The Dungeons and Dubliners Podcast

Episode 7: The Setting Episode Baz is on vacation and, as luck would have it, Roy, the podcast attorney, is in Ireland for a visit.  While drinking a certain quantity of Jameson, we discuss upcoming releases before moving to the serious crunch of the episode: settings.  We then discuss group playstyle and DM style in the context of our respective campaigns and conclude with a segment on the relationship between DM expectations and player behavior.    Table of Contents: 0:00-3:38  Introduction and welcome to special guest Roy, podcast attorney. 3:39-18:05 Upcoming releases: wherein we ponder if Roy is an outlier or Brian and Baz are degenerate consumers. 18:06-39:08 Settings: we conduct an in-depth, critical analysis of the various D&D settings after which we discuss our favorite. 39:09-54:03  Campaigns: Roy has just concluded a two-and-a half year campaign so we compare transatlantic experiences. 54:04-1:10:18 DM Talk: When Players Disappoint.  This philosophical but practical discussion explores the relationship between DM expectation-setting and player behavior 1:10:19-1:11:30 Sign off photo credit: Pleasence via Flickr

Episode 6: The Great Review Episode Brian and Barra are back with a round up of all the news from the Dungeons and Dragons fan’s equivalent of the new year, your birthday and Christmas rolled into one as Wizards announce the new storyline and the rest of 2019’s releases!  After a quick recap of the boy’s new home campaign the meat of the episode arrives with a review of every hardback adventure published for 5th edition so far! Enjoy! 00:00 – 02:21 Intro and Welcome 02:21 – 13:35 D&D Release News 13:35 – 15:29 Campaign Recap 15:29 – 18:05 Review Premise 18:05 – 21:29 Hoard of the Dragon Queen 21:29 – 24:34 Rise of the Tiamat 24:34 – 29:20 Princes of the Apocalypse 29:20 – 34:50 Out of the Abyss 34:50 – 39:27 Curse of Strahd 39:27 – 43:57 Storm King’s Thunder 43:27 – 51:23 Tales from the Yawning Portal 51:23 – 54:56 Tomb of Annihilation 54:56 – 1:00:35 Waterdeep: Dragon Heist 1:00:35 – 1:04:28 Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage 1:04:28 – 1:13:03 Ghosts of Saltmarsh 1:13:03 – 1:16:15 The boys reveal their Top 3! 1:16:15 – 1:19:54 Sign off

Dungeons and Dubliners Episode 5: Not Dead Yet! Brian and Barra are back after a long rest having recovered from a near fatal encounter with a technical glitch.  With a slight change of format the boys bring their usual mix of D&D of news and opinion, including forthcoming D&D releases, a big DDAL Dublin Announcement, High Level Play analysis, and a rather high brow discussion of Alignment in 5e.  Enjoy!    Welcome back and episode overview 1:52:  Fan mail! (and reflections on release schedule and 3rd party products) 12:01 Adventurer's League update 14:56 D&D news and releases 28:45 Thoughts on level 20 play and looking forward to a Moonshae campaign 45:08 Alignment: the appendix of 5th edition? 57:00 Sign off     Image by Valdavia CC BY-SA 3.0

Dungeons and Dubliners Episode 4 – The Great Ravnica Debate In our campaign recap we discuss the slow descent into madness of Brian's character and by the end of the episode we are left to wonder if this indeed a cry for help from Brian himself as the accumulated years with no new Greyhawk product begin to weigh on him.  We discuss how to deal with in character conflict, all the latest releases and recap the Adventurers League news. Enjoy!     00:00 to 10:39  Introduction and Campaign Recap (and DM pro-tips for dealing with challenging characters!) 10:40 to 13:22 Adventurer's League news 13:32 to 17:48 D&D Beyond discussion 17:49 to 23:34  Lost Lab of Kwalish: ábhair iontais! 23:34 to 59:23 Ravnica or Ravernot? 59:24 to 1:05:22  Into the Mad Mage and sign off  

Dungeons and Dubliners Episode 3 – Tea, Biscuits and the Tyranny of Point Buy (?) In this episode we ruminate on what an exciting time it is to be a nerd as we go through all the exciting Adventurer's League and D&D news.  Some of us, then, rail against the Tyranny of point buy stat generation as we discuss the process of character creation.  Finally we discuss the merits or otherwise of a Session Zero in a time scarce world.  Enjoy!   Episode Index 00:00 to 6.45 Introduction and Campaign Chat 6.45 to 11.55 Adventurers League News 11.55 to 26.22 D&D News and Upcoming Releases 26.22 to 47.17 Character Creation Discussion 47.17 to 55.55 Session Zero? 55.55 to 57.53 Sign off!

Dungeons and Dubliners Episode 2 - The Great Multi-Class Debate In this episode, in a huge leap forward, we present a sound quality that will not only leave your ears unbleeding but is actually pleasant and audible!  We chat  about Dungeons and Dragons big new release, Waterdeep: Dragon Heist and catch up on all the news from the D&D world in Ireland and beyond.  The meat of the episode is the Great Mulitclass Debate of 2018 where straw men are erected and then violently beaten to the ground.      Episode Index 00:00 to 10:45 Introduction 10:45 to 25:40 Dragon Heist Talk 25:40 to 35:12 D&D News 35:12 to 56:00 The Great Multiclass Debate of 2018 56:00 to 56:22 Sign off! 

Welcome to the first episode of the podcast!   In this episode we establish our nerd credentials and bask in the rise to domination of the Nerds over the Jocks.  We give a run down on our home campaign, chat about upcoming and recent releases and Brian and Floody get carried away slightly at the scale of the Dublin Adventurers League.  We then realise we are running out of time and quickly review a Dmsguild product.  Finally we sign off and go straight to order recording equipment to ensure a much better sound quality for the next episode!      Episode Index 00:00 to 12:00 Cast of Characters 12:00 to 29:00 The Dungeons and Dubliners campaign 29:00 to 48:00 5th Edition News 48:00 to 54:00 Dublin Adventurer's League News 54:00 to 59:00 Dungeon Master's Guild review of Monsters Without Borders     *Apologies for the poor audio -- this will be rectified in Episode 2! Introductiory music, "The Rocky Road to Dublin," from Edit Kovács and Roger Zenner via Wikimedia Commons, CC-SA-2.0 Germany license