Labyrinth of Lore - Lair of Lore

This, is the first session of our Ravnica D&D campaign for folks at the Conductor tier, its also the only one I'll be posting publicly, all the rest will be available as well as the engine room segments from before and after the sessions, to folks at the $5 tier and up. Before this starts I'd like to say that several sessions later I realized just how bloody stupid it is that I set this in the 10th district and I did eventually retcon that. But to begin, our brave adventurers join together for some drinks around a table in a poorly named bar. Here we'll introduce you to Asterios, the most friendly Gruul minotaur you'll ever meet, whose just a bit too willing to put anyone and anything through a table. He's basically trying to start an independent wrestling organization without realizing that's what he's doing. Up next is Eddie, a half-elven fire dancer from among the Rakdos, basically read as teams mouth piece despite relatively low charisma, but still high compared to everyone else. And of course the closest thing the team has to a healer Mayjah, a Loxodon Cleric of the Selesnya Conclave. And their Contact on this job Sardk. So now join our grand adventurers as they solve a heist and maybe a murder mystery, or just accidentally stumble into solutions. Patreon https://www.patreon.com/lairofloreTwitch streams https://www.twitch.tv/lairofloreTwitter https://twitter.com/LairofLoreFacebook https://www.facebook.com/lairofloreOur Website http://lairoflore.com/Our Discord: https://discord.gg/TNKqv8YThe Labyrinth of Lore RSS Feed http://lairoflore.com/lorecast/?format=rss

First of all, yes, that is a robot dragon from Chrono Trigger in the thumbnail. Look, there may or may not be a robot dragon in this episode and there may or may not be any good sources for a clockwork dragon as doofy as the one Stark described, so we decided this is probably the best example for a hypothetical maybe monster that was not been confirmed to be in this adventure or not. Ok rambling about dragons aside, this was a wonderful end to Stark's Adventure. We continued on as we began last time, with the silliness ratcheted up to 11. Anything more than that, well, it just feels like a spoiler. And please remember that after the first Ravnica Episode these will be moving over to Patron Only, so if you’re enjoying these please consider backing our PatreonPatreon https://www.patreon.com/lairofloreTwitch streams https://www.twitch.tv/lairofloreTwitter https://twitter.com/LairofLoreFacebook https://www.facebook.com/lairofloreOur Website http://lairoflore.com/Our Discord: https://discord.gg/TNKqv8YThe Labyrinth of Lore RSS Feed http://lairoflore.com/lorecast/?format=rss

First of all, no I did not make up that name. I asked Stark and he told me that was the name of the Dungeon we ran through. Second, welcome to the first of three of these audio files I'll be putting up publicly, both here, on the website https://www.patreon.com/lairofloreThis is the first episode we recorded of our Conductor RPGS. (this is only kind of a lie as our Ixalan Campaign was recorded and not all the episodes went up but they're pretty universally not great recordings, I deleted the source files so the stuff that I still have is real low quality) But this special little madness is an adventure that Stark found and suited him so well he decided it would be the perfect thing to try on his first DMing expedition, and I freaking agree. This adventure was amazing and really let Stark lean into some cartoony silliness. So please enjoy and come on back in a few days for episode 2 and the first episode of the new campaign a few days after that.Patreon https://www.patreon.com/lairofloreTwitch streams https://www.twitch.tv/lairofloreTwitter https://twitter.com/LairofLoreFacebook https://www.facebook.com/lairofloreOur Website http://lairoflore.com/Our Discord: https://discord.gg/TNKqv8YThe Labyrinth of Lore RSS Feed http://lairoflore.com/lorecast/?format=rss

