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Quests and Chaos is proud to present the full playthrough of Phandelver and Below the Shattered Obelisk. This show features a fantastic cast of new and familiar faces. Dungeon Master Tiana Ren Hanson leads our group of adventurers all 12 levels of this campaign. Featuring: Tiana Ren Hanson | https://twitter.com/Vana1895 Grant Corvin | https://twitter.com/JackRhien Cal Garrett | https://www.instagram.com/vaguelywhimsical/ Amy Puzia | https://twitter.com/amypuzia Matt Bridges https://instagram ...
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This week, Adam and Tiana continue their discussion about the changes to Player Character classes in the upcoming 2024 Player's Handbook. We're comparing two classes with a lot of similarities to see how they hold up in the new edition Sorcerer blog post: https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1769-2024-sorcerer-vs-2014-sorcerer-whats-new Wizard blog post…
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This week, Adam and Tiana continue their discussion about the changes to Player Character classes in the upcoming 2024 Player's Handbook. It's charisma hour with Warlocks and Bards, two of the funnest classes to play! Warlock blog post: https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1756-2024-warlock-vs-2014-warlock-whats-new Bard blog post: https://www.dndbeyond…
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This week, Tiana takes on the solo hosting role again and welcomes Sam Tillis to the podcast to discuss his journey to becoming a professional GM and how he handles the differences between games as recreation and games as profession. Sam's Links: https://linktr.ee/stillis.gaming Emissary link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/447790/emissary…
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This week, Adam and Tiana continue their discussion about the changes to the player classes in the 2024 Player's Handbook. We discuss Paladin and Cleric, with our opinions about the changes Paladin blog post: https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1749-2024-paladin-vs-2014-paladin-whats-new Cleric blog post: https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1767-2024-cleri…
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This week, Adam and Tiana continue their deep-dive into what's known so far about the 2024 player classes. While we planned to talk about two classes as before, we had a lot to say about ranger and our perspective on the design philosophy behind the changes. Ranger blog post: https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1759-2024-ranger-vs-2014-ranger-whats-new…
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This week, Adam and Tiana continue their discussion about the changes to the player classes in the 2024 Player's Handbook. We discuss Rogue and Monk, with some digression into YouTubers and Star Wars. Rogue blog post: https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1752-2024-rogue-vs-2014-rogue-whats-new Monk blog post: https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1758-2024-mo…
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This week, Adam and Tiana begin talking about the changes to the player classes in the 2024 D&D Player Handbook. We're working from the playtest bundles and the D&DBeyond blog posts, comparing the 2014 classes to the new changes. Barbarian blog post: https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1750-2024-barbarian-vs-2014-barbarian-whats-new Fighter blog post: …
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This week, Tiana takes on the solo host role and welcomes Alandra Hileman onto the show to talk about tips and tricks for running mob combat in D&D 5e. We use examples from Phandelver and Below, a campaign Tiana recently wrapped up, to discuss ideas for making the juggling act behind the GM screen as smooth as possible. Join our Discord to continue…
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An unthinkable distance from anything the party knows, they find the beginning of the end. The godlet destroying Phandalin stands before them, and they must stand between the people in peril and its insatiable appetite. Mentioned in this episode: Q124_Intro Q120_OutroQuests and Chaos által
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An unthinkable distance from anything the party knows, they find the beginning of the end. The godlet destroying Phandalin stands before them, and they must stand between the people in peril and its insatiable appetite. Mentioned in this episode: Q120_Outro Q124_IntroQuests and Chaos által
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One last time, the party plunges into the dangers of Phandalin, hoping that runes and rifts will give them access to resolution for the suffering town. Featuring: Tiana Ren Hanson | https://twitter.com/Vana1895 Grant Corvin | https://twitter.com/JackRhien Cal Garrett | https://www.instagram.com/vaguelywhimsical/ Amy Puzia | https://twitter.com/amyp…
