to incorporate aquatic dungeons into your next campaign. Explore the terrors and treasures of the deep with your players! --- | |||
| Primordial Dinosaurs | 02 May 2024 | 00:40:46 | |
Do you enjoy dinosaurs AND the elemental planes? Join us as we explore 8 new planar monsters, and show you how to merge primal planes and primal beasts into one amazing creature! --- | |||
| Apocalyptic Monsters With Travis Sivart | 25 Apr 2024 | 00:31:13 | |
Eric and Matt sit down with Travis Sivart to chat about writing, ghost hunting, his knighthood and monsters. Travis is an author of multiple genres of books including sci-fi and fantasy novels. He created the Traverse Reality, a shared universe that connects cyberpunk, fantasy and steampunk works, and writes characters who feel real to his readers. --- | |||
| Finishing Touches to Your Worldbuilding | 18 Apr 2024 | 00:37:01 | |
The trick to having a good fantasy world vs. a great one is how you use tiny details to generate interest. Enhance your storytelling with 8 simple rules that add depth, energy, and fun for both you and your players. --- | |||
| Gish'n It Up: How to Play a Dungeons & Dragons Eldritch Knight | 11 Apr 2024 | 00:37:24 | |
Looking to smack your foes with a sword AND arcane power? Look no further than our guide to D&D 5e’s Eldritch Knight! Learn how to customize your fighter for maximum flavor and fun. --- | |||
| 10 D&D Predictions for 2024 | 28 Mar 2024 | 00:17:19 | |
Eric and Matt get out the crystal ball and provide 10 possible insights into the future of D&D 2024 edition, the company Hasbro and gaming in general. Will things get worse before they get better? Will Hasbro make a cash grab (yes)? Will they ever remake DarkSun (no)? Find out here! --- | |||
| We Interview Ed Jowett from Shades of Vengeance | 14 Mar 2024 | 00:27:29 | |
Eric sits down with Ed Jowett, managing director and lead games designer of Shades of Vengeance. Ed's newest game Era: Kaiju (a game where you get to play a giant monster) is currently on kickstarter. --- | |||
| How to Populate a Town with Great NPCs | 22 Feb 2024 | 00:42:11 | |
Have a fantasy town but are lacking in story, depth, and the most important part, people? Beef up your worldbuilding with colorful non-player characters! Dive into the episode and fill your town with example friends, enemies and everything in between. --- | |||
| New Elemental Magic Items | 15 Feb 2024 | 00:29:03 | |
Seeking more elemental power in your D&D games? This week we’ve 8, powerful magic item creations, sure to bring a spark to your player’s eyes. --- | |||
| The Gith: A History of the Githyanki & Githzerai | 01 Feb 2024 | 00:38:18 | |
Whereupon we dive into the strange and sordid history of the Gith from D&D. Discover new game and story options, ways to improve both groups, and learn why the Githyanki and Githzerai hate each other so much. --- | |||
| How to Run a Monk Campaign for D&D | 25 Jan 2024 | 00:34:34 | |
Whereupon we enlighten our listeners on the finer points of running a monk only, or martial arts themed campaign in D&D. Stretch out your body and your mind and let the fists fly! --- | |||
| Collaborative Worldbuilding 101 for D&D | 19 Jan 2024 | 00:28:44 | |
How do you successfully world build? Learn these easy DM tips and tricks to build taverns, towns and worlds WITH your players! --- | |||
| Volcanic Terrain | 11 Jan 2024 | 00:41:22 | |
Whereupon we unleash a molten fountain of knowledge on how to successfully run a game in volcanic terrain. Send your players into a fiery holocaust, where scorching monsters dwell! --- | |||
| D&D Hot Takes pt2 | 21 Dec 2023 | 00:29:41 | |
Once again, Eric & Matt dive into internet shouting matches to go over 10 more spicy D&D hot takes! You have opinions, we have answers…sort of. --- | |||
| Racing Against The Clock | 07 Dec 2023 | 00:34:27 | |
Whereupon we administer swift knowledge for running action packed, fast paced adventures and time sensitive campaigns. DMs and storytellers, grab your seat belts and notepads…let’s create some dramatic tension! --- | |||
| Creatures of the Cold | 01 Dec 2023 | 00:32:39 | |
Whereupon we provide 6 new monsters of frosty death for you to use in your next game! Brave the frigid lands of ice and snow and fight living snowbanks, baleful undead, and cows made of ice cream. --- | |||
| 5 TTRPGs You Should Be Playing Right Now! | 15 Nov 2023 | 00:32:16 | |
Whereupon we showcase 5 amazing tabletop games you should immediately add to your collection. Try your hand at Appalachian horror, play undead city dwellers, sci-fi aliens, and much more! --- | |||
| D&D Version Wars | 02 Nov 2023 | 00:40:37 | |
Whereupon we examine all the various iterations of Dungeons & Dragons to pick out what’s great, and what isn’t. Learn the good, the bad, and the ugly about the world’s greatest roleplaying game! --- | |||
| How to Better Curse Your Players | 24 Oct 2023 | 00:38:51 | |
Whereupon we delve into the lore and storytelling aspects of curses in games, and show you how to vastly improve the experience for your players. Dole out your own home-brew curses that are interesting and amusing, or use the ones provided! --- | |||
| Enthralling Enchantment | 10 Oct 2023 | 00:26:56 | |
Whereupon we entice you with 6 brand-new and absurd enchantment spells, full of amusing lore and flavor. Unleash psychic horror, manipulate crowds and perform the safety dance, all to your delight! --- | |||
