Setting Expectations for your TTRPG Projects! (MD 196)

Episode 196 of Mastering Dungeons!  Main topic: Setting Expectations for your TTRPG Projects! Wrel (Michael Henderson) joins Shawn Merwin to discuss how to set the right expectations for your TTRPG projects. Topics include setting goals, knowing who you are designing for, finding an audience, and assessing your capabilities. News: New D&D VP, PH and DMG Previews, Reliable Core Rules, and more! Contents 00:00 Michael Henderson aka Wrel 02:37 Unnecessary Rules? 07:21 Reliable Core Rules? 12:55 Counterspell Problems? 18:33 Ditch Resource Management? 26:12 New D&D VP Jess Lanzillo 34:32 2024 D&D Previews 38:04 Grim Hollow Player Pack on DDB 43:00 Grim Hollow 2E in October 45:38 How Not to Get Eaten by an Owlbear 46:45 TTRPG Project Expectations 47:28 What's the Goal? 54:20 Who Designing For? 01:07:44 Finding an Audience 01:13:26 What are you Capable of? 01:18:21 Practicing on DDB 01:19:22 Importance of Art 01:27:48 Find Wrel 01:28:25 Shout-Outs Thank you for listening! Get the full show notes with links on Patreon. Show Search Engine: https://mdsearch.alphastream.org/  Our intro and outro music is Metropolis Fanfare, provided royalty-free by Tabletop Audio (https://tabletopaudio.com) under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). MP3 file metadata populated with Online MP3 Podcast Chapter Editor, built by Dominik Peters. https://mp3chapters.github.io/ and customized for Mastering Dungeons by Vladimir Prenner from Croatia.