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March 26, 2023 by Unseen S.
Dungeons & Toast is proud to have the Tall Tales speech contest winners in both District S and District G! Congratulations to Andrew and Loni for their exceptional speeches and outstanding performances! 🎊👏 Andrew and Loni will be going head-to-head at the District 100 Spring Conference on April 22nd to determine who will be crowned…
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March 17, 2023 by Patrick V.
The beneficent lords and ladies of our realm have decreed that we hold annual verbal jousts (District 100 Speech Contests). Fortune shone down on our guild members as they competed in a few of the verbal jousts this past Saturday. On a starless night and with the moon and the ocean as his background, clad…
February 22, 2023 by Michael A.
On February 17th, the mighty champions of Dungeons and Toast joined is a verbal joust, hoping to the honor of bearing Dungeons and Toast’s banner in the joust at the Toastmaster’s Area contest in April. There were not one, but two jousts this night, and the audience was treated to quite a thrill. Under Greg’s…
February 17, 2023 by Loni H.
Join us tonight at 6:30 PM PT for our guild’s second annual speech contest, dubbed “Tales from the Toast” wherein members will vie for the honor of representing their guildmates in the “Tall Tales” and “International Speech Contest” at Division G, Area 4! Member Michael A will serve as Chief Judge, and the contest itself…
October 21, 2022 by Loni H.
Dungeons & Toast is celebrating No Shave November, sponsoring a contest to judge facial hair growth over the course of the month! To make things fair, members will be separated into two groups: fresh-faced and established (as of November 1). Judging will take place on December 2nd, at the first guild meeting of the month. Members…
September 18, 2022 by Loni H.
Last Saturday, District 100 hosted an end-of-year awards banquet and celebration. Several members of Dungeons & Toast attended both online and in-person, and several members were honored for their contributions to making the District a better place for all. Congratulations to the following: Founder Hovey won first place in the District 100 Marathon, having completed…
September 17, 2022 by Loni H.
Last night, Dungeons & Toast celebrated Talk Like a Pirate Day with intrepidity. Backgrounds featuring ships of various make and size were chosen, tri-corn hats were donned, and ARRRRS were exaggerated with rakish fervor. Thanks to everyone who turned out, including guest Viranga, and whatever bird is perched on Quest Master Greg’s shoulder.
September 17, 2022 by Loni H. | Leave a Comment
A Lovecraftian Evening with Kenneth Hite Did you have to miss the special presentation by author and game designer Kenneth Hite (Trail of Cthulu; Vampire the Masquerade, 5th edition; GURPS modules)? Great news: we recorded this forbidden knowledge, including the question-and-answer session which followed. View it below, if you dare: And from the same evening,…
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September 12, 2022 by Andrew B. | Leave a Comment
10 Things I Like and Dislike On September 7, Dungeons & Toast banded together to raid Brewmeisters, another Toastmasters Club that happens to count guild members Kelly and Cliff as members. This also happened to be the first time I attended a Toastmaster meeting in person. With that in mind, I thought I’d do a…
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July 14, 2022 by Loni H. | Leave a Comment
With the advent of the Year of the Manticore RPG campaign, members are encouraged to create a character to play over the course of the year, both through speechwriting and delivery, and on Game Nights dedicated to moving the narrative forward. For those interested in creating a playable character, we’ve created a tutorial for building…
July 9, 2022 by Loni H. | Leave a Comment
2022-2023 is known as the “Year of the Manticore,” wherein members of the Dungeons & Toast guild must band together to recover the Orb of Davras — a legendary artifact said to grant fantastical oratory powers to anyone who possesses it — from the hoard of the elusive Manticore of Sword Mountains. Along the way, there will be…
June 18, 2022 by Loni H. | Leave a Comment
Last night, Dungeons & Toast celebrated a successful, fun-filled year with an end-of-year retrospective, presented by Guild Master Patrick. If you had to miss last night’s meeting, we invite you to check it out below!
June 11, 2022 by Loni H. | Leave a Comment
Last night, Dungeons & Toast was honored to host author and world-builder BH Pierce for an open house event. BH shared lessons he’s learned over years serving as a convention panelist on topics such as fiction-writing, game mastery, and world-building. You can view his speech below: Follow author BH Pierce on Twitter at @BHPierce203. Purchase…
May 10, 2022 by Loni H. | Leave a Comment
While Dungeons & Toast is proud to welcome members from many different parts of the world — Australia, Thailand, India, Canada, and many parts of the United States — we definitely have a critical mass of membership located in southern California! This past weekend, a contingent of Dungeons & Toasters converged upon the Original Renaissance…
May 7, 2022 by Patrick V. | Leave a Comment
In the best–and most fun–guild leader (club officer) elections that I’ve ever seen, the Dungeons & Toast Toastmasters guild (club) elected our guild party leaders for the upcoming Toastmasters year!Please welcome with a hearty huzzah our new–and continuing–guild party leaders for the 2022-2023 Masters of Toast year (July 1, 2022-June 30, 2023):Guild Master-Elect (Club President)…
May 2, 2022 by Loni H. | Leave a Comment
This Friday, we will be celebrating all things Star Wars with a “Revenge of the Sixth” meeting (purely because “May the Fourth” does not fall on a Friday). There will be at least two on-theme speeches as well as Table Topics from a Galaxy Far, Far Away. So polish your light saber and don your…
April 25, 2022 by Patrick V. | Leave a Comment
Hear Ye! Year Ye! Fresh from the success of our raid at the Division G & S Council earlier this month, the Dungeons & Toast guild undertook an adventure proper, a pilgrimage, as we journeyed to our lord’s medieval fair–the District 100 Spring Conference–in support of the great lords and ladies who put on this…
April 21, 2022 by Loni H. | Leave a Comment
On April 6th, Dungeons & Toast ran the District 100 Marathon Member Mile 5 – Attend a Division Council Meeting. Because everyone knows you never split the party, a group of D & Toasters decided to attend together, using a coordinating background to show our guild spirit! Thank you to everyone in attendance — Yannika…
April 9, 2022 by Loni H. | Leave a Comment
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April 2, 2022 by Loni H. | Leave a Comment
Dungeons & Toast used the occasion of April Fool’s Day to celebrate our 1-year anniversary (birthday). To shake things up, we hosted a backwards meeting (a Toastmasters meeting that starts with the evaluation portion and runs backwards to prepared speeches with the goal being excessive silliness). Kudos to Stephanie H and Beth G for co-hosting…
March 30, 2022 by Patrick V. | Leave a Comment
One year ago today, at the conclusion of an epic quest to charter our guild, the sovereign powers of the Masters of Toast realm granted upon the Dungeons & Toast Toastmasters guild (club) the status of being an official guild! Huzzah! And what a fun, mirth-filled year it has been! Renowned speakers from across the…
March 26, 2022 by Patrick V. | Leave a Comment
Huzzah! The chorus of thunderous voices of the Dungeons & Toast guild members spilled out from the guildhall as our guild members triumphed yet again on the verbal joust field of battle; this time at our lord’s division verbal joust tournaments this Masters of Toast year! Thank you to Hovey, David, Cynthia, and Loni for…
March 20, 2022 by Patrick V. | Leave a Comment
With a hearty huzzah, the Dungeons & Toast guild welcomes back our verbal joust champions who have returned victorious from our lord’s area verbal joust tournaments this Masters of Toast year! Thank you to Hovey and David for attending the tournaments on March 12 to support our champions, Arbind who triumphed and won a in…
March 20, 2022 by Loni H. | Leave a Comment
On Friday night we hosted a belated St. Patrick’s Day celebration, themed “Luck o’ the Irish.” Member and Recruitment Master (VPM) Andrew delivered the first of two social speeches from the Visionary Communication Pathway’s elective selection, entitled “A Dungeons & Toast, Toast” in the style of an Irish Blessing (full text below): Fellow guildmembers and…
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