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Episode Synopsis
Episode 226 of Mastering Dungeons!
Main topic: Monster Manual Design!
We review the latest monster previews and continue to examine how 2024 has changed monster design.
News: ENNies Changes AI Policy, Dimension 20 Rocks Garden, Kickstarter Breakdown, and more!
Contents
00:00 Dimension 20 Rocks Garden
03:11 How Restart Campaign?
10:23 Emergency Takeoff Scenario?
20:46 Do You Fudge Dice?
29:50 New MM Previews
37:53 ENnies AI Policy Change
43:33 Kobold Press on Kickstarter Business
50:01 Keith Baker on Fiendish Gnolls
54:33 MM Design Comparisons
55:18 Empyreans
01:11:48 Ancient Gold Dragon
01:19:44 Semi-Alphabetical Actions
01:26:47 Vampire Familiar
01:34:48 Gargoyle
01:37:02 False Appearance Changes
01:39:10 Mimic Shapeshift
01:41:27 Which Mini Wore It Better?
01:42:34 Shout-Outs
Thank you for listening! Get the full show notes with links on Patreon.
Show Search Engine: https://mdsearch.alphastream.org/
Our intro and outro music is Metropolis Fanfare, provided royalty-free by Tabletop Audio (https://tabletopaudio.com) under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
MP3 file metadata populated with Online MP3 Podcast Chapter Editor, built by Dominik Peters. https://mp3chapters.github.io/ and customized for Mastering Dungeons by Vladimir Prenner from Croatia.
Main topic: Monster Manual Design!
We review the latest monster previews and continue to examine how 2024 has changed monster design.
News: ENNies Changes AI Policy, Dimension 20 Rocks Garden, Kickstarter Breakdown, and more!
Contents
00:00 Dimension 20 Rocks Garden
03:11 How Restart Campaign?
10:23 Emergency Takeoff Scenario?
20:46 Do You Fudge Dice?
29:50 New MM Previews
37:53 ENnies AI Policy Change
43:33 Kobold Press on Kickstarter Business
50:01 Keith Baker on Fiendish Gnolls
54:33 MM Design Comparisons
55:18 Empyreans
01:11:48 Ancient Gold Dragon
01:19:44 Semi-Alphabetical Actions
01:26:47 Vampire Familiar
01:34:48 Gargoyle
01:37:02 False Appearance Changes
01:39:10 Mimic Shapeshift
01:41:27 Which Mini Wore It Better?
01:42:34 Shout-Outs
Thank you for listening! Get the full show notes with links on Patreon.
Show Search Engine: https://mdsearch.alphastream.org/
Our intro and outro music is Metropolis Fanfare, provided royalty-free by Tabletop Audio (https://tabletopaudio.com) under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
MP3 file metadata populated with Online MP3 Podcast Chapter Editor, built by Dominik Peters. https://mp3chapters.github.io/ and customized for Mastering Dungeons by Vladimir Prenner from Croatia.
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