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oh dear

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well justin let's get started with a warm up okay you ready

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ready

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good okay so we're just kind of a little bit on topic or at least

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adjacent topic for our discussion to day i want you to think of the coolest

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underwater fight you can think of ah present it on

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ye

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on a delectable canvas for s

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you got it it's funny you said underwater fight because i was reading the prompt

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and i in my mind i thought like a water fight that you'd have during

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this summer with your friends

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yeah

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and i was like

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yeah

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oh that's interesing okay but this is total different so

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m

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let me yeah

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you and your companions find the well the boy had presumably gone missing he's been

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gone for a few days and this was his last siting and all accounts that

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you've you've heard to the fact that he's probably dead at the bottom of the

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well so there's only one thing to do you lower yourselves down to the well

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oh

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and it's it's surprisingly large you know you all seem to fit and as you

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yeah

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submerge yourselves to start looking for

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yeah

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the body

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oh

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you feel a current and the current pulls you and before you know it you

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find yourself pulled into a rib tide and thrust into this deep ravine this well

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goes a lot deeper than you thought because it actually shunts you into this large

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open space this large ocean space and in fact the well is nowhere near you

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and in fact you don't feel like you're even on this plane anymore all you

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see is water around you quick as a flash your cleric casts water breathing on

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everyone i don't know if cleric can actually do but that's what i'm imagining

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yeah

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cast water breathing on everyone and so you don't need to worry about that but

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that you mentioned it the rogue seems to be missing which for rogues is not

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a strange thing and now the barbarians oh this is not good you finally take

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yeah

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a chance look for what's going on and it seems that

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oh

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large tentacles

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oh

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coming out of this ravine and pulling members of your party hither and thither and

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naturally

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oh

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you're going to investigation mode and defense mode and you investigate to see what's at

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the end of this long tentacle these long tentacles and instead of a cracking or

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an octopus you see a giant head a human lots of tentacles and it's grasping

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and at this point you're you're in full fight mote it's this giant human head

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at the bottom with tentacles that come from right under and and the head is

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bald and it's mail and it has very it it has a very strong jaw

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and it kind of has a smolder and recognize that this the rock you are

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fighting rock to puss

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ah

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what do yu think

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well i have to say i was like

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yeah

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i love the setting i love it and then when you

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yeah

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got to the end i was like okay a giant head that's got a smoldering

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low so i brought a handsome head to a to a water fight that's that's

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fun

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oh

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and then you call it the octopus sounds like okay he wins fine fine

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i had to do that because i printed on my three d printer like a

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little with three printing there are certain models that you can make that are one

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print but there actually are

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hm

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ticulating and i printed this octopus that had the head of dwainetherock johnson and i

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was like you know

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yeah

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that has to be able to fit into

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oh

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an underwater fight somewhere you know

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and you did it you absolutely did it

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uh uh

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so proud of you you've come so far

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yeah thank you thank you this is the best we can do at nine o'clock

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on a wednesday night so i'm proud of myself

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yeah

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yeah

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i am too i'm very proud of you

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yeah

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well with that

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yeah

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being said i'd like to welcome everybody to the podcast this is how to be

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a better dam and today we're going to be cussing how the dungeon masters guide

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can help you provide a better story a better adventure for you and your players

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but first off let's let's go into a little bit of the announcements so we

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have one shot coming up this saturday we were able to we had to postpone

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a lot i was sick the past few weeks so that i kind of threw

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a wrench into everything but yeah so for for you who signed up for that

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i really appreciate your patients and all of the moving around that we had to

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do i'm feeling better just a light cough

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m

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here and there

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uh

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but but not

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h

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bad at all yeah otherwise doing well it was my birthday yesterday so that was

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obviously um yeah otherwise

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so if you guys get a chance

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yeah

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reach out until tanner happy birthday

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oh no please i didn't bring that oh just and now just gonna

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no we got to sing happy birthday well we won't sing it here because i'm

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not a very good singer but you in podcast land while you're doing whatever you're

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doing just go ahead and sing tenor happy birthday

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and i'll hear it i will find a way

