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A Dungeons & Dragons podcast, where a rotating panel of DM’s provides insight and inspiration for Players and Dungeon Masters.
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Friday Nov 13, 2020
Friday Nov 13, 2020
It is Monday, November 13th, 1922, and the Great War is still a fresh wound on the minds of most people. The small town of Denison, Texas did not see all of its sons return home, but life has had to move on. But for one family man named Robert Dillon, the world still feels like a cruel and harsh place. For he has just lowered the body of his brother, Samuel, into the cold autumn ground of the cemetery on the family property. It is a large cattle ranch that hugs the Red River about thirty miles outside of Denison , and he and his brother had worked closely to keep the ranch successful after the recent passing of their parents. A few days ago, Robert (also known as Ox by family and friends) sent his wife Mabel to accompany Samuel on a trip into town. There, tragedy struck, as an automobile screeched out of control, hitting them both in the middle of the street. Mabel was thrown to the side and landed hard, but Samuel was run down like a dog. The car sped off as bystanders ran forward. While everyone there agreed that this was just another tragedy for the Dillon boys, no one could provide any details that would help hunt down the driver of the mysterious car.
As an ex-Pinkerton, Ox Dillon is out for answers. His days in private investigation and the war has left him a man of action. But his hands are tied. With an injured wife, two young daughters, a suddenly widowed sister-in-law Sarah, and a ranch to run on his own, he doesn’t have time to hunt down whoever it was who killed his brother. So he’s made arrangements for the funeral. Organized a wake at Red River Baptist church. And tried to keep some normalcy for the sake of his family. But of course he can’t just let it go.
He’s leaned on his three trusted farmhands, Hank, Diego, and Slim, for support. He’s looked to Reverend Smith for guidance, and his wife’s sister Margaret for help. And he’s reached out to his old Pinkerton friend, John Redfield, to dig into which out-of-towners were in Denison on the day his brother was killed.
The skies are grey, but it's relatively warm in this part of the world, considering the time of year. And as the sun rises high behind the branches of the old willow tree that stands sentinel over the family graves, Ox takes a deep breath and tries to show his daughters a kind smile to comfort them. But Ruth is twelve now, and Elizabeth is nine, so they are old enough to understand what death is, and that Uncle Samuel will never be coming home. They know it, and he can see it on their faces.
It breaks his heart. He just wants closure now, for himself, and for his family. And as the funeral wraps up, he looks at the barren plot of earth that covers his brother’s broken body, and he prays for rest. Little does he know that this will be the closest to rest that his family will ever have together again. For tonight marks the night where his family will shatter irrevocably... during the tragic Raid at the Dillon Homestead...
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KEEPER OF ARCANE SECRETS: Adam
ROBERT "OX" DILLON: Grady
CREW
Directors: Adam
Producers: Daniel, Adam
Story by: Adam, Daniel, and Grady
Edited by: Adam
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Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
In D&D, Dragons are an imposing encounter in their own right (just see the second "D"... heh), but nah... Some madlads had to go ahead and make them even scarier. As the panel of Dungeon Masters at the It's a Mimic! podcast sifted through the 5th Edition lore surrounding dragons, they discovered that there is more than one way to corrupt those big scalies into a more purer evil. This episode looks into what it means when you apply the templates in the 5e Monster Manual to create your own Shadow Dragon and/or Dracolich.
Are the mechanics inspiring? Do the CR's still apply? What needs to happen in the story or lore to create one of these draconic nasties? Join Terry, Megan, and Adam as they look into all the implications and applications of corrupting your dragons beyond their usual terrifying selves.
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Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Grab your comfy pants, a cup of warm cocoa, and take a load off because this week, the It's a Mimic! podcast is talking about those times when the conscious mind takes a break. Let's be honest, the days are getting shorter, the nights are getting longer, and sometimes you just wanna curl into a ball and go to sleep. Your characters are just the same and that's just what Dan, Adam and Megan want to chat about - Rests, Unconsciousness, and Exhaustion.
