Dungeon Master’s Block

This week we focus on how to successfully start a campaign. It is fun and all to start in a tavern, but at times that start can become...well...stale like the left over bread in the cellar. As much fun as over sized mutated rats can be or the town hobo who babbles about tales of ages past, consider starting your campaign a different way this time around. Listen closely to the ideas and consider implementing some of your own. If you do so let us know! We would love to hear them. Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected] This episode edited by: DM Chris

This week for our third episode in the Creation & Inspiration series, we are joined by Michael from the RPG Academy. Michael shows us Synergy; a new way to use Magic the Gathering cards to create stories for your D&D games. We also each have a Top Ten List for you! It's a great episode! Enjoy! RPG Academy @theRPGAcademy Let us know what you think. You can communicate with us in many different ways. They are listed below. Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected] Music is brought to us this week by: Nathan Alfrod Song: Anthem This episode edited by: DM Mitch

We are joined this week by Flawful Jared, as we discuss how to make NPCs worthy of remembrance. Let us know what you think. You can communicate with us in many different ways. They are listed below. Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected] Music is brought to us this week by: Nathan Alfrod Song: Entrance This episode edited by: DM Mitch

This week we dump out our mailbag of holding to answer some questions, share ideas and stories from you the listeners! Let us know what you think. You can communicate with us in many different ways. They are listed below. Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected] Music is brought to us this week by: Nathan Alfrod Song: Swirl This episode edited by: DM Mitch

Everything Aquatic Campaigns! This episode we have a guest Rich Howard join us. Rich has been around the RPG community for years and has been playing DnD since his first sleep spell at the age of 8. We thank his older brother for his dedication to the RPG community ever since. We talked about a lot in this episode dealing with Aquatic Campaigns. Listed below our some of the links that we talked about in the episode. Rich Howards Column's and Websites: http://tribality.com/category/columns/richs-gameroom/ http://tribality.com/category/columns/from-the-depths/ http://www.richhowardauthor.com/ http://richplayingitforward.blogspot.com/ RPGs Talked about: Blue Planet http://capriciousgames.com/blue_planet/index.html Cerulean Seas: http://paizo.com/products/btpy8i1m?Cerulean-Seas-Campaign-Setting The Strangling Sea: http://pelgranepress.com/site/?p=16798 The Blood Sea Documentaries and Movies Referenced: The Blue Planet: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296310/ Aliens of the Deep: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417415/ Mermaids The Body Found: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uKvuz_eulk The Abyss: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096754/ We love to hear from you our community. Let us know what you thought about this episode. Also feel free to let us know what you would like to hear more of in the future. You can reach us at the following location: Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected] Music is brought to us this week by: Nathan Alfrod Song: Joyride

This week we start a new series on The Dungeon Master's Block where we focus on the ever popular game League of Legends. We have noticed the growth over the past few years and decided to begin work on showing you how some of you favorite champions, items, and much more, can become an integral part into your gaming world. This week we delve into the realm of the Freljord. We put on our snow boots, Coats, and grab our Dire Boar mounts and travel in to see what we can find. We show you some of the potential champions that you could use as NPC's in your world. We unearth some unique items that could find their way into your worlds as well. With your ice pick in hand what are you waiting for. Hit the play button. Here is the Risk Board we discuss in the Lightbulb section: Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected] Music is brought to us this week by: Nathan Alfrod Song: Joyride

This is our first episode in the Divine Spotlight Series. On these episodes we will choose 3 gods to discuss, give ideas for extra lore, and adventure hooks to use in your campaigns. On this episode we will take a look at Pelor, Olidammara, and Erebus. Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected] The song in this episode is Tribal Arcade_Lost by Nathan Alford.

On this episode we discuss what makes a great villain a great villain. Strike fear into your players today! The Crit Fumble Chart of Doom Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected] The song in this episode is Stadium Thing by Nathan Alford. soundcloud.com/nathan-alford

On our second Magic the Gathering episode, we invite Magic Mark back to discuss an alternative alignment system...the magic color pie! Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected]

This week we are proud to present our very first DMB Christmas episode. We have a lot jam packed into this episode so hunker down, grab your egg nog and cookies and prepare to have your ears pleased with this special episode of the Dungeon Master's Block. Here is what you are in for: Story Time: This week we extended our episode's story time to be well...pretty much the whole episode. We share our favorite stories over our years of playing DnD. We laugh, reminisce, and pretty sure someone might even cry...not really but close when we talk about Daima. Twitter Jokes: We share the best answers to the twitter jokes that we have posted over the past month. Special shout outs to those of you that won. These are classic. MailBag of Holding: As a gift from us to you we include a new segment to our show. The Mail Bag of Holding makes its DMB premier with a fitting christmas story that was submitted by DM Mainprize. Thanks for the email. DMB Christmas Song: We slaved over making this song, as did our NPC Band, the best it could possibly be for all of you. We hope you enjoy the song at the end of the episode. Who knows if it goes over well we may try our hand at it again next year. Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected] Have a Merry Christmas Everyone! Keep on Dungeon Mastering!

