Displaying Episode 11 - 20 of 38 in total of Like Dragon Like Son with the tag “adding flavor”.
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How To Bring a Campaign to Its End
Episode | November 26th, 2021 | 33 mins 33 secs
adding flavor, combat, ending campaigns, three pillars, tips
If you are really lucky, maybe you will get a chance to play a long campaign with the same group of players over months, maybe even years. Through countless adventures, the PCs have become seasoned heroes, and now they must face one last challenge: how to say goodbye. This week we look at what needs to happen before the final curtain falls on your campaign.
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Be the Support Hero Your Party Needs
Episode | November 19th, 2021 | 35 mins 56 secs
adding flavor, combat, support, three pillars, tips, weirdness
While many players try to optimize their damage output, we find ourselves asking: How do we optimize our support output? It's not as glamorous to take the help action, or dodge action on your turn -- but if done well, and combined with a few object interactions, you might soon find yourself significantly boosting the damage output of everyone else at the table.
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Role Play vs Roll to Play
Episode | August 20th, 2021 | 25 mins 1 sec
adding flavor, three pillars, tips, traps, weirdness
In a game where players obsess over optimization, and DMs call for skill checks around every corner, it's important to remember that the dice aren't everything (sorry to all you who have crippling dice addictions). Sometimes the rules in D&D just don't make sense, but instead of just arbitrating some sort of ability check -- we recommend you call for a narration check. This week, we look at how this plays out against magical traps.
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How to Play An Amazing Goblinoid Character
Episode | July 30th, 2021 | 53 mins 39 secs
adding flavor, bugbears, goblins, hobgoblins, steal this character, subverting tropes, tips, weirdness
Dare to live the wild life of a goblin, bugbear or hobgoblin! Join us this week as we delve deep into what we love about these interconnected races, and some of our favourite ideas for building PCs with them that break free of tired old stereotypes
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Fantasy Robot Wars: Warforged vs Reborn
Episode | July 16th, 2021 | 31 mins 28 secs
adding flavor, races, reborn, steal this character, subverting tropes, tips, warforged, weirdness
This week father and son face off in a showdown to decide which is better: making a robot character using the Warforged race from Eberron, or building one using the Reborn race from Van Richten's Guide. Two robots enter, but only one can prevail!
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How To Make Boss Fights Properly Tough
Episode | July 13th, 2021 | 48 mins 7 secs
adding flavor, boss fight, combat, three pillars, tips, weirdness
Are your players chewing up and spitting out your tough monsters? Does a deadly level CR seem like a walk in the park? Are you regretting letting everyone have magic items? Fear not, we are here to help you fix that. We look at ways to go beyond simply turning your big boss into a big bag of hit points -- and instead turn it into a fight that makes everyone feel like a hero.
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How To Use Traps in Your Game
Episode | July 1st, 2021 | 55 mins 53 secs
adding flavor, dms workshop, investigation, three pillars, tips, traps
Traps have been a part of the D&D experience since its earliest days. But a lot has changed over the years. Join us as we poke at some traps with a 10' pole, and learn how today's best uses of traps can enhance your next adventure
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Raising the Banneret: Workshopping a Revised Purple Dragon Knight
Episode | June 25th, 2021 | 58 mins 21 secs
adding flavor, fighter, point buy, revised, steal this character, subverting tropes, support role, tips, weirdness
There are some subclasses which no one plays because, well, they kind of suck. We often ask what it would take to make them suck less -- but also not to get too overpowered that they make the DM want to pull out their hair. This week both Jay and Jack bring some ideas together on what the Banneret subclass (aka Purple Dragon Knight) is all about (leadership), and how to bring out the best of that theme.
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The Holy Con Man
Episode | June 18th, 2021 | 43 mins 26 secs
adding flavor, background occupation, bard, cleric, college of eloquence, steal this character, subverting tropes, tips, weirdness
Once again we offer a look at how to break out of tired tropes: this time with the Bard. Internet memes would have you believe that these characters only reason to exist is to seduce everything they come in contact with. So we want to go a different direction with this build, what if our bard is really very good at preaching and has found a home within religion -- and not just one religion. In fact, he's talked his way into every religion in town.
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Sorcerer Redux: Better With Spell Points
Episode | May 14th, 2021 | 55 mins 42 secs
adding flavor, point buy, revised, sorcerer, spell points, steal this character, subverting tropes, tips, weirdness
In the back of the DM's Guide is an often overlooked section about using spell points instead of spell slots. While many dismiss this as too confusing, on closer examination, this might be just the ticket for giving sorcerers that extra love they deserve...that and a few other tweaks, which we discus in this episode.