All silliness aside, sorry this took longer than it should have, we recorded this a week and a bit ago but this past week, actually let's be honest, the past month has been stupid and constantly busy! However as an episode, this was pretty nice and relaxed, we kept going over Edlraine cards and seeing what jumped out to us. We cracked one of the packs the WotC sent me after the Streamer event. Oh and we even went over the new sets that were announced shortly before we recorded. We might have been a tiny bit salty about another year of mostly rehashing old planes but at least it will be nice to see Zendikar now that it's....un-eldrazied? Since their whole culture was kind of built on the fact that the eldrazi effed up the plane's mana while they were locked away. Heck I guess that does sort of make Zendikar a whole new plane, maybe I'm just salty because I really like the eldrazi as a race. Either way, we also talked a bit about the un-set, un product? the un thing thats coming up because Miriam and I are both easily swayed by dumb silver borders, which reminds me we also went over those My Little Pony cards, which as a reminder are still for sale. and before anyone gets on me for "but they're $50 for three cards" Yeah, they're utterly unique silver bordered silliness and $30 of the $50 is going to Extra Life and benefiting Seattle Children's Hospital. Also there are some really nice playmats with the My Little Pony Art they're selling for $100 for the set of three where $80 goes to the same charity.Card Image Gallery: https://magic.wizards.com/en/products/throne-of-eldraine/cardsAlternate art Card Image Gallery because for some reason it has different cards: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/throne-eldraine-variantsMechanic Article: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/throne-eldraine-mechanics-2019-09-04World Building Article: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-preview/worldbuilding-eldraine-2019-09-11My Little Pony Card Sale Info https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/magic-extra-life-2019-10-03 (They're for sale until November 5th)Patreon https://www.patreon.com/lairofloreTwitch streams https://www.twitch.tv/lairofloreTwitter https://twitter.com/LairofLoreFacebook https://www.facebook.com/lairofloreOur Website http://lairoflore.com/Our Discord: https://discord.gg/TNKqv8YThe Labyrinth of Lore RSS Feed http://lairoflore.com/lorecast/?format=rss

Yes, Really.Sort of out of nowhere both Miriam and I decided we were so hype for ELdraine we'd give that whole, we run a podcast thing a shot again. And It went.....actually yeah that, it went.We briefly covered our long absence, basically we both got busy and the whole ravnica thing turned out exactly how we were afraid it would *cough* Niv-Mizzet died of screen and we only found out in the final set, you know the one where stuff happens, because he found a way to cheat *cough*. Soooo Yeah, we were gone for basically a year between that and just Core Sets have never buttered our biscuits to use a colloquialism that isn't local to any of the people on this cast.But we did get to go a bit gaga over some beautiful art and flavor.....what's the opposite of a flavor fail? Flavor success just doesn't have the same flair. So please join us as we look over a smattering of the Throne of Eldraine cards and stair at their pretty art and focus WAY too much on what fairy tales and stories they're evoking.Card Image Gallery: https://magic.wizards.com/en/products/throne-of-eldraine/cardsAlternate art Card Image Gallery because for some reason it has different cards: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/throne-eldraine-variantsMechanic Article: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/throne-eldraine-mechanics-2019-09-04World Building Article: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-preview/worldbuilding-eldraine-2019-09-11Patreon https://www.patreon.com/lairofloreTwitch streams https://www.twitch.tv/lairofloreTwitter https://twitter.com/LairofLoreFacebook https://www.facebook.com/lairofloreOur Website http://lairoflore.com/Our Discord: https://discord.gg/TNKqv8YThe Labyrinth of Lore RSS Feed http://lairoflore.com/lorecast/?format=rss

I'm only like a week behind posting this instead of two so this is an improvement right? This was recorded something like 2 days before the full Ravnica Spoiler was dropped on us so Miriam and I just sort of decided screw it, let's looks through the cards and see if anything really jumps out at us.We mostly focused on the Multicolored cards, look its Ravnica that's what we're all here for, and being us we ended up having a whole tangent discussion focussed on the weird design changes that seem to happen to vraska in every set she appears in.Card Image Gallery: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/guilds-ravnica-2018-09-17Mechanics Article: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/guilds-ravnica-mechanics-2018-09-04Patreon https://www.patreon.com/lairofloreTwitch streams https://www.twitch.tv/lairofloreTwitter https://twitter.com/LairofLoreFacebook https://www.facebook.com/lairofloreOur Website http://lairoflore.com/Our Discord: https://discord.gg/TNKqv8YThe Labyrinth of Lore RSS Feed http://lairoflore.com/lorecast/?format=rss

Apparently I'm a fool and never finished rendering this episode. Miriam and I recorded this about a week and change before PAX west so we had no spoilers or anything like that to cover so instead we decided to do something we've been threatening to do for a while, an artist episode. We each picked an artist, forgot to tell eachother who we picked and then discussed why we picked those artists.Miriam chose Matt Stewart and I picked Chippy. I'd rather not spoil our discussions too much both of them are amazing artists, though Chippy has largely move away from MTG, we found a single source saying he now worked for Valve, but we couldn't really corroborate it. Below you can find both men's personal sites as well as some of their best, or at least our favorite work.Matt Stewart's Website: http://www.matthew-stewart.com/magic-the-gathering/Matt Stewart's Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/MattStewart/itemsMatt Stewart's Art of MTG: http://www.artofmtg.com/artist/matt-stewart/All Matt Stewart's cards: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?output=spoiler&method=visual&action=advanced&artist=%5b%22Matt+Stewart%22%5dChippy Works: http://www.chippyworks.com/Article on Chippy's Art: https://scentofagamer.wordpress.com/2014/09/27/mtg-artists-chippy/Chippy's Art of MTG: http://www.artofmtg.com/artist/chippy/All Chippy's Cards: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&output=spoiler&method=visual&artist=+[%22Chippy%22]Patreon https://www.patreon.com/lairofloreTwitch streams https://www.twitch.tv/lairofloreTwitter https://twitter.com/LairofLoreFacebook https://www.facebook.com/lairofloreOur Website http://lairoflore.com/Our Discord: https://discord.gg/TNKqv8YThe Labyrinth of Lore RSS Feed http://lairoflore.com/lorecast/?format=rss

