About this episode
Episode 208 of Mastering Dungeons! Main topic: 2024 5E’s Gods and Multiverse! Final Greyhawk! 2024 5E PH banishes all the gods and reduces the multiverse to one page and one image! We look at how this changes 5E for new players. Our final look at Greyhawk reimagines the setting format and looks at how gods and powerful organizations create interesting play. News: MtG Netflix Revivified, the D&D Bologna Scale, Knowing Vecna, and more! Contents 00:00 Emptying Nests 02:53 Boss Battle Origins? 06:23 Codified vs Loose Rules? 15:40 Sage Advice Fixes? 19:37 Rest of World Healing? 29:18 MtG Netflix Show Revivified 31:32 What Do We Know About Vecna 35:24 D&D Bologna Scale Tested 39:17 Daggerheart Preorders 41:10 Enter the Labyrinth 43:07 2014 vs 2024 Gods and Multiverse 44:45 Design Goals 47:35 Planes and Gods in Older Editions 52:30 2014 and 2024's Gods and Planes 56:48 Is Less Information Good? 01:05:07 Wrapping Up Greyhawk 01:06:32 Encyclopedic Approach is Dated 01:08:03 Why Greyhawk is Different 01:14:32 Geography of the Flanaess 01:15:45 Greyhawk's Powerful Organizations 01:19:49 Greyhawk's Gods 01:21:03 The Living Greyhawk Campaign 01:22:26 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.