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Dungeon Master Journals

by Ryan Treanor

Each episode is recorded straight after a dungeons and dragons session I have run or played in. It's a way for me to make notes to myself but also to share the experience as a DM and what did/didn't work well. If you listen along I hope you get something useful out of it.

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Episodes

  1. Exiled - first warning

    Our heroes warn Queen Kishar of the Persians' intent and start preparing for war

  2. Exiled - an unexpected ending

    The hero's arrive in Thrace

  3. Exiled - evidence acquired

    An "in and out" job brings more evidence than intended

  4. Exiled- a slight revenge

    A very long full session chase scene

  5. Exiled- coastal betrayal

    Our heroes make it out of Greece and across to Persia

  6. Exiled - a complex web

    A short session of world building that was sparked by a random event during the last session.

  7. Exiled - City chase

    The party are recognised before they even dock their boat, resulting in a long chase through the town and a death.

  8. Exiled - a draining day

    An encounter on the way to the next town nearly results in death :/

  9. Exiled - Into the world

    Cleodora hears of her father's death after the military coup and flees the city.

  10. Exiled - Cleodora's character creation

    I talk through the making of my new character Cleodora the priestess of Zeus and some background on the game set up.

  11. Lyson's epic - a toast

    Roshoma, the centaur, gets the one and only successful hit on the dragon when she finds the one part of his body not protected by scales and successfully fires her arrow into him. The severely injured dragon fights on claim victory and brings an end to our tale

  12. Lyson's epic - into the fire

    Lyson and is band head into the town to face the dragon but their plan doesn't survive first contact as a guard is incinerated in the first round and the dragon doesn't let up on lyson. The fight continues next time.

  13. Lyson's epic - rally the troops

    Lyson runs into his cousin, a sharman of sorts, who seemed to know he would be here. Together, they rally a few town guards from the area and prepare to face a dragon

  14. Lyson's epic - A moments respite

    Lyson has a meal with the farmer Abrac and learns that a dragon has taken over a nearby town, so he prepares to face it

  15. Lyson's epic - unheroic death

    Lyson and Hadirseen prepare to be ambushed in the night, but apparently not well enough as Hadirseen quickly falls to the spears of their attackers. Lyson devastates the rest of them, appart from an archer who flees, but it is to late for his new friend who had a spear thrust under his ribs and...

  16. Lyson's epic - A brief meeting

    We learn about the political scene in Spata, and Lyson keeps a level head, preventing the situation from becoming dire.

  17. Lyson's epic - beached as!

    Lyson gets shipwrecked and washed a shore on a Spartan beach. He finds another survivor, a centaur named Hadirseen, who has become deaf during the shipwreck. They then realise they are right near a walled town and some humans are heading towards them, humans that don't seem very welcoming

  18. Lyson's epic - Entering the Echoscape

    Character creation for a solo play using the Savage Worlds system in my Echoscape system

  19. Scarlet Citadel - episode 14

    Arrival at Peltzenhien

  20. Scarlet Citadel - episode 13

    The carrion's claw

  21. Scarlet citadel- episode 12

    Fall of the Carrion Claw

  22. Mysrika - sands of Mythos

    AI adventure - first look at using AI to run the Ironsworn RPG and setting up for a game in the Egypt inspired Mysrika.

  23. Scarlet citadel - episode 11

    Wizards, blacksmiths and chickens

  24. Scarlet citadel- episode 10

    Possessions and Resurrection

  25. Scarlet citadel - episode 9

    The party slugs through some undead and gathers some loot.

  26. Scarlet Citadel- episode 8

    A new home and returning to the Citadel the party finds the legendary elven sword "Arcturus the sword of stars"

  27. Scarlet Citadel- episode 7

    Back to town and a little side trip to the shadow realm

  28. Scarlet Citadel -journel 6

    Owlbears and Jailers

  29. Scarlet Citadel- journal 5

    The party leave red tower to head to the Scarlet Citadel but decide to check out the secret entrance.

  30. Scarlet Citadel- journal 4

    A whole lot of role-play and info dumping... best just listen.

  31. Scarlet citadel- journal 3

    The part kill a nesting pair of harpies in the ruins of the Scarlet citadel and the head down to the floor below where they fight a crimson tusked ogre and free the prisoner known as Teastrainer.

  32. Scarlet citadel- journal 2

    The party gets the tick of approval from constable Roach and meets Konrad the wizard before heading out of town. They spend the night at the dwarves wood camp before continuing on to the citadel. The session finishes with the ruins in sight.

  33. Scarlet citadel- journal 1

    I share the background story that the players and I came up with and share the events of our first session of koboldpress' scarlet citadel. Owlbear attacks and bar games were the highlights as the characters get to know their new home base.

  34. Keez campaign - entering the sunken citadel

    In this second session of our campaign our fourth player joined us with a haf-elf bard and we entered the dungeon to fight kobolds and giant rats. We also gained some knowledge about the past and present occupants of the sunken citadel.

  35. Keez campaign - leaving town

    I'm getting to play in an ongoing campaign and will be using this podcast as a form of campaign notes.

  36. Horror one-shot

    This episode I talk about my level 10 puss in boots bard and the horror one-shot I played him in.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Each episode is recorded straight after a dungeons and dragons session I have run or played in. It's a way for me to make notes to myself but also to share the experience as a DM and what did/didn't work well. If you listen along I hope you get something useful out of it.

HOSTED BY

Ryan Treanor

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What is Dungeon Master Journals about?

Each episode is recorded straight after a dungeons and dragons session I have run or played in. It's a way for me to make notes to myself but also to share the experience as a DM and what did/didn't work well. If you listen along I hope you get something useful out of it.

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Dungeon Master Journals is created and hosted by Ryan Treanor.
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