Dragon Talk: Stephen David Wark, How To DM on Balancing Encounters

Dragon Talk - An Official Dungeons & Dragons Podcast

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🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

It's the final episode of Dragon Talk for 2020 and Greg & Shelly open the show reflecting back on what was a wild year for all of us, as well as get you your final D&D news segment until we return in 2021! Later, we welcome our very own Chris Lindsay, product manager for D&D, as we jump into a brand new edition of How to DM! This week, we focus on balancing encounters in your games. Our special interview is game and narrative designer, along with brand manager of Warriors of Waterdeep, Stephen David Wark! Dragon Talk is executively produced by Greg Tito, Shelly Mazzanoble & Wizards of The Coast. Show production by Lisa Carr & Ryan Marth of Siren Sound. Podcast recording, editing, mixing and mastering by Ryan Marth & Siren Sound. Here's your guide to when each segment begins: D&D News with Greg Tito and Shelly Mazzanoble - 0:00 How To DM - 10:11 Interview - 37:48 Outro - 1:26:56 Greg Tito Twitter - twitter.com/gregtito Shelly Mazzanoble Twitter - twitter.com/shellymoo D&D Holiday Specials - dnd.wizards.com/holidayspecials Curse of Strahd Revamped - dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/rpg-products/curse-strahd-revamped Tasha's Cauldron of Everything - https://dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/rpg-products/tashas-cauldron-everything Icewind Dale: Rime Of The Frostmaiden - https://dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/rpg-products/icewind-dale-rime-frostmaiden Stephen David Wark Twitter - twitter.com/_chirographum_ Warriors of Waterdeep - www.warriorsofwaterdeep.com Dragon Talk Show Page - https://dnd.wizards.com/dragon-talk/podcast-hub Siren Sound - www.sirensound.co

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dragon Tug!
0:07.0	Dragon Tug!
0:08.0	Yeah!
0:09.0	Whoa!
0:11.0	Oh!
0:12.0	Dragon Tock! Happy New Year, Dragon Talk!
0:15.0	Last official Dungeons the Dragons podcast Dragon Talk episode of 2020,
0:21.0	and I have to say good rittens we have rolled a 13. I've rolled a 12.
0:30.0	I beat you. You did that means you had a crappier year than I did.
0:35.6	Oh my goodness you know I was reflecting on 20-20 this morning as I was getting ready for our last official
0:45.1	dragon talk of 2020 and I was thinking back what a year of like all of the
0:52.1	guests that we talked to, we have had some amazing conversations.
0:56.4	We have talked to great wonderful inspiring people from this community.
1:02.0	We had a bunch of equipment sent to our houses. from this
1:05.0	seems extreme just for a couple of seems extreme just for a couple weeks
1:09.0	and now look nine months later but you know what?
1:12.0	We never stopped recording that's right we
1:16.8	we stayed continuous we might have had like one week in there where we stopped
1:21.8	but like it was a train that kept on move in that
1:26.2	dragon talk train. Yes and it was important and I really loved hearing from
1:31.4	people who are talking about, you know, listening to
1:35.1	Dragon Talk while they're taking long walks or on their drives to their jobs, you
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