Welcome back to another episode. Glad you could join us. This week we have a jam packed episode. We crawl through what it takes to build a quality dungeon that both you and your players will enjoy. We love dungeons here at the Dungeon Master's Block and we want you to enjoy and share our love for dungeons. Story Time: We share what happened last week in DM Mitch's campaign. A few good laughs if you listen in. We also share a story from one of our community members here at the Dungeon Master's Block. The Meat: This week we delve into the who, what, where, why, and how of a dungeon. We cover a lot of valuable materials. We help you gain some ideas that may help you out with some of your future dungeons. Hope you enjoy. Light Bulb: DM Chris created some stone walls to help enhance the dungeon crawl experience for his players. Below are some pictures of what the finished product can look like. Enjoy and share your creations with us as well. Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected]

Our Second Creation & Inspiration Episode Story Time: We talk about our past 2 nights of D&D, including opening a Tavern that doubles as a Tavern, as well as playing a video game like dungeon crawl! The Meat: We have 6 new tips to use when creating stories, and being inspired. Then we move into our second TOP TEN! Lightbulb: Evernote is a great free program that can be used to take great notes for any D&D campaign! Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected]

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone. We had a blast at Comic Con Grand Rapids last weekend. So if we saw you there and you are listening to this episode of the podcast we greet you! We have a lot in this episode as it is about some of our favorite things as DM's world creation. Story Time: We explore the wonderful world of Aatos. DM Mitch hosted a game last week that created a lot of fun memories and some of which include stone giants. The Meat: We talk about three of our favorite things. Time. Space. And Maps. We have a lot to share with you about each of these areas of being a DM. Some examples of our work are below for you to peruse through. Lightbulb: There is not a lightbulb this week. We instead list off a bunch of DnD things and people that we are thankful for. Enjoy! Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected] Happy Thanksgiving!!! DM Chris' World (Panthia): Example Calendar (Panthia): DM Mitch's World (Aatos): A Timeline of Aatos: Example Month of Fantasy Calendar (Aatos):

This is our 10th episode here at the DM's Block. We are so grateful to you as a community for making this podcast so worth doing every week. Continue rocking and never hesitate to chat with us. We love hearing from you. We have our friend Jared join us, the king of flawed characters, to share some of his expertise in playing a flawed character. Here is what we have for you in this 10th episode: Story Time: We have been doing a Twitter campaign and we run through a few stories that we have had during our experiment. We also run through DM Chris' last night of DnD. Dragons, Dragons, and more dragons. The Meat: We discuss the pros and cons to playing and having both flawed characters and flawless characters. We talk through some of our favorite NPC's that had flaws as well as some of our favorite PC's we have had in our group. Light bulb: We talk through gambling this week for our light bulb. We share some of our favorite implementations of gambling into our campaigns and give you a few ideas to spark you interest in gambling with your own players. Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected]

Story Time: We discuss the past week in Mitch's Campaign and a story of the almost death of Chris' 3 characters. The Meat: We discuss the rules of death, dying and resurrection. Light Bulb: Our Light Bulb is about the "Life Point." Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected]

We are joined this week by one of our players...Mark, as we talk about the lore of Magic the Gathering and how to use it in Dungeons and Dragons. Story Time: We discuss some of our most hilarious dungeons and dragons memories. Content includes ham falling from the sky on savage northerners, a dwarf caught in an explosion, and a dead loxodon. Meat Time: Magic the Gathering has been played by many Dungeons and Dragons gamers. But most don't know the fascinating lore behind it. This week for the first time, we talk about how to use the lore from Magic as inspiration in your D&D campaigns! Content includes Planeswalkers, Myr, Loxodons, and Rhox. Light Bulb: We talk about our different ways of collecting miniatures...for cheap. Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected] Dragon Minis from DM Chris Homemade Mini by DM Mitch More Homemade Minis from DM Mitch

