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Hope Ben is doing okay after this 😅

I've actually listened to y'all while doing the dishes before

I appreciate the vocabulary lesson today. I feel like Paizo did a good job with book count. Although a 600+ core book was intimidating to some.

Congrats on avoiding laughing through skewered three ways. It was a great effort from you all and you did wonderfully

14:00 - the player who doesn't like D&D but sees it as the best option available... needs to go look at the rest of the hobby again. If a given tRPG system isn't your thing, there are a lot of choices out there. If you're the GM - that's what's getting played. If you're not; become a GM and assemble a group, get them hooked, and then find someone in there to share GM duties with (unless you love GMing).

Dael. If you like one book for all three subjects, you will love Knave (2nd edition) by OSR advocate Ben Milton. Just over 80 pages of goodness with lots of tables. However, it does have a microscopic footprint compared to D&D: the character sheet is one side of an A5 sheet of paper.

Based Ai take James

As a very sad A's fan right now I am so heartened by Dael's Moneyball analogy. Just look at that teams current state of affairs if you want to see how the consumer is going to be treated in the long run. Just as Shawn pointed out whilst I type away!

Both Drakkenheim and the three adventures after Dragon of Icespire have room for Bastions built in to the game. Also turning the Walking Castle in Planescape into a group Bastion could work excellently.

I love you guys! I listen every week and take notes. Only 2 things have stuck with me though and they're both from Dale. D&D 2020 is called 5e2e! and Jorf-dan!

Did my email question also show up in the Spotify comments somehow? Did Ben misspeak? Or was there someone with the same first name as me asking the same question to as me, only on Spotify? Regardless, thanks for the thoughtful answers. For more context (assuming this is in fact my question and not that of my Spotify-using doppelganger), I'm next in line to DM at my table, and the current DM has pitched a level 1-20 campaign he's predicting will last ~2 years (speaking of plans surviving contact with the enemy...). And since I can't turn off the DM portion of my brain even when I'm a player in another game, I've been writing up pitches and worldbuilding stuff for a couple ideas I've had for what I'm going to run at the end of (or during a break from) that campaign and wanted to get people's ideas of how best to use that time.

I have a sturdy DM screen that is wrapped in fake leather, inside the 4 panels I can insert printed sheets. I've printed out on card stock 3 general sheets that are always there and one sheet gets swapped out depending on campaign needs.

Jazza did a video recently talking about AI and how his team used AI art in the pre-production of their game, but removed all the ai art before it was ever distributed. I thought it was fine, but interested to see what other people thought.

I ran Dragon Heist for 3 years from level 1 to 12. They definitely did run Trollskull as a bastion.

Unfortunately James, many schools are not teaching plagiarism and it's impacts well enough.

I do think some things should be presented in a separate book, if nothing else than from a purely logistical perspective. Same reason i stand by the opinion that the structure of the Spelljammer books was a good idea, just executed really poorly. When i'm sitting at the table i want my monsters to be in it's own book that only i have access to, that i can put post-it notes in and tab up so i know exactly where to turn to. I don't want to have to share the same book my players use to read up on a particular spell they're planning to cast, that's both too much passing around and too much page flipping. The DMG i can agree could probably have been combined into the other books but at least give me the MM on it's own. You could infuse most of the DMG into the PHB and then chuck the encounter building, random encounter generation, NPC/villain and lair-related sections into the MM and book, 2 book game.

To use Trollskull Manor in Dragonheist as a bastion I'd suggest the DMsguild product Durnans guide to Tavern keeping.

Very excited for the collaboration with Steamforged Games, love their Epic Encounters sets and have been using them in my current Drakkenhiem campaign.

LOL. I started lorecast because od Dael. Instay here because of Dael.

Just wanted to drop a comment and say how much I appreciate this podcasts coverage of the whole industry.. truely the best - even if the algorithm seems to have a hard time picking up on it ;)

I agree with Dael. The community has tolerated silly stuff from publishers.

I don't think the argument about the cost of an Art Buy versus the cost of a book necessarily holds up because scale of sales has a lot to do with it. I have no idea what a commissioned art piece costs, but let's say for argument sake that it is $500 per image. For an independent publisher who may be selling 10,000 books, then that would be $0.05 of cost per book. If the book had 200 pieces of art in it, then the cost per book would be $10 per book. If, however, WotC could sell 1,000,000 books, and a piece of art cost them the same, and they had 200 pieces of art in their book, then the cost per book would only be $0.10 per book. So, the independent publisher would have considerably lower margins even if they and WotC charged the same price for the book, because it costs the independent 100x more per book for artwork than it does WotC, even though the absolute value of the Art spend was exactly the same.

More more Monster Manuals! 😊

I'm with Dael at 52:11 , I can see the restraint on talking more about the subject especially with a potential deal with Beyond happening. *Needing* 3 books is to much in my opinion.

If you put all the monsters in the adventure books then you would end up with 30 identical stat blocks of goblins kobolds and orcs.

this is the firs titme i cmpletely disagree with DAEL, why would a DM not want the DMG if nothing else for the magic tems, tables and references, or the MOnster sManual??? thats just being silly. The poepe who dont buy adventures hav eot make up their own monsters? again, sILLY! but trhe MONYBALL comparison was , well, ont he money!! :D

PREP is hard... My best prep is after I've written the encounter (or read over the module) and then drive a long trip and get to think about what my players are going to do. This allows me to anticipate reactions according to how the monster/villain would respond instead of pulling it out of my hat when it happens. You just need to know the motivations of the monsters/villains.

My acq inc campaign was filled with pc's that eventually gave in to corporate greed. Their minions were kobolds which were basically indentured servants paid in food, housing, and the privilege of taking care of a young dragon separated from her family. Their base now traverses the Hells.

Ok, I got my DMG & Atherial Expanse books both today. Sorry DMG, ya gotta wait.

I recently asked my players about bastions because I think the concepts are cool but we just finished dragon heist a few months ago and so this homebrew campaign is much mroe focused on travelling and exploring my new homebrew world, and the characters just, none of them have any real reason to tie themselves down to one place for, and so trying to implement bastions would feel forced, they're onyl level 4 right now so maybe there'll be a big shift but as of now I don't think it'd be a good fit so we don't wanna force it.

I stopped my car for this.

I'm just listening to this after finishing my 2 year 9 month campaign as a DM.

Dael was pretty spicy today

Nothing is perfect but flexibility makes it better.

One cannot ever prep too much! The more i have prepared, the more comfortable i am. I know it's not a huge deal to most, but does anyone else get annoyed with the number of times Dael interrupts Ben?

Good stuff

The quote is from Helmuth von Moltke. Prussian Tactician🤔

I believe the "plans are useless. Planning is essential." Quote is actually Eisenhower

Sweep the leg Dael, sweep the leg.

Dael @15mins goes in.

I really appreciate everyone on this podcast, but I have to say the constant interrupting of the speaker that we're kinda used to went to a bit of an extreme here. And the interrupting person then following up on that interruption by making it about themselves and their feelings for having interrupted was a bit unpleasant to watch. Like, oh, yes, please continue to not let the other person finish their sentence by elaborating on how YOU feel bad now, it's not like the person you've constantly been interrupting might be feeling bad as a result, too... ;-)