I picked up this podcast shortly before hurricane Ian, I usually have a hard time listening to dnd podcasts for a variety of reasons, these guys have the balance right as far as I’m at right now episode 54 about Tasha’s book. Also I find their steady variation of topics was helpful for reminding me of things I had set up or had going on in the world as well as inspire a few ideas on ways I could improve what I’ve done so far as both a player and Dm. I believe this is an actually helpful podcast, and would encourage participants of the hobby to give these good folks a listen to!
A quick comment on where I’m at in episode 54 talking about the Tasha book:
talking about proficiency swaps and having heavy armor proficiency multiple times being redundant: I had something near identical to that pop up with one of my players so I gave her the heavy armor mastery feat. I had one who she had multiple arcana proficiencies so I was going to offer her a choice of expertise in the skill and a skill swap for the third or a magic feat she qualified for of her choice like spell sniper or ritual caster, etc. however she died before she got her first class level, got executed for murder and treason (they started at level 0, were ready to get their first class level and she wanted a warlock; in camp while training she was looking for documents on contacting a powerful litch she knew of that she knew the former owner of the knocked down tower they were camping at had information on to make a pact with him, and she got caught killing the person who found the papers who was trying to report what they found before burning it. Only reason the other found it was she rolled a nat 1 on the search check, she also rolled terribly and presented no good arguments on why the soldier who found it should give her the papers to process, and there were several that the soldier would have handed over without a roll required)
