A D&D show to discuss all aspects of tabletop role playing for both DM’s and players.
Ryan and Ben take a peek at the Q4 third party content, look at some new Maps features, the newest wave of D&D Beyond Drops, and then go over some gaming Red Flags.
Community Pages: Q4 Partnered Content Release Schedule; Maps newest features; September Drops; D&D Beyond Arcana Unleashed; D&D Beyond Arcana Unleashed: Deadfall; Human-Made TTRPG Resources.
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Ryan and Ben walk through the D&D Beyond Roadmap, dig into the newest AMA, and take a look at the newest Underdark Unearthed Arcana.
Community Pages: D&D Beyond’s August Drops; D&D Beyond Roadmap video; D&D Beyond Mid-Year Roadmap article; D&D Beyond Roadmap; August Reddit AMA; Unearthed Arcana Underdark Options video; Unearther Arcana Underdark Options; Developer Insights for Unearthed Arcana Underdark Options; Tower’s Heart digital dice set; Warlock gameplay reveal; Tales from Woodcreek Season 2 Kickstarter.
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Ryan and Ben go through all of the announcements from Gen Con 2026 then discuss the different DM Styles from one of Ginny Di’s latest videos!
Community Pages: Gen Con’s D&D Keynote 2027; D&D Keynote recap; Everything you need to know about D&D: World of Warcraft; D&D World of Warcraft Collector’s Edition Ultimate Bundle preorder; Ginny Di’s 6 types of Dungeon Master Style; D&D Beyond Dungeon Master Style post.
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Ryan and Ben are back after a small break to cover all the news they missed, then respond to a listener question about the Win to Failure ratio.
Community Pages: D&D Beyond July drops; Condition Tracking comes to Maps; Everything you need to know about Arcana Unleashed; 8 Arcana Unleashed subclasses; Wargamer article on Arcane Unleashed: Deadfall; D&D Gen Con 2026; D&D World of Warcraft leak; Dungeon Masters: Living Spells Play Along Pack; Jimothy Stat Block.
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Ryan and Ben discuss the Q3 partnered content release schedule, the updates for the Villainous Unearthed Arcana subclasses, and then go over reasons to ban or not ban spells, species, and feats.
Community Pages: Q3 2026 Partnered Content Release Schedule; Vampire: The Masquerade – Bound by Blood Preorder; Designer Insights from Unearthed Arcana Villainous Options Update; Villainous Options Update PDF; Maps Token Resizing and Journal Edit Mode; Dungeon Masters Campaign 2: Arcana Unleashed.
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Ryan and Ben talk about the newest Maps feature, the forming of the Community Advisory Group, an update to Drops, and then dive into the Dread Domains of Ravonloft.
Community Pages: Journals announcement: The D&D Community Advisory Group; June Drops; Drops Program Updates; Drops Master Tier Sharing; Everything You Need to Know about Ravenloft: The Horrors Within; Celebrate International Day of Play; Claim Borderlands Quest: Dagger Danger!; Preorder Neon Odyssey.
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Ryan and Ben are joined by Charles and Tammie Ryan from Monte Cook Games to talk about the Cypher System, Monte Cook Games, and the joy of developing and playing games.
Community Pages: Monte Cook Games; MCG Bluesky; MCG Facebook; MCG Instagram; Jewel in the Sky Preorder; Monte Cook Games Linktree.
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Ryan and Ben take a look at the new available Starter Packs and subscription drops available on D&D Beyond. Then they discuss RPing a character that is counter to your real life persona.
Community Pages: D&D Beyond Starter Pack information; D&D Beyond Starter Packs in the Marketplace; Drops Library; Drops FAQ; D&D Beyond Drops AMA; Neon Odyssey Kickstarter.
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Ryan and Ben praise the Dungeon Masters actual play, look into round 2 of the Villainous Subclasses, and then discuss how to join in for improv and story at the table.
Community Pages: Dungeon Masters episodes 1 and 2; Dungeon Masters: Zombieclot Play-along pack; Designer Insights Villainous Options 2; Villainous Options 2 Unearthed Arcana; Ginny Di video: “This game fixes D&Ds ‘roll persuasion’ problem.”
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Ryan and Ben talk about the newest update for Maps, get excited about Ravenloft: The Horrors Within, hope about potential 3rd party outsourcing, and gush over all of the Villainous content coming.
Community Pages: Character Sheet in Maps; Ravenloft Ultimate Bundle; Ravenloft Digital and Physical; D&D scaling up as a franchise; Bringing back the Book of Vile Darkness; D&D Beyond Book of Vile Darkness; Designer Insights from Unearthed Arcana: Villainous Options; Villainous Options Unearthed Arcana; Villainous Options survey; Neon Odyssey cinematic trailer.
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