Shawn and Teos’ live Mastering Dungeons seminar from GameHoleCon! News! Questions! Clapping! Smells! This one has it all!

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Moving through the Unearthed Arcana that is OneD&D, Shawn and Teos talk about the future of Feats, while it occurs to the editor that he has twice made the joke around ‘Feats, don’t fail me now’ in these write-ups. So instead of more hacky humor, you’ll just learn that the future of Feats extends beyond the 20th-level threshold, so you’ll have plenty of room to shoehorn those Feats in!

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Taking a look at the Expert Classes from the upcoming One D&D, Shawn and Teos break down the new options for these classes. Are they better? Are they worse? Are they balanced or broken? The analysis of One D&D continues!

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With more and more information around OneD&D coming out by the week, Shawn and Teos take a look at the concept of Expert Classes and determine what, if anything, it parallels in 5e. The Decade Discussion of Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition continues.

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With a very special guest to open the show, Teos and Shawn follow up with breaking down the Backgrounds and Personality aspects of Fifth Edition; all the stuff under Character Details. Has 5e done enough or too much to offer storytelling options with characters? Is Inspiration a worthwhile change to the game?

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Once again breaking down the classes of D&D 5e, Shawn and Teos talk Class Satisfaction and balance as they continue the deep dive into the world’s most popular role-playing game.

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As Dungeons & Dragons continues to take over the world, Teos speaks with two amazing contributors to the hobby who are at the forefront of the Latine RPG space, Mike Balles and Claudia Sánchez on what it takes to grow the Spanish-speaking audience of the worlds’ most famous tabletop role-playing game!

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Never has nor should it ever be said that the Masters of Dungeons, Shawn and Teos, are without class. In this episode, they prove this by breaking down the Classes of 5e Dungeons & Dragons. What’s good? What’s less good? Should there be more or less? This session is in Classes.

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Feats, don’t fail us now… unless they did. Introduced in 3rd Edition and a mainstay for games that have diverged from that system, what is the role of Feats in modern D&D and how can it better serve the players? Shawn and Teos talk 10 years of 5e Feats and compare them to those in the D&D One document.

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What is One D&D and how will the concept of Races change as we look at Backgrounds. Shawn and Teos have tackled the present, tussled with the past, and now they charge the future of Dungeons & Dragons!

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As the exploration of 10 years of Fifth Edition Dungeons & Dragons continues, Shawn and Teos explore character creation: how has it changed, what’s better, and what’s not as good?

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