E197 - Dungeon Mastery - Subtle Descriptions: Setting the Forest from the Trees

In this episode of the It’s A Mimic! Podcast, this panel of Dungeon Masters is going to return to the topic of description, and how to create deeper experiences and immersion with your players... Because there are more than five senses, more than one kind of adventure, and lots of subtle, nearly-sociopathic ways to manipulate the players at your table.

Warning Senses:
Temperature (heat and cold)
Pain
Skin vs Bones and Joints vs Organs and Muscles
Itch
Tension
Hunger and Thirsty
Mental Distress
Spiritual Distress
Vomiting Reflex, and the sense of being drugged or poisoned
Emotional States and Mood
Balance
Gravity
Air and wind pressure
Motion
Proprioception - the perception of body awareness (spacial awareness with your own body)
Pheromones
Companionship
Is someone watching you?
Electricity and Magnetism
Time
Magic and the Weave or Connection to a God
Permeating Evil

Cold Open 0:00
Intro 2:15
Warning Senses 8:55 
Commercial Break 38:49
Tone 40:41
Social Media Info 1:11:28
Meta Manipulations 1:12:32
Outro 1:50:45
Post-Credit 1:53:41
Bloopers 2:00:33

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Dungeon Master:  Adam Nason
Host 2:  Kyle McQuaid
Host 3:  Jeff Williams

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