The Psychology of D&D with Dr. Jamie Madigan (MD 221)

Episode 221 of Mastering Dungeons!  Main topic: The Psychology of D&D! Dr. Jamie Madigan joins Teos and Shawn to explain that their dice aren’t cursed, the benefits of online vs in-person gaming, hot hand fallacy, and much more! Check out Jamie’s new book: https://www.psychologyofdnd.com/ News: Kobold Press Finances, Artificer on Unearthed Arcana, Goodbye Dark Alliance, and more! Contents 00:00 We Got You a Jamie Gift 03:18 Build World With Players? 08:32 Death Saves Proposal? 23:43 Unearthed Arcana Artificer 35:19 D&D Secret Level Review 40:47 Cyberpunk VG Adds RPG 41:56 Kobold Press 2024 Finances 45:14 Draw Steel Core Rules to Patrons 45:54 Goodbye Dark Alliance 47:17 Vote for Most Anticipated RPG 49:45 Psychology of D&D 50:19 Dr. Jamie Madigan 52:06 Writing and Publishing Process 55:22 Book Approach 58:10 Psychology of Dice Randomness 01:00:28 Gambler's Fallacy 01:02:28 Hot Hand Fallacy 01:04:45 Psychology of Game Choices 01:08:37 Fewer Compensatory Options 01:10:02 Satisficers vs Maximizers 01:13:49 Benefits of Play 01:16:25 Online vs In-Person Benefits 01:24:59 Shout-Outs 01:27:34 Find Dr. Jamie Madigan 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.