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Dungeon Master’s Block

235: Building Backstories

Dungeon Master’s Block

The Block Party Network

Leisure, Hobbies, Leisure:games, Games

5613 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

DMs Chris and Neal sit down and talk about combining the backstories of your players together. Thanks to the discord for helping start this conversation! Patreon @DMs_Block Discord Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected]   Music provided by Argofox: Melad - Parallax https://youtu.be/v5Frzu7D3W4 This episode edited by: Neal Powell

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0:00.0

Well, welcome back to the dungeon master's block, the place where we come to talk about, the dungeon master, of course, the most important person in the game, the only person capable of playing God,

0:21.0

killing characters, and lowering the egos of all the people at the table. I'm one of your

0:26.0

host, DM Chris, aka DM underscore Chris 1. Perfect. Do you have an underscore in there as well?

0:33.9

I kind of forgot that. And I am DM Neal, aka Jote Moniac.

0:38.4

And you know, Neil, the way we could get around my being DM Chris, I could probably just delete

0:43.8

the underscore and I could probably be DM Chris.

0:46.8

I don't know, we'll try it, we'll figure it out.

0:48.6

To Twitter, screw this episode, we're going to Twitter and you're going to listen to us type.

0:53.3

No, no, no, but what

0:54.6

a wonderful backstory you've given us about your Twitter handle. And that is a wonderful segue,

1:01.0

not driving off the cliff like the guy who owned segue, but we're going to talk, that's his

1:06.2

backstory. Because today we're going to be talking about building better backstories.

1:13.1

The B, B, B, B of D and D.

1:15.6

Oh, look at that, dear.

1:18.6

It's clearly Chris and I recording later at night than normally.

1:23.6

Totally.

1:24.6

But we are going to talk about tying back stories together, whether it's homebrew, whether it's pre-written material, whether you have players that are engaged, players that want nothing to do with it, just kind of having a conversation about weaving those all together. But before we do that, we have an iTunes review. And it comes from someone named DM Jazzy Jack. And they entitled it. This show

1:49.0

has it all. Five stars. It'll take you a while to even swipe through the episode list, let alone

1:54.9

listen to it all. But it's certainly worth every second. Every episode has something you can take away and with such a wide

2:02.0

variety of topics you are certainly going to find several topics right up your

2:07.7

DMing alley to spark some new inspiration for you. I've been listening on

2:12.6

Spotify forever but the show is so good that I finally got off my lazy butt, opened up Apple

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