So this episode starts out a bit rough and on sort of a negative topic, I'm sorry for that but it should be discussed. It recently came out that Wizards hired a new person as the Senior Franchise Narrative Designer, and it came up that said person had some troubling stuff in their past. We're mostly trying to set the record straight here though, we don't know when he was hired and has been in his position long enough to deal with the dominaria story issues.Second while his book "Girls" is not currently in publication, as it was published fifteen years ago and was a version of his Master's Thesis for Brown University, the bits that rise to the surface quickly are uncomfortable at best, "narrated by a composite of middle-aged male voices - all wealthy and powerful - who have one thing in common: a desire for pubescent girls." From the Interview with Nic Kelman by Jill Adams. Nic has since been quoted as saying that he wrote the book to avoid becoming like the men in it, but I don't know if that really makes it better.It's best to remember that this was 15 years ago, and he has certainly had time to mature and change, it however made us really look into his credentials to supervise a massive franchise narrative, which is where we found our real issues. We mostly referred to his interview with Gathering Magic where he makes it quite clear that what is important in his creative department is that a story is told and that it's done by either larger authors who can bring an audience with them, or by new authors who will have to come to Magic to build an audience. To facilitate this he sees the characters as at best archetypes, a piece of the story that new writers can use as they see fit, not as a character. Essentially it highlights exactly our concerns with Magic story. Nic has taken the wrong lesson from superhero comics, thinking that the audience wants to see the spiderman origin story again every time a new author takes over. No there's a reason MCU spider man needed no introduction, you can find a five year old who know the story of uncle Ben. What we need is author's to respect what came before, or in the case of Dominaria, actually be told what came before, and then take a character.Nic Kelman Gathering Magic InterviewNic Kelman Wikipedia, Obviously taken with a grain of saltInterview on "Girls"With that rant over, I promise it's a much shorter part of the show than the paragraphs make it seem, we move on to Commander 2018 cards. We made it one card in before we ended up on a tangent examining the art for Aminatou, and then getting even more focused onto the artist themselves. Turns out Seb McKinnon does some of our favorite art we forget about too easily. Plus we're three days to late to plug his very successful Kickstarter to run play mat printings of several card arts.Commander 2018 Card Image GallerySeb McKinnon MTG ArtSeb McKinnon Personal WebsiteStuffed Perilous MyrPatreon https://www.patreon.com/lairofloreTwitch streams https://www.twitch.tv/lairofloreTwitter https://twitter.com/LairofLoreFacebook https://www.facebook.com/lairofloreOur Website http://lairoflore.com/Our Discord: https://discord.gg/TNKqv8YThe Labyrinth of Lore RSS Feed http://lairoflore.com/lorecast/?format=rss

Holy Hell Miriam and I finally had a kind of short Episode! And by kind of I mean less than 40 minutes! We recorded this on Monday morning so most of the cards had not been spoiled, so we had 5 cards. 5. But we covered them as well as the Guildmaster to Ravnica thing which is absolutely glorious!Card Image Gallery: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/commander-2018-edition-2018-07-27Guildmaster: http://mtg-realm.tumblr.com/post/176164090611/magic-the-gathering-dungeons-dragons-ddPatreon https://www.patreon.com/lairofloreTwitch streams https://www.twitch.tv/lairofloreTwitter https://twitter.com/LairofLoreFacebook https://www.facebook.com/lairofloreOur Website http://lairoflore.com/Our Discord: https://discord.gg/TNKqv8YThe Labyrinth of Lore RSS Feed http://lairoflore.com/lorecast/?format=rss

Yup we are back. Sorry about the massive delay between episodes. Miriam was moving for the first two weeks and last week I slept in. Well here we are to talk about the m19 previews as well as why we think we'll be switching up the way we do our story episodes. It was a weird episode I'll be honest, we were both kind of sleepy and loopy.M19 Card Image Gallery: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/core-set-2019-2018-06-22Patreon https://www.patreon.com/lairofloreTwitch streams https://www.twitch.tv/lairofloreTwitter https://twitter.com/LairofLoreFacebook https://www.facebook.com/lairofloreOur Website http://lairoflore.com/The Labyrinth of Lore RSS Feed http://lairoflore.com/lorecast/?format=rss

This was a relatively simple episode, which of course means that despite essentially just covering the Battlebond preview cards, spoilers we're pretty hype on them. Turns out that we are suckers for multiplayer sets, and especially ones with a stupidly high power level. Plus, the world looks awesome and is basically just an entire plane focused on tag team wrestling.Card Image Gallery https://magic.wizards.com/en/products/battlebond/cardsPatreon https://www.patreon.com/lairofloreTwitch streams https://www.twitch.tv/lairofloreTwitter https://twitter.com/LairofLoreFacebook https://www.facebook.com/lairofloreOur Website http://lairoflore.com/The Labyrinth of Lore RSS Feed http://lairoflore.com/lorecast/?format=rss

I'm Amazed this episode didn't go longer. We managed to whirlwind through two magic systems, even if one of them is only complex in its implications, an not in its practice. We are once again running through magic systems used in Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn Serieses. Last time we covered Allowmancy, a magic of preservation where power is drawn from outside one's self and exchanged for something physical in a one-to-one trade.In This episode we are looking at Feruchemy, a magic that requires temporary exchange one a piece of one's self in order to draw on that piece in more controlled bursts in the future, and Hemalurgy, a vicious bloody magic build around laws of decay and the transfer of intangible abilities.Yeah We had fun with this one.Hemalurgy Chart: https://i.redd.it/dtvslvv0jjxx.jpgPatreon https://www.patreon.com/lairofloreTwitch streams https://www.twitch.tv/lairofloreTwitter https://twitter.com/LairofLoreFacebook https://www.facebook.com/lairofloreOur Website http://lairoflore.com/The Labyrinth of Lore RSS Feed http://lairoflore.com/lorecast/?format=rss

Somehow we figured we were going to talk about the Story Spotlight cards from Dominaria and their implications, then move on to a non magic related topic, and record two short episodes and be good. instead we managed to make the Story Spotlight cards and half of our original topic into an hour and a half long episode, we are bad at this game. Find all the Links we talk about below.Story Spotlight CardsBroken Bond: https://media.wizards.com/2018/dom/en_47k2GBWc6i.pngFinal Parting: https://media.wizards.com/2018/dom/en_U8ib8Rbxag.pngSettle the Scroe: https://media.wizards.com/2018/dom/en_y9J1ignN8S.pngIn Bolas's Clutches: https://media.wizards.com/2018/dom/en_iElPApbx4y.pngAllomancy chart: http://mistborn.wikia.com/wiki/Allomancy?file=Mb_table_v13-1-.jpgPatreon  https://www.patreon.com/lairofloreTwitch streams  https://www.twitch.tv/lairofloreTwitter  https://twitter.com/LairofLoreFacebook  https://www.facebook.com/lairofloreOur Website  http://lairoflore.com/The Labyrinth of Lore RSS Feed http://lairoflore.com/lorecast/?format=rss

This Episode was recorded on Monday April 02 so we did not have access to even most of the spoiler when we recorded. However, we are still attempting to pursuit our usual strategy, for those who don't know we have not and will not be reading any of the official story until we have seen most of the set if not the full spoiler. Miriam and I both hope that we can at least figure out some of the story from the cards because lets be honest here folks, a lot of people aren't going to real the magic story or even those little info snippets that have been shown about all the legendaries.So far I don't think the story was coming through too strong but we had almost no cards so that's fine. What we did have was the mechanics article and the a whole bunch of Sagas. This episode pretty quickly devolved into trying to figure out what any given saga was the story of and I will say, we both loved them. And here are link to everything we used/talked about in the episode.https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/dominariahttps://media.wizards.com/2018/dom/en_bjiAZMhsh8.pnghttps://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/29790312_1639058656170736_7753846420184550985_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=102b4a5f239ae00b1fa20abcb672a520&oe=5B7042CDhttps://twitter.com/AaronGoodwine/status/980461086158843905Patreon  https://www.patreon.com/lairofloreTwitch streams  https://www.twitch.tv/lairofloreTwitter  https://twitter.com/LairofLoreFacebook  https://www.facebook.com/lairofloreOur Website  http://lairoflore.com/The Labyrinth of Lore RSS Feed http://lairoflore.com/lorecast/?format=rss

Well, Last week we for some reason legitimately believed that we could get through the story of Ixalan and Rivals of Ixalan in one episode, and boy were we wrong. So I would give you some nice indepth show notes, but if I did that I'd basically just give away what we talk about so not going to happen. I will warn you that I personally had a LOT of anger about the final paragraph thing, so be prepared.Patreon https://www.patreon.com/lairofloreTwitch streams https://www.twitch.tv/lairofloreTwitter https://twitter.com/LairofLoreFacebook https://www.facebook.com/lairofloreOur Website http://lairoflore.com/The Labyrinth of Lore RSS Feed http://lairoflore.com/lorecast/?format=rss

We were apparently too ambitious here, somehow we thought we were going to be able to make it through covering both the Full Ixalan Story and the Rivals Story. We ended up giving in and just doing the Original Ixalan Story and leaving Rivals for next week. And of course we go massively off topic and dive into random silly side topics. Anyway there are a few swears dropped by miriam, however since we haven't put out a real episode in a long time and editing them out would delay this even more I've left them in.Patreon  https://www.patreon.com/lairofloreTwitch streams  https://www.twitch.tv/lairofloreTwitter  https://twitter.com/LairofLoreFacebook  https://www.facebook.com/lairofloreOur Website  http://lairoflore.com/The Labyrinth of Lore RSS Feed http://lairoflore.com/lorecast/?format=rss

If we are being technical this might actually be episode 30 something but honestly, we recorded, and live streamed, episodes during Amonkhet, Hour of Devestation, and the kaladesh blocks, but some of them just never went out to youtube, our site, or mtg cast, and they are too far gone to really waste everyone's time with them, so here we are. So here we are now, back to recording these and putting them out in the old format, albeit with video versions as well. So lets go on in and start talking about Ixalan because Miriam and I are HYPED! Miriam loves pirates, and we both love making fun of Jace, and I Love dinosaurs. Basically we are both going to be building some awful tribal decks in edh once the second set comes out. So Let's go in and cover some of the cards we've seen thus far. Also, I meant it, if there is a legitimate Dinosaur deck in standard, I will build it and take it to some kind of Tournament. You can find everything else we do over at  http://lairoflore.com/ or if you want to support our show and everything else we do you can do that at https://www.patreon.com/lairoflore Where even a dollar a month gets you the derpy puppy feed. Emails us at masterminds(at)lairoflore.com We're on Youtube at The Lair of Lore Twitch at Lair of Lore Facebook As The Lair of Lore Twitter at @LairofLore and Miriam's tumblr The Labyrinth of Lore RSS Feed

We are back this week and instead of talking about the just landslide of random new cards from amonkhet we haven't covered yet we decided we would instead return to our favorite segment, planeshift. We are here to come up with some rough outlines for player character races if you were to play D&D on Kamigawa. This is a thing wizards has been doing with the new sets but we like to go back and do it with older sets. Apologies, there is a bit of a jump at one point where I have to edit out a swear, and we up until the very end forgot about the orochi, but we remembered eventually. Endslate music: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time 'CONNECTED!' by timaeus222 https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03493 You can find everything else we do over at  http://lairoflore.com/ or if you want to support our show and everything else we do you can do that at https://www.patreon.com/lairoflore Where even a dollar a month gets you the derpy puppy feed. Emails us at masterminds(at)lairoflore.com We're on Youtube at The Lair of Lore Twitch at Lair of Lore Facebook As The Lair of Lore Twitter at @LairofLore and Miriam's tumblr The Labyrinth of Lore RSS Feed

Sorry we missed out on last week, but we are back and mostly survived our live episode this week. We mostly just focused on the previews from Amonkhet, some how we keep managing to only get one episode in each set looking at new cards, not sure how we manage that but it could probably be worse. We also briefly touch on some of the story that has been developing for the set but we think we'll be focusing a bit more on that next episode, or simply recommending you go listen to Unspoken Realms, just remember production time is a thing so they're usually a few weeks behind.

This is the very first in our Patreon only Series, the One True Host Runs...., in this case, the Curse of Strahd. However seeing as this is the first episode ever, we decided to make it available to everyone, all substituent episodes will be available on our patreon. All following episodes will also have a video component but don't worry, the big focus really is on the game play, which is all audio, we don't use miniatures or anything.  Well, I would now like to let past me introduce this and our players, enjoy. Patreon  https://www.patreon.com/lairoflore Twitch streams  https://www.twitch.tv/lairoflore Twitter  https://twitter.com/LairofLore Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/lairoflore Our Website  http://lairoflore.com/ The Labyrinth of Lore RSS Feed http://lairoflore.com/lorecast/?format=rss