Dungeon Talk – Episode 34: A Podcast 3-way

Hello and welcome to Dungeon Talk, the General Advice and Discussion podcast from DnD Academy. I am Michael and this is Dungeon Talk Episode 34: A Podcast 3-Way  Caleb and I recorded a version of this podcast a few weeks ago but when I got around to editing it, the sound was horrible.  We decided, rather than just have me over-edit it, and try to make it work, we would just re-record it. Then, we worked it out so Porter (@Rzrstrm) was able to join us so we didn’t just rehash the same conversation.

This is the first part of a longer session, Episode 35 will be out next week with the rest of our 3-way conversation.

In this Episode we start off by talking about Inspiration. Where can you cull ideas for encounters, games, adventures or whole campaigns.

We then move on to a session of Synergy where Caleb and I run through a pack of MTG Core 2014 cards and each come up with a campaign idea from those cards. Porter didn’t get the cards early enough to come up with his own but at the end he throws out a little something-something on the fly.

Here are the cards we used and I’m including my initial thoughts from each card to compare to what I thought and how I ended up using them. We’d love it if you would send us the campaign idea you would have come up with using those same cards.

We take a divergent tangent off of Synergy and talk a little about Social Combat or Skill challenges from DnD 4e.

Next we discuss starting levels for new games / Campaigns and I take another Tangent to discuss the game i’ve always wanted to run. This sparks Porter to talk about a setting he read about of the Aftermath of the Ragnarok.

http://atomicovermind.com/main/games/

Lastly we finish up with me apologizing to Olaf for taking so damn long to get around to reviewing Whitehack. Still haven’t reviewed it, but I wanted to let him know I hadn’t forgotten about him.

A secret has been stolen

Something crashes or has crashed (maybe the location of that thing is what was divined?)

A monster to overcome or the pet of an NPC?

Winged horse, or magical ability to fly?

(I didn’t end up using this at all)

A temporary animal companion. Something fights for the PC’s

A curse is causing people to lose their senses (touch, taste, hear, etc .)

The big bad guy is a traitor

The death of an NPC brings something to light

A cursed magic item causes magic users spells to fizzle – have to get it removed

The curse is tied to a Vampire Lord?

A hero of legend is reborn. maybe an Actual Angel is involved?

Divison between two nations – Vampire/Angel?

PC’s have to fight an Ice Hydra on the wall of frost.

Acolyte of angel religion, can turn undead/vampires.

Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoy.

Comments and Feedback are always welcome.

~Michael

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