Welcome back to DM Nastics, the gym for dungeon masters to work out their minds.

I'm one of our host, DM Neal, aka Jote Moniac.

And...

It's me, your other host, DM Celeste, aka Sea Witch. Dun-d-d, we are back. It is a new year. New year. New year. New us. I'm trying to be excited about it. It's such an arbitrary thing. I do not approach it that way. It's not really me. If I'm going to train something, I will. And fun fact, if I won't,

I don't. You don't? Who cares? It's as easy as that. But I do like the way you were approaching it because New Year, New You, new campaign. New campaign. Is it time with all these

awesome 5E variant systems and big news happening? Yeah, I think it's time for a new

campaign. Yeah, and I would be interested, like, if there's, dear listener, if you're out there and you

like have an annual date that like you kind of wrap things up, do you have a fiscal year,

DM? A DM? Do you have a fiscal year? Yeah. What was your last quarter like? What's next quarter? You know what? Sorry, everybody. A new year, new campaign. January 1st, we start over. I'd be very interested to hear that. You should email us and tell us about it. But one of the things is for those of those of you that have gotten the new edition of something,

you probably want to think of different ways to start.

There's a lot of classic tropes out there.

And luckily for us, our friend and friend of the pod over at Bell of Lost Souls, J.R. Zambrano

is brought to us another article entitled Forget Rats in the Basement.

Oh, forget.

Here are five low-level adventure hooks.

Nice.

I'm not going to lie to you, I had kind of forgotten rats in the basement.

I feel like that was a really strong video game trope as well.

Yes.

Well, it was literally, I think, Balders Gate

three was, wait, no, not the, no, that's the big one, the new one, which a Balders Gate, the one where you're going through all the gates. What would that call? Two or just the first one? I think, no, it was the one, it was another one. They made it for, released on GameCube, I want to say, for the first.

Oh, Boulder's Gate, Dark Alliance.

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