End of 2022 & What 2023 Holds for How to Be a Better DM

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yeah welcome back to how to be a better d m i'm your host justin

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lewis here to help you tell better stories for yourself and your players as d

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m sessions of d n d obviously today we did not have a narrative intro

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that's because to day is gonna be a very short episode first of all because

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i want you to take this time usually most people are off of work or

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what not spending time with family i want you to go spend with family that's

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one of the big benefits d n d has and one of the advantages it

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has over video games is that you can still enjoy the story and the excitement

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but you can do it with other people in so i encourage you if you're

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going to play d n d this season go play it with your friends and

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family don't be on line get out get in the real world and be with

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people next up i want to talk about some of the things we're hoping to

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do this year and all of this is is fairly up in the air we

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haven't truly decided tenor and i but these are some of the plans that we

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have started formulating and hopeful it excites you just like it's exciting us so first

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thing we're going to be working on is probably a dungeon master tips and techniques

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book really you know we put out we put out the feedback survey and this

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is one of the things that you know had the biggest number of people say

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that they'd be interested in it so we figured why not let's let's bring it

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on create it hopefully

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the goal in creating it would be to create a full on compendium something that

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is very comprehensive and you know well update it every year but m m we're

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excited about this and we'll see we'll see where this takes us the second thing

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we are thinking about creating is a dungeon master kit and this should go just

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beyond you know having the players handbook and a dungeon master screen and things like

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that really we're going to try and create different levels of kit so your advanced

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dungeon master your digital dungeon master and so forth this is something else we thinking

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of number threes we're actually thinking about adding new team members to the show this

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is something i've been thinking about lately just because time is finite and we want

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to spend our time in the best way pass bl number four is a live

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play show there has been some interest in us creating a live play show i

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mean to be honest i'm i'm somewhat reticent to do it because naturally there's so

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many other shows out there that are live play and probably better production quality and

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things like that but we'll see what happens number five we're definitely going to do

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more dungeon master critique episodes so we're going to record more one shots and critique

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those and we might even open it up to allowing listeners like yourself to send

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in recordings of of them d ming and then we would critique it over the

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show that was a tenors idea and i think it's a brilliant one so that's

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definitely something we're going to look into number six is opening up a discord and

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creating some sort of community aspect i think that would be very interesting but obviously

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we don't want to do something if if no one's going to show up and

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you know we want we want the juice to be worth the squeeze and number

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seven i honestly i think it would be cool to do some sort of live

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meet up uh i don't know how or what we would do but i think

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that would be pretty amazing so if you have any other ideas on things that

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we should be focusing on or things that we should be kind of developing in

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this next year we'd love to hear your thoughts you can always go to better

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dungeon master dot com slash feedback and you know put it in any of the

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fields we'd love to to hear your thoughts i just want to end the year

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by giving you a big thanks and you know a

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just a just a digital hug i've been podcastr for three years now which is

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crazy to think about but i've done this podcast for a little over a year

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i think it might be a year and a half now and i'll tell you

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there are many moments where as a podcaster you're uncertain there are many moments where

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you don't really know what to do moving forward you know you want your downloads

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to increase you want more listeners and blah blah blah but the biggest gratifying thing

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with this podcast compared to my previous podcast is just you know the listeners you

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are real and the one shots the feedback survey you know all the messages we

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get over instagram it shows me that you are real and that you are you

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know being a dungeon master for real and and i just want to say thank

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you for opening up your ear buds as it were and letting me into your

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life and and spending this last year with how to be a better d m

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i know tenor shares his gratitude equally and we just want to say happy new

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year thank you so much for listening to the show i hope you had an

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amazing christmas and i hope twenty twenty three is better than twenty two and every

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year previous for you and yours i want to sign off with hope happiness and

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you know the best dungeon mastering you can have i hope your adventures are long

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and fun and i'll meet you back here next week for another amazing episode in

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twenty twenty three of how to be a better d m but until then let's

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go ahead enrol initiative