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Inspiration Point

Adam Power, Andrew Geertsen, & Tiana Ren Hanson

What"s the point?! Join Adam and Tiana for some friendly, off-the-cuff discussion about their ideas on D&D, RPGs, or just games in general!

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All Episodes

01:11:41

S6E27: 2014 vs 2024 Classes - Barbarian and Fighter

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2024/07/25

This week, Adam and Tiana begin talking about the changes to the player classes in the 2024 D&D Player Handbook. We're working from the playtest bundles and the D&DBeyond blog posts, comparing the 2014 classes to the new changes.Barbarian blog post: https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1750-2024-barbarian-vs-2014-barbarian-whats-newFighter blog post: https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1746-2024-fighter-vs-2014-fighter-whats-newDeath Campaign live on Tuesdays at 6 pm Pacific:

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01:22:07

S6E26: Mob Combat (Guest Host: Alandra Hileman)

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2024/07/18

This week, Tiana takes on the solo host role and welcomes Alandra Hileman onto the show to talk about tips and tricks for running mob combat in D&D 5e. We use examples from Phandelver and Below, a campaign Tiana recently wrapped up, to discuss ideas for making the juggling act behind the GM screen as smooth as possible.Join our Discord to continue the conversation!Alandra's itch.io page: https://ladybedivere.itch.io/Keys from the Golden Vault, GM'd by Alandra, over on Quests and Chaos:

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01:12:03

S6E25: Running a Horror Game (Guest Host: Dan...

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2024/06/27

This week, Adam and Tiana are joined by Dan Waszkiewicz, Handler of The Redacted Reports, to talk about running a horror game. We talk about tone and themes, along with some safety tools that we think are essential to the experience.Join our Discord to offer your opinions! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqsDan's preferred safety toolkit: https://ttrpgsafetytoolkit.com/Check out Dan and Tiana on The Redacted Reports! www.theredactedreportspodcast.comCheck out a product in the Tiny D6 system Dan wrote for

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58:42

S6E24: Dragon Age - The Veilguard

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2024/06/20

This week, Adam and Tiana take a break from discussing TTRPGs to discuss a game franchise we both hold dear: Dragon Age. There's a new trailer released (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F3N4Lxw4_Y), and we have OPINIONS.Check out the upcoming Death game run by Adam with Tiana as a player at https://www.twitch.ttv/vanalosswenAnd join our Discord to offer your opinions! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

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01:08:29

S6E23: Death - Session Zero

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2024/06/13

This week, Adam and Tiana talk about the session zero Adam ran for the new Patron games, including going over his table rules and the general conceit for the upcoming game.The streamed version of Death can be found here! https://www.twitch.tv/vanalosswenJoin our Discord to offer your opinion! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

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01:02:28

S6E22: Roses and Thorns - A Gnarled Frontier Post-Mortem

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2024/06/06

This week, Adam and Tiana discuss the recently-finished Patron game, Gnarled Frontier. Adam reflects on the lessons he learned as a GM from this campaign, and goes over some of his Roses (high points) and Thorns (challenges/learning opportunities). Join our Discord to offer your opinion! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

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01:02:50

S6E21: Curiosity and Table Dynamics

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2024/05/30

This week, Adam and Tiana talk about the social interactivity of TTRPGs at the table, the importance of playing to the audience (seen or unseen), and how curiosity can build the experience of everyone. Join our Discord to offer your opinion! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

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01:05:21

S6E20: The Fourth Spell Component

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2024/05/23

This week, Adam and Tiana talk about ways to elevate the spellcasting experience and how to bring in the fourth component of a spell: roleplay. While we don't think every spell needs in-depth roleplay to make it better, we do have some thoughts and suggestions for how to use spells in a less RAW way to make the experience more dynamic.Join our Discord to offer your opinion! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

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01:13:43

S6E19: Campaign Announcement and Preparation

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2024/05/16

This week, Adam and Tiana are thrilled to announce that Adam will be running a livestreamed D&D 5e game on Tiana's personal Twitch channel. The live session zero will be June 11th, with the campaign running through the summer. We're excited to give our listeners a sneak peek into what's coming down the pike. Join our Discord to stay updated! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqsTiana's channel where the campaign will be aired: https://www.twitch.tv/vanalosswen

