Welcome back to the Dungeon Master's block, the place where we come to focus on the Dungeon Master, the most important person in the game.

The only person capable of playing God, killing characters, and lowering the egos of all of the people at the

table. I kind of feel like a young person explaining why their homework is not done. You can hear

it in my voice. Allergies are terrible. I was on vacation. I lost files. It was a confluence of

wonderful things that led to this brief pause in our

release schedule. But to make up for it, today we're going to be talking to James J. Hake about

building upon the foundations of pre-existing worlds and some ways to approach it. And he dips into both

talking about it from the DM perspective, as well as his role

at Ghostfire Gaming, as well as basically the reading rainbow adage of take a look in a book

and you'll probably find his name because he's worked on other settings as well for D&D.

So we're going to talk about building upon those foundations.

Damn Chris will be there as well.

But enough of me vamping and talking.

Let's head to the meat.

I'm starving.

We ain't had nothing but maggotty bread for three stinking days.

Why can't we have some meats?

Looks like meat.

Back on the menu, boys.

All right.

Well, we are here today for another edition of the meat where we are going to talk about world

buildings, specifically what we've entitled

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