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Dungeon Master’s Block

187: Puzzles (feat. James Eck)

Dungeon Master’s Block

The Block Party Network

Leisure, Hobbies, Games, Leisure:games

4.9618 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

DMs Mitch and Neal sit down with James Eck of Mind-Weave RPG to talk all about puzzles and how to tailor them to your players. DMs Block Discord: https://discord.gg/ehJBu2 Twitter: @DM_Eck https://mindweaverpg.wordpress.com/ Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes dungeonmasterblock@gmail.com Music provided by Argofox: Arcturus - Liftoff https://youtu.be/KIMIYq0Ckzs Episode edited by: Neal Powell

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Dungeon Masters block, the place where we come to talk about, the Dungeon Master, the most important person in the game, the only person capable of playing God, killing characters,

0:22.4

and lowering the egos of all other people at the table. I'm one of your host, Dungeon Master Mitch.

0:28.8

And I'm DM Neal, aka Jop Moniac. Today I'm excited. Our guest for today is James Eck,

0:36.0

otherwise known, especially for those of you who are on our

0:38.8

forums as Rouric.

0:41.4

He's here to talk about something very near and dear to his heart, Puzzles.

0:46.2

This is going to be a fantastic episode where we're going to really be able to glean from

0:51.8

his wisdom because James is super, super talented when it comes to puzzles.

0:57.0

I believe Neil, he created a whole labyrinth right on the forums that, like with a visual

1:02.5

representation and everything.

1:04.4

Yeah, it was over on his own blog, but the, I mean, if you've heard through the years,

1:08.6

the absolute gushing about the rotating labyrinth.

1:12.0

It is, I mean, the number of permutations of the labyrinth is some astronomical number,

1:17.3

I think, in the millions that someone did because you have all these, like large rotating

1:21.4

sections, smaller rotating sections, and even smaller rotating sections inside of that.

1:26.1

And you can buy that, you can build that, you can run that, and you can find all of that.

1:30.7

On his website, that sounds like a DM's dream and a player's nightmare.

1:35.5

Yes.

1:36.9

But yeah, we brought him in.

1:38.8

And speaking of awesome things that he's created, if you are a Patreon supporter, Gold Dragon, or Hire, you can head

1:45.0

over and check out something new and interesting that Rorick has created all about puzzles and

1:50.4

helping you make them. But before we jump into this awesome discussion with Rorick, Neil, we have

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