Episode 45 is here!

Hey, everyone! Thanks for sticking with us another week. I love making this podcast, and each episode is a blast to make (though not always a blast to edit). I don't really have much to say this week, so let me just tell everyone that I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving! And if you're not from America, you should at least eat way too much food like we Americans do. (Even when we're not celebrating Thanksgiving.) Food for everybody!

As always, help us generate funds with our Audible partnership by going to AudibleTrial.com/conflict to get yourself a free audiobook, and us some free money we can use to make the podcast better! And of course check out the other podcasts on the Critnation Fellowship- Crit Academy and D&D Character Lab- as well as the content creators Loresmyth, Goblin Stone, and Aurican's Lair!

Thanks everyone, and I hope you have a wonderful week!

Episode 45: Possible Overload

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Questions answered this episode:

1. How much combat is too much?

2. As the DM, is it a good idea to sit the players down and have a discussion of the campaign so far?

3. If a spellcaster enters an anti-magic area, is there any indication of that fact or is it only when they try to cast magic do they know they are in a field?

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Noteworthy Links:

Michigan Renaissance Festival

A video of Kobayashi eating a hot dog in slow motion

Adventures in Erylia

An Endworld.org post detailing the latest Errata, including the changes to Long Rest

A clip from the Simpsons that I referenced in a section that ultimately got cut from the podcast

Bahlmaar

American Horror Story, a horror anthology series on FX

Being John Malcovich

The Adventure Zone

Some Fidget Spinner tricks

Dexter + Pushing Daisies = Come Back to Me

Game Grumps

Episode 44 - The Guest with the Best!

Hey, everyone!

This week we have a great episode for you- our close friend, the great DM, Chris (Real Chris, not Tennessee Chris) is here with us! I hadn't had a chance to hang out with him in quite a long time, so we got to spend the day hanging out, playing arcade games (insert arcade sound effect here) and talk D&D. I think this is a great episode, and Jeff and I are so glad we got to have him on. Maybe again sometime! We'll see.

In this episode we talk about narrative vs. genre simulation, how to build a city, and how long to stick with a group you aren't meshing with.. I knew Chris would be a perfect guest for these topics since I know he's got lots of experience in all of them; but then again Chris has experience in every area of the hobby so he's always a perfect guest.

As usual, help us generate funds with our Audible partnership by going to AudibleTrial.com/conflict to get yourself a free audiobook, and us some free money we can use to make the podcast better! And of course check out the other podcasts on the Critnation Fellowship- Crit Academy and D&D Character Lab- as well as the content creators Loresmyth, Goblin Stone, and Aurican's Lair!

Thanks everyone, and I hope you have a wonderful week!

Episode 44: United Front

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Questions answered this episode:

1. What is your take on Narrative focused games (FATE, Cortex) vs Genre Simulation (5E, Runequest, Eclipse Phase), vs hybrid models (13th Age, Dungeon World).

2. What sort of exercises or methods do you use for city building?

3. How long should you stick with a group before accepting that your playstyles don't mesh?

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Noteworthy Links:

Mystery Men: The Bowler

Sun Wukong and the Journey to the West

The history of Captain America's shield

The moon is made of marshmallows apparently

The scene in Batman with the Shark Repellent

Sharknado

The Princess Bride

Fallcrest, a town from the 4e Player's Handbook

Rubber Duck debugging, a method of determining errors in code by explaining their code, line by line, to an inanimate object in order to evaluate it from a different perspective

A comprehensive review of Kraft Miracle Whip

Episode 43: Sleeping Criticals

Hey, everyone!

As if any episode could hold a candle to our spooky Halloween episode, this new one was a lot of fun to record too. It's another one of our more rules-heavy episodes- I generally try to avoid those because although we talk mostly about D&D 5e, our podcast is meant to be more of a general advice podcast, for anyone playing any tabletop roleplaying game. But, hey, we answer the questions we're asked so sometimes the discussion will be more about specific rules.

Let me remind everyone to check out the other podcasts in the Critnation Fellowship- Crit Academy, of course, as well as our new addition, D&D Character Lab! Both are great podcasts and are a ton of fun to listen to.

And as always, check out AudibleTrial.com/Conflict, where you can get yourself a free audiobook. And if you do, we get paid! It's that easy! And if you like free stuff, Mary and Tom at Hollandspiele are giving out TWO free printable board games to anyone who takes our short online survey. So what are you waiting for!?

Episode 43: Sleeping Criticals

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Questions answered this episode:

1. How do you handle critical rolls? What are some other good ideas?

2. Does the elven racial Trance ability allow them to get the benefits of an eight-hour Long Rest in only four hours? Why or why not?

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Noteworthy Links:

The 3e Arms & Equipment Guide

Weapons of Legacy

Ron Burgundy's fists' names

Some Critical Hit/Fumble Tables:

One for 5e D&D

One for Pathfinder

One for any system
The funny one I mentioned during the episode (Fun story: I spent forever trying to find this online after recording, I even posted about it on a couple online forums, with no luck. Right now, like three weeks after the episode aired, I realized I had it saved on my computer!)

One of the nerdiest games out there

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This week's Audible Pick:

The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien