Best of Lost Mine of Phandelver, the first D&D Starter Set!

Episode 308 of Mastering Dungeons! Main topic: Best of Lost Mine of Phandelver, the first D&D Starter Set! The adventure (and rules) that kicked off 5E! We look at why every starter set has to measure itself against this one. News: Dan Ayoub on Leading D&D, 5 New Underdark Species, D&D Encounters Unboxing, and more! Contents 00:00 Start Your Sets 01:17 Published Campaign Help? 06:03 Are VTTs Changing Design? 14:06 3 New Underdark Subclasses 24:58 5 New Underdark Species 27:19 Arcana Unleashed Delays 28:35 D&D Encounters Kit Contents! 32:44 Dan Ayoub on Leading D&D 36:36 Castle Ravenloft DM Screen 39:06 PAX Unplugged Houston 41:47 Steve Jackson Steps Down as CEO 43:04 Lost Mine of Phandelver 44:35 History of Starter Sets 47:51 What It Offers 52:35 What Else in 2014? 55:50 Premise and Approach 01:00:01 A Strong Start? 01:11:06 Gobline Caves 01:14:27 Exploring Phandalin 01:22:08 Area Quests and Cragmaw Castle 01:26:18 Wave Echo Cave 01:33:20 Shout-Outs 01:37:23 What Are We Gonna Do? Thank you for listening! Get the full show notes with links on Patreon. Show Search Engine: https://mdsearch.alphastream.org/  Our intro and outro music is Metropolis Fanfare, provided royalty-free by Tabletop Audio (https://tabletopaudio.com) under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). MP3 file metadata populated with Online MP3 Podcast Chapter Editor, built by Dominik Peters. https://mp3chapters.github.io/ and customized for Mastering Dungeons by Vladimir Prenner from Croatia.