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Vox Arcana

Vox Arcana

70 episodes

1 week ago

Vox Arcana is a Dungeons & Dragons podcast about game design, philosophy, storytelling, and role playing, from the perspective of three different Dungeon Masters.

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Vox Arcana is a Dungeons & Dragons podcast about game design, philosophy, storytelling, and role playing, from the perspective of three different Dungeon Masters.

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Episodes (20/70)

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This is it.

In this final episode of Vox Arcana, William, Jake, and David look back on our favorite moments from the show, and say goodbye to you, Dear Listener.

Keep subscribed to this feed to eventually get all of the Patreon bonus episodes.

4 years ago

46 minutes 34 seconds

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#68 DM Pet Peeves

Every Dungeon Master has certain quirks which make their tables unique including things that drive us nuts! This episode we look at some of our various pet peeves in our games including methods of alleviating them.

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4 years ago

57 minutes 24 seconds

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#67 Using Tropes

It is impossible to tell a story without tropes. In this episode, we dive into what tropes are, how to use them in your games, ensuring tonal consistency, and how to enhance some overused tropes.

In the Question Vault, we answer a question about resisting the urge to metagame.

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4 years ago

1 hour 14 minutes 18 seconds

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#66 Building Better Monsters

Adversaries are essential in all roleplaying games. Here’s how to make those enemies strike fear into the hearts of all PCs!

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4 years ago

1 hour 9 minutes 32 seconds

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We heard hot takes are selling like hot cakes, so we decided to assemble a few of our own.
Here’s our spicy, scalding, blazing hot takes about D&D and tabletop RPGs.

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5 years ago

1 hour 10 minutes 38 seconds

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#64 Lasting Consequences

This episode we dive into gruesome injuries, lingering effects, and how to make combat more scary and less trivial. In the Question Vault we answer a question about essential GM supplies we each utilize at the table.

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5 years ago

57 minutes 30 seconds

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#63 Interview with Matt Corley

Friend of the pod Matt Corley returns to talk about module design, historical fiction, and the tabletop RPG community coming together during crisis.

Check out Matt's kickstarter right here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/37222410/the-devils-city-for-5e

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5 years ago

1 hour 6 minutes 14 seconds

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#62 Large Parties vs. Small Parties

Do you prefer your sessions bustling with players piled around the table or a smaller scale, more intimate experience? In this episode, William, Jake, and David discuss the pros and cons of small parties and large parties.

Finally, we dig into the newly released Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount and create a backstory utilizing some of the random tables held within.

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5 years ago

57 minutes 40 seconds

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#61 Mystery & Intrigue

From world building to scene description, an element of mystery can make any game better. In this episode, William, Jake, and David discuss how to control your genre and tone, creating interesting backstories, and tips for injecting intrigue into your sessions.

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5 years ago

1 hour 14 minutes 35 seconds

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When the players aren’t traversing dungeons or slaying monsters, they do all sorts of other things: Shopping, training, carousing, running businesses, researching… The list goes on and on! This episode we dive into all sorts of downtime activities and how to make downtime incredible.

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5 years ago

1 hour 19 minutes 22 seconds

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#59 [Bonus] Post-Total Party Kill

Sadly, episode #59 is lost, but instead you'll hear one of our Patreon bonus episodes where Will tells us about his first total party kill. The conversation quickly turns into one about lethality, tone, and the nature of death in role playing games.

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5 years ago

34 minutes 24 seconds

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#58 Sandbox Games

Every Game Master wants to free up their players to explore the world around them, but how? In this episode William, Jake, and David go through tips and tricks for creating an amazing sandbox for your players to play in.

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5 years ago

1 hour 11 minutes 17 seconds

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#57 2019 Year in Review

The times, they are 'a changin'! Before the new year, we look back at our favorite moments and important lessons from 2019, as well as looking forward to the future in perhaps our most introspective episode yet.

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5 years ago

52 minutes 39 seconds

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#56 Running an Open Table

William, Jake, and David discuss a controversial gameplay philosophy to solve D&D's biggest problem: Scheduling!

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5 years ago

1 hour 1 minute 45 seconds

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#55 Collaborating with Players

Collaboration plays a central part in every single tabletop RPG, so in this episode, dungeon masters William, Jake, and David dive into how to best collaborate with players from character creation to story arcs to mind control.

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5 years ago

1 hour 55 seconds

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#54 Game Preparation

Note taking? Game prepping? Improve your techniques in this week’s round-table discussion that will surely reduce the amount of time you spend wasting on prep!

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5 years ago

1 hour 11 minutes 51 seconds

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#53 Deities and Religion

Gods, pantheons, cults, creation myths, crusades... This episode we get downright theological as William, Jake, and David dive into all things divine in roleplaying games. In 'The Creature Feature,' we discuss angels and how to utilize them at your table.

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6 years ago

1 hour 19 minutes 46 seconds

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#52 Strongholds & Followers

In this episode William, Jake, and David dive into Matt Colville’s D&D 5e supplement Strongholds & Followers and see where it fits in the D&D product ecosystem.

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If you want more episodes of Vox Arcana, head to patreon.com/voxarcana to get access to our back-catalogue of bonus episodes.

6 years ago

1 hour 15 minutes 44 seconds

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#51 High Seas Adventures

Dirty pirates, cunning smugglers, beautiful port cities, horrors from the depths – this episode is all about maritime campaigns and what makes them great!

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If you want more episodes of Vox Arcana, head to patreon.com/voxarcana to get access to our back-catalogue of bonus episodes.

6 years ago

1 hour 25 minutes 30 seconds

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#50 Advanced Dungeons

For our 50th episode, we add more thoughts on to our very first episode and delve back into the topic of dungeons! This time around, we discuss mega-dungeons, misconceptions, and exploration. In the Question Vault, we answer a question about health, long rests, and grievous injuries.

Follow us:
Twitter: @voxarcanapod
Facebook: @voxarcanapodcast
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Email: voxarcanapodcast@gmail.com

If you want more episodes of Vox Arcana, head to patreon.com/voxarcana to get access to our back-catalogue of bonus episodes.

6 years ago

1 hour 12 minutes 25 seconds

Vox Arcana

Vox Arcana is a Dungeons & Dragons podcast about game design, philosophy, storytelling, and role playing, from the perspective of three different Dungeon Masters.