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One last time, the party plunges into the dangers of Phandalin, hoping that runes and rifts will give them access to resolution for the suffering town. Featuring: Tiana Ren Hanson | https://twitter.com/Vana1895 Grant Corvin | https://twitter.com/JackRhien Cal Garrett | https://www.instagram.com/vaguelywhimsical/ Amy Puzia | https://twitter.com/amyp…
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This week, Adam and Tiana are joined by Dan Waszkiewicz, Handler of The Redacted Reports, to talk about running a horror game. We talk about tone and themes, along with some safety tools that we think are essential to the experience. Join our Discord to offer your opinions! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs Dan's preferred safety toolkit: https://ttrpg…
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Grungy map in hand, the party ventures into the Underdark to find the keys to save the stolen villagers. Featuring: Tiana Ren Hanson | https://twitter.com/Vana1895 Grant Corvin | https://twitter.com/JackRhien Cal Garrett | https://www.instagram.com/vaguelywhimsical/ Amy Puzia | https://twitter.com/amypuzia Matt Bridges https://instagram.com/brando3…
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Grungy map in hand, the party ventures into the Underdark to find the keys to save the stolen villagers. Featuring: Tiana Ren Hanson | https://twitter.com/Vana1895 Grant Corvin | https://twitter.com/JackRhien Cal Garrett | https://www.instagram.com/vaguelywhimsical/ Amy Puzia | https://twitter.com/amypuzia Matt Bridges https://instagram.com/brando3…
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With the caves behind them, the party returns to Phandalin expecting rest and the open roads. But what they find there is beyond expectation. Featuring: Tiana Ren Hanson | https://twitter.com/Vana1895 Grant Corvin | https://twitter.com/JackRhien Cal Garrett | https://www.instagram.com/vaguelywhimsical/ Amy Puzia | https://twitter.com/amypuzia Matt …
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With the caves behind them, the party returns to Phandalin expecting rest and the open roads. But what they find there is beyond expectation. Featuring: Tiana Ren Hanson | https://twitter.com/Vana1895 Grant Corvin | https://twitter.com/JackRhien Cal Garrett | https://www.instagram.com/vaguelywhimsical/ Amy Puzia | https://twitter.com/amypuzia Matt …
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This week, Adam and Tiana take a break from discussing TTRPGs to discuss a game franchise we both hold dear: Dragon Age. There's a new trailer released (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F3N4Lxw4_Y), and we have OPINIONS. Check out the upcoming Death game run by Adam with Tiana as a player at https://www.twitch.ttv/vanalosswen And join our Discord t…
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This week, Adam and Tiana talk about the session zero Adam ran for the new Patron games, including going over his table rules and the general conceit for the upcoming game. The streamed version of Death can be found here! https://www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen Join our Discord to offer your opinion! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs…
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This week, Adam and Tiana discuss the recently-finished Patron game, Gnarled Frontier. Adam reflects on the lessons he learned as a GM from this campaign, and goes over some of his Roses (high points) and Thorns (challenges/learning opportunities). Join our Discord to offer your opinion! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs…
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This week, Adam and Tiana talk about the social interactivity of TTRPGs at the table, the importance of playing to the audience (seen or unseen), and how curiosity can build the experience of everyone. Join our Discord to offer your opinion! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqsAdam Power, Andrew Geertsen, & Tiana Ren Hanson által
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This week, Adam and Tiana talk about ways to elevate the spellcasting experience and how to bring in the fourth component of a spell: roleplay. While we don't think every spell needs in-depth roleplay to make it better, we do have some thoughts and suggestions for how to use spells in a less RAW way to make the experience more dynamic. Join our Dis…
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This week, Adam and Tiana are thrilled to announce that Adam will be running a livestreamed D&D 5e game on Tiana's personal Twitch channel. The live session zero will be June 11th, with the campaign running through the summer. We're excited to give our listeners a sneak peek into what's coming down the pike. Join our Discord to stay updated! https:…
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Featuring: Tiana Ren Hanson | https://twitter.com/Vana1895 Grant Corvin | https://twitter.com/JackRhien Cal Garrett | https://www.instagram.com/vaguelywhimsical/ Amy Puzia | https://twitter.com/amypuzia Matt Bridges https://instagram.com/brando30rock/ James Aaron Oh | https://instagram.com/jamesaaronoh/ Support The Channel Join our Patreon - https:…