But what if you feel the need for taking that break in the middle of a fight after standing fully exposed before a spout of dragon flame, or after getting dragged under the waves from some ancient aquatic evil? Well, have no fear (well... have a little fear) because we are also covering Death Saves, Drowning, Asphyxiating, Getting Swallowed and the dreaded Death Spiral!
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Saturday Oct 31, 2020
Saturday Oct 31, 2020
Returning to the annual discussion of the It's A Mimic! podcast on Warlock Patrons, Adam, Dan, and Dave bring you a treat (and some inappropriate tricks). The year, they're digging into the bottomless pit of the Abyss, working their way through all eight of the demon lords:
- Baphomet
- Demogorgon
- Fraz-Urb'luu
- Grazz't
- Juiblex
- Orcus
- Yeenoghu
- Zuggtmoy
After the end credits, we use Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes to make an ambitious Marilith in Chult who fawns over others to make her betrayal more unexpected. She believes that everyone reaches their station in the cosmos that they deserve, based on their drives and talents. She believes that she is a perfect product of creation, destined to one day shape the cosmos to her whims, and that everything she does verifies her destiny. She rages, but uses the anger to distract from her fear of confrontation. She has an ever-open extra eye, silver bones, and an ever-mumbling second mouth. Mechanically, she has advnatage on Perception checks related to sight, her natural weapons are considered silvered, and disadvantage on Stealth checks against creatures that can hear. Her cult wants political power over the local area, and it has access to a cache of powerful magic. It's also an entrenched secret society that is decades old, but murder and betrayal leads to constant turnover in cult leadership. We're going to call her... May-Ghun.
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Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
What happens when a bloated, drooling, eye-stalk-covered, laser-beam shooting, evil, narcissistic, floating eyeball with a maw of jagged teeth goes some how more wrong? We make another Beholders episode! In this week's It's a Mimic! podcast, Adam, Megan, and Terry discuss the malicious malcontents from the great beyond again, but this time it's the twisted variants. Whether they be a Zombie, Death Tyrant, Gauth, or Death Kiss, the floating eyeball of death clan is chock-a-block full of fun, twisted ways to torture your party during these late autumn days.
But that's not all! The panel of DM's also talk about adding more depth to your run-of-the-mill Beholders, from their wants and quirks to roleplaying tips and the lair of the beholder. So find a spot to hover over, feed your pet goldfish (that if someone so much as looks at wrong: BOOM! Disintegration ray!), and enjoy!
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Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
In this new series, two Dungeon Masters sit down and go through what can be expected in the published books for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. This first episode sees Dan and Adam dig through the latest release, Icewind Dale, Rime of the Frostmaiden.
Should you buy it? Is it worth your money? Join our DM's as they go over their opinions of the overall usefulness of this book. Topics discussed include art, disclaimers, contents page, seven chapters of adventures, and appendices. They also break down the themes, general plot, major villain, and place within 5e's landscape.
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Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Grab your holy symbol and draw your mace! It's time for pious violence and holy death in this week's episode of the It's A Mimic! podcast. In our third episode of our discussion on Clerics, the panel of Dungeon Masters cover the three best candidates for evil cleric subclasses in Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition! Whether it's the popular War Domain, the misunderstood Grave Domain, or the NPC Death Domain from the Dungeon Masters Guide, there's a lot to discuss about how to bring the nastiest of hurts to the heathens around you.
But before the sermon about subclasses even starts, the congregation of DM's breaks down what they're looking for in a Homebrew Pantheon, and what divine inspirations have graced their previous campaigns. So get on your knees and open yourself up to the wisdom that will be bestowed upon you in this episode on Evil Clerics.
(No altar gnomes were harmed in the making of this episode.)
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Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
It is Sunday, October 13th, 1918, and the Great War is on the brink of ending in Europe. The world is deeply scarred and families have been irreparably shattered. But for one young woman named Louise Knox, all of that seems very far away. For she is sitting in a horse-drawn buggy that is driving through a dying, backwater town named Amelia in the heart of the bayou in southern Louisiana. Her strange uncle Manford passed away five months ago, and the deed to his home is in question. The bank is looking to appraise and potentially repossess the property, depending on its value. Little is known about her late uncle, but rumour has it that he built a house on the land where he once survived a hurricane, and that his privacy was due to his fondness for young gentlemen callers.