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m

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just get

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oh

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just getting but honestly

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i love

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yeah

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it

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very excited that that i'm feeling better and i get to do the one shot

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super excited um otherwise justin do you have any other announcements that we need to

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talk about

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yeah one one announcement we are excuse me we are always looking to improve the

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show and the quickest way to do that is by you the listener telling us

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what is good and what is not very good so if you get an opportunity

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i direct message us on instagram at how to be a better d m or

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send an email to how to be a better d m at mail dot com

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and just let us know your thoughts specifically things that you

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yea

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would change or improve and even things that you like and that's really just gonna

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you know help us hopefully give you more so that way you can have better

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dungeon master sessions better d n d sessions and it's just all around better also

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if you wanted to join the one shot that's happening this saturday but you weren't

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in time we're doing another one at the end of this month on june twenty

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fifth i know that's a saturday so hopefully most of you can make it but

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you also want to sign up for that

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perfect yeah and and just seconding what what justin was saying we'd love to hear

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what kind of topics you would like us to discuss specifically um you know we

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do focus on deming and how to be a better dem so anything that's like

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oh a lot of

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ye

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other because we know that this is fairly talked about top right um just like

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how to run a d and d adventure we would love to

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i

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know if there's anything that you feel like is not discussed enough right because there's

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so many is you can talk about so so definitely reach out um but yeah

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i'm thinking we just get into the main topic

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sounds like a plan

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m perfect so like i mentioned at the top we're just going to be talking

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about the classic old dungeon masters guide for fifth edition d n d there's a

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good chance that you know if you're listening to this podcast you found it whether

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you bought it or found it online or anywhere else and

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oh

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i'm glad you did here's the thing and why we wanted to talk about it

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is it's kind of a big old thing you know it's got a lot of

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sections um some people probably really enjoy reading through a page by page other people

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and i got a little intimidated i don't know what about you justin

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honestly i am working my way through it page by page and i feel like

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you're definitely right my my recommended approach to this would be to buy the dungeon

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masters guild or borrow it or steal it but hopefully you don't get caught i'm

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not telling you to steal that i'm just joking but

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no he said it he said it just get it

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acquire the dungeon masters guide and then come at it with lots of questions that's

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how you're going to get the most out of it reading it covered cover is

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really interesting and more than any it just kind of tells you where to find

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certain things you're not gonna remember everything but if you come out with a lot

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of questions with a lot of questions your first of all you're going to remember

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the answers to those questions but second of all you're going to enjoy it lot

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more because you're going to find a lot more used to it rather than just

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reading it cover to cover even though it's super interesting in my opinion

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yeah that's great that's wonderful advice and here's the really

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oh

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great thing for dem's we have time to prepare ahead of time sometimes you know

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as much as we'd like

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yeah

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but regardless as

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yeah

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you're planning an adventure you can turn to the dungeon masters guide for any specific

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questions that you have whether that's about character creation about the rules about environments or

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you're just looking for inspiration um that you can turn there and honestly we thought

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that would be great to share some of our favorite sections justin do you have

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a favorite section of the of the dungeon masters guide

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as far as a favorite section i don't think i have a favorite section i

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have a couple that m going through it have really stood out to me as

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being particularly useful and interesting

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yeah

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the first part and maybe this is because right now i'm kind of in the

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process of building my own world as it were and if you ever do it

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one shot with me this is the world that you'll play in but there's a

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whole section in the beginning of the dungeon masters guide about really building out the

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world of your campaign and for me it helps kind of flesh out the ideas

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of settlements castle cities you know geographically but also um kind of the political i

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found learning about political systems was really interesting for example a plutocracy that was something

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i'd never heard of but that's in the dungeon dungeon masters guide and it's essentially

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where society is governed by the wealthy who kind of buy ruling seats on a

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council it or it seems more like a trade commission than anything but i found

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that was very interesting and honestly it helped reading that section helped me formulate some

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of the governments in particular world that i'm building one in particular is it's called

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the it's called the qnidin tradition and it's kind of a what it's a gerintocracy

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so they venerate and value those who are oldest uh and that's kind of how

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their government works and it really helped me kind of flesh out a lot of