The Dungeon Master's Block welcomes you to our first ever Halloween Special Episode. If you are a fan of horror or Halloween in any way this podcast is certainly going to get at the inner gore within you. We talk about the classics. We call the the Big Four. Here is what you can expect out of this episode: Story Time: We discuss the creepiest moments we found ourselves in as either a DM or a player. The Meat: We discuss the Big Four. They are: Vampires, Werewolves, Ghosts, and Zombies in that order. We talk about: What makes them scary, what are their stats, and how do you use them/fight them as a DM or player. Light Bulb: Our Light Bulb moment for you all this week is we talk about costumes for a Halloween edition of your campaign or just a regular night. They can add a fun element to any night. Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected]

We are excited to publish the newest episode here on the Dungeon Masters Block. We couldn't wait to get this episode out to you. We believe that there is a lot of content in here that may be very useful and helpful to you as DM's or players. Sit back and Enjoy! Story Time: We travel into the stories of DM Chris' latest campaign. We talk about the 68th annual worm wrangling event in the city of Milner as well as the wolf races that you could gamble on. Meat Time: We share with you all where we get most of our inspiration from and where we think you could possibly get some inspiration from in the future. We also share a listeners email about his idea for this creativity episode. We also share our top 10 list of ideas for either future campaigns or short adventures within a campaign. We hope that this will spur you on to continue to create amazing adventures for your players Light Bulb: We share our initiative board with you all. If you like it feel free to steal the idea. We gladly encourage you to use it. Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected]

We had a ton of fun making this episode for everyone! We hope you enjoy it. We love your feedback. Please email us at [email protected] Story Time: This time we talk about Mitch's campaign and we talk about a cave to his lands gods. We also talk about the riders of Shemish a new riding gang in the city of Southfar. In Chris' campaign we talk about the three Dwarves that are encountered: Dwalin, Blanin, and Amren. Each of them brought their own set of fun to the night. Meat Time: We talk through how to handle problem players within any group. We offer suggestions and possible resolutions for a few different situations. We also offer ways to possibly avoid them from the beginning. Light-bulb: We talk about the dungeon tiles that we use in our campaigns. We have attached a few photos below. They are great! Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected]

Episode 4. Let the excitement ensue. Lots in here. Jam Packed. Enjoy. Story Time: Who doesn't like some Gnolls that transform, transportation pools and epic prison escapes even Andy Dufresne would be proud of. Meat: This episode we discuss neutral characters. They can be amazing to have in your campaigns, but at times they can be a hastle. We discuss everything neutral. Lightbulb: Everyone's campaigns can go long from time to time and sometimes breaks are needed. So what do we do during those breaks? We will tell you! Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected]

This week we have a ton of stuff for you! So sit back and relax. Here is a little preview of whats to come: Story Time: Zombie sheep, and Dragons disguised as humans. Nough said Meat Time: We talk through character alignment and how it can create either a great environment to play...or not. We also talk through making campaigns where only specific alignments are allowed. Light Bulb: This week we talk through our RPG Trophy and how that plays a huge effect into helping people develop their characters. Enjoy the episode. If there is anything you would like us to talk through in future episodes feel free to let us know in the comments below! Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected]

This episode we explore a few new areas that we will add to every show. They include: -Story Time. We share our own stories from the campaigns we led in the past week. -The Meat. This is where we get into the topics that we will be discussing this episode. Full of juicy nuggets of meat. -Light Bulb. This is our idea section of things we do or use that we may find helpful to you as DMs in your own campaign. Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected]

Welcome to our first ever episode of The Dungeon Master's Block. We will continue to upload podcasts bi weekly and believe me you won't want to miss out. For all of you DMs out there looking for a podcast to listen to we have you covered. So sit back, relax and enjoy our first episode of The Dungeon Master's Block. Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected]

This episode is to welcome you as a new listener, to the Block Party! Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected] Intro Music in this episode is Just For You By Whatfunk is licensed under a Creative Commons License.Release: https://soundcloud.com/whatfunk/just-...License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...Promoted By : Aman Shine Khanuja [ The Man Behind CCFML ;-) ]This Music is promoted on Creative Commons Free Music Library ( Allowed For Reuse & Monetization )https://www.youtube.com/FreeMusicLibrary This episode edited by: DM Mitch 9GMapKa8EDu8WPbrr0kW