Robert Wardhaugh on 36-year Long D&D Campaign

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🗓️ 8 November 2018

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Most Dungeon Masters are happy with a satisfying end to a story arc in 20-30 sessions of play as a description for a long-running campaign, but Robert Wardhaugh puts that all to shame with his epic storytelling that has continued non-stop for more than 36 YEARS. We check in with Robert since Shelly and Greg spoke to him about 18 months ago on what's happened in the story, how he juggles so many active players, and his methods for keeping the stakes high through family lines. Plus, a little late for Halloween but always relevant, Chris Perkins describes how to include scary monsters in your D&D sessions for fun and horror. Here's a guide to when each segment on the podcast begins: 00:00: Intro with Greg Tito & Shelly Mazzanoble 08:50: Lore You Should Know with Chris Perkins 33:10: Interview with Robert Wardhaugh 1:26:05: Outro with Greg Tito & Shelly Mazzanoble

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dragon Talk. I'm Greg Tito.
0:13.0	I'm Shelly Masinova.
0:14.0	And we are here with the official Dungeons
0:16.4	the Dragons podcast to return to the amazing 36 year long D&D campaign that Robert Wardaw has been running in London, Ontario, round about those parts.
0:30.7	He said he started in the Western part of Canada for 36 years.
0:36.0	This is crazy. Continuous storyline multiple times a week.
0:40.0	Yeah. Spstanding more than 400 years of history in game time.
0:47.0	And a lot of the same characters.
0:48.0	A lot of the same players.
0:50.0	That's what I mean.
0:51.0	Yeah, players from that time from when he started when he was a kid to now
0:55.2	he's incorporating his daughter into it now who's 17. Fantastic. So good.
1:01.2	And it's kind of a homebrew type thing building on Dungeons and Dragons
1:05.9	Loor Lord of the Rings, Conan the Barbarian, all types of fun inspirations and things that he's using throughout it and I can't
1:16.6	wait to revisit it all and he's going to be on Twitch here he's doing some
1:19.6	programming on Twitch of this game so you can get a little bit of information
1:24.2	about what it's like to play by watching it.
1:25.8	I would love to see this game in action.
1:27.8	Me too.
1:28.3	He sounds like a really interesting dungeon mess.
1:32.4	Exactly. Yeah, so you'll hear. interesting dungeon But other stuff that's going on in Dungeons and Dragons, what can you...
1:44.0	Why don't we start with Avalon Hill?
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