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that idea of this is a society that places the biggest emphasis on the people

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who have lived the longest and have the most wisdom and things like that and

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i just found that very interesting and useful as well as you know going aside

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from that i found that learning about the different planes and the gods and things

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that was just playing interesting excuse me yeah that was just playing interesting to me

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and it really helped me understand a lot of the context around you know the

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fay wild to fell elemental planes upper and lower planes and then you know the

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outer realm and if if you don't know anything about that then you definitely need

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to get the dungeon masters guide and read about it

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yeah and what i love about that is maybe you're the kind of person like

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me who's like hey

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ah

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i don't need different planes in order to get the most out of adventure i'm

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going to say that i and people who think like that are wrong just

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yeah

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but honestly

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yeah

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i think that there's so much variety of adventure is so many different adventures that

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you can have if you just branch out a little bit there's a reason why

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so in past dungeon masters guides they actually didn't put as much emphasis on world

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building but in this one they actually throw out like riot at the start they

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you know chapter one a world of your own chapter two creating a multi verse

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and they kind of really go in depth into those different things and the reason

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why is because half of an advent

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yeah

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sure is

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oh

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wonder right just creating this sense of wonder and so it's

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oh

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like hey one of the best ways to do that is just you know have

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an adventure take place or at least part of an adventure take place in a

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different plane or have you know your enemies come from specific place and that kind

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of informs the story

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yeah

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so yeah i think that's that's wonderful

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yeah

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yeah

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if i can add on that you're totally right and one example of this wonder

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is i like a group

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excuse me i like a group on you tube called high rollers i think they're

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out of the u k and they have a campaign called eros and if you're

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if you're listening to this spoiler alert but there's one specife part in their campaign

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where they're finding kind of this

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yeah

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cosmic umaboration i guess you could say and when the boration dies um or i

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don't remember fully but the operation the only way to kill it to do this

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specific spell or something and it accidentally transported all of them across the universe to

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another planet and in this world or in this campaign the planets functioned as different

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planes and it was really interesting and it did increase my you know my sense

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of wonder that suddenly they're randomly on this plane of angels essentially but in this

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world most of

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yeah

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the planes have been conquered by this this four uh and anyways so you know

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you'd think that they were in good hands being on an angel planet but instead

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they're in the heart of the enemy and it's just like i said increased my

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sense of wonder because in one second they're on this island on the home planet

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and then randomly before they had ever space travelled and this is kind of a

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blend of science fiction and fantasy anyway it just you said it increased my sense

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of wonder because instantly from one second to another they were in one place to

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a completely unfamiliar place with different rules entirely for how reality worked and i think

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that really cool way to like you said build your world and still wonder on

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your players

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yeah exactly and

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yeah

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i think that

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yeah

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actually kind of transitions perfectly into the section i want to talk about which is

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rules i do love how in that campaign you were talking about and this is

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not this is true of not just that campaign but any time like there is

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a different plane you know different planes have totally rules right like you're

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hm

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going to have to roll different checks

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yeah

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depending on how everything works

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yeah

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and and the great thing is is that they have the rules right there in

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that in that creating multi vers section but then also there's a full section in

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the guide that's just about rules rules are pretty like if

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yeah

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you're just talking about talking talking about talking about rules that kind

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yeah

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of sounds boring and end it is if you're just you know and ere now

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i'm just like oh my goodness but like is that a like what kind of

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d c check is that

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yeah

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you know but instead

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yeah

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you know the great thing about the rule section is just that anything that you

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can come up with they're going to have something being like hey this is how

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you tweak it right this is you know if you've got if you've got this

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many players and this is their level this is what you can expect as far

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as a monster

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a

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you know difficulty and everything so like it just has everything that you could want

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especially at the end of the book m it's got this dungeon master's workshop was

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just goes to town on telling you a bunch of different a bunch of different

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like variant rules which i love because i'm i'm a sucker for you know making

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things different but also having rules backing that up right um

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yeah

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yeah i thought i should mention because like as much as we get very excited

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about everything else is the rules that make d and d very pass well and

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so that's that's what i love about that

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i think you're completely right and i think that section is important to because it