As a young woman without a husband or children, she has been asked by her cousins to set aside her passion for photography and make the trek across the country in order to settle the estate. She has apprehensively agreed, and is now out of her element. She has been traveling for days and is dog tired, but she grows ever closer to the property in question. Having never met her uncle, she can only wonder what awaits her.
She clutches her minimal luggage and the camera and handgun hidden within it as she leaves the pathetic waste of the near-abandoned town, and watches the swamp begin to intrude upon the narrow logging road that leads to her destination. Nearly cut off from the world, the niceties and pleasantries of modern society are left as a distant rumour for a place so far removed from civilized life. There is no electricity out here to help her keep her fear of the dark at bay during the night, and there is certainly no telegraph or telephone.
The air is humid and thick, even in this time of year, and the swarms of insects and cacophony of animal noises seem to be everywhere. For the hundredth time, she checks her scribbled note to confirm that she is supposed to be meeting a lawyer named Mr. Speltzer, but her nervous energy is largely in part to her eagerness for answers and adventure. The buggy bounces and rocks as she comes now within the final mile of the curious estate of Manford Madison....
CAST
KEEPER OF ARCANE SECRETS: Adam
LOUISE KNOX: Megan
CREW
Directors: Adam
Producers: Daniel, Adam
Story by: Adam, Daniel, and Megan
Edited by: Adam
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Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Time to get out your dark tomes, reach out to dark knowledge and scream "Klaatu Barada Nitko"! Its time for Evil Wizards. In this week's episode of the It's a Mimic! podcast, Dan, Adam, and Megan sit for a spell and cover the final three core wizarding schools, Enchantment, Necromancy and War Magic.
And that's when the conversation gets good. After a brief discussion on which spell school is the most inherently evil, they wrap up by discussing evil wizards and offering tips and tricks into running these big bad guys, from both a player and Dungeon Master perspective.
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Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
In this episode of Touring the Multiverse, Dave and Adam say farewell to Eberron as they cover all the info that players may want to know. From the new class, the Artificer, to the many races and Dragonmark options, there's a wealth of information, and a plethora of mechanical details.
And instead of wrapping up with a monster, it's finally time for our two DM's to cover the different kinds of unique transportation that are available in Khorvaire! Lightning rails, airships, and more await the party as they stretch out to explore the vast and varied locations of Eberron.
Artificer Subclasses:
- Alchemist
- Artillerist
- Battle Smith
Races:
- Changelings
- Elves (Arenal and Valenar)
- Drow
- Goblins
- Hobgoblins
- Bugbears
- Kalashtar
- Orcs
- Shifters (Beasthide, Longtooth, Swiftstride, and Wildhunt)
- Warforged
Dragonmark Subraces:
- House Medani (Detection) - Half-Elves
- House Tharashk (Finding) - Half-Orcs and Humans
- House Vadalis (Handling) - Humans
- House Jorasco (Healing) - Halflings
- House Ghallanda (Hospitality) - Halflings
- House Cannith (Making) - Humans
- House Orien (Passage) - Humans
- House Sivis (Scribing) - Gnomes
- House Deneith (Sentinel) - Humans
- House Phiarlan and House Thuranni (Shadow) - Elves
- House Lyrandar (Storm) - Elves
- House Kundarak (Warding) - Dwarves
Background:
- House Agent
Feat:
- Revenant Blade (Wood-Elf only)
Elemental Vessels:
- Airships
- Seafaring Ships
- Lightning Rail
Other Eberron Transportation:
- Sky Coaches
- Dinosaurs
- Dragonshard Wagons
- Teleportation Circles
Don't forget to stick around after the credits to see what happens when Dave and Adam go by Djed's stand one final time.
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