Start a New Campaign for the New Year (MD 274)

Episode 274 of Mastering Dungeons! Main topic: Start a New Campaign for the New Year It’s a new year, the perfect time to think on how to launch an awesome campaign, even if you have never DMed before! News: Stranger Things Effect? Matt Mercer Simpsons Crossover, D&D Romantasy Novel, Ed Greenwood’s RealmsBound, and more! Contents 00:00 Full of Fear 02:05 What is a Gameplay Loop? 11:10 Teaching Game Design? 14:38 Stranger Things Effect 19:27 Stranger Things' ET Ending 22:09 Leon Barillaro Hired at WotC 24:14 New D&D Romantasy Novel 26:06 Ed Greenwood's RealmsBound 31:22 Matt Mercer Simpsons Crossover 33:58 D&D and Moral Imagination 38:20 D&D Loungefly Backpacks 39:08 The Bridgewell Chronicles 40:21 Merryshire Detective Club 41:19 A New Campaign for the New Year 41:59 New Gamemaster Month 43:22 Where Can We Learn to DM? 51:52 Why Should You DM? 01:02:04 Not Knowing the Rules 01:11:13 Planning Your Campaign 01:22:59 Establishing a Theme 01:25:00 Shout-Outs 01:28:53 What Are We Gonna Do? 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.