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also it kind of helps you make your own rules or for example it kind

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of teaches you how to tweak monsters or what to do with creating your own

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monsters or sub classes or races

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oh

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classes things like that

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yep

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and i think that's the that's the beauty of the dungeons masters guide as you

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said you know you said that in previous issues previous editions i guess

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yeah

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they didn't focus so much on world building i really feel like with this one

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they're trying to put you in the seat of world creator story writer kind of

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an idea and really put you in the seat of hey this is your game

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it's not our game it's your so here's how make it easier for you you

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know which is actually kind of the point of this podcast too this is kind

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of like like a running dungeons master's guide hopefully really just to make being a

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dungeon mask easier and more fun and hopefully cheaper for everyone you know

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absolutely i think i think that this they did a really good job at making

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it kind of a one stop shop for just about everything you need now there's

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a cave

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yeah

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out there and i'm going to throw this out for the rules section uh this

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is such a good book for preparation i would say that

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m

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it's kind of a crappy book at you know for in the middle of the

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session it's like oh my goodness what do i want to do it's like no

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it's

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hm

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a big book a lot of pages too late you know should ave thought about

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that earlier just

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yeah

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roll with it for now you know

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or you need

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i

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like

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think

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thousands of

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yeah

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sticky

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go

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notes

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ahead

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yeah

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yeah exactly right i think that i think you should

lewis]: 00:20:11

yeah

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find out the places that you are constantly referring

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yeah

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to like for example i don't know if justin and i are super huge fans

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of you know random encounters or like tables for treasures or anything like that because

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because we typically like to have a more personal decision about what's in different places

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but the thing is if you are the kind person who you know maybe you

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meet regularly enough and you're not trying to do some kind of epic you're trying

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to make it more like oh it's more randomized then like you could absolutely put

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some sticky notes or some tabs for those different tables and in your set right

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that's one you can quickly

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hm

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reference otherwise i would say that m rule of thumb is always if it's going

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to slow down the story and kind of grind things to halt and it's not

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like crazy important then i would say you know just just do a filler rule

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you can always afterwards you know make a note at the time and then afterwards

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look up with the actual rule is come back and then in few sessions you'll

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get it right but

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m

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and of

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yeah

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course the caveat is if a player's life is ever on the line you're going

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to have

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oh

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to take the time and find out the rule is just you know that's

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hm

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that's it given but otherwise i would say most other times try and do your

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preparation beforehand maybe have a few tabs but otherwise realize that once the sessions going

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you won't have as much flex it just refer to it unless you're a much

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oh

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better person than i am

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i agree with you completely and actually uh in case there's anyone out there who's

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like the dodged master's guide is terrible uh it doesn't have everything that's for sure

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and one thing specifically it doesn't have that i've had a devil of a time

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trying to figure out and create and find myself as rules really good rules for

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when your player is cursed with lycanthropy so if you're out there have heard of

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something like that definitely reach out to me but i'm glad you also mentioned loot

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and i know garret's going to laugh over at two twenty five games but i

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am still on the fence about random encounters um because i do like them at

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one on one hand but you know i see what he was saying about like

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anyways that's another discussion for another day but

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uh

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you mentioned lute

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h

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and actually lute is one of my favorite parts of the book i remember when

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my brother my older brother got the dungeon master's guide like two years before i

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ever got it and he he would catch me with the book and i'd be

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looking through it all the different like magic items because there's so many in there

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oh yeah

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and they're all just so different more than anything i think that alone makes the

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book worth it because finding cool magic items is one of the best things as

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a player and being able to match the right item with the right player it's

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kind of hard but it's also a fun challenge and actually two items that i

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found in the dungeon masters god that i think particularly cool is darns instant fortress

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which is kind of like this it's like you know it is what it says

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it is it's like thirty tall twenty by twenty by twenty i guess twenty by

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twenty by thirty like adamantine fortress that is like super durable built and it's it's

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pretty cool but i also like another item called bag of tricks which is like

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a little bag filled with like fuzz ball that you can pull out and throw

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and then they turn into animals that's kind of a cute one that you know

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i think anyone could could get behind one particular item

