Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Welcome to Episode 257 of the Mastering Dungeons podcast!

News Segment and Listener Questions
00:00 One of Us is Rested
02:32 Daggerheart Simplicity Redux
10:19 Rules-Lite Spellcasting?
19:19 John Hight on Franchises and Video Games
26:19 Hight on AI
30:38 Hight on MMOs
34:16 Starter Set Previews
39:08 Dark Sun on Tabletop Journeys
39:44 Apocalypse World Burned Over
40:45 Kobold Press Unprecedented Times?
48:04 Aetherial Expanse Drowned God
48:39 Surviving Strangehollow on GameFound

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