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This week, Adam and Tiana continue digging into the five principles of design, using subclasses we designed for this project. Do you have thoughts about what we've done? Want to try the subclasses out for yourself? Let us know at the Discord! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqsAdam Power, Andrew Geertsen, & Tiana Ren Hanson által
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This week, Adam and Tiana look at principles presented by Treant Monk for handling design choices. There's a lot of thought that goes into game design balance, but we think Treant Monk had a good set of thoughts with the series of questions we go into. Continue the conversation in the Discord! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs…
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This week, Adam and Tiana talk about character voices and do a short exercise to play with voice. We can put so much of what makes a character who they are into the way we choose to speak as them, and it's a lot of fun to dig into that kind of thing. Continue the conversation in the Discord! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs…
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This week, Adam and Tiana reflect on the Patron Westgate game we played the day before, and what it taught Adam in terms of GM control and how to let go. At the core of it all, punitive punishment AND mercy are forms of control that GMs need to examine and grow beyond. Join the conversation in the Discord: https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs…
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This week, Adam takes Tiana through a series of D&D 5e rules questions used on the YouTube channel Jorphdan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qfhVN64AiA&t=100s) to see how well she knows more obscure D&D 5e questions. Take the quiz yourself, and let us know how you did in our Discord! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs…
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This week, Adam wraps up taking Tiana through a campaign planning document he assigns to his D&D students in his day job. We've been having a good time diving deep into the core concepts of creating a campaign, so grab a notebook and start noodling your own ideas! The document Adam uses: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Alwm8ghRSKMFnOEP941VcYERX…
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This week, Adam continues taking Tiana through a campaign planning document he assigns to his D&D students in his day job. We'll be diving deep into the core concepts of creating a campaign over the next few weeks, so grab a notebook and start noodling your own ideas! The document Adam uses: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Alwm8ghRSKMFnOEP941Vc…
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This week, Adam begins taking Tiana through a campaign planning document he assigns to his D&D students in his day job. We'll be diving deep into the core concepts of creating a campaign over the next few weeks, so grab a notebook and start noodling your own ideas! The document Adam uses: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Alwm8ghRSKMFnOEP941VcYER…
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Everything has led to this: the group has worked their way through Wave Echo Cave and found the Forge of Spells. They've dealt with undead and other dangers within the twisting tunnels. But there still remains the matter of the Spider. How does he fit into the dreams they had? Featuring: Tiana Ren Hanson | https://twitter.com/Vana1895 Grant Corvin …
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This week, Adam and Tiana talk about a part of the Dungeon Master's Guide that isn't commonly used: Chapter 8, Diseases and Poisons. While diseases and poisons touch our real world in some interesting ways (*cough cough*), we're interested in how they can be used to tell a story. Come join us! Join our Discord to continue the conversation! https://…
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Everything has led to this: the group has worked their way through Wave Echo Cave and found the Forge of Spells. They've dealt with undead and other dangers within the twisting tunnels. But there still remains the matter of the Spider. How does he fit into the dreams they had? Featuring: Tiana Ren Hanson | https://twitter.com/Vana1895 Grant Corvin …
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Wave Echo cave is more dangerous than anyone imagined. Featuring: Tiana Ren Hanson | https://twitter.com/Vana1895 Grant Corvin | https://twitter.com/JackRhien Cal Garrett | https://www.instagram.com/vaguelywhimsical/ Amy Puzia | https://twitter.com/amypuzia Matt Bridges https://instagram.com/brando30rock/ James Aaron Oh | https://instagram.com/jame…
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Wave Echo cave is more dangerous than anyone imagined. Featuring: Tiana Ren Hanson | https://twitter.com/Vana1895 Grant Corvin | https://twitter.com/JackRhien Cal Garrett | https://www.instagram.com/vaguelywhimsical/ Amy Puzia | https://twitter.com/amypuzia Matt Bridges https://instagram.com/brando30rock/ James Aaron Oh | https://instagram.com/jame…
