68: Combat Expertise

Dungeon Master’s Block

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5 • 613 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2016

⏱️ 81 minutes

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DM Mitch & DM Chris take this week to talk about how to keep combat moving, and how to introduce different elements to keep it fresh. Make combat more than just a grid and some minis! Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes [email protected] Intro Music in this episode is The Architects (Original Mix) by Zero Chaotic is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Release: https://soundcloud.com/zero_chaotic/t... License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... This episode edited by: DM Mitch

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0:00.0	Well, welcome back everyone to the Dungeon Master's block, the place where we focus on the Dungeon Master, the most important person in the game.
0:21.6	The only person capable of playing God, killing characters, and lowering the egos of all of the people at the table.
0:27.6	I'm one of your host, Dungeon Master Chris.
0:29.6	And I'm Dungeon Master Mitch.
0:31.6	And today we are talking about combat.
0:34.6	We are going to talk about how to spice combat up because sometimes if you do enough
0:39.6	combat in one night it can get a little boring or you might just find yourself in a rut with
0:45.0	how to make this combat interesting. So we're going to give you some ideas that might be able
0:49.4	to help combat stay fresh for your players. But before we do that, we are going to do a few five-star
0:56.5	reviews that we have from iTunes. So our first iTunes review comes from Tiger Raven 1980. Five-star
1:04.5	reviews says I'm hooked. I heard about these guys from another podcast and decided to give them a go.
1:10.1	I've now listened to half their
1:11.4	back catalog in just two months. Hashtag, welcome to the block party. That is a lot of hours and
1:17.6	episodes to listen to. Yeah. And to be almost completely caught up is impressive. So five stars to
1:22.6	you, Tiger Raven. Yeah, thanks Tiger Raven. And thank you to whoever the other podcast was that
1:27.2	shouted us out. Yeah, thank you. Our next one thank you to whoever the other podcast was that shouted us out.
1:29.0	Yeah, thank you.
1:29.7	Our next one comes from DM Ezekiel and is entitled Game Saving Podcast.
1:35.1	I have never played D&D before.
1:37.3	I really wanted to, so I bought a 3.5 DM's guide and players handbook.
1:43.1	After getting a group of my buddies together, I realized I had
1:46.1	gotten over my head. I created my own world and storyline from scratch. My group, of course,
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