Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Welcome to Episode 208 of the Mastering Dungeons podcast!

Main topic: 2024 5E’s Gods and Multiverse! Final Greyhawk!
2024 5E PH banishes all the gods and reduces the multiverse to one page and one image! We look at how this changes 5E for new players. Our final look at Greyhawk reimagines the setting format and looks at how gods and powerful organizations create interesting play.

Contents
00:00 2014 vs 2024 Gods and Multiverse
01:48 Design Goals
04:38 Planes and Gods in Older Editions
09:34 2014 and 2024's Gods and Planes
13:51 Is Less Information Good?
22:10 Wrapping Up Greyhawk
23:35 Encyclopedic Approach is Dated
25:06 Why Greyhawk is Different
31:35 Geography of the Flanaess
32:48 Greyhawk's Powerful Organizations
36:52 Greyhawk's Gods
38:06 The Living Greyhawk Campaign
39:29 Shout-Outs

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