With new games due to start in 2025, we've already covered Safety Tools and Session Zero. But what about Level Zero…? In this episode we explore how playing characters experience before they are plucked from obscurity can enrich personal story, narrative drive and be a bloody good laugh!
Chapters:
(0:00) Welcome Back
(03:26) Exploring Level Zero Play
(13:23) Why is Level 0 not the standard starting point?
(21:59) Dungeon Crawl Classics and Character Creation
(30:26) Understanding the Fifth Edition Funnel
(40:04) Let's roll up a Level 0 Character
(46:07) Inovative Approaches: Humble Beginnings
(54:30) A Life Well Lived
(1:07:40) Level Zero Adventures and Trinket of the Week
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Featured on this episode:
What's Past is Prologue from Alan Patrick
Dungeon Crawl Classics Quickstart from Goodman Games
Fifth Edition Funnel For Dungeons & Dragons from Ten Red Crows Press
Zero Level Rulebook for 5E from Weird Works
Humble Beginnings: Level 0 Characters From Tyler Aiden Gray
A Life Well Lived from Cubicle 7
The Commoner from Walrock Homebrew
How To Play Level Zero from Dungeon Coach
Down & Out in Waterdeep from Zack Sporen
A Hero's Journey from David Flor
Lair of the Lamb from Goblin Punch
Truly Madly Deeply: Level Zero to Hero from Patrick Higingbotham & Chad Cray
Trinket of the Week: 100 Wondrous Items
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Music:
"The Path of the Goblin King" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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