Dungeon Talk: Episode 6 – The College Years

Hello all,

In this week’s Dungeon Talk Podcast, Evan, after remember to turn on the recorder (after we had been talking for half an hour!) discuss some of my all time favorite Dungeons and Dragons memories.  We tried to separate what made those games so special and memorable from being in College at the same time.  We then got into a really good discussion about the amount of verbal description I use in my games. As a bit of DM therapy we covered the fact that although I jokingly call myself Mumbles on this site it is tied to the fact I know that I have an accent (I’m from South Eastern Kentucky originally) I tend to talk fast and I do on occasion get tongue tied and mumble.  To overcome this when I give presentations at work and when I DM I tend to practice in my head what I’m going to say.  I think I’m really good at improvising on the fly but there is a substantial difference in how I describe scenes i’ve practice vs. the one’s I’m making up as I go.

I’ve been listening to a couple live-play D&D podcasts and it’s been a tremendous help to me as a DM. I pick out things I like (and steal, story wise) and then the things I think the DM could do better. I’m hoping to be able to record and post our Live Play D&D Podcast soon and then after each session post a dissection of it; what’s good and what’s not.

Please listen and we’ve appreciate any feedback you have.

Table Topic # 1 –  Discussion of my game experiences while in College  00:00 – 30:26

Table Topic # 2 – Underselling a moment  / taking time to describe in detail    31:25 – 53:39

Thanks!!

Michael – AKA Mumbles.

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