| Custom Aberrations | 27 Sep 2023 | 00:42:02 | |
Whereupon we take a walk in the Far Realm to show you how to birth forth your own horrible abominations. Create your own custom tentacled horrors, or use the ones we’ve kindly provided in this episode against your players! --- | |||
| Creative Solutions for Atypical Parties | 19 Sep 2023 | 00:45:13 | |
Whereupon we take the 6 most common problems in a party’s makeup, and provide several creative options to overcome each challenge. Whether it’s an all caster group or a game full of rogues, you can be sure to overcome whatever the storyteller throws at you! --- | |||
| Slightly Used Magic Items | 13 Sep 2023 | 00:23:11 | |
Whereupon we take 10 magic items from the Dungeon Masters Guide and add some fun quirks to each object. Use these quirky objects to add some lore to your game or use them as inspiration to make your own quirks! --- | |||
| Yggdrasil, The World Tree | 06 Sep 2023 | 00:39:52 | |
Whereupon we explore the cosmology and lore of Yggdrasil in the D&D universe. Grow some adventure with the World Tree, and add a little Norse flavor to your next game! --- | |||
| Magical Locations | 23 Aug 2023 | 00:48:22 | |
Whereupon we craft 8 unique pieces of fantasy real estate for you to use in your next game. Have your players journey to draconic graveyards, arcane pyramids, volcanic cages and more! --- | |||
| Managing Character Wealth | 15 Aug 2023 | 00:42:42 | |
Whereupon we grant DMs several storytelling methods to manage the vast amount of problematic wealth player characters obtain, without breaking the game world. Diversify your assets in this high yield episode! --- | |||
| The Con Survival Backpack | 09 Aug 2023 | 00:36:35 | |
Whereupon we show you how to construct your own convention survival backpack to not only get through your first con, but also thrive! Carry the essentials, while having plenty of room for all the stuff you want to buy. --- | |||
| Gnomish Deathtraps | 02 Aug 2023 | 00:28:15 | |
Whereupon we harness our inner Gnome to craft 8 delightfully deadly traps for your favorite game. Spice up your dungeon with whimsical, whorling blades, crazed chemicals, and fake flumphs! --- | |||
| Fantasy Firearms & Explosives | 26 Jul 2023 | 00:37:40 | |
Whereupon we explore some of the controversy regarding guns and explosives in fantasy games, and show you how to incorporate them into your campaign. Break out of dull games, and add some gunpowder for a fiery story! --- | |||
| Mimics | 18 Jul 2023 | 00:42:00 | |
Whereupon we shed light on the stats, tactics and lore of your favorite, adventurer eating, shapeshifting dungeon monsters. Everything’s a mimic in this week’s episode! --- | |||
| Rogue Campaigns | 11 Jul 2023 | 00:31:16 | |
Whereupon we plunder a dragon’s horde of information on how to run an exciting and entertaining rogue campaign. Gather your characters, grab your daggers and spells…it’s time for a robbery! --- | |||
| Magical Materials | 28 Jun 2023 | 00:40:07 | |
Whereupon we present 8 delightful magical materials for you to use in your tabletop game, complete with lore and potentially ridiculous uses. Grab your hardhat and get ready to construct new amazing stories for your players! --- | |||
| Capricious Conjuration | 19 Jun 2023 | 00:28:19 | |
Whereupon we summon 6 new, whimsical conjuration spells for your campaign. Amuse children, roll your enemies with deadly wood and hug plush aberrations! --- | |||
| Surviving Your First Convention | 12 Jun 2023 | 00:36:36 | |
Whereupon we provide much needed intel on how to survive your very first convention. Learn essential con skills, the 1-3-5 rule and how to maximize your fun while keeping safe. --- | |||
| New Warlock Patrons | 30 May 2023 | 00:38:45 | |
Whereupon we bring 4 new, soul tempting Warlock Patrons to the table for you to use in your favorite game. Sign with the powerful, nameless entity and add amazing story elements to your character! --- | |||
| Random Encounters | 23 May 2023 | 00:32:35 | |
Whereupon we examine the common pitfalls with most random encounter tables and how to remake them into amazing tools for story creation. Roll up some epic tales! --- | |||
| Custom Dragons | 16 May 2023 | 00:48:58 | |
Whereupon we hatch several methods to create your own unique dragons in any campaign setting. Unleash your favorite flying reptiles on unsuspecting players, create new monsters, NPCs and more! --- | |||
| Because, Magic | 01 May 2023 | 00:38:25 | |
Whereupon we dive into the age old argument of realism in a magical game and why it’s silly. Learn how to justify whatever crazy ideas you want for you game, because magic exists. --- | |||
| Enchanted Essentials | 24 Apr 2023 | 00:35:34 | |
Whereupon we cobble together 6 essential magic items every adventurer would love to have in their next dungeon descent. Get them today, supplies limited! --- | |||
| D&D Hot Takes | 17 Apr 2023 | 00:41:21 | |
Eric & Matt take a look at 10 internet hot takes from Twitter, regarding D&D and gaming in general. How bad could it be? --- | |||
| Grasslands | 10 Apr 2023 | 00:50:56 | |
Whereupon we instruct new ways to use the often overlooked plains and grasslands terrain for your game. Explore epic ruins in a sea of grass, start a town on the savanna, or just survive a lion attack! --- | |||