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This week, Adam and Tiana continuing talking about first level D&D spells and where we rank them. Bucking the usual tier list conventions, we rank them by things like RP potential and how much they serve the secret ingredient in a tabletop party. There's definitely some interesting opinions about the spells in this list! Come join us as we talk abo…
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Facing two very different corpses, the party must press through fear and danger to win the day in Wave Echo Cave Featuring: Tiana Ren Hanson | https://twitter.com/Vana1895 Grant Corvin | https://twitter.com/JackRhien Cal Garrett | https://www.instagram.com/vaguelywhimsical/ Amy Puzia | https://twitter.com/amypuzia Matt Bridges https://instagram.com…
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Facing two very different corpses, the party must press through fear and danger to win the day in Wave Echo Cave Featuring: Tiana Ren Hanson | https://twitter.com/Vana1895 Grant Corvin | https://twitter.com/JackRhien Cal Garrett | https://www.instagram.com/vaguelywhimsical/ Amy Puzia | https://twitter.com/amypuzia Matt Bridges https://instagram.com…
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This week, Adam and Tiana continuing talking about first level D&D spells and where we rank them. Bucking the usual tier list conventions, we rank them by things like RP potential and how much they serve the secret ingredient in a tabletop party. There's definitely some interesting opinions about the spells in this list! Come join us as we talk abo…
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This week, Adam and Tiana start talking about first level D&D spells and where we rank them. Bucking the usual tier list conventions, we rank them by things like RP potential and how much they serve the secret ingredient in a tabletop party. There's definitely some interesting opinions about the spells in this list! Come join us as we talk about th…
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This week, Adam and Tiana talk about making encounters more than just trading hit points, using an encounter that happened in the Westgate Patron game Adam runs. We specifically look at page 81, where the DMG talks about Character Objectives that drive encounters. When you know your characters and what they want, focusing in on how to make the play…
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This week, Adam and Tiana talk about making a monster for encounters that may not fit the typical mold. Whether that's something silly for a joke game (as we inevitably did) or changing up a known monster to keep people from metagaming, GMs should never be afraid to mess with monsters to keep things interesting. Join our Discord to continue the con…
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Our latest Dungeons and Dragons Actual Play Podcast features the campaign Phandelver and Below The Shattered Obelisk. The fight was long and brutal, but Gundren is safe with the party. All paths lead to Wave Echo Cave and the Spider within. Featuring: Tiana Ren Hanson | https://twitter.com/Vana1895 Grant Corvin | https://twitter.com/JackRhien Cal G…
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Our latest Dungeons and Dragons Actual Play Podcast features the campaign Phandelver and Below The Shattered Obelisk. The fight was long and brutal, but Gundren is safe with the party. All paths lead to Wave Echo Cave and the Spider within. Tiana Ren Hanson | https://twitter.com/Vana1895 Grant Corvin | https://twitter.com/JackRhien Cal Garrett | ht…
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This week, Adam and Tiana talk about the ways Baldur's Gate 3 changed D&D 5e rules, and which of the changed rules we'd bring into our games. Some of the changes are great! Others...well, it's a video game, there's thing we can't really do around the table. Check out the resource we used here: https://bg3.wiki/wiki/D%26D_5e_rule_changes Join our Di…
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Our latest Dungeons and Dragons Actual Play Podcast features the campaign Phandelver and Below The Shattered Obelisk. At last, Cragmaw Castle lies within their grasp. Featuring: Tiana Ren Hanson | https://twitter.com/Vana1895 Grant Corvin | https://twitter.com/JackRhien Cal Garrett | https://www.instagram.com/vaguelywhimsical/ Amy Puzia | https://t…
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Our latest Dungeons and Dragons Actual Play Podcast features the campaign Phandelver and Below The Shattered Obelisk. At last, Cragmaw Castle lies within their grasp. Featuring: Tiana Ren Hanson | https://twitter.com/Vana1895 Grant Corvin | https://twitter.com/JackRhien Cal Garrett | https://www.instagram.com/vaguelywhimsical/ Amy Puzia | https://t…
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This week, Adam and Tiana talk about ways to begin your TTRPG game that doesn't involve "you walk into a tavern..." While that is a time-honored tradition, we feel like there's a ton of ways to get player characters together for that first session so they can start learning about each other, and one of our favorite ways is factions. Have a listen, …
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