Inspiration Point

This week, Adam and Tiana focus on redesigning the weapons and armor, with an eye to balancing accuracy in depiction with fulfilling the fantasy of the combat.

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This week, Adam and Tiana talk more about the new base classes they've been working on, taking a closer look at Acolyte and Rogue. As ever, this is all super loose and we're taking any and all sugges…

This week, Adam and Tiana dive into the write-up Adam did for two of the four base classes: Fighter and Mage. The ideas held here are super loose, and we want to hear other people's opinions too!

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This week, Adam and Tiana talk about Tiana's idea about taking the class system down to four basic classes for the first few levels. It's a bold strategy, Cotton, let's see how it works out!

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This week, Adam and Tiana take a break from looking at individual classes to take a broader view at the class design ethos as a whole. Both Adam and Tiana have ideas for how to dig deep into overall …

This week, Adam and Tiana welcome Chris back onto the podcast to talk about fighting games redesigning the Monk. We discuss cultural expectations tied into the name of the class, how to think about m…

This week, Adam and Tiana talk about the first "D" in D&D: Dungeons. What's the point of dungeons? What's the best way to use them in storytelling?

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This week, Adam and Tiana sit down to talk about monster design and some thoughts about combat in this revamp of D&D. We talk about swarms, ideas for how to categorize monsters, and build more of our…

This week, Adam and Tiana tackle rebuilding one of the most basic classes in D&D: the Fighter. (After about a half hour of talking about video games.) Join us as we talk through the changes made thus…

This week, Adam and Tiana take a look at the reworked character sheet Adam is working on for IP D&D. The goal is to have everything easily accessible and streamlined in a way that makes sense, while …

This week, Adam and Tiana sit down with guest host Dane Filemyr to talk about Adam's rewrite of the Barbarian class. Dane plays Drausken in the streamed Death campaign, who is a multiclass Fighter/Ba…

Welcome back from the holiday break, folks! This week, Adam and Tiana sit down to talk about their ambitious project: rewrite D&D to make it more of a passion project than the lackluster thing WOTC g…

This week, Adam and Tiana talk about Adam's favorite strategy manual: The Art of War by Sun Tzu. We talk about how to use the principles in that book to change the way GMs and players think about the…

This week, Adam and Tiana talk about upcoming plans in the ongoing Westgate Patron game, where the party is about to start building political alliances within the city. We use that as a springboard t…

This week, Adam and Tiana are feeling TOTALLY NORMAL, NOTHING TO DISCUSS HERE, and talk about what a despot looks like. Dictators and despots can be incredibly intricate TTRPG villains, usable in a n…

This week, Adam and Tiana take a tool from politics and political coverage to talk about the best predictors for the survival of a TTRPG table. Because while we do our best to stay away from national…

This week, Adam and Tiana talk about Big Bad Evil Guys and how to make them feel appropriately dangerous and scary. We've all been there: you spend a campaign building up to the BBEG, and then when y…

This week, Adam and Tiana introduce the second secret ingredient. We've talked about it before in passing, but this time, we dive deep into why curiosity is the second secret ingredient and how it ca…

This week, Adam and Tiana talk about the lessons Adam learned from running two different sessions of Death: one on Friday for a private group of Patrons, and one on Tuesday for the livestream crew. N…