The Dragon Brews Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Welcome to the Dragon Brews Podcast. Your D&D DM and Homebrew one-stop shop. We cover a plethora of topics about DMing a Dungeons and Dragons 5e Campaign. How to create and balance home brew, when to use it, when it sucks, and how it can backfire.
In this episode, we talk about combat, and how it's one of the best and worst parts in 5e, and ways we think that we can improve combat efficiency and make combat scenarios faster.
In this episode, we talk a bit about Fizban's Treasury of Dragons. We talk about ways to incorporate new ideas into an already long-running campaign and ways to brew and reskin some of the tools provided to us from the book. This is not an overview of the book, we specifically are looking more at the hoard magic item mechanics and ways that we can play with it.
In this episode, we talk about the Wild Beyond Witchlight and all of the awesome new things this book gives us to play with as well as Mike's first endorsed written adventure?!
In this episode, we talk about the new Wizards book announcement, the gift set in 2022, and the bigger rule expansion in 2024, what we hope to see, what a 6e could look like, what we'd like out of a 5.5e, and then we go through some of the more exciting stuff that will be in Fizbans which is out soon.
In this episode, we talk about ways to roll with the punches; how to spin something fun and interesting out of nothing. We talk about how to take something simple, ways to buy yourself more time, and how to turn a throwaway quest into one that's memorable and linked to your world in a more real way.
In this episode we discuss meta gaming. We talk about what what we define as meta gaming, and different ways to handle players meta gaming.
In this episode we sit down with our friend and fellow player and DM Jeff and talk about his experiences over the last few years getting into the world of DMing and the lessons he's learned along the way!
In this episode we ACTUALLY DO HOMEBREW. We come up with improvised characters with a little back story and then on-the-spot homebrew items to give to those players. This ones a blast
In this episode, we talk about a cornucopia of topics including party size, ideas for 1 player D&D games, music usage, and character mindsets and motivations
In this episode, we talk about how we like to handle nat 1s and critical failures, and how to make it still be fun for the player that just failed. We also cover some really cool rogue subclasses that we found and explain whether we find their homebrew balanced or not and what we might tweak or change.
In this episode, we talk about introducing your PCs to one another and good ways to get a new campaign started. Then we also talk about some really cool ranger subclasses.
Marsh joins us for another hour of talking characters. He offers up some fresh perspectives on ways to initiate characters and how to approach situations.
In this episode our good friend marsh joins us to discuss ways to approach character building and development and ways to help tie yourself to your character and the world you're in.
On this episode Nick and Mike go off on tangents and cover a plethora of topics in this discussion about what drives us and makes us tick both as players and as DMs
In this episode we go over a list of DM tips that will be helpful to not just new DMs but even some of the more seasoned DMs out there.
In this episode, Mike still has fucking bronchitis, so that's sick. We discuss ability checks and helpful tricks and tips newer DMs may not be aware of that will help them along their way. We then break down some artificer subclasses and discuss the ways in which they bring something new to the table and how their balance impacts the class as a whole.
In this episode Mike has bronchitis, so sounds wonderful. We talk about pulling inspiration from other fictional works, kitbashing, and break down some homebrew sorcerer subclasses to discuss what they add and how they balance.
In this episode we talk about dealing with cheaters and different ways and reasons players tend to cheat and how to manage and mitigate that. Additionally, we go over some excellent cleric subclasses and talk about when we're gonna get into homebrewing live on the show.
In this episode, we talk about ways to engage your characters and tie them to the world, make them care about what they're doing. We also go over some cleric home brew subclasses!
In this episode, we discuss settlements, how to create them, and a bunch of useful ways to enhance your towns all over your homebrew world!
In this episode, we're talking all about curses. Ways they can be fun, useful, training tools. This episode gets all over the place, so lets get at it!
In this episode, we're talking loot tables. We're talking about how to keep them interesting and balanced, as well as bringing some homebrew items we made ourselves and talking about how we made them and what makes them so unique.
In this episode, we're talking travel! How to spice up your party's travel, and ways to keep it fresh and fun. We also break down some nicely made fighter homebrew subclasses!
In this episode, we introduce ourselves and talk about our D&D background and experiences therein.