Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Dungeons and Dragons

podcast. This is your host Bart Carroll along with Shelly Mazzanoble and Trevor Kidd.

In today's episode we continue our coverage of Dungeon Master Appreciation Month.

First, we speak with artist Tyler Jacobson and senior world building art director Richard Witters to discuss a forthcoming project in the works.

And then we speak with R&D's senior designer Chris Perkins about his experiences as a dungeon master to the stars. Artist Tyler Jacobson last spoke with us back in September looking at his

glorious cover illustrations for the Player's Handbook and Dungeon Masters

Guide. Senior art director Richard Widders spends his days providing concepting and world

building for Dungeons and Dragons and for both Tyler and Richard their work

includes the forthcoming game Sword Coast Legends due out later this year from N-Space.

But before we touch upon the game,

we wanted to ask sort of how your relationship

first formed professionally.

Okay. A few years back, I brought Tyler in on a Magic The Gathering concept push.

I think your first one was theros I was theros.

It was theros yeah.

Well it was early thorough stuff.

My first full push was for cons.

Kons of Tarkier.

So you're on the Dungeons and Dragons team now, but before that you were spending your working days on the Magic the Gathering concepting team.

Yeah, yeah, I was on the world building creative team for Magic the Gathering for about seven years.

And my move over to D&D is sort of moving that type of capacity to D&D world building,

which is kind of where Tyler and other talented folks like Tyler come in because I'm sort of like I like working with these guys and they do awesome stuff so I want to translate this over to what the to D&D that I'm working on now.

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