The Overprepared DM

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Jay (@Just2Casual) talk about prepping before games, bonds and hooks, tacticle aspects of D&D, making characters utilizing resources while dungeon diving, special moments and limit breaks of players, permanent damage, narrative combat, and efficient characters versus playing the characters! Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Faye (@Mendarii) talk about homebrew and game mechanics; how not to break them! We talk about Tiers of Play, campfire chats in the world, questions to ask your players when they are making their characters, and the ease and difficulty of writing in and out players/characters! Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with all sorts of topic...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest George (@GeorgeWAmbush) talk about overcomplicating exposition, players NOT having fun, rooting for players and being on their side, balancing party splitting, running games with intention, building trust with players, toxic DMing, communicating with your players, and random encounters! Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with all sor...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Sumner (@TummyNumNer) talk about Big Bad Evil Guys (BBEGs), whether or not to make the BBEG and world cooler than the players, FUDGING rolls as a DM, character deaths, ret-conning stories and actions, and combat engagement + Pacing of battles! Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Aaron (@QuestVault) talk about important NPCs versus random NPCs, building the world with your player's stories, limitations and frameworks for players in the worldbuilding process, how to listen to your players wants for the game, mental health, and DM dont's! Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, fe...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Mick (@MickArcade) talk about metagaming, bending stats and games to be new and unique, NPCs, modules, and using preexisting content and making it yours, making NPCs, voicing NPCs, and getting players comfortable with using their own voices! Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and a...

Jen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Sebastian (@HiAdventure) talk about how to improv, great resources for helping us prep, recycling content, memes, session zeros and investing players in the setting, playing vs. performing, PC (player character) Deaths, and SEBASTIAN'S COMIC SECRETS! ~ Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring differ...

Jen (@JenIsOnline) and Nick (@EmoAasimar) talk about who they are, their first OVERLY PREPPED DM experiences, powergaming, sessions 0s, and other topics wrapped together as a great introduction to the new Podcast, The Overprepared DM. 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 if you reac...