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01:01:17

S6E18: Five Principles of Designing Part 2

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2024/05/09

This week, Adam and Tiana continue digging into the five principles of design, using subclasses we designed for this project. Do you have thoughts about what we've done? Want to try the subclasses out for yourself? Let us know at the Discord! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

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01:03:17

S6E17: Five Principles of Designing Part 1

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2024/05/02

This week, Adam and Tiana look at principles presented by Treant Monk for handling design choices. There's a lot of thought that goes into game design balance, but we think Treant Monk had a good set of thoughts with the series of questions we go into. Continue the conversation in the Discord! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

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01:01:48

S6E16: Find Your Voice

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2024/04/25

This week, Adam and Tiana talk about character voices and do a short exercise to play with voice. We can put so much of what makes a character who they are into the way we choose to speak as them, and it's a lot of fun to dig into that kind of thing. Continue the conversation in the Discord! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

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58:33

S6E15: The Intention Is Not To Intend

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2024/04/18

This week, Adam and Tiana reflect on the Patron Westgate game we played the day before, and what it taught Adam in terms of GM control and how to let go. At the core of it all, punitive punishment AND mercy are forms of control that GMs need to examine and grow beyond. Join the conversation in the Discord: https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

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01:18:03

S6E14: Triton with a Trident - A Quiz Show

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2024/04/11

This week, Adam takes Tiana through a series of D&D 5e rules questions used on the YouTube channel Jorphdan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qfhVN64AiA&t=100s) to see how well she knows more obscure D&D 5e questions. Take the quiz yourself, and let us know how you did in our Discord! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

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01:02:02

S6E13: Campaign Planning Part 3

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2024/04/04

This week, Adam wraps up taking Tiana through a campaign planning document he assigns to his D&D students in his day job. We've been having a good time diving deep into the core concepts of creating a campaign, so grab a notebook and start noodling your own ideas!The document Adam uses: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Alwm8ghRSKMFnOEP941VcYERXMxKadL3Df0WYmjKXsE/editJoin our Discord to continue the conversation! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

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01:03:12

S6E12: Campaign Planning Part 2

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2024/03/28

This week, Adam continues taking Tiana through a campaign planning document he assigns to his D&D students in his day job. We'll be diving deep into the core concepts of creating a campaign over the next few weeks, so grab a notebook and start noodling your own ideas!The document Adam uses: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Alwm8ghRSKMFnOEP941VcYERXMxKadL3Df0WYmjKXsE/editJoin our Discord to continue the conversation! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

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01:07:07

S6E11: Campaign Planning Part 1

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2024/03/21

This week, Adam begins taking Tiana through a campaign planning document he assigns to his D&D students in his day job. We'll be diving deep into the core concepts of creating a campaign over the next few weeks, so grab a notebook and start noodling your own ideas!The document Adam uses: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Alwm8ghRSKMFnOEP941VcYERXMxKadL3Df0WYmjKXsE/editJoin our Discord to continue the conversation! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

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01:00:29

S6E10: Afflictions - Diseases and Poisons

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2024/03/14

This week, Adam and Tiana talk about a part of the Dungeon Master's Guide that isn't commonly used: Chapter 8, Diseases and Poisons. While diseases and poisons touch our real world in some interesting ways (*cough cough*), we're interested in how they can be used to tell a story. Come join us!Join our Discord to continue the conversation! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

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01:16:39

S6E9: Level One Spells Tier List - Part 3

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2024/03/07

This week, Adam and Tiana continuing talking about first level D&D spells and where we rank them. Bucking the usual tier list conventions, we rank them by things like RP potential and how much they serve the secret ingredient in a tabletop party. There's definitely some interesting opinions about the spells in this list! Come join us as we talk about them.Join our Discord to continue the conversation! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

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01:10:27

S6E8: Level One Spells Tier List - Part 2

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2024/02/22

This week, Adam and Tiana continuing talking about first level D&D spells and where we rank them. Bucking the usual tier list conventions, we rank them by things like RP potential and how much they serve the secret ingredient in a tabletop party. There's definitely some interesting opinions about the spells in this list! Come join us as we talk about them.Join our Discord to continue the conversation! https://discord.gg/gYSp3vcrqs

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