Dungeon Mastery

Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
In Episode 20 Mitch and Jesse Answer some audience questions and rant about some grievances they have with tabletop rpgs.
-Catch-up
-Audience Questions
-How Much Preparation Should I Do?
-How do I Avoid Railroading?
-Downtime
-Jesse Rants about Legendary Resistance in 5th Ed.
-Mitch Rants about Fan Entitlement
-Jesse Rants about Passive and Active Perception Checks
-Mitch Rants about Dice Goblins

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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
Mitch is finishing up his theatre production season and is not available to record yet. So this episode Jesse and new guest DM Jordan Ryan get down and dirty into the Homebrewing basics.
-Catch-up and Intro
-Why Homebrew?
-A Slight Tangent to Jesse's Custom Classes
-When Is It Appropriate to Homebrew?
-How Do I Homebrew?
-A Simple Guide
-Quickfire Tips and Tricks from Experience
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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
Mitch, is headed into theatre to perform on stage for the first time pre-covid. So this episode Jesse and returning guest DM Campbell Sewell talk Science Fiction! How to run a sci-fi game whats important and what are the different types?
-Catch-up and Intro
-Defining Sci-fi
-Types of Sci-fi
-Running a Sci-fi Game
-Quickfire Tips and Tricks from Experience
-Beta testing our new Outro
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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
In Episode 19 Mitch and Jesse reminisce about their childhood by exploring the use of nostalgia in your games.
-Catch-up
-What is Nostalgia
-Types of Nostalgia in TTRPG's
-What is its Purpose
-Tips on How to Use Nostalgia

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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
In a special bonus episode Mitch and Jesse respond to an audience request for a look at Boss Fights, how to create fun, challenging, memorable and balanced engagements with those pesky BBEG's.
-Catch-up
-Our Tips For Boss Fights
-Brainstorming Session
-Teaser Trailer for Tabletop Unknown https://www.spreaker.com/show/tabletop-unknown

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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
In Episode 18 Mitch and Jesse explain why subverting expectations isn't as easy as it seems, as well as explain the types, how to do the subverting, and what to expect, while doing it!
-Catch-up
-Defining Subverting of Expectations and Types
-What Does it Achieve
-How Do we Subvert Expectations
-What Not to do
-Quickfire Tips
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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
It's a spooky season for a spooky Halloween episode, and Mitch is also moving house. So this episode Jesse and returning guest DM Campbell Sewell talk Horror. What is it? What is fear? How does one spook?
(NOTE TO ARACNAPHOBES SUGGESTED SKIP 29:25 - 30:50)
-Catch-up and Intro
-Defining Horror
-Scientific Examination of Fear
-Consent and Buy-In
-Types of Horror
-Principles and Structure of Horror
-Quickfire Tips - Creating a Horror Setting With Senses
-How to Spook Your Players
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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
In Episode 17 Mitch and Jesse murder the concept of player character death, the different kinds, how to do it, and how to screw it up.
-Catch-up
-Types of Player Character Death
-How to do Player Character Death
-What You Should Avoid
-Quickfire Tips
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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
In Episode 16 Mitch and Jesse joke about placing comedy and humour into your tabletop games, without making a tit of yourself.
-Catch-up
-Function and Types of Comedy
-How to Get it Right
-How to Get it Wrong
-Quickfire Tips
-Jesse Embarrasses Himself
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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
In Episode 15 Mitch and Jesse discuss the subtle art of Foreshadowing, Respond to an audience request about "solo" or Duet sessions, and they also get distracted by Malaphors.
-Catch-up
-Tips for 1 on 1 Games
-What is Foreshadowing
-Why Do We Need it?
-How to Do it
-Malaphors
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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
In Episode 14 Mitch and Jesse have a chat about player feedback, what to ask when to ask it and how to use that information to make the best work possible. They also perfect their 'Quickfire' method for tips, with karate hands and pious finger waving.
-Catch-up
-What do we Mean by Player Feedback
-When to Ask for Player Feedback
-How to Effectively Act Upon Feedback
-Quickfire Tips!
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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
In Episode 13 Mitch and Jesse talk you through the elusive art of Improvising, when to do it, why to do it and some "quickfire" tips on how to do it well. Jesse also incorrectly states our twitter handle twice!
-Catch-up
-Respond to the Audience
-When to Plan, When to Improv
-Setting Yourself Up For the Best Improv
-Quickfire Improv Tips
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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
In Episode 12 Mitch and Jesse discuss upping your combat game, with tips for easier play for DM's and players, as well as tools and tricks for more engaging and unique battles.
-Catch-up
-Respond to the Audience
-How to Make Combat Easier for You
-How to Make combat Easier for Your Players
-More Engaging Combat
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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
In Episode 11 Mitch and Jesse talk about evoking player emotion, how to do it, why you should try, and what it is used for. Not only that but they talk about why they have been missing in action for a month and new changes to the D&D system.
-Catch-up
-Tabletop News
-Why do we need to Evoke player emotions
-What is it used for
-How to do it effectively
-Final Tips
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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
In Episode 9 Mitch and Jesse focus on : Inspiration, where to get it, how to use it, and what its for.
-Tabletop News
-Audience Response
-What you need Inspiration for
-Where to draw Inspiration
-Implementing Inspiration
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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
In Episode 8 Mitch and Jesse invite guest DM Campbell Sewell to join them in talking about Player Dynamics. What they are and why they are important.
-Introductions
-News from the Tabletop World
-What are Player Dynamics and Why are They Important
-What Causes Poor Group Dynamics
-What to Take Note of Before Session Zero
-What to Take Note of During the Process
-Common Player to Player Problems and Tips to Fix Them
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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
In Episode 7 Mitch and Jesse discuss Religion, how to make believable gods, interesting and compelling structures for religious organisations and collection of tips for building your own.
-Audience Correspondence.
-What Religion Involves and What it Serves.
-Tips For Building Religion.
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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
In Episode 6 Mitch and Jesse discuss the most common types of players your are going to come across,how facilitate and manage them, and how to identify them
Topics covered:
-Non disruptive Archetypes
-How to Facilitate them
-Disruptive Archetypes
-Clown Goblins
-How to Manage Them
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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
In Episode 5 Mitch and Jesse give you the steps to running you Session Zero: the informative precursor to your first session with your players.
Topics covered:
-Steps for Session Zero for New players
-Steps for Session Zero for Experienced players
-Tips and Tricks for running a Session Zero
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Dungeon Mastery is the podcast for levelling up your DM skill.
In Episode 4 Mitch and Jesse talk about how to create interesting and unique characters
Topics covered:
-Biggest flaw
-Simplicity
-Making main NPC's
-Beyond good and Evil
-What do they want?
-Voice
Disclaimer* Unfortunately Jesse's audio has a couple of issues, some audio clicking and 2 or 3 drop outs. Jesse has since got a new microphone.