Name: Hamblin

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    Level Up! — Episode #26: Animal Companions

    March 30th, 2012

    In this episode, Benoit and Hamblin delve into the wild world of animal companions.  We spend most of our time discussing the beastmaster build for rangers and the Essentials druid (“sentinel”).  We also discuss the Fey Beast Tamer theme as well as figurines of wondrous power.  If your character has ever felt lonely and in need of an animal friend, we have all the info for you! Read the rest of this entry “

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    Level Up! — Episode #25: Listener Email and a New Campaign

    February 22nd, 2012

    On this episode, Benoit and I respond to a listener email from Dave, who is looking for advice on his infernal pact warlock.  We give him some advice for maxing out damage using Hellish Rebuke.

    Then we talk about a new home game that we’re going to be starting with our local group.  We’ll be rotating DM’s and focusing on more “A-Team” style missions.  Benoit and I discuss the various characters we might make for this campaign.  Benoit also discussed this in a recent blog post.

    As always, we want your feedback!  Leave a comment below, email us at podcast@rovingbandofmisfits.com, or send a tweet to Benoit or Hamblin.

     

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    Level Up! — Episode #24: D&D Next Living Campaign Ideas

    January 26th, 2012

    With the announcement of the next edition of D&D, we here at Roving Band of Misfits wondered what a living campaign in the new system might look like.

    We had several blog posts on the subject:

    In this episode of the podcast, Benoit and Hamblin are joined by their friend Tyson.  We discuss a lot of the ideas and issues that were brought up in these posts.

    As always, we want your feedback!  Leave a comment below, email us at podcast@rovingbandofmisfits.com, or send a tweet to Benoit or Hamblin.

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    Hamblin’s 5E Living Campaign Wishlist

    January 17th, 2012

    I’ve started a forum thread over at the Wizards LFR forums to discuss some of these ideas. Feel free to weigh in there, or in the comments here, or both.

    With the announcement of D&D 5th Edition, we here at Roving Band of Misfits are thinking about all the changes the game has in store.  Since we have played a lot of Living campaigns (Living Greyhawk, Living Forgotten Realms, Ashes of Athas), we’re wondering what a 5E living campaign might look like.  Here’s my wishlist for what I would like to see in a 5E living campaign. Read the rest of this entry “

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    Level Up! — Episode #23: On “Cheese Weasels”

    January 11th, 2012

    Benoit and Hamblin spend a lot of time working on character optimization, but often we get accused of making characters that are too “cheesy.”

    How much optimization is too much?  We discuss this issue with Michael from The Id DM. You can also find some further thoughts that Michael had after the discussion on his blog, here.

    As always, we want your feedback!  Leave a comment below, email us at podcast@rovingbandofmisfits.com, or send a tweet to Benoit or Hamblin.

     

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    Level Up! — Episode #22: Lair Assault Post-Non-Mortem

    January 2nd, 2012

    Benoit ran the second Lair Assault for Hamblin and some of their friends recently, and now they’re here to talk about it! Hamblin’s team handled the mini-mod pretty well, though there are still a lot of unanswered questions about how things could have gone differently. Also, listen in to find out which “glory awards” were won, and which have yet to be achieved!

    Warning!  This episode contains many many spoilers for the Lair Assault module, so if you want to avoid spoilers, you may want to skip this episode.

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