35 episodes
Breaking Initiative Brett Goldin
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Breaking Initiative is a brand new podcast-style YouTube channel, with hosts Brett and Rob, who go over various D&D related topics, as well as other table-top related subjects. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brett-goldin/support
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Firearms in Dungeons and Dragons - Gunslinger subclass, and setting a tone for guns in your setting
Breaking Initiative's 32nd video, Brett and Rob discuss the best ways to use Firearms in D&D. They also discuss the best ways to use the Gunslinger subclass provided in D&D Beyond, pros and cons for using it, and how that all interacts with various feats that have been released since Gunslinger was first available.
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Cheating and Fudging in D&D, when to do it
Episode 31 of Breaking Initiative, where we post what will probably go down in history as our most divisive video. Rob and Brett give their opinions on the ramifications of cheating in tabletop games like D&D (mostly calling out intentionally incorrect dice check results in your favor). Why you should never do it, but also (confusingly enough), when to do it. Advice on handling cheaters as both a DM and a Player. Happy April Fools Day!
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Ending a Game - DMing tips for FINALLY concluding your D&D campaign
Episode 30 of Breaking Initiative, Brett and Rob discuss how to END an adventure. In particular, we focus finding that perfect narrative beat to end on, how to draw a satisfying conclusion for both the players' personal journeys, as well as your own story they have been playing through.
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Starting a Game - DMing tips for beginning your D&D adventure
Episode 29 of Breaking Initiative, Brett and Rob discuss how to start an adventure. In particular, we focus on the narrative for coming up with a way to join your players, how it can set the pace for the rest of the campaign, and a few things NOT to do.
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Quick-e-Quest: Running a quick encounter from Tome of Beasts - D&D 5E
In our 28th Breaking Initiative video, we meet in person to have Brett run a short encounter involving a creature from Tome of Beasts (Volume 1) by Kobold Press. Rob creates a character to see if he can survive. We also give tips at the end at how to add this and other encounters from various materials to your games.
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Star Wars 5e - Running a Star Wars setting in D&D 5e - Overhauled rules and options
As a special treat, in our 27th episode of Breaking Initiative, we discuss how to run a D&D game set in the Star Wars universe as a setting for your campaign, as well as awesome overhauled rules for D&D to introduce new races, classes, and alternatives to spells.
To run a Star Wars game using the rules mentioned in this video, head over to SW5e, an unofficial site dedicated to providing free tools and digital character sheets that are easy to upload into your games using Roll20.
https://sw5e.com/
And here's Wookiepedia, a nearly limitless encyclopedia of Star Wars lore.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Main...
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