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oh

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that is also in there and it's actually it's not an item it's more of

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a artifect and it's a duo artifact especially with stranger things coming out that i

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think everyone would be interested in hearing about the hand and eye of vecna are

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in the dungeon master's guide so if you want to build an entire campaign around

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and those two items there there for you and that's like an instant you know

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b b b b g you know so those are some of my thoughts about

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ah

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loot

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ah it's i'll tell you i've done the same thing the thing that always gets

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me is just cloaks any time there's a cloak i'm like

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oh

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oh yeah because the

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uh

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art work that they do for it is just

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h

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kill or

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yeah

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um

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hm

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yeah just a random thing but yeah i love the loot that they just got

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the treasure in there and it's just very nicely put on obviously you know i'm

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sure that everybody probably tries to create their own you can you know and they

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have rules for that as well

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she

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but if you don't want to they have so many options of just already adluthat's

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just wonderful to just pick and use um but so justin i was i was

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re going through the different sections in the dungeon master yard in preparation for this

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and one section that i i'll be honest i haven't used that much but i

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kind of wanted to shout it out because i think it's awesome that it exists

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so you know how they have the ppendaces at the end right

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yeah

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yeah so the i believe it's the last ependency m d

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m

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they have a dungeon master inspiration i think which is just a list reading for

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different kinds of things right like they've got real world history and myth and just

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like a selection of books like they literally have two books called like one book

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called cat les another one called castle and i'm like okay those are essentially the

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same title but they obviously you know felt they needed to put it and they

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just have all

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m

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and like they have some for writing for example and we've talked about the importance

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of writing that it's like hey

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hm

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i know that a lot of people like to do it off the cuff but

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if you have a pre written you know dialogue or paragraph introing you into setting

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that can make all the difference and they just have

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hm

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a whole section of books there and then even some books there directly about gaming

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um yeah i'm just very impressed that they took the time for that because because

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i found

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uh

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that you know

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uh yeah

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when i was doing dracula theme adventure i

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hm

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drew a lot on what i knew from you know the actual book dracula and

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that's

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hm

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my but i'm like hey they put the section there and obviously it's not all

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encompassing

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oh

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but they have some really good source material that i think would be worth reading

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yeah

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you might have just filled up my amazon wish list for christmas

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i know it's a lot of books here

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yeah

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like a lot of freaking books

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yeah

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but but they look great honestly like they have one that's called the map makers

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and i'm like okay

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o

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i've never wanted or to learn more about maps until i read that title

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oh

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and then i was like okay apparently

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h

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i need to learn about maps now

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so here's a here's a fun prompt for you dums out there go to the

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appendix and then pick a random title and make that the title of your campaign

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you know

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absolutely yeah i can't agree more

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oh

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it's just oh and then they have a bunch of like garry guy aces like

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books like written by him as like source of material

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wow

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that i'm like classic and they even have one about the history

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that's awesome

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of game that's awesome but anyway yeah i just found that and i had to

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share because i'm i'm just a real sucker for

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yeah

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lists of books i'll never

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yeah

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it's kind of sad but like i'll never just go to barns and noble or

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some other book store find a book i like and then just buy it i've

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always got

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right

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a look online and it's like top whatever list you know is like to fiction

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top

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yeah

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fantasy to you know and so like having

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hm

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a list built in i'm like well that's great

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and maybe one thing we can do in the future is give kind of uh

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you know me and you can take one of the books each and then read

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it and then give like a cliff notes version episode of it to the to

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the listener and see if that's what they like but

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great idea

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yeah anyways any final closing thoughts

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uh honestly it's it's worth having this ready like i would say that no matter

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in what form you get it just having the ability go through it

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oh

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and read sections of it and refresh or learn for the first time about different

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things it's really going to add a lot of fresh air so speak to your

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to your

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yeah

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campaign and it's just going to be better overall

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agreed i would also add if you're a player only you don't need this if

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you are only doing dungeon mastering as kind of a one and done thing you

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don't need this if you're planning on making it hobby and you really want to

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excell and kind of build your skills then this is essential so but thank you

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listener for joining us thanks for coming on our adventure make sure use tuned afterward

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