RPG veterans and game designers Teos Abadía and Shawn Merwin look at the game and the hobby of D&D from a variety of viewpoints: reporting the news, understanding the business, reviewing the products, and illuminating the design. Whether you’re a fan, a player, a DM, or a designer, Shawn and Teos cover topics of interest to you!
All content for Mastering Dungeons is the property of Mastering Dungeons and is served directly from their servers
with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.
RPG veterans and game designers Teos Abadía and Shawn Merwin look at the game and the hobby of D&D from a variety of viewpoints: reporting the news, understanding the business, reviewing the products, and illuminating the design. Whether you’re a fan, a player, a DM, or a designer, Shawn and Teos cover topics of interest to you!
Episode 244 of Mastering Dungeons!
Main topic: The 2025 D&D Psion!!We look at the Psion from OD&D and across the editions, to the 2025 playtest Psion for how well it throws mind bullets. Does it have the power to move us?
News: Draw Steel Covers, D&D International Day of Play, New D&D Video Game, and more!
Contents00:00 Intro02:20 Building Large Cities?09:04 Daggerheart Didn't Crowdfund?14:03 2025 D&D Conversion Document17:42 New D&D Video Game18:57 Draw Steel Covers and Schedules20:19 D&D International Day of Play23:20 Free RPG Day June 2125:13 SlyFlourish Leaves Blanks29:38 KP on Small Press Printing32:49 Avatar Legends Licensed Adventures34:12 TileForge35:17 2025 Psion Playtest36:34 Psionics in OD&D and AD&D42:17 Psionics in 2E47:53 Psionics in 3E and 4E52:24 Design Challenges59:36 5E 2014 Mystic01:02:13 The 2025 UA Psion01:02:47 Why a Psion Class vs Subclass?01:05:16 Core Psion Traits01:07:15 Spellcasting01:10:30 Psionic Energy Dice and Features01:23:10 Psionic Disciplines and Higher Levels01:26:36 Assessing at Level 501:33:30 Shout-Outs01:37:50 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.
Mastering Dungeons
RPG veterans and game designers Teos Abadía and Shawn Merwin look at the game and the hobby of D&D from a variety of viewpoints: reporting the news, understanding the business, reviewing the products, and illuminating the design. Whether you’re a fan, a player, a DM, or a designer, Shawn and Teos cover topics of interest to you!
