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Episode 218 of Mastering Dungeons! Main topic: Lessons Learned from Our Early Projects! Shawn and Teos share what they learned from the days when they started as designers, back in the 2000s and the 3E era. News: Exodus is Hasbro’s Newest RPG, Lord of the Rings and Illrigger on Beyond, PAX Unplugged, and more! Contents 00:00 Snow Job 02:24 DM Types? 08:57 Exciting Sandbox Pace? 18:55 Exodus Video Game Gets RPG 30:45 Lord of the Rings on DDB 34:57 MCDM's Illrigger on DDB 38:19 D&D at PAX Unplugged 39:20 Combo Encounters 40:59 Mearls Teaching at UW 41:29 Monstrous Menagerie II 43:21 Lessons Learned from Early Projects 44:31 Build a Community? 49:47 Starting in 2000 and the LG Era 52:54 Organized Play Lessons 56:57 Learning is Investment 01:00:02 Changing Social Media 01:02:59 Clear and Concise Language 01:04:01 Understanding Industry Pay 01:05:27 Great Success is Rare 01:07:30 There is No Perfection 01:13:58 The Product that Isn't 01:16:31 Edition Change Challenges 01:18:31 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.