The Overprepared DM

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest MahoneCapone (@HorrorBecomesThem) talk about horror game settings, inspiration from media, session 0, in game signals for topic changes, yoink and twisting ideas, randomly placing things and how to come back from them not fitting in the game, party distractions, AND MORE! Catch us every other Sunday (as much as we can) for a new episode with al...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Larnce (@LoreDragonPlays) talk about toxicity at the table, how to be confrontational and protect your players and table, crossing the line, pay to play tables, running games people pay for, how to set boundaries, AND MORE! Catch us every other Sunday (as much as we can) for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Matt (@The_Other_Matt_) talk about characters created to be real, collective motivation, singular motives, player backstories, facilitating fun, killing players, terrain building & reusing terrain, main character energy, how to be confrontational with players, how to approach difficult conversations, and MORE! Catch us every other Sunday (a...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest DeAngelo (@That_DeAngelo) talk about maps, pacing encounters, managing a table and people at it, table conflict, being the facilitator, and MORE! Catch us every other Sunday (as much as we can) for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us! Fo...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Patty (@PattyOFurniture69) talk about modules, scaling encounters, mapping encounters, reusing maps, silly roleplay, being silly within combat, and MORE! Catch us every other Sunday (as much as we can) for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out t...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Donovan talk about eating while playing, hosting dinner events in game and at the table, themed areas to promote eating at a table in character, story telling and book reading, cliffhangers, bouncing ideas off others, and MORE! Catch us every other Sunday (as much as we can) for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Albyon (@AlbyonAbsey) talk about eating while playing, hosting dinner events in game and at the table, themed areas to promote eating at a table in character, story telling and book reading, cliffhangers, bouncing ideas off others, and MORE!  Catch us every other Sunday (as much as we can) for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring d...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Chirag (@DesisNDragons) talk about high level characters and narrative control shift from DM to players, power creep and anime, changing the story based on the player's guesses about what is happening, telling players what you expected them do, reworking monster stats and boss battles, lair actions, pets, and so much more!  Catch us every...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Logan (@theredhareinn) talk about everything in the view of story telling at this tavern, writing a module for yourself, shifting prepped session in front of players that go the opposite direction, character development for one shots vs campaigns, railroading character development, illusion of choice, players helping with world building and pan...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Matt (@MADMANMATTIGAN) talk about blending in NPCs to your story, reusing the world you built for new stories that effect that main game or other games, lore dumping, humans and other races, Priapos, using real history and media in world building, utilizing one shots to build out your world, making mistakes, and of course, mimics. Catch us ever...

Jen (@JenIsOnline) and Nick (@EmoAasimar) give a recap to the second 10 episodes of The Overprepared DM, recounting great points and memories with all the lovely guests, and answer questions from the chat during our third live recording of an episode on twitch.tv/JenIsOnline ! There will be 3 weeks in between this upload and the first episode of Season 3, so in the mean time, send us messages, lea...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Keith (@Fire&Dice) talk about railroading stories, creating NPCs and where to begin, interesting quest givers OTHER than bartenders, PCs forgetting about NPCs, and the DM forgetting an NPCs way of being and voice, and we talked a lot about integrated player backstories into a campaign, how to help PCs write backstories, and a few things to...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Josh (@NPCVoices) talk about bringing back in person rituals with playing D&D, Streaming D&D, finding your voice, taking an acting class, immersion on twitch, minis and terrain and relying on it, letting the dice talk, making the bones of the world, overprepping descriptions, and of course - the amazing big boody boblin. Catch us every...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Gup (@TheGoldenMug) talk about reading the entirety of modules, knowing your player's playstyles, foreshadowing, having multiple arcs versus one overarching story, having a table of players with different playstyles/personalities & adding new people who don't fit, experienced based games versus milestone based games, working with...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest René (@DragonRocRPG) talk about homebrew, creations, and how to take feedback. Why it's important to constantly seek feedback, and all the various projects that Rene works on! Catch us MONTHLY  for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to u...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Bre (@BreannaFlaim) talk about hyperfocusing on what players MIGHT do, existential anxiety about the players seeing through your preparation - so you prepare MORE, top to bottom and bottom to top descriptions, how to do it, and the 5 senses. We also talk about con-characters, expanding your world to fit multiple stories, and MORE! Catch us MONT...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Pond (@PondPlays) talk about reusing notes and names, diversifying cities, political structures, Themed Games, other games with dice and cards, using modules, and pranking players! Catch us every other Sunday/Monday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if y...

Jen (@JenIsOnline) and Nick (@EmoAasimar) answer questions from the chat during our second live recording of an episode on twitch.tv/JenIsOnline ! THANK YOU FOR 1000 LISTENS OF OUR PODCAST! THAT'S HONESTLY SO COOL. YOU GUYS ROCK! send us messages, leave a review, find us on socials ~ anything! We would love to hear from you! Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddm CONNECT WITH JEN on T...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest April (@Stiletto_Assassin) talk about reusing notes and names, diversifying cities, political structures, Themed Games, other games with dice and cards, using modules, and pranking players! Catch us every other Sunday/Monday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your to...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Austin (@NearlySquid) talk about power gaming and how to work with player's preferences, multiclassing, immersing players in online games (in 10 minutes! ~), and one shot preparations, also dark themes and making people comfortable. Catch us every other Sunday/Monday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests an...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Tim (@BlackwaterDND) talk about rolling dice more often than not, DM roulettes, side quests without overpreparing, improvising, motivations, WINGING IT, getting the party interested in side stories, session zero and planning, engaging shy people, and making the party RUN! Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, f...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Dylan (@The_Nart) talk about mixing and matching editions, rules, travel time, talking your way out of situations, tables, cliffhangers, and the wish spell along with the deck of many things! Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics...

Jen (@JenIsOnline) and Nick (@EmoAasimar) give a recap to the first 10 episodes of The Overprepared DM, recounting great points and memories with all the lovely guests, and answer questions from the chat during our first live recording of an episode on twitch.tv/JenIsOnline ! There will be 4 weeks in between this upload and the first episode of Season 2, so in the mean time, send us messages, leav...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Moony (@ArcanePriest) talk about players running games, saying no, telling people to look at the situation they are trying to pull off from an outside perspective, changing campaigns based on character's actions/letting go, emotional responses from players and telling great stories without hurting people in those stories! Catch us every ot...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Bright (@BrightDystopia) talk about "yes, but" versus "yes, and", large party horror stories, player engagement, not rolling dice during roleplay, roleplay heavy games, death saves, and taking other